The basement is a very practical and useful room in every house. This is an ideal place for placing various communications and other equipment. In the basement you can even build a garage. As a rule, you need to engage in the planning of the basement at the stage of planning the type of foundation. After all, only tape options for foundations are suitable for the basement. Also, do not forget to repair the bedrooms after finishing with the basement.
If there is a firm desire to have a basement in a new house, then you need to be prepared for a significant increase in the cost of construction. Building a strip foundation is a fairly expensive event. You also need to be prepared for additional insulation of the entire basement. Plus, if the level of groundwater is close to the surface of the earth, it will have to be waterproofed.
The foundation itself is used as the walls of the basement. And since it is impossible to delve below the level of the foundation, the higher the monolith will be flooded, the higher the room. Even if a half -basement is planned, the costs of the foundation will be serious. To ensure dry basement, with close groundwater, you will have to build, the so -called “white bath”. For this, the foundation and gender of the basement are poured with a single monolith. This method is the most reliable, but the most expensive. It is necessary to solve or not to build a basement in advance, then, most likely, it will not work to change anything else.
