What are these three wooden strips on the outside of typically 50s/60s built houses? They’re made of wood and I always see them around the place, usually on council/ex council houses in Dublin.
Anyone know what they were originally for or what purpose they serve?
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They’re joints.
They’re go faster stripes. They make the house go faster.
From when O Neill’s used to build a lot of the houses back in the day
Gaff sticks.
‘You must be this high to buy drugs here’
are they not for tying climbing plants to? clematis, rose, that sort of thing?
Well they are definitely not original if they are made of wood… outside … in Ireland.
They’re lightning detectors.
If the house is hit by lightning, they go on fire to let you know.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen them… are all of those photos from one area?
Their 5G has 6 bars
I had them on my home growing up. I’ve always just thought they were for planting climbing plants. From memory there was a concrete surrounded bed at the foot of them
Edit. Actually can see the bed in the second pic. Both sides. The owner filled them in over time I bet. That was normal
I know I’ve seen them on houses in Finglas, and I’ve no idea what they were.
I guess they would leave space for air to circulate if you stacked something up against the wall at them. Firewood, maybe?
Breathing tubes for the people chained up in the basement
I’ve no idea, but i would guess it’s a trellis! For climbing roses
Adidas stripes
Adidas houses
Adidas houses
Dognappers hun. Shared Nuneaton xoxo
They’re used to let swingers know that the people living there are in fact swingers
They help ye identify your house from all the other row houses when you stumble home from the pub.
This is a common way for dog thieves to signal that there are dogs worth robbing inside. Insidious.
That’s an Adidas house
It’s your level up meter. You have a primary school nearby and a fire station. Build a library and the white lines will rise.
I think they are for planting vines and letting them grow up the walls as decoration
To tie your horses up to.
load bearing
Go faster strips
They keep the house up
They are Sargent houses! They earned the rank !
It represents how many people are on the rent book in the house. There’s six in this particular home.
Definitely for clematis / other climbers to give them a start. Unfortunately they may have been so bad at gardening 3 years of covid lockdowns wasn’t even enough to get something growing here ..
To give bored, unemployed people something to talk about on the internet.
Honestly, my entire town was council houses at one point. I have never seen these in my life 🤷♀️
Trellis aren’t they?
Giant glue sticks, to hold the bricks in place
Stops the trolley from damaging the house.
Speed lines – makes the houses go faster
Stops the house from falling forward
Pipes for releasing the fumes from the dead bodies buried in the basement.
Lol 50+ comments, all bollocks. Nobody knows. Rip them off and tell is what happened!
Traiiiiilllling begoniassssss
They were for the old 5g before they started injecting people!
They add value, like rocket leaves on a pizza in a restaurant.
Go faster stripes.
That means the occupants sell coke by the ounce.
They are urban Sally-Rods. Once upon a time, they would have been used to redden the hole of cheeky little bollix children. Sadly, they stopped using them in the 90’s/00’s, and the effects can be seen in many cities today.
Those are wooden strips.