Is building a basement still justified today?

  • Erstellt am 2016-10-26 14:14:33

ypg

2016-10-27 15:12:08
  • #1


Me neither. My first house had a basement, not even a coal cellar... But I was reluctant to go down – that atmosphere feels suffocating. I tried to make everything nice, yet I hardly used the storage cabinets. Boxes that went down were never opened again. Besides, I am lazy and dreaded every trip down the stairs.



Well said!

I also admit to currently having a garage, in front of which my husband’s car is parked. But that’s due to having to store something in the medium term. That will disappear again in due course, so the car will have space again. There is a difference in that a garage can occasionally be repurposed to store bulky waste etc. – with a basement you can’t do that in reverse, unless a garage was integrated into it; but that’s not the topic here. I don’t know anyone who tidies up a cluttered basement from time to time: whatever is brought down stays there until moving out.

If an active family with several members uses a basement to gain extra rooms, I find a basement completely fine. But to keep extra rooms just for storing put-away things – I can’t understand that.

And when you’re older, you also like having the washing machine and vacuum cleaner within a few steps.
 

DG

2016-10-27 15:34:53
  • #2
Our cars are also parked in front of the garage, which is simply due to the fact that the two single garages (built in 1978) are sufficiently sized for a Kadett B, but no longer for modern cars. You can get the cars in, but you can barely get out; when installing/removing child seats or just loading with children, it's all over.

In this respect, we are forced to be HC hoarders: 120% basement (terrace fully cellared) plus 2 garages => all storage space for things that are in the way. Half of it could easily go or be stored much more compactly.

But it also has advantages: there is plenty of space to dry things, I can easily set up a wet tent in the basement, and I still have expansion reserves for rebellious teenagers.
 

MarcWen

2016-10-27 16:16:50
  • #3
So, 35 years ago I was also afraid in the basement. There was always such a racket when someone was in the basement and someone else upstairs turned off the light. It was even worse at my grandmother’s, it was a vault from the turn of the century.

But you wouldn’t take something like that as evidence, would you?

My experience:

Those who have a basement enjoy the benefits. Then there is a group who do not build/want a basement, for whatever reasons. And the rest simply do not want a basement, and have their reasons.
 

Climbee

2016-10-27 16:32:17
  • #4
The modern cellars are integrated into the thermal envelope, so they are no longer cool or even damp storage rooms. On the one hand, that's quite nice because the climate in the cellar now naturally has more of a living quality (apart from the lack of light), but on the other hand, I still think about my grandmother's cellar today: an earth hole that you had to climb down into from the hallway using a ladder.

A phenomenal storage place for potatoes, carrots, wine, etc. Always perfectly tempered. I would personally find such an earth cellar fantastic. Unfortunately, that probably won’t work for us because of the groundwater (at my grandmother's place in Middle Franconia it was more sandy soil). It's a pity, it always annoys me when the potatoes start sprouting after at most three weeks. And yes, I buy my potatoes directly from the farm, you can't get anything under 5 kg there, so I have to store them.

Does anyone have such an earth cellar and maybe can report?
 

Bieber0815

2016-10-27 16:50:44
  • #5
We have these 3 prefabricated garages (1 x car, 1 x bicycles, 1 x workshop/cellar replacement); that certainly didn’t cost 50,000 euros.

You’re pointing out an important aspect! No idea, we will try later to create good conditions in the garden house...

I know passive houses that have a cellar outside the thermal envelope. So it’s possible...
 

ypg

2016-10-27 16:57:02
  • #6


Are you talking about me? I was never afraid! Not even at grandma's
 

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