Cellar Conversion Survey

The first thing you need to know if you want to convert a basement or cellar is what the finished floor height will be. To do this we do a destructive survey and report. See how Damp Sam did his and join the £2.99 membership to give him half a cup of coffee as a big thanks for the years of content .

[@milkyporridge5929]

Most of those pre 1930 cellars where never built for head height anyway sam?

[@JoelBDUK]

Up mate I’m from Barnsley too, just wondered if you know anything about asbestos, going to start striping out my kitchen ceiling and dryliner and wondered if a house built in 1977 could have it? Cheers

[@dampsam]

Anything before 2000 could potentially have asbestos related stuff in, Artex, Paints so if your unsure have them tested

[@johncranna]

As a structural engineer there is a absolutely no reason to do any underpinning of those walls. Ground looks fine. As it's a basement there is no frost zone to worry about. There is no sign of any movement/settlement or else you would have mentioned it. Just leave them alone. Edit!! Having just thought about it I think your reasoning is that should you need to dig down to get a better headroom then you would need to underpin. You are possibly right. it just depends how far you need to dig down. But I would have though that with all that digging down and underpinning it would just not be economic to do. Also the only headroom requirement in building regs is for the stairs, there is no headroom requirement for rooms.

[@dampsam]

If you watch the full vid I say the head height is 1.73 and building regs state the finished floor level at the foot of the stairs has to be a minimum of 2m

[@leeholke9851]

Did u find my wife down there

[@dampsam]

What’s she look like 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@leeholke9851]

Mate need some advice what would you use for rodding the wall. Never used before and so many products out

[@dampsam]

A correr

[@Schinney]

Sam you are teaching us not learning us old boy😂

[@dampsam]

I always get corrected on that it’s a habit from not paying attention at school