30 Aug
2014
30 Aug
'14
8:50 a.m.
Oh sure, I get that.. my current house had a dirt basement until a slab was
poured for the furnace in the 1920s, and the rest of the floor in the 1950s
or 60s.
But those residential blocks look to have been built in the late 60s or
mid-70s perhaps. You don't see dirt floors in mid-20th century
constructions, at least not in my USA.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
It's not all that uncommon at least east of the
Mississippi, and you don't
even have to be on the east coast or something... before my girlfriend and
I bought our current home, we were renting the first floor in another house
in the same city built somewhere around the middle of the 19th century
(really! in Michigan! I think it pre-dated statehood here...) and that had
a completely dirt-and-rock basement.
It didn't do the best job of keeping the bugs out, but it was always dry.
Best,
Sean
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:34 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2014, at 23:33, "drlegendre
." <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
Why is there a dirt basement under a residential block?
Not all that uncommon in Europe. Not even all that uncommon in older
American cities, though I know our Europeans will laugh at me for calling
my house built in 1915 "old".
- Dave