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- Basement apartment - bad idea? - Straight Dope
I saw an apartment I liked today, scoped out the neighborhood, and was planning on putting in my application tomorrow morning However, when I mentioned to my friend that it’s a basement apartment, his response was “watch out for moisture problems ” I did some searching and found that a lot of basement apartment dwellers have problems with mold, mildew, and bugs What I’m wondering
- Does a Walk Out Basement count as a Story? (square footage . . .
Purchased an Italianate brownstone style home with vinyl siding at the bottom of a hill The "basement" is a walk-out basement with the
- Whats the difference between a fully finished basement and a . . .
Been looking at the Nassau County Assessor site and on some locations it shows "Basement Area : FULL" then below it "Finished Basement
- Help me choose boards for basement storage - Straight Dope
I have a bunch of stuff in cardboard boxes [banker’s boxes] that I want to store in a basement whose floor might get wet during winter To avoid floor contact, I want to elevate the boxes a few inches off the floor Looks like the best solution is to set the boxes on parallel boards [easier+cheaper than pallets] I naively thought this was a simple choice–just grab a few 2-by-4s from a
- How Does Fiber Optic Data to a House Work? - Straight Dope
Windstream Kinetic will soon offer a fiber optic data connection to my address and I’m wondering how this will work As I (poorly) understand it, the ISP tech will run a drop from the street to my house Then, does the connection on the outside of my house continue to the inside as coax or does it remain as fiber until it gets to a modem where CAT 5,6,7 continues to my router?
- Are there dehumidifiers that do not also generate a blast of hot air . . .
Simply put, is it possible to design a dehumidifier that does not also generate a lot of heat? I’ve got a basement that is nice and cool in the summertime, and it’s therefore a great place to escape the heat (my house does not have AC) But the basement will get too damp unless I run my dehumidifier, which has an unfortunate side effect of blasting out air that is between 10 and 20 degrees
- How deep would you need to go to create a naturally warm basement . . .
Like molten rock and even hotter So theoretically you could dig another, deeper basement, where the air would just stay at, say, 75F all the time, where you could lounge around comfortably even if your heating system goes out in the middle of a cold snap So… how deep would this cellar have to be?
- Gurgling from furnace condensate drain - Straight Dope
It’s a basement floor drain, connected to the city’s sanitary sewer system The drainage pipe from the furnace is PVC, maybe 1" diameter, and it travels maybe 8" across the floor before a 90-degree elbow drops the condensate in the floor drain The basement is about 60F, maybe a little warmer in the room where the furnace sits
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