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Basements, Basements, Design & Remodeling, Designer Talk, Personal Spaces
How to Brighten Your Basement If you are considering finishing your basement or a basement remodel, you should first think about how you’d like the space to look and feel overall. While many homeowners choose to create a cave-like basement for movie viewing or...
Basements, Basements, Design & Remodeling, Personal Spaces
Recently, many of us have had the opportunity to be home more than ever. This has us all thinking about improvements we could make around the house. Many of our clients are interested in expanding their living space either outside the home via patios and porches, or...
Basements, Basements, Designer Talk, Personal Spaces, Remodeling
Our basements are a wonderland of possibilities, with all that space waiting to take care of our basic needs like storage or our fondest dreams of an arts and crafts studio, media room, home theater or teenage escape. It can be anything you desire, and this is why...
Basements, Home Improvement Library, Water & Moisture
Wet Sill Plate in Basement and Floor Joists are Wet I suspect your mechanical engineer with the dew point issue is the most credible and the likely cause based on the information I read. An 80 year old concrete, stone or even wood foundation can, and will, wick or...
Basements, Home Improvement Library, Remodeling
Yes, with many conditions. This is a very big structural question and you will need an engineer or architect to design this system. The wood or steel column can be removed AND you must strengthen the structural beam, break the concrete basement floor and install a...
Basements, Flooring, Home Improvement Library
Lowering a Basement Floor Adding a foot of additional depth to a basement by lowering the floor is possible. The risk of success is the existing depth of the sewer pipes beneath the basement floor. If the sewer pipes under the basement concrete floor are buried deep...
