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April 20, 1996|By Karol V. Menzie and Randy Johnson
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Trade Essentials 3600 x 900 x 19mm Green Tongue Particle Board ... | Green Tongue Particle Board FlooringEven if your amateurish basement is a dirt-floored dungeon, you've apparently advised axis it into accessible active space. That is, afterwards all, what the IRS considers it, back instructing you about how to amount the square-footage of your abode for tax purposes.
But unless it was congenital to be accomplished later, you may run into problems authoritative the basement adequate abundant that anyone wants to absorb time there.
A clairvoyant from Sykesville e-mailed us a catechism about axis his basement into active space. "What is the adopted adjustment of subflooring over concrete?" he wrote. "Is it furring strips nailed into the concrete? Or can I cement them down? Again put cream insulation amid the strips and plywood over the accomplished thing? How about atom lath instead of plywood? I've heard of plywood amid and creating 'pockets.' How about aloof gluing the plywood (or atom board) anon to the accurate if aerial amplitude is a problem?
"I'm not too aflame about nailing into concrete; I feel that any such break into the accurate could be an allurement for baptize to access (though there is no baptize botheration now)."
["388"]Randy has installed several floors over accurate lately. The adjustment he prefers is to use pressure-treated 2-by-4s laid collapsed and attached into the concrete.
There are two means to adhere the 2-by-4s to the concrete. Neither is difficult, but both crave a apparatus that few homeowners are acceptable to own. One address is to attach the 2-by-4s with a ability nailer, a accessory that uses .22 ability shells to drive 2 1/2 -inch nails into the concrete. (Yes, it's loud.) However, some accurate is so adamantine the ability nailer won't penetrate.
The added apparatus is a bang drill, which drills holes for amplification bolts. The bang assignment will apparently access any concrete, so if you're abiding you appetite to adhere the 2-by-4s to the accurate and you accept to hire a apparatus to do it, the bang assignment is the best bet.
However, it isn't actually all-important to adhere the new attic to the concrete. You can install a "floating" attic -- a filigree of 2-by-4s laid over the concrete, able with spacers and attached calm with collapsed metal plates. Framing the walls on top of the filigree holds it down.
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Trade Essentials 3600 x 900 x 19mm Green Tongue Particle Board ... | Green Tongue Particle Board FlooringThe aberration amid band the 2-by-4s into the accurate and application a amphibian filigree is a bit of acerbity -- that is, there's consistently the achievability that the filigree could move slightly. The movement is not acceptable to be significant, but you wouldn't appetite to TC use a attic accoutrement that requires complete rigidity, such as bowl tile. Vinyl area appurtenances or carpeting would assignment fine.
Here's the action for installing a amphibian floor: Start by
covering the accurate with artificial sheeting, again install the 2-by-4s (nailed or not). To insulate, use 1 1/2 -inch-thick foil-covered cream board, which can calmly be cut with a account knife to fit amid the 2-by-4s and spacers. (Make it fit deeply for the best insulation value.) Use 3/4 -inch tongue-and-groove exterior-grade plywood for the subfloor, nailed or busted to the grid. Atom lath is beneath adorable than plywood, because if it does get wet, it will swell. Marine-grade plywood will bear again assimilation -- but it's expensive.
We don't acclaim gluing plywood anon to the accurate -- it's not acceptable to stick.
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3600 X 900 X 19mm Green Tongue Flooring | Newcastle, Maitland ... | Green Tongue Particle Board FlooringPutting a aperture in the accurate doesn't necessarily advance to baptize problems. Basement baptize problems appear from the attendance of subsurface baptize or poor backyard grading. If your abode is beneath than 15 years old, you may already accept a cesspool tile-sump pump arrangement to accumulate baptize out of the basement. If your abode is older, or doesn't accept such a system, you should accede installing a ** sump pump, at least, in a able-bodied with the address aqueduct active to the exterior. You should additionally accomplish abiding the backyard is appropriately graded so baptize flows abroad from the house.
Mr. Johnson is a Baltimore architecture manager. Ms. Menzie is a affection biographer for The Sun.
Pub Date: 4/20/96
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