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DaveBell
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 06:46am
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Do you have a basement under your cabin?
If not, do you wish you had one?
If so, any problems with it?
I'm thinking of cool storage, like a root cellar would provide. Would you go with poured concrete in forms or building with concrete block on pad?
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Brettny
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 10:13am
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My experience with basements in the northeast is they are moist holes in the ground that always try to fill with water. I hate them, the expensive to install and terrible to maintain.
If your place is offgrid you cant run a sump pump or dehumidifier. The storage area may be prety poor then.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 11:58am
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My cabin area is dry and a basement would also be dry. Crawlspace is super dry now. I did not install a crawlspace door on the outside of my cabin, trap door inside floor. It is a nice cool dry space for storage and I do have a few items in there. Its probably 3 1/2 feet high or closer to 4 feet.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 12:12pm
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Don't have a basement, never wished for one at the cabin; so many here are damp & musty and 'collect stuff' that gets damp & musty.
I get the cool storage thing, sometimes wish I could put our little cabin cooler someplace better than ambient temp.
How about sinking a length of culvert deep enough and using a haul line to pull up/down? Cap with an insulated top, of course.
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paulz
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 01:23pm
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Nothing here and darn tired of hauling food back and forth. A cooler under the cabin, buried in the ground or whatever that would stay cool enough to leave fruit or veggies would be nice.
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Nate R
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 02:15pm
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I don't think I would've sprung for one in my cabin if doing it again, unless I was planning on living there for months at a time.
But my area is all sand, so a well built basement stays cool, but doesn't stay wet.
As far as poured vs block...I'd do whatever was cheaper. Pros and cons of each.
-Nate
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ICC
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2024 02:25pm
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No basement under the cabin. It hs a crawl space that is dry. That is used for some storage, not a lot. No, I don't wish for a basement there, although I have wished I had given more thought to my water cistern before building the cabin. I might have buried it under the cabin.
My home is built into a slope, so has some areas with poured concrete walls like a basement. There are a couple of storage areas that are mostly below grade. One makes for decent root vegetable storage. This lower floor area is workshop spaces; wood, metal, paint and some garage parking, with all habitable spaces above ground.
Few homes in the southwest have basements, even though many locations would not have any moisture problems as in some other areas. It has been most simple, and cheaper, to pour slabs. Frost depth is often no problem. Today we know how to construct basements that are not cold damp dungeons. That requires planning and proper drainage. At times water drainage and radon gas protection go hand in hand and in the long run pays off.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2024 01:19am
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Quoting: Brettny they are moist holes in the ground that always try to fill with water
So worst case scenario I end up with an indoor pool?
So I guess concrete block would be cheaper. I could water proof both sides and install a french drain.
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Curly
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2024 03:04am
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I don't have a basement, but after dozens of tornadoes, some 80 mph winds and several hail storms so far this year, I like the idea of a basement.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2024 09:58am
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Quoting: ICC Today we know how to construct basements that are not cold damp dungeons. That requires planning and proper drainage.
Yes we can and do but at a large cost for "extra storage". Just build a bigger house if you want more storage.
For my next full time home weather I build or buy it it will have a poured foundation with a walkout basement. This area has terrible clay and bed rock so trying to keep a underground basement dry is terrible.
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