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I don't know exactly how it is called in English.
I noticed that in Calif and Fla there were no house with basement. Is it all over the USA and what about you from UK, Australia, Germany?
Please specify where you are from. Thanks
Here in Canada we almost all have a basement even if they flooded sometimes. They serve as a home theatre, a work shop, a bedroom, a wine cellar or even a whole apartment.

Yes, I'm in my basement right now.

nope

in UK (or atleast wales) hardly homes got basements..... unless you find an old, upmarket victorian house

Transient wrote:Yes, I'm in my basement right now.

Were are you from though?

pete wrote:Just wondering if you have a basement/below the floor?

Of corse we have basements below the floor.

Cant very well have a basement above the floor now can ya?

And if you say yes then your still wrong, cause thats called the second floor if ya have one or if ya dont, the attic.

Keep it simple pete.

losCHUNK wrote:nope

in UK (or atleast wales) hardly homes got basements..... unless you find an old, upmarket victorian house

Is that because you are under the sea level?

In Texas you have almost no basements anywhere. I've always heard that you have to dig your foundation down below the freezing line and in Texas that is not very deep.

Basement? Cellar?
The biggest part of houses here in Germany are built with cellars which consist mostly of storage rooms. Basement appartments are not very common except if the house is built in a slope so the basement is level with the ground on at least one side....

pete wrote:

losCHUNK wrote:nope

in UK (or atleast wales) hardly homes got basements..... unless you find an old, upmarket victorian house

Is that because you are under the sea level?

cant be, seeing as wales is 1 big mountain

I dont have a basement, both at my home in cambridge (east anglia) aka the flattest part of the UK. and up here in Middlesbrough at uni.

ForM wrote:

pete wrote:Just wondering if you have a basement/below the floor?

Of corse we have basements below the floor.

Cant very well have a basement above the floor now can ya?

And if you say yes then your still wrong, cause thats called the second floor if ya have one or if ya dont, the attic.

Keep it simple pete.

You've made a point here, you can lol at me. I just didn't know how to put it since basement can also mean just the concrete foundation for a house.

pete wrote:

Transient wrote:Yes, I'm in my basement right now.

Were are you from though?

Vermont, 45 minutes from the border.

there are basements all over the US. i've been in houses in Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, and NC that had them... surely there are some in Texas. They don't work in Florida and parts of Texas for a few reasons. Sea level is a big one in parts of FL, but also the sand/limestone soil is no good... water just flows right through so your walls are always wet. That's bad.
No clue what the UK's problem is, there were lots of basements in Germany.

i am in my basement, and in canada.

mines kinda 1/2 above ground here in mid can

its all finnished tho like normal

states that i've lived and whether i've ever seen a basement in a house there:

WA: yes
OR: yes
CA: no
TX: no
AZ: no

i have basements all the way down to the earth's core where i sit sometimes and stroke my persian kitty while looking at huge TV screens

menkent wrote:surely there are some in Texas.

surely there are, I'll agree, but I moved here in 63 and have lived in all kinds of houses in different neighborhoods and I have never seen one or known any one who had one.

they don't have to build them here so they don't build them here.
we miss out on having all that extra space.

Yep, there are basements in Texas. Just not many as Dukester pointed out. Storm cellars are a different matter though.

Transient wrote:

pete wrote:

Transient wrote:Yes, I'm in my basement right now.

Were are you from though?

Vermont, 45 minutes from the border.

Isn't that where they filmed the start of super troopers? 45 minutes from the border?

Under my floor is a family of Congolese. :icon14:

A lot of older homes in the US do have bomb shelters from the days when people lived in fear of a nuclear attack happening at any moment.

So remember kids, if you see a bright light from a nuclear blast, duck and cover!

Almost all buildings in Sweden have basements/cellars. We also have insulation and double glass windows, as opposed to the fucking Brits. I've never been freezing as much as when I was in London in January. Plus, we also put our plumbing and water mains inside the house, where it won't freeze as soon as it's below zero.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:states that i've lived and whether i've ever seen a basement in a house there:

WA: yes
OR: yes
CA: no
TX: no
AZ: no

I'll add to that:

PA: no
WV: yes
ME: yes
NH: yes
VT: yes

there are houses with basements in dutcholand (and amsterdam for that matter) obviously, but i dont have one. i have a storage underground though but its not really a basement