On 27 Dec 2004 19:26:38 -0800, someone wrote:

planning on building the house with a basement....
....but due to some financial and ground issues (we might hit
rock) I'm thinking about putting the house on a crawl space.

Well, if you hit too much rock, put in a crawl space. Otherwise, have
a basement. Have you done any testing/exploratory digging on the lot
to tell you what you have? If you have not, then you ARE ahead of
yourself to be posting this Q here, now.

Where are you planning to have the heating apparatus, hot water tank,
etc etc.? Maybe you'd better test that lot so you can plan what to
do. Could be what you 'save" on the crawl, will be wasted in above
grade space now being used for mechanicals.

Two sections of my house are full basement (one finished, one not),
and one section is slab on grade (with insulated floor on PT sleepers
with foam between). Since I already have quite a bit of basement, I
don't really miss the other part nbot being basement. But in the
North, to not have a basement at all, is against the usual custom and
pretty undesireable. When we used to live in a condo, even that had a
basement!

-v.


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