[AT] OT - Wooden vs Concrete?

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Mon Apr 11 08:30:45 PDT 2011


Well I don't know what happened to my punctuation marks, capitalization and 
the last letters of a word or two but I guess you get the idea.  I'm blaming 
it on my computer.  grins.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:18 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Wooden vs Concrete?

That makes sense Ralph.  My background is primarily in industrial
construction so I often think in terms that are "overkill" for normal
residential stuff.  If I were building in your area and planning on having a
finished basement I'd be thinking in terms of pour concrete walls with
fairly heavy re-enforcing bars in the walls and tying the walls to the floor
with water stop strips in the joints.  Outside I'd want to put something
like coal tar epoxy on the concrete (or maybe some sort of Bentonite clay
product) with foam boards outside of that and then a French drain filled all
the way up to slightly above ground level with stone and then sand slope the
landscaping so that surface water drains away from the foundation.   However
that is very expensive work.  I guess the treated wood is a reasonable and
much cheaper alternative.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Wooden vs Concrete?

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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