"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:11:45 +0100, David WE Roberts wrote:

Nobody has stuck their head up above the parapets and admitted to doing
the storage thing yet :-)

Depends what you want to store. All cellars I have been in have been
damp so anything that doesn't like damp can't really be stored there.
I can't envisage an under floor void being any dryer than a cellar,
particulary if there is no DPM between the walls/floor and void.

Parnets 1930's semi had a decent sized void under the floor but the
floor of the void was just compacted earth. Plenty of moisture but
that's what the couple fo sets of double airbricks front and back
where there for...


I was contemplating some kind of chest arrangement which was isolated from
the outside.
Sort of like a very large picnic cooler, perhaps - waterproof body and lift
off lid.
Probably easily constructed from Celotex or similar.
I don't think there will be a lot of space underneath ( will find out
eventually when we rip floors up ) because Felixstowe is essentially flat
and most large voids seem to be associated with sloping sites where one side
of the foundations has to be built up.
The earlier buildings (1890s I think) are often tall with cellars but by the
1930s most houses were bungalows or two storey 'conventional' build.

I like the idea of a dwarf cellar but I think that this is just a passing
dream :-)

Thinking about it, my childhood house was on a slope so there were steps
down at the back of the house.
The foundations were a wedge, but the base was a flat concrete slab instead
of a sloping void.

Our house in Derbyshire was on the side of a steep hill and I always thought
that the builders missed a great opportunity by not building in a cellar -
rear of the house was cut into the slope about 2/3 up the ground floor at
the sunken lawn at the front was at least six feet below floor level so
there was certainly scope there.

Wandering back to the subject of underfloor access, as there will be soil
pipes running under the house I assume that there will have to be some kind
of rodding access and so some kind of access panel somewhere.

Cheers

Dave R
--
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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