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Hi
I live in Brussels and have a large Art deco house which has been restored - excepting the cellar.
First thing to say is that the cellars of this period were not meant to be lived in, having said this, many people, here doctors and professionals do use their cellars for their practices. with waiting room area and live upsatirs.
I would like to ask a question about how I could make the cellar 'useable' - good enough and dry enough to be able to store books and things, hang coats etc and store childrens toys.
My question is how to insulate the walls against any dampness so that we could plaster the walls.
In the winter sometimes we see there is some damp coming in via the bricks on the floor, as they change colour, otherwise the cellar is dry and we have adjoining houses on either side of us.
I have seen an example of what a local buider has done for a client and it works as follows:
On the outside facing walls, there is a gap of about 9 inches, before a new wall has been built in either breeze block or white Ytong blocks. The wall is then backed with some sort of membrane in order to stop damp.
I am looking for advice as the viability or otherwise of converting the cellar in this way - or looking to receive adice as to how I could proceed.
Many thanks
regards
Paul Langham
I live in Brussels and have a large Art deco house which has been restored - excepting the cellar.
First thing to say is that the cellars of this period were not meant to be lived in, having said this, many people, here doctors and professionals do use their cellars for their practices. with waiting room area and live upsatirs.
I would like to ask a question about how I could make the cellar 'useable' - good enough and dry enough to be able to store books and things, hang coats etc and store childrens toys.
My question is how to insulate the walls against any dampness so that we could plaster the walls.
In the winter sometimes we see there is some damp coming in via the bricks on the floor, as they change colour, otherwise the cellar is dry and we have adjoining houses on either side of us.
I have seen an example of what a local buider has done for a client and it works as follows:
On the outside facing walls, there is a gap of about 9 inches, before a new wall has been built in either breeze block or white Ytong blocks. The wall is then backed with some sort of membrane in order to stop damp.
I am looking for advice as the viability or otherwise of converting the cellar in this way - or looking to receive adice as to how I could proceed.
Many thanks
regards
Paul Langham