I saw an apartment I liked today, scoped out the neighborhood, and was planning on putting in my application tomorrow morning. However, when I mentioned to my friend that it’s a basement apartment, his response was “watch out for moisture problems.” I did some searching and found that a lot of basement apartment dwellers have problems with mold, mildew, and bugs. What I’m wondering ...
Windstream/Kinetic will soon offer a fiber optic data connection to my address and I’m wondering how this will work. As I (poorly) understand it, the ISP tech will run a drop from the street to my house. Then, does the connection on the outside of my house continue to the inside as coax or does it remain as fiber until it gets to a modem where CAT 5,6,7 continues to my router?
Three of the vents in my family room are connected to the main HVAC trunk via 25-foot runs of round, uninsulated 7-inch sheet metal duct pipes. These ducts run along the ceiling of my basement, which is part living space, part storage space, though I rarely visit the basement. In winter, these ducts radiate a lot of heat into the unused basement. I’d like to minimize this heat loss and ...
Simply put, is it possible to design a dehumidifier that does not also generate a lot of heat? I’ve got a basement that is nice and cool in the summertime, and it’s therefore a great place to escape the heat (my house does not have AC). But the basement will get too damp unless I run my dehumidifier, which has an unfortunate side effect of blasting out air that is between 10 and 20 degrees ...
I have a bunch of stuff in cardboard boxes [banker’s boxes] that I want to store in a basement whose floor might get wet during winter. To avoid floor contact, I want to elevate the boxes a few inches off the floor. Looks like the best solution is to set the boxes on parallel boards [easier+cheaper than pallets]. I naively thought this was a simple choice–just grab a few 2-by-4s from a ...
It’s a basement floor drain, connected to the city’s sanitary sewer system. The drainage pipe from the furnace is PVC, maybe 1" diameter, and it travels maybe 8" across the floor before a 90-degree elbow drops the condensate in the floor drain. The basement is about 60F, maybe a little warmer in the room where the furnace sits.
Like molten rock and even hotter. So theoretically you could dig another, deeper basement, where the air would just stay at, say, 75F all the time, where you could lounge around comfortably even if your heating system goes out in the middle of a cold snap. So… how deep would this cellar have to be?
I been scouring the Building code in the town of hempstead on the website and cant find the requirements for a basement entryway in the backyard. Can anyone provide help or info? also....what kid of finds would be expexted if the town found out you removed from walls you shouldnt of had without a permit? thank you all and be kind to one another.
