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Something is wrong with having a finished off basement around the house?

Bob McGuire — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:38:56 +0000

A basement that is completely finished off would be called a finished basement. So what do you do with it? Well mainly people have them completed for their little ones. The idea is the basement provides them a place to go to, to occupy themselves with their own toys and cars and other stuff. A basement does not have to be finished to accomplish that. The basement just has to exist to accomplish that. Now and then I come into a basement and the children have a piece of 12 x 10 foot remnant carpeting on top of the floor that is surrounded by waist high containers of toy stuff. One area can be of dolls and girls stuff plus the other side could be car and truck models and airplanes and Star Wars toys all set up for boys.

I am not sure what you could call this sort of area. I imagine a “Kid Kingdom” might be a fairly accurate name. This sort of area area is often surrounded by bicycles and other nice weather larger outside toys. I have also observed the area walled off with old blankets hanging from the floor joists up overhead. Every so often a string of Christmas lights threaded around the top for a little bit of additional lighting. This sort of area is always a mess, with loads of extra toys left out and on the floor.

A stage up from this sort of area would be the finished basement. These are pretty expensive and essentially constructed for the kids according to their parents, but the kids don’t get as many rights in a actual finished basement. There is usually no large play area and unquestionably no toys are acceptable to stay out and on the floor over night. Moreover the youngsters would have no use for a bar! Kids would never be able to ride bikes down there in concern of crashing through the wallboard.

Kids Kingdom and finished basements have to be treated equal as far as environmental services goes. There has to be heat down there, and also there should always to be light down there. Kids sometimes don’t like going down to the big shadowy dungeon below the house. It really scares them. So brighter and warmer is better. Also a d-humidifier might be a necessity. Humidity is heavy and settles downward to the lowest level which is the basement. In a finished basement Michigan the humidity naturally is in the region of 70% saturated and all it requires to grow mold is a 38% humidity.

When you get the finished basement ideas for real and commence searching for a person to do it you can give us a phone call if you are somewhere nearby to us. If not, I advocate phoning up friends friends and relatives that have had it done to see who they called and then check them through the BBB. That is a non profit business monitoring concern that keeps a fairly good look out for scammers. Subsequently there are plenty of options in this article. Good Luck!

Does insurance pay for cracked basement repair?

Bob McGuire — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:05:21 +0000

I got a question “does insurance pay for cracked basement repair”? The answer is pretty simple but complicated. Insurances usually pay for “damages”. So there are 2 things to consider. A: we have the wall crack and B; we have the rotten carpet and the studs that have to be removed and drywall that has to be removed and all the water on the floor. The answer is that insurances consider the wall crack “Maintenaince” and not damages. They figure you should be keeping an eye on your basement walls and when they shrink and crack you should maintain your house and fix the crack yourself. On the other hand “Collateral damage” is the damage the water caused. A flood or mini flood. Oakbridge Construction does flood repairs also and as a matter of fact we did one in Westland last week. So what the insurance paid for was the moldy wood wall removal and the collateral wiring that would have to be ripped out and re installing wall covering like paneling and drywall and painting the things that had to be r & r. They did not pay for the waterproofing job that had to be done.

There are two different types of insurance for basements. Flood insurance and sump pump insurance. If you have a finished basement you need both. I suppose if you live in a flood zone you should get FEMA insurance. I can’t quote and prices but I can say that people that have bought the insurance seem pretty happy the did buy it when they get a quote for damage. The waterproofing is usually pretty cheap by comparison. – Bob

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Bob McGuire — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:45:50 +0000

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Very happy that they were able to fix the problem in our basement of water
leaking thru cracks in the wall without having to tear the entire wall
out of our finished basement as other companies suggested we do.G& MB. of Rochester Hills

Before we would excavate this wall crack out from the outside and try patching it. Not to mention the fact that we would have to remove part of his patio, digging is a hit or miss type of repair and does not always work. Now we repair these wall cracks from inside using an injection of foam or epoxy and install a dry well. This is a much more reliable solution.

These leaky rod holes actually can be worse leakers than the wall cracks. We routinely fix up to 50 of these per basement. On the other hand we have a 2 rod hole minimum. We do it all, big and small.

Basement water problems don’t have to plague you any more. All basement water can be eliminated, whether the water is coming from wall cracks or leaky rod holes. There is no doubt that Michigan is a wet state. Soggy cinder blocks, wet carpeting, white powder on concrete blocks can all be fixed with a basement waterproofing system from Oakbridge Construction….

We also work on a lot of block basements. Block basements are waterproofed differently than concrete wall basements. Block basements require a bit more expertise to get the job done right. Give us a call to stop water on the floor and walls.

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