30 Aug
2014
30 Aug
'14
10:22 a.m.
Oh ok, I see.. that room with the hatch is really just a crawlspace then,
is that it? Now it makes sense, as to why it just has a small access hatch
in the wall.. and in that case, sure, I get why it only has the native dirt
below. My place is the same way, in the sections of house built over
crawlspace.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
wrote:
On Aug 30, 2014, at 11:50 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
I grew up in Holland (Nuenen, a ?bedroom community?), in a house built as
part of a subdivision around 1960. It had a tiny concrete-floored
basement, more like a small pantry a few feet down under the stairway. But
the rest of the ground floor was built over a crawl space that had concrete
foundations but just the original dirt for its floor.
paul