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Building an outbuilding with a 'basement' advice on subsurface area
I'm current investigating building a small office at the bottom of the
garden, one option I would like to investigate is that of having an underfloor void to store my servers. Not a full-on basement but an area large enough to give crawl space access to hardware running 'down below'. I live in Worcestershire and the soil is a very heavy clay, which in the winter becomes stodgy enough to almost throw pots with and in the summer is baked hard. We have a dried up stream bed (now culverted) beyond the edge of the property so just beyond our garden the level drops around 4ft into an 8ft wide 'ditch'. This occasionally gets a couple of inches of water in it after very heavy rainfall. My key interest is that if I could give my servers a subterranean home then the size of the office above could be reduced significantly and essentially become me and my laptop above and my servers running below the floor. Ventilation needn't be too much of an issue, my key concern would be keeping it all cool and dry. Anyone have any issues they can see regarding the viability of this? Regards, Jason. --- Replace nntp with my name to reply. N0 5pAm H3r3: Include this tagline to pass my spam filter. |
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