Basement Conversions are Key to Expanding Your Living Area

If you think that your cellar was built just as a fallout shelter or storing garden goods and can never be anything else, you could be surprised.  Many old cellars and basements today are being renovated to increase functional space for use other than a cold, damp room under the ground.

Having an old home with a cellar like this, you probably don’t want to spend thousands to have the exterior method of installing a drain around the perimeter of your home by the use of gravity.Although excavation can provide a permanent solution, you’ll find it very expensive.

Many homeowners are turning to tank slurry and basement tanking as alternatives that are much cheaper.  Undertaking cellar conversions by waterproofing from the inside can leave you with results that even you won’t recognize.

Tanking Slurry is an effective way of modifying your existing basement walls with alkali-resistant, synthetically modified cement and a styrene butadiene rubber.A bond is created against the movement of water by applying it directly onto the walls and floor of your basement.It can be applied easily, using a trowel or a spray. This is a project that a good DIYer can do alone, without the cost of hiring a professional.

Basement tanking consists of building an entirely new surface away from the walls of your basement but providing a drainage method for seeping water.  Using a high-density polyethylene membrane, the walls are lined but an air gap is left between the original wall and the new wall where the water is sent through a pipe to a sump pump and pumped out of the basement.The outer surface is then framed and boarded using plasterboard.

Although basement tanking is more labor intensive than tanking slurry, the high-density polyethylene is a great barrier against nitrate, sulphate and other chemicals that form off the old concrete.  Also, a great insulator of both heat and sound, basement tanking should give you the perfect environment for the life of your home.

A combination of the two methods of tanking slurry and basement tanking are often used in conjunction with one another.  The basement tanking can be used for walls and floors and the tanking slurry for the ceiling that provides additional insulation for the upstairs floor plus sound protection from the separate spaces.

There are a number of projects, both commercial and domestic, where these methods have made excellent and lasting results.Some examples of additional underground rooms could be kitchens, studios, gyms or carparks.There’s no reason why your basement should be damp and cold for any longer.Just think how great it would be to have an extra room in your home, and get started today.The only other thing you’ll need to do is take lots of pictures before and after – you won’t believe the transformation.

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