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Considering Basement Renovation?
Sometimes the cure for an undersized house is right underneath you. Yes! that wasted space may be a solution
for extra income, spare bedroom for the family, playroom for kids, visitors sand gatherings or just for yourself as an office, hobbies space, gym or home theatre; it’s a great investment over your property that in general goes from $20,000 to $50,000 depending on the materials and finishing you would like to use, which is probably half of the cost that an addition to the house would mean.
Wet Basement
It’s important to address that basement could be under attack when water comes in; you better address this issue mostly because a “DRY” basement could be deteriorated over time by your water tanks leaks, or a widow filtration. The following list of signs will help you check for any moisture or wet issue:
Water stains, this could be caused by something as simple as an overflowing laundry pipe or it could be a result of water leaking through a basement window, wall cracks or floor; check for potential points of entry near the water stain, but because water travels is always good to check up around mostly if your floor is uneven.
Damp Smell: if by going downstairs you feel this smell it could be cause by standing water, carpets installation or wet drywall at some point.
Mould has spores that float in the air, like pollen and it can rain surfaces in may colours like black, brown, yellow or green like small grass.
Saltpetre: caused by salt deposits from water may cause your surfaces to flake away and if you have carpets around the area sitting next to the concrete it would
Excessive Condensation on windows or walls:
This not necessarily means the water is penetrating, is mostly the insulation and ventilation of your place.
One’s the issues regarding humidity are checked it’s important to have a list with the requirements of the project considering the options of the space, distribution, and your personal needs. If a washroom needs to be installed, a kitchenette, number of rooms, closets, power outlets, fixtures, walls, ceilings, this allows you to keep expenses on a budget and we can sue the resources wisely.
A very common complain is the temperature of a basement floor and luckily for us there is a lot of excellent alternatives for us to help you and of our favourites is called THERMAL DRY.
Thus system is available in floor tiles 1’x1’ that rest on a plastic base with a vinyl surface that spots a parquet floor design, very versatile, fast installation with no nails adhesives or grout required and dresses the problem of temperature in basements. Unlike traditional wood parquet flooring , these tiles will not be damages by water of humidity.
There are two kinds of Thermal Dry, one that looks like parquet floor and the second one that looks like flooring tiles, installed raised on plastic PEGS that create an air space between the floor and your concrete creating the thermal gap needed 8-10 degrees warmer than concrete temperature.
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