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Basement blocks and bears? Seems I read something about bears in a post about turning a freezer into a fridge? I guess bears do get around...
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Guess I'll plead guilty for getting this off-topic. I indulged myself with two small rants yesterday and Murf combined responses to both here. The rants probably didn't deserve individual responses. Back to blocks: We don't know if the Glenn was dealing with a high water table or not. It also sounds like the foundation is already built, so my comments about structural type may be irrelevant.
I guess my point is that if the structure is subject to a high water table and frost, then another type structure might be less expensive and have fewer problems. Floating structures work OK here, and I'm almost certain that our township offices are slab on grade. Murf's point about utility hookups is well taken. It's not that you can't do it successfully, but that it has to be done differently than for structures with basements. However, under codes you don't have much of a choice, residences have to be on footings ( probably so some future owner who wants a basement can dig out the crawl space). Codes have to do with planning as well as with structural integrity.
We were considering using block walls for a basement walk-in. It would have been on a reinforced 6" slab over 2" foam and aggregate. The first course would be set over rebar studs set on the slab. Block-lock would be used ever few courses and cavities would be motor filled and rebar reinforced. 2" foam would be used outside the walls. That was the design recommended by a building tech and is probably how I'd do it if I had to build basement walls.
The water table at our house is lower than at our camp. The house has a block foundation. There are plenty of cracks in it from frost damage, but the cracks haven't moved for years. Water would come into the basement easily if the soil near the foundation becomes saturated. Eaves toughing cured the summer water problem and hopefully re-grading work this summer will cure the spring run off problem. However, the walls aren't sealed and I probably wouldn't seal them. I think improving drainage is an easier solution to water problems than sealed foundation walls. They’ll probably stand for decades longer—cracks and all.
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Billy. There is still time. No one has covered lions or tigers yet.
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Speaking of lion, I had the opportunity to eat lion meat several years ago. It was delicious, tastes and looks alot like pork. Even tried Zebra. It wasn't as good but still not bad. It was dark and kinda like beef.
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We could blend the subjects for you.......
I took my GMC 'Safari' to my friends place to look at his foundation, it was a 'bear' block wall with so many cracks it looked like a 'Zebra'. But it was too 'cold' down there in the basement to stay long, so we went outside to look at it. While we had a couple 'really cold home-made beers, almost icy in fact', we pondered the situation. I told him he should tear it down and sart again, and he replied "you're 'lion' to me!"......
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I'm proud of you Murf, you done real good. O'Rielly might not be as proud though. He would think you are spinnin.
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Well dang, I am appreciating this. Maybe I shouldn't have edited out that the reason for my rants was that my permanent coffee filter stopped being permanent and left me with a hot water/grounds mixture in the pot, the coffee maker and on the counter. I wrote that I'm a bear without my morning coffee, but that would have paled in comparison with these further comments.
Mark: I told the bear and mosquito spray joke and got a good laugh from my wife and also a woman whose husband is a bear guide (I suppose I have to say that hunters rather than bears pay him). He and his wife just returned from a seminar for guides. The seminar bears out (I just can't stop) what you were saying about the spray. It just slows down determined bears, it doesn't stop them, and it likely slows down the user too. Apparently there's some serious research going on to identify the causes of aggressive black bear behaviour.
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I have never gotten one of those stupid permanent coffee filters to work right. Near as I can tell the mesh plugs up with fines or scale and can't handle the water flow. So it overflows over the top and sides and makes a gloppy mess in the pot. There are completely worfless, as my southern freinds would say. (Sorry Peters)
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The skim coat you refer to is called parging, is done to seal up the wall prior to waterproofing. The same thing can be done with a product called Thoro Seal. It goes on like thick-sanded paint, very easy to do and very inexpensive compared to parging.
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