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IMHO  Title: Official Outpost Greeter
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Modeeb Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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IMHO, my understanding is he is not concerned about the stone foundation, except for it weeping with water. The old load bearing walls resting on stone should be fine. I thought the problem was : Keep the basement dry. Wouldn't red label cement do it?
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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AzureTyger posted:
We're about to jump on a Victorian that is around 140 years old, so it has a field stone and mortar type foundation. The lot is fla t and the basement is pretty dry, but obviously it weeps a bit as it is deigned to. Now I know that there is no way to turn it into living space, but I wonder what can be done to make it more usable, maybe for a workspace or pool table. The basement on this place is big and not nasty like a lot of them. You can't cover the walls with plaster or mortar can you because the mortar is supposed to crumble over time to preserve the stone? I was thinking of just having the walls white and the floor painted gray kind of thng.
Remember that just because YOU aren't "living" in the space, anything you store in it IS "living" in that space.
How do you think tools or pool tables like that kind of humidity on a constant basis?
I grew up in a stone farm house with a field stone and mortar foundation/basement. The basement was unusable for anything but a root cellar and/or storage for jars of produce from my parents' victory garden that they'd canned. Even the washer and dryer eventually rusted out down in that constant humidity after not too many years.
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Fat_wong  Posts: 293
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install weeping tile around the outside of your foundation.
basically you excavate 6 feet deep around your whole house 2 feet wide and fill it with gravel. what you are doing is giving the water an easier way to drain other then through your foundation.
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http://www.seepage.com/services/basement-waterproofing?gclid=CJ_w59G1wa0CFYHrKgodRlCSAw
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eodoll Posts: 1,028
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Dont buy a 140 year old house - common sense.
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Halloweve Posts: 422
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Fat Wong is right, that's what I had done. I don't think we went 6 feet out tho, I think 3 feet. Old houses rock!
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AzureTyger Title: Awesome
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Registered: 2002-4-1 15:49:04
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Halloweve posted:
Fat Wong is right, that's what I had done. I don't think we went 6 feet out tho, I think 3 feet. Old houses rock!
Once that is done, can you do anything with the walls and floor (paint etc)? Thus one is about 95% dry, floor is cconcrete with some uneven spots and it has good glass block windows.
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
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Divert as much water as you can away from the outside of the foundation. Gutters and downspouts need to be well maintained and get those plastic extender things to attach to the bottom of the downspouts that go 10 feet or so away from the house.
You could have them dig up outside the foundation and install drainage as was mentioned, it helps a lot but can be very expensive.
Nothing you do on the inside is going to help much, most things you do will actually hurt your foundation and your house. Applying any type of sealer, even paint, is bad. The rock and mortar are designed to crumble and sag a bit over time, and sealing them creates fractures and weakens the foundation. It also causes leeching that wicks water up into the sill, damaging the wood, creating rot, and putting more moisture and damage into the living space above the foundation.
You could create false walls inside the foundation, install sump pumps, industrial dehumidifiers, and live with the fact that the area is still gonna be very damp. Up to you. Depends upon how much you want to spend and what you want to do with the space created. Wouldn't be worth the cost to me, but then I never live in a house for more than 2 or 3 years, if I had a place I planned on staying in, I would have to consider the cost vs the space gain.
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