Comment on Cold room floor help
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 19 hours agoGround floor yep. The rest of the basement subfloor is poured concrete. Other than this cold room the basement design seems to be very typical poured concrete foundation dug under grade, typical of eastern Canada.
semisimian@startrek.website 18 hours ago
owenscorning.com/…/below-grade-under-slab-foamula…
I’d remove the existing wood, grade the soil flat and compact it. I’d then put down 2 in foam board (like in the link above) to decouple the flooring from the Earth. I would pour concrete to match the subfloor in the rest of the basement, but you don’t have to. You can go back with a pressure treated subfloor product on top of the foam, etc.
A few things to keep in mind would be making sure that you get the right height of the soil so that you have the finished flooring height you desire. Also, all this work assumes you are maintaining access to that clean out. Good luck.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Thanks for this! Whatever happens I’m fairly certain I’ll need this eventually
classic@fedia.io 17 hours ago
Random reader here. What's a clean out?
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
He’s referring to the capped pipe in the centre of the room. I’m not entirely certain either
schwim@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
It’s a septic or sewer clean out. Code requires them at certain distances of the drain system to allow for access to clear any blockages. You can use that access to run a snake.