About Cellars?
Posted by: garyi on 30 October 2004
Guys we are in the process of selling up and shipping out of Watford to get back home.
Although we can't afford to purchase right now, we spotted a nice house and had a look. It has a cellar in it.
Its approximately 12 feet by 10 feet not exactly huge.
At the moment it looks like something out of Pulp Fiction and the guy said it had suffered from damp.
This is purely out of interest but there must be a way to build a room in there and combat the damp?
I thought maybe a room within the room?
It would make a nice den for putting the music in, I reckon it could make a music room, maybe patch a tape output upstairs to a secondary hifi system....
Ah I can dream.
[This message was edited by Adam Meredith on Sun 31 October 2004 at 1:32.]
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by garyi
Ah Alex that would be Salisbury my friend, born and bred.
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by Barnie
Tanking is a kind of black bitumen, painted on the walls to seal them, then the room is dry lined with plasterboard.... £12,500 sounds a bit steep though!
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by garyi
I thought about painting the walls with bitumen then polystyrene then plaster board.
Flooring in the usual way, but yes perhaps drainage of some kind would be in order.
Could this lead to condensation on the inside though, especially with heating?
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by Barnie
Garyi, as always, in building there are many ways to acheiving the same ends, when in doubt ask the local building inspector, that's what I do. Don't rely on the advise of building companies...
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by rodwsmith
Fill it with wine and live happily ever after.
Posted on: 30 October 2004 by Steve B
Fill it with water and swim in it.
Steve B
Posted on: 31 October 2004 by Derek Wright
Gary - regardless of whether the house has a celar - make sure it can receive broadband.
And check out for flood susceptibility (proximity to dried out stream beds, near water meadows and flood plains) and poisonous landfill sites.
Derek
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Posted on: 31 October 2004 by woody
Posted on: 31 October 2004 by Simon Perry
I have a friend with a cellar in Wimbledon, and it floods at some times of year. You open up a hatch in the floor, look in, and can see stuff bobbing about down there. Really weird.
Simon
Posted on: 31 October 2004 by happychappy
Aaaah memories below ground level.
That will be my first music room and the last below ground level. I did a lot of the work myself but employed builders for the important bits (tanking, boarding, plastering and floor laying, all went well at first even to the point of a few years passing damp free,I then started to take liberties, such as leaving records on the floor then I paid the price. It rained & rained & rained to the point where we discovered that my next door neighbours drains were faulty-in, turn filling his cellar like a swimming pool in turn finding a course into my cellar-result = a couple of thousand ruined records luckily all electronics were high up on the wall so no damage there!
Just remember we will never be able to control mother nature and as the builders said "water will always find its own level" (unfortunatly for me) however for all its downs you could really wick the level up down there with no complaints from the neighbours...ahh bliss
Posted on: 01 November 2004 by JonR
Cellar or no cellar, will you be having a house-warming party, and if so are we invited??
