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basement

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical system and cable television distribution point. In cities with high property prices, such as London, basements are often fitted out to a high standard and used as living space.
In British English, the word basement is used for underground floors of, for example, department stores, but the word is used only with houses when the space below the ground floor is habitable, with windows and (usually) its own access. The word cellar applies to the whole underground level or to any large underground room. A subcellar is a cellar that lies further underneath.

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  1. R

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    Just installing a bathroom in a basement flat. Kitchen, bath, basin and toilet waste are all to go down single underground drainage pipe which then connects to the underground drainage from rest of property above, then runs to sewer under garden. Would the basement flat be ok if we installed a...
  2. D

    Looking for a plumber for changes to commercial premises (Manchester, UK)

    Hi there, I am looking to start liaising with a plumber that is able to make a few changes to a commercial unit I'm about to sign a lease on. We will be needing water supply and drainage for both a sink and a commercial coffee machine on the ground floor. In the basement we will need two wall...
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  3. D

    Relocating toilets in basement

    Hi there, I hope I'm posting this in the right area, apologies if not. I am about to take on a commercial lease and the WC facilities are in the basement as picture below in plot "03". I'd like to relocate the toilets to the red circles. Can somebody tell me how big of a job this'd be and...
  4. M

    Basement Lightwell Soil Pipe

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  5. B

    Flues in basement stairways

    What are the regs on this need to replace a boiler in this position. existing boiler is here but can't find much info on it
  6. G

    solution for basement drain...

    Hi all, I was hoping for some advice on a problem I have to solve... Theres a drain in the basement of a friends bar, and it stinks to put it bluntly... It does have a trap to the sewer, but the drain its self is open and feeding into it is... second floor bar sink and glass washer first floor...
  7. W

    Basement Underpinning

    Hey guys. Need a bit of help here. I wanted to extend my basement to make a couple of feet lower than what it is. I contacted a basement underpinning service in Toronto who advised me about the procedure involved. Is bench pinning actually safe or not? I know that i depends on the design and...
  8. Stanios

    Pressure & Temperature relief in a basement

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  9. N

    Basment v Roof Plant Room

    Good afternoon All, please would you be able to explain to me the advantages of a roof mounted plant room rather than a basement plant room. Also if possible would you be able to tell me the complication with regulations that you would experience when designing a basement plant room...
  10. J

    Oil Pipe Run

    Trying to get the heating on for my new build. I've got an underground oil tank that's set 2m into the ground. The tank is fitted with an Atkinson tank top. The pipe run comes out of the tank top in 10mm qual pipe and runs fairly flat for 34 meters. It then turns into a setvice pit and over...
  11. P

    no way of terminating D2 pipe from unvented cylinder in basement safely!!!!

    I was called out to look at a Megaflo D70HE unvented cylinder in a basement flat which was dripping intermittently only to discover that the expansion/t&p relief valves were unsafely terminated (the previous plumber simply left the D2 pipe unconnected to anything, just an open ended pipe to...
  12. J

    6 storey house. vented cylinder in basement. Bronze pump sizing issue

    I have a 500L vented cylinder in a 6 storey building. It has a secondary hot water return loop that is currently using a grundfos 15-50 pump. I don't think it's the correct size but i'm unsure because of the differences between a sizing a closed loop system (i.e a heating circuit) and an open...
  13. A

    Sulphur smell in bedroom of basement flat when upstairs use their Saniflow

    We recently bought a one bed basement flat in a 3 storey 1900's building (one flat on each floor), and discovered when moving in that the flat directly upstairs from us have a Saniflow system fitted in their bathroom, which is at the other side of the building to our bedroom. The odd thing is...
  14. kozak1968

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    Just a quick one, had a request to fit an unvented cylinder in a basement, its got no drain. Do they do a pump for the discharge? I dont think so. Does anyone know.... Thanks guys.
  15. Scott_D

    Basement ventilation

    Looked at a 70kw open flued boiler in a basement. The only ventilation available is at high level (ground level outside) with no obvious way of getting the high and low level ventilation needed. The existing vent is big enough to cover both high and low level requirements. I had thought about...
  16. SimonG

    Unvented Cylinder In Basement.

    Evening Chaps and Chapesses, Been asked to look at possibilty of installing an unvented cylinder in a basement. Only issue is that there isn't a drain anywhere down there. I had thought of installing the water control valve above ground and taking the cold feed down to it, but then there's the...
  17. G

    boiler in basement

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  18. W

    Replenishing Megaflo in basement

    My Megaflo needs the air gap replenishing but the Megaflo is in the basement and the lowest hot tap in the house is a couple of metres above it. I have read the instruction on the unit and watched the video posted on this forum but the standard method doesn't seem to work. How can I replenish...
  19. F

    Pump to boost flow in basement (Thermaskirt)

    Hi, Question is can we fit another thermostat controlled pump in 'series' with the existing circulation pump to increase flow to one floor. I have lived in a 4 storey terrace house and the basement (kitchen where we do most of the living) has always taken several hours to get up to temp...
  20. M

    Megaflos

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