[AT] OT - Wooden vs Concrete?

Ralph Goff alfg at sasktel.net
Mon Apr 11 07:38:27 PDT 2011


On 4/11/2011 6:09 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> It's an interesting concept.    I'm assuming you have a frost line probably
> about 3 feet or greater?   Around here if one was putting in a full basement
> and was worried about having it heated they would most likely build a
> masonry block basement wall, put waterproofing on the outside surface and
> then put thick foam board against the outside before back filling against
> the wall.
Charlie, frost line is pretty deep here in a normal winter. Water lines 
are buried 8 feet deep last time I checked. Frost and the resulting soil 
expansion contributes to cracked concrete basements here. Thats one 
advantage of wood, won't crack. The water table is not usually so high 
as it is this year. It will be interesting to see if it does affect the 
wooden basements.
Here the basement is often "finished" as in it is a main part of the 
living area of the house.

Ralph in Sask.




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