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Find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about basements. From building a subfloor to installing insulation, these articles are your expert source for lower level information.
Venture Into the Darkness
A home's crawlspace is often used for storage and may be a place that homeowners rarely explore. With its low ceilings, minimal light and often cluttered space, venturing into this unchartered territory might be a little scary. Though you may not have any idea what you are storing in your crawlspace it is important to know that air flows in and out of there, and can affect the overall health of your home. Crawlspaces are built directly above the ground, which means that ...
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How to Stop Your Home's Rising Energy Costs
The cost of moving into a new home can be quite steep. New homeowners are often focused on buying new home furnishings, appliances and accessories. But one other important thing to consider is how your home can help you save money in the long run. Insulating your basement is one way to help put money back into your pocket. An insulated basement can help reduce energy costs and increase your living space, as well as help increase the resale value of your home. A ...
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Fixing a Wet Basement
Growing up in the west end of Toronto, our three-storey attached Victorian row house had beautiful stained glass windows, spacious rooms and a third floor bedroom large enough to house four children. The basement, however, housed the mountain of coal dumped through the basement window, quarterly, which fed our furnace - that was it! In the early 1950s, people just accepted the fact that basements were dark, dank, wet and only about 6 feet high. Today it's a different ...
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Basement Insulation Building Science
Basement insulation, specifically extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation, is the best basement insulation to use for residential basement construction. Dow Chemical invented XPS insulation, giving it a closed cell structure that proved to be ideal for use in basement insulation projects. There are no holes or voids that would allow water to penetrate. In fact, Dow's XPS insulation is so waterproof that it is used to make billets for floating docks. Because it has high ...
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Vaulted Ceiling Insulation
A great basement-finishing product that insulates and neatly finishes basement walls has taken on a second role as a simple and effective way to insulate and finish vaulted ceilings. It took one imaginative homeowner in northern Ontario to discover this new application for the Barricade system. The beauty of the product is that homeowners can complete projects themselves. The homeowner was researching online to learn how to insulate a vaulted ceiling for his vacation ...
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The Home Interior Guide’s New Look
by Susan21/11/2008
Just as The Home Renovation Guide got a major renovation, our sister site, The Home Interior Guide is getting a fabulous makeover - Keep a watch out for it’s re-design, Coming Soon! To celebrate, here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming Makeover of the Month Feature. Enjoy! (For a look at our Featured Renovation, visit [...] Read the whole blog entry »
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