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Partially finishing a basement...
ChadTower:
That is considered a "smallish house" in MA. Mine is smaller but most around here are much bigger. They rarely build anything under 2000sqft here anymore.
RayB:
Well screw you guys. ;D
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RayB on August 13, 2008, 11:50:18 am ---Well screw you guys. ;D
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6 of one, half dozen of the other. The house is bigger but the yard is a postage stamp. Or you pay $500,000 for it. Or both.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 12:04:49 pm ---6 of one, half dozen of the other. The house is bigger but the yard is a postage stamp. Or you pay $500,000 for it. Or both.
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Three years ago, you couldn't find a house... any house, for under $500,000 in the city in CA. Now we have people wishing their house is worth $500K.
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: MajorHavoc on August 11, 2008, 04:43:43 pm ---It's kind of a PITA but have you considered a french drain? Once the trench is cut and graded, you could hide it behind false walls and as for the floor, you could use anything unless you really get deluged and your sump pump can't keep up. Good luck.
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That's actually what the basement has. There's a drainage system in the basement with the french-drain style "boards" all around the perimeter and some drainage pipe buried into the concrete slab that goes into a sump pump in the floor. For normal rain storms, humidity, etc. it does a perfect job of keeping the basement dry. It's just when the ground is saturated and we get a good rain storm that the watertable rises up a bit and the flooding starts from the center of the basement where the lowest point it. When it does flood, the center of the basement is covered in up to two inches of water at the lowest point. I then just need to squeege it towards the sump area and out of the basement. It's not horrific, but it prevents the basement from being finished. Still, I think I can salvage some area to put a woodshop in. Today, I finished the stain application on my table base and I just want to build a TON of things now. ;D
This will certainly be a long term project, but hey, I'm not going anywhere soon. :p
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