On 04/25/2016 11:01 AM, Fredd Wright wrote:
On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 10:47:59 AM UTC-4, dpb wrote:
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OTOH, if it really does flood and you're not going to prevent that from
happening, it'd be a huge detriment afterwards as there wouldn't be
anywhere for the water to go down through to be (eventually) absorbed
back into the ground so in that case I'd definitely strongly recommend
_against_ it and the plywood or any other wood solution. While PT is
certainly better with respect to sustaining water and termite/other
pests damage than non, if it's going to be inundated from time to time
it just isn't suitable material for the long haul.

The pavers seem just the ticket; here they're generally available at
cut-rate prices from the Waly-World or other BORGs "garden" sections
late in spring after the frenzy has worn off and they're getting rid of
remaining stock plus they'll often just let one have broken ones for the
effort of getting them off their hands. I picked up a bunch of 1-1/2"
12x24 that were nothing worse than being two halves that way last year
for some fill-in in an area in the barn where had never gotten around to
finishing pouring a floor--work perfectly fine and who cares about a
crack for such a purpose; they're not in a show area...

Interesting point about the flooding. Although the crawl space is
about 3 feet above the basement floor, when we get a hurricane, the
basement fills up to right below the ceiling so the crawlspace will
be underwater. However, when the water level goes down, it will pour
out of the crawlspace onto the floor where the sump pump will pump
the water out so i think it's a moot point if the water can't drain
under the pavers.

Ah, that's a wholly different geometry than had envisioned -- altho as
noted in another comment wondered about how you envisioned washing it out.

What's the headroom and dimensions of this space; maybe you said but
I've not seen. If it's a full basement and only 3' above its floor
would seem to be nearly 5' or so which would make working reasonably
easy. If it does get flooded I'd be pretty keen on a solid floor to
simply stop the bulk of the mud after the events.

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