text:  All right, now Jan wrote in wanting to know how to tell the age of a home. She says, I've heard you ask listeners how old their house is, and I'm wondering how I might figure that out for my house. Oh, that's a really good question. That's something that I had to do a lot of sort of see-the-pants calculations of when I was a home inspector to try to figure out house age. But there's a few ways to do it. Now, if your home is newer, and by that I mean less than, say, 30 or 40 or even 50 years old, and has the original plumbing fixtures,