HouseYears
HouseYears is a reference on how long each part of a house actually lasts, material by material. Every figure sits beside the published warranty term to show how far apart the two run — slate lasts 75 years or more, but its 100-year warranty covers exactly two failure modes.
Why it earned its spot
The page opens on a single pale-blue panel that puts the whole house on one 200-year axis: a small chart per component, each pairing a solid bar for the published warranty with a soft hatched band for typical service life, all drawn to the same scale so decking and slate can be read against each other. Below it the type shrinks and the page turns into a working table, every row ending in a Tier 1, 2 or 3 badge, with the weakest tier outlined in red rather than quietly dropped. Wide bands of pale blue, white and warm grey do all the sectioning on a very long page, and they are enough.
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