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Posted by on October 13, 2006, 10:00 am
The basment floor has been broken up towards the front of the house and
brick was put in to replace it. So I'd assume it to be very thin. it's
also not flat so perhaps it would be a good thing to do and possibly
get some walking room out of the basement. Any idea what something like
this would cost to have done. the basment is aproximately 33'x17'
bill allemann wrote:
> lowering the floor is your only option.
> it's a bunch of grunt work, to be sure, but low tech.
> a possible dicey plumbing issue, though, is how deep are the laterals to
> floor drains.
> the slabs in older buildings are generally very thin.
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> bill
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>
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> > I'm possibly buying a house, it has everything I'm looking for except
> > for the fact that it has a very low basement ceiling.
> >
> > The ceiling joists make the head room in the basement around 6'1. It
> > has been completely remodeled and has every thing else i'm looking for.
> >
> >
> > It is a row house, so you can't jack up the house. Are there any other
> > solutions and if so, how costly are they? Can I replace the ceiling
> > joists with smaller steel joists and raise the head room that way? Is
> > there any cost efficent way of doing this?
> >
> > I'm really only looking for about five more inches. I'd just like
> > people to be able to walk into the basement without slamming their head
> > on the ceiling joists.
> >
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