GeneV
Elite Member
Including my parents' house, I lived in 4 houses with crawlspaces and rehabbed/flipped 2 more. Some had a dirt floor, a few had gravel, and then one of them was concrete.No floor?
The concrete one was a total headscratcher. It was a 4' crawl, accessible from the garage, with the furnace and water softener down there. The house was a sprawling ranch, with the furnace positioned smack center of the crawl...so doing any service to it (or checking on the sump pump way on the far side) meant duck-walking way in there. Going down there to dump salt into the water softener wasn't fun neither.
But the place was dry, insulated...I would always joke with my wife that I'll stick a couch and tv down there for my "man cave". So why in the blue hell did the original owner build this stupid setup as opposed to a basement, no friggin clue whatsoever! In this case, how much more would it be to dig deeper for a basement or make it a raised ranch? I imagine minimal cost.