Post #2607419
2025-06-29 23:01 UTC
@perkinsy@aus.social
In Canada there are older houses without a basement, just what we'd call a crawlspace, but since you typically need to dig the foundation below the frost line (max depth for freezing to occur, depends on location in country, typically 3-6 feet) it's not much more expensive to make it a basement.
Under the floor sounds odd since it implies, to my ears, that it was in a crawlspace, not another level of the house, which it isn't based on the photos.
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@perkinsy@aus.social 2025-06-29 23:25
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca It is a house that is probably built on a hill. So there is more space under the floor on one side of the house than the other. If the house is built on flat ground then the space under the floor is incredibly tight.