Talk:Basement
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This article seem to be very culturally specific (perhaps from a certain part of the U.S.?). Much of what it presents as generally the case, I hadn't heard of or come across. It needs to be internationalised. --Phronima 20:54, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
- It's based on Canada actually (US northeast also) where basements are mandatory because of the frostine. If you can clarify the article, by all means. I'll try as well. Samw 00:13, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Crawlspace
I have never heard of a crawl space being called a basement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.142.132.230 (talk) 19:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Crawlspace (1986 Film)
There is a movie from 1986 entitled "Crawlspace", but yet crawlspace, typed in, redirects here, unless there is no article for the movie, I think the redirect page should be made into a disambiguation.
[edit] Multistory basements?
How common are multistory basements or cellars in Western countries? I know for sure only very few buildings that have (or had) multistory basements which are the former World Trade Center Twin Towers and in Germany for example the DESY complex or the Institute of Physics of the Cologne University (as far as I know, there are two buildings with a walk out basement and two stories below that. One of the buildings has a small particle accellerator in the lower basement stories, the lowest floor of the other building is unused). Furthermore, there may be multistory underground car parks at some big stores in Germany. But I don't know whether there are residental buildings with multistory basements.--SiriusB 19:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Multistory, underground car parks are quite common in Canada, both in office buildings and apartments. In low-rise residential buildings (e.g. a house), there's usual no reason to do that because a basement is more expensive than a house and if land is cheap enough for a house, there's no motivation for a multistory basement. Samw 21:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Geographic considerations
I've noticed that in some states in the US, basements are very common, and in others exteremely rare. For example, Michigan, Utah, and Illinois homes tend to have basements, while California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada homes do not. Does anybody have any information on this?
- Yes, see "Design and structural considerations". Basements are effectively mandatory in colder climates to get the foundation below the frostline. Samw 03:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request For Expansion
There is almost no information in here at all for non-residential basements, such as in office buildings or subterranean carparks. I came here looking for information on underground floors in office buildings and found almost nothing, and since I'm no expert on the subect, I put a tag up for expansion; please assist if you can. PolarisSLBM 11:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] British Cellar
The article says:
In Britain, people tend to store food and drink in a garage, if at all.
What? No we don't... we store food and drink in the kitchen... that's it. In the garage Brits store cars, junk, tools, spare parts, and that kind of thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.102.101 (talk) 16:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
