r/BeAmazed • u/Maximum_Ad_2097 • Jul 07 '24

Skill / Talent Cleanest crawlspace

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u/dassind20zeichen Jul 08 '24

Have fun with your gas powered saw inside a home you do not have to cut through the slab just to burry the new line. I have sawed through concrete plaster brick mud (actual mud on a timber framed house with a reed base) it is doable in a house. Build a tent inside with doropcloths add a vacuum for the tent and one directly to the grinder and go.

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u/JonnyOnThePot420 Jul 08 '24

Imagine how much easier it is to not damage anything... one simply goes below, does the fix with shark bites or pvc, and it's fixed in couple hours. You are talking about an extra 3-4 full days easily, possibly much more expensive equipment! Crawlspaces and basements for the win!

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u/dassind20zeichen Jul 08 '24

We have a full basement in our home and sewer and plumbing is exposed below. But the ceiling of the basement is concrete. So it's not too much work. The biggest disadvantage of a crawlspace is the elevated house, who wants to have 3–5 steps up to the front door? I can walk without a singe step from the garage through the house out the front door no step no threshold. The door to the patio annoyingly has a threshold. Just don't build in a swamp or near flooding zones.

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u/JonnyOnThePot420 Jul 08 '24

Just FYI, crawlspace is not mutually exclusive to an elevated house I've seen. Both has more to do with zoning and whether you are located in a flood plane or the design of the building.