Our house isn’t that old. It was built in the 50’s.
But old houses can be bad. I dread any plumbing problems because old pipe can be so brittle it breaks in all kinds of hard to reach places no matter how careful you are.
I complain about too much regulation but some is necessary. I believe you’re required to have more than one way in and out of a house and it’s probably exactly because of what happened the other day.
I am right there with you, my house was Built-in 44