Ground floor: Living area, or waste of money?

This article answers the following questions: whether to communicate with the construction of the basement and what really ready, both morally and financially

Basement - this is not only useful area under the house, but, often, - a constant headache. The basement can flood the ground water. The walls can promorznut, get damp, moldy. Therefore, part owners of country houses believe that the basement - the thrown out money, while others believe that the basement - a great place for the boiler room, a workshop or a bath. Who is right? Answers in our material.

Content:

• Plus basement
• What is the cost to make the basement
• Cons basement
• Disadvantages of the basement and the complexity of its operation

 "For" and "Against" the construction of the basement

 "Do you regret that you have built a basement?" This is - the name of the theme to a portal where owners talk about their basements basements and participate in the survey. We give the results.

Now let us define what a basement and ground floor.

• Ground floor
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  - this is Floor sex with a mark space below the mark of the planning of land to a height of no more than half the height of premises.
• Basement — floor to floor levelbelow ground levelmore than half the height of the premises or the first underground floor.

So, in the first and in the second case we have in the ground zaglublonnye premises. This is related to the complexity of the construction and operation of the cellar. Now we give Users FORUMHOUSE arguments "for" basement.

Aleksey4177

I vote with both hands for the cellar. I built it 20 years ago. House 10x10 m of brick. Under the house a garage for two cars, storage room, sauna, boiler room. And where is all this place, if there is no basement?

Slycat2004

On a site with a slope of itself begs the basement or ground floor. If tend to do a normal foundation, then you lose a lot of living space.

iokhan

I have a site with a focus on the rocky ground. Full basement made just under half of the house. In the basement boiler room, storage room, stock firewood, workshop. Of the cap there is a separate access to the garden. I'm definitely for ground floor!

Sorox

And I have in the basement boiler room, laundry room, storage space for building materials. I do not plan a basement, but a tractor dug pit. Thought and thought, even a little sunk with, and made the ground floor 1.9 meters high. The ceilings are smallish, it was necessary to make them higher.

Dani

High ceilings in the basement is certainly convenient, but not all realize that for the base with ceilings higher than 1.9 m will have to pay taxes.

dioldi

To cap recognized technical underground, and that it is not included in the total area of ​​the building, but only reflected in tehplane his height should not exceed 1.8 m and a basement to be used only for the construction of utilities and installation equipment. Measurements of the height of the ground floor slab made from the bottom of the building structural elements. For example, not the door opening and supporting beams.

Denzharkov

I build a house with a basement floor. This - not a cheap pleasure. If no basement, the house would have been completed, but warms the idea that an extra area of ​​100 square meters. m at:

• boiler room;
• sauna;
• laundry;
• Growers;
• billiards.

Elgrand

I built a house with a basement floor, the size 17h14 m. Height 2.8 m. In the basement is a sauna, a lounge, a billiard room, a table tennis room, a workshop, a laundry room, for grumerskaya dogs. Before the construction of the basement did geology. Loam soil. GWL is 10 meters. With perched struggling drainage. The water is collected in the well and from the well it pumps out the drain pump. The quality of the cap depends on the correct calculation, compliance with building regulations, the quality of concrete, drainage and waterproofing. The erection of a ground floor without finishing, I spent 1.3 million. rub.

Cons building basement

And now Users FORUMHOUSE arguments "against" the construction of the basement.

Talesya

Basement is - certainly cool, but only if there is no water. If the ground is complicated, high groundwater level, then I think to build a basement is not necessary. I'm in the area would be a lot of water and went gold cap. In my village all those who made the plinth, suffer with him, floods, so that I had to abandon this idea.

smolkov

Want to make the basement, just think, why do you need one? If you put a few jars of conservation, it is one thing, but if you keep the potatoes and carrots, then - quite another. If in the basement there is a separate entrance from the street, imagine the situation as to carry through the house dirty bags.

The optimal temperature in the cellar in the basement of a dwelling house - two big differences. To store vegetables in the cellar supported +2 - +5 degrees Celsius at 70-90% humidity.

Now tell me, do you agree promorazhivat basement to these temperatures for the storage of potatoes? Therefore, build a vegetable storage separate from the house. Similarly, with a workshop in the basement. Imagine how you will carry boards, plywood, paint, metal, in the ground floor. Through the house - not an option. Hence we need a separate entrance to the basement stairs, which will overwhelm the snow in winter, and the spring flood water.

Do not forget about the noise from the machinery and chemical odors that get into the house, for example, if you make furniture or doing metalwork.

kag70

I built a house basement. Was a lot of plans. I thought to arrange a workshop there, but life has made adjustments. Outside Entrance closed up, t. To. The spring water through numb and had to pump her, and without a door outside in the ground floor did not really drag anything. Now the basement is dry, but empty. I advise all first think twice and then build the ground floor.

Binar

I give my opinion on the ground floor. Basement is already there, but the house still ranks. Expensive. Long and special needs in the basement there. Basement is not only expensive to build, but also to decorate and exploit. There are problems with communications entry, ventilation, water-proofing, and so on. D. From the boiler room in the basement, too, not everything is simple. Another point - the house stands on a high pedestal, and I had to make an entrance staircase with many steps. Imagine walking on it here and there, up and down in his old age. No health is not enough. In short, now would cap would not do, but it's too late to change anything.

RoMZzeSS

If I knew what it strained, to build a ground floor, it would never have got involved in this epic. One pulls the other. Waterproofing and insulation of the outside windows with pits and finishing a curved surface, partitions, flooring on the ground, waterproofing and finishing inside finishing high plinth outside staircase to the basement of the house, high stairs from the street into the house. The money goes only so, but also how much time is spent on the construction. But I was not and exit, a small house, and boiler only put in the cellar.

conclusions

So, how many people have many opinions: build or not ground floor. Many believe that a house without a basement - a defective house. Do not rush to jump to conclusions. We have already written about the cons of placing in the basement workshop or cellar arrangement. What remains? Bath? Full laundry room, as well as pool house - is another headache for their owners. Down to warm up in the basement or soak in the water bowl, - something else fun. Real Russian bathhouse must stand in the area, and in the house, if you need it, perfectly fit compact sauna. Basement as a place to rest? Are you seriously?Believe me, most likely you'll want to mentally sit with friends outdoors in the gazebo with a barbecue or oven complexEnjoying a barbecue than sitting under the ground.

What else is left? Boiler Room? Laundry? Storage room for trash? And now consider whether for the sake of building a bunker on the site if, with proper design of the house, these rooms are well placed on the ground floor.

Ground floor standing erect, if space on the site are too little and you at any cost necessary to obtain an additional 100 - 150 square meters. m. If you have a house on a steep slope, or have an extra 1.5-2 million. rub., which is not a pity vbuhat basement.

There are people who strongly regretted that have got involved in the construction of underground facilities. About, both buried in the ground more than three million rubles, and because of this, stop the construction of the house at the stage boxRead the second part of the article - my bomb shelter or I built the basement for 3 million, and realized that the ground floor - the evil.

We advise to study the topic: I regret or not regret that I did!, Basement Poll owners basement.

Helpful articles:

• The main difficulties of building a country house on a plot with a steep slope, or: 5 reasons not to buy land on the slope.
• Pit for the cap. Written excavator, or: How to dig a pit for the basement, Select the excavator and calculate the volume of exported soil.

In the video - the construction of the basement of 1.3 million. rub., Based on personal experience.

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