Matty_Vegas said:
whats a basement??
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Are you serious? I find it kinda hard to imagine that you've never seen the concept of a "basement" on television or in the movies at some point in your life but I may be wrong and will assume that your question is a legitimate one
so here goes:
When you build a house, you need to put it on a FOUNDATION of some sort. You dig a BIG HOLE, usually about eight to ten feet deep and construct a foundation, usually out of concrete. The concrete walls are typically 8 feet high and 8" to 12" thick. Then you back fill (that means take the soil or fill and fill in around the concrete walls) around the foundation leaving you with somthing to build your house on. :laugh:
Now, the BIG HOLE in the middle is called a "basement" and usually has a concrete floor, you have heard of concrete, right? Typically what most builders do is construct a flight of stairs from the first floor of the house down to the "basement" which is a full room under the entire building. The basement typically contains your furnace, and oil tank, water pump/pressure tank, your main electrical panel. Now these things typically don't take up all the room in the basement so what people have been known to do is "finish" the basement meaning that they construct walls and turn it into another room for their house.
If my explanation wasn't through enough, try google......
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