Basement floor / low ceiling

Scleros · Aug 4, 2009, 02:57 PM

I have an older home with a 6 foot basement ceiling. I'd be willing to repour the concrete floor to gain some inches and I'm wondering what, if any, drawbacks to, considerations for, or ways of having the floor at or below the footer level of the outside foundation walls if the floor is kept independent and doesn't make contact with the footers. Bad idea/why? Comments?

toddmanqa · Nov 4, 2009, 01:35 PM

Here is a step-by-step article on how to do underpinning of basement walls:

http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-local/v...170a32100a0631

If the link doesn't work, goto JLC Online - Home and search the Archive for: lowering basement. Its in the October 2009 edition.

Some other things I've read in other places:

1. You need to vibrate the concrete to get full psi strength on the concrete.



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