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Bryan inIowa

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Been awhile since put any pics up of my basement project . House is all bolted down, floor poured . Working on framing it and building stairs . New furnace and central air. New on demand water heater, takes care of in floor heat also . With four teenage girls still has hot water . Still working on album start to finish .
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That is one long set of steps. Are they all going to elope? Those on damand units with gas heat really work well. If electric you only use power on demand but the meter sure spins. Looks like good progress.
 
Looking good! How do you like the floor heat? I think I would really like it. When you are done you will wonder how you got by without all that room.
 
Thanks. When installed I have 2x4 screwed to them running full length . Four stair stringers total. Outside ones are screwed into wall studs . Forty four inch wide stairs. starting to see the end of this project . Think its been six years ?
 
Wife keeps bringing more stuff down there to store,lol. Two bedrooms, bath,bar, family room and one room for my gun safe etc. I have to hook up pump for floor heat yet . Prestige triangle tube. Darn thing is pretty complex,hundred page installation manual.
 
I remember the pics when the house was jacked up and you were excavating and getting ready for the basement wall. A long term project for sure. Good for you. As far as your wife sending stuff down to store in the basement, I know your pain. lol gobble
 
Kinda funny. My stairs are exactly 44" as well. I routed the stringers to accept the treads. It was a little spongy and noisy, so I added the center stringer. All good now.

I Watched your progress on this with great interest when you were digging and setting walls.

We started our addition/gut job/remodel about 3 years ago. Mostly done except for a few details. We put basement under the new part and dug out and upgraded some of the existing too. Unfortunately, I lost a lot of the excavation pics.

Yours is looking good.
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Great idea! I never thought of that, but makes good sense. I'm thinking about doing the same thing. How thick is the Styrofoam sheeting?
 
I was thinking of you recently and wondered how your project was coming.
I looked at a job recently where the foundation had pretty much crumbled away so they lifted the house, tore out the old foundation and put a new one under it. Nice home but really bad block work I guess. I gave them an estimate to frame, insulate and sheetrock the exterior walls.
I use poly sheeting between the studs and block then R13 fiberglass insulation when I frame foundation walls. 2x4 walls like you're doing. Quicker and you can get the wiring in the walls to code much easier with 2x4s.
 
What an undertaking. It sure is going to nice!

I've seen pics of a friend's house where they dug a basement... but didn't know her back when they did it.

Makes me feel fortunate to live in a house built in the early 1900's where they actually DID do a real basement with poured concrete walls. It's rustic - but not as rustic as the house I grew up in... with dirt floor in the basement and a foundation of rocks. (We could catch salamanders in that basement. LOL)
 
Anybody who is better at finding old posts than me care to put some links to Bryan's old posts in here?

I remember seeing different posts a few times but can't find them...
 

Yes an album would be nice but just put a pic up of the skid steer in there for the newer guys on here.
 
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