Another attic renovation
My wife and I live in a small house with a huge unfinish attic. When our second child was born last ear, we realized that we did not have enought r...
My wife and I live in a small house with a huge unfinish attic. When our second child was born last ear, we realized that we did not have enought r...
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ViewsHello,I've had different opinions about this; I'm about to finish my basement walls with drywall. The basement is not presently finished. There is ...
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Viewsmy basement is leaking and the walls are bowing. I want to hire someone to seal the walls until I can afford to get the foundation re-dug and then...
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ViewsI have bought a ranch house with a huge attic; I want to convert the attic into a master suite (bedroom, sitting room, and full bath). I am told th...
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ViewsI recently purchased a home and evidently I did not, nor did the home inspector, notice the bowing on the north and south walls of my ciderblock ba...
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ViewsWe are trying to decide on what type of basement to build and are wondering if anyone has had any problem with mold on the styrofoam formed basemen...
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ViewsWe live in a very old farmhouse with a stone foundation which is terrible shape. We get all kinds of unwanted vistiors ie snakes and you can see th...
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Viewsi would like to dig out my basement floor to give more head room presently about 5'10" and figure digging it to about 6'6" when finished the proble...
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ViewsI have an inside perimeter basement drain & sump pump that we installed when we built our home. Beneath the french drain we have orangeburg pipe th...
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Views50 year old house with stone foundation. Heavy rains allow water to seep into basement. I am considering a sump pump. Any special considerations...
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ViewsAfter we built out house 7 yrs ago we discovered we built on a clay bed. We dug around the outside of the home (underground trench). One area abo...
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ViewsMy wife and I have a home with a 900 sq ft walk out basesment that we are going to finish. Heating is forced air, currently blowing down form ceili...
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ViewsI just bought an old 1930's house that has a crawl space that is 5 ft(hard packed dirt) for half the area and 3 ft(loose dirt) for the other half. ...
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Viewshi,our 45 yr old home has horizonal cracking in the mortar between the blocks in the wall (only one 35-ft wall at front of house) and this wall is ...
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ViewsI live in the Denver area... heavy clay soil.My basement is partially finished. I have a wood floor that is about 3 feet off the dirt underneath. T...
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ViewsFrom a previous home I am sold on the use of a powered attic exhaust fan (not a whole house fan). I recently moved into a new home with minimal ve...
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ViewsDoes anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?During the winter months my basement is dry and odour free. However as the days warm up and humid...
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ViewsHaving a problem with mold on the North and South walls in the basement in one of my rental properties. My renters cleaned with bleach and got most...
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ViewsCan I safely re-excavate and lower my basement floor?I have a 1908 house in Minnesota with a ridiculously bumpy concrete slab in the basement. Som...
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ViewsI have recently run into a problem. We have lived in our home for 2.5 years and have never noticed any water in the basement. The home was built ...
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