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Melton Design Build offers a comprehensive guide to preventing basement and crawlspace flooding for Boulder County residents.
Prevent basement flooding before it happens
As we saw last year, sometimes flooding is so intense that it cannot be stopped from entering or even demolishing a property. However, for normal years when flooding is present, there are steps you can take to secure your property and keep your basement or crawlspace dry.
Evaluate the risk Does the basement flood every year at approximately the same time? Where is the basement flooding? Is it at the top of the wall, bottom of the wall or through a floor drain?
Possible solutions Clean the gutters. Extend and re-direct downspouts away from the foundation wall. If the gutters cannot handle the drainage, consider adding additional downspouts and larger gutters to prevent overflow. Caulk any cracks on the exterior and interior where water might enter. Prevent sewer backup by installing caps or plugs to all sewer openings in the basement. Adding a perimeter drainage system can prevent water from entering your home through the walls. Add a sump pump or upgrade to a higher capacity unit. Install a pump alarm system to alert you when the pump is not functioning properly. Consider landscaping. If it is improperly sloped, water will run toward the home instead of away. Keep landscaping and sprinkler systems 510 feet away from the homes foundation.
Unfortunately, what happens in many cases is that the top of the foundation gets covered up with landscaping when 68 inches should remain exposed. In an ideal situation, foundation would stay exposed with an impermeable membrane guarding the foundation underground guiding water to a perimeter drain system, which sends the water to the sump pit. If this doesnt happen, water gets below the foundation causing settling, which results in foundation cracking. This can be costly to repair and can decrease the value of your investment.
Consider hiring a licensed contractor to help you come up with the combination of solutions that will keep your property safe during the next flood in your area. For more home maintenance and architecture and design tips, sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
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Franklin High on Tuesday began its final school year in its movie-set-beautiful 1915-era clock-tower-topped brick building.
Beginning next summer, the school will undergo extensive demolition,remodeling and rebuilding before reopening with a thoroughly modernized interiors in fall 2017. During the coming two school years, Franklin's 1,500 students will report to the campus of the former Marshall High 2 1/2 miles away.
Students wax nostalgic about the building's beautiful brick exteriors and historic Colonial Revival look -- but not its outdated lighting, tiny basement cafeteria, worn surfaces, and ancient heating and non-existent cooling systems.
This year's freshmen will return to the reconfigured campus and fully updated school as seniors.
Students who will spend the rest of their high school years at the Marshall campus are bummed about that. But others see the value for future generations of Quakers, said senior Meghan Miller, whose little sister will arrive at the new and improved Franklin as a sophomore in fall 2017.
A few things are new at the 99-year-old school this fall, including new curb cuts, crosswalks and bike boxes to promote safety around the campus.
The school also has a new leader: Juanita Valder. Valder, formerly vice principal at nearby Cleveland High, was promoted to Franklin's principal this summer after longtime Franklin Principal Shay James was elevated to oversee all schools in the Franklin cluster.
Learning time will be maximized in Portland high schools this year.The school board added two days to the school year and classes have been lengthened to an hour and 34 minutes, with fewer late starts and assemblies to cut them short. All students, not just freshmen, started class on this opening day of the year.
Miller and fellow senior, Michael Van Sant, and junior Kaia Brunso all said they expect a great year ahead at Franklin with what Brunso called "a really nice atmosphere" due to cohesion and positivity among the student body.
Van Sant, who looks forward to the opening of his varsity football season, and Miller, who is excited to throw the javelin and train with the school's track team, said this year's senior class is a special one: highly involved at school, with strong connections among students with diverse interests and with a record of showing leadership.
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Homeowners tend to approach the independently owned and operated basement renovation experts at Total Basement Finishing with two primary needs: finishing the basement and remodeling the basement. More often than not these days, it seems like they're talking about a basement remodeling or renovation project.
What's the difference? When a basement is finished, a stark, bare area is transformed into a beautiful finished basement. The construction of the area is planned, rooms are designed, and finishing options are carefully reviewed. The homeowners are choosing how their beautiful new living space will be designed and are often adding additional living space to make room for a growing family. Another common concern is whether or not a "green basement finishing project" is an environmentally sound choice.
Many times a homeowner decides to remodel a basement only when the basement environment has become so intolerable that they can no longer stand to live with it. With many common basement finishing materials used on the market, (such as drywall, mold-resistant drywall, wood, carpeting) moisture can run a tremendously damaging course, eventually ruining the finished area.
The cost of basement finishing with these methods is multiplied many times by having to replace and repair something that should last! If you're using traditional drywall, carpet on concrete, wood studs, and other organic material in your basement, you are really creating a future home remodeling project.
If the basement is finished with products containing any organic materials at all, they're going to be susceptible to mold, mildew, rot, and dust mite damage. As these products decay, they begin to release moldy, musty odors into the air, making the area an unpleasant environment to live in. These odors can spread throughout the entire home, adding allergens and adding to discomfort. Homeowners generally get fed up with the situation over time and decide to remove and replace the offending materials.
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By Jonathan Ward Posted on August 26, 2014 | News | Comments Off
The Students Association office is undergoing renovation and is being relocated to improve operating efficiency and accessibility to students.
Rodney Johnson, president of Students Association, and the incoming 2014-2015 Executive Cabinet collectively made the decision earlier this year to renovate the office as well as the entire Student Life section of the campus basement.
Johnson, senior finance major from Odessa, believes the offices renovations will allow students to better connect with ACUs student organizations.
The vision behind remodeling the Students Association office is achieving improved efficiency, increased student interaction and more exposure to the Students Association, he said. It is our goal to reach as many students as we can, and the new office is designed to help serve that purpose.
Rudy Garza, chief communications officer of Students Association, also believes the remodeling will facilitate greater student involvement and provide more effective service to the student body.
Well have more effective co-working spaces for both Congress and the Executive Cabinet, Garza said. The layout will be similar, with the addition of an administrative workroom for congressmen and an office for each executive officer. These improvements will greatly improve the workflow efficiency.
Garza, junior marketing major from Corpus Christi, is also excited about the new location of the office.
Unlike our old offices that were hidden in the back corner of the Campus Center basement, the new offices will be at the forefront of the basement, surrounded by other Student Life offices.
Johnson said ACU is fully funding the project as a part of the entire Student Life basement remodeling. Johnson expects the project to be completed between late September and early October.
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DANVILLE, Va. -
The start of this school year isn't all that's new for a private school in Danville.
Teachers at Carlisle School spent the summer remodeling a building that's been empty for more than a year.
One week from today students will fill the halls and pack lockers with school supplies. But until then teachers are busy unpacking boxes in their classrooms. They spent the summer making this building their own.
"We came in and did a lot of cleaning up, revamping, putting in new technology," said Neal Meyer and Michelle Bridges, both administrators within the Carlisle School.
It's the first year for the Carlisle School in this building on route 29 in Danville.
Carlisle is based in Martinsville and is leasing this building from Danville Public Schools.
It was once Taylor Elementary School but closed last year after a budget cut.
Leaders at Carlisle saw this as an opportunity - They closed two smaller campuses, one in Danville and one in Chatham combining them into this building.
"We out grew the building and we needed a new location and so we found this fabulous location," Meyer said.
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Social worker, toymaker, newspaper writer, carpenter, massage therapist, dishwasher, grant writer, musician. Name a job, Todd Samusson probably has done it before.
I just cant do the same thing for a long time, says the 62-year-old, from the shaded patio of his front lawn in the Mount Tabor neighborhood of Southeast Portland.
The son of an army engineer, Samusson grew up tinkering with his fathers tools and lived in Morocco, Virginia and Texas before settling in Portland with his wife, Paula Manley, in 1988.
Since moving to Portland, Samusson has added a new occupation to his rsum: garbage collector. And then he turns it into art.
I probably went to a hundred garage sales in the course of a five-year period. I just like the look of old things and rust, Samusson says.
It all started 15 years ago, when a piece of garbage caught Samussons eye one day while he was remodeling a nearby house. There was a piece of junk, a metal flange like the type that comes out of vents, he recounts. I kept looking at it in the pile of debris every day and thinking Im going to take that home and do something with it.
And then came Bob
After some hammering, flattening, bending and sewing, that metal flange became the mouth of Bob, a metal mask made of an oven pan, a tin can, a few copper pipes and two beaten-down pennies. And after Bob, the deluge.
It opened up a whole new world, Samusson says. You cut something at an angle and all of a sudden you look at it differently.
Samusson started looking at a lot of things differently.
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Foster City, Calif. (PRWEB) August 11, 2014
When it comes to home improvements enhancing marital bliss, a dream kitchen is the top addition on the wish list of Americans, according to a new survey of 2,000 homeowners by HSH.com.
A bigger yard, finished basement, walk-in closets and a man cave were other popular answers.
Here is how married individuals ranked their most desired home improvements:
1.Dream kitchen 23.39% 2.Bigger yard 19.06% 3.Finished basement 16.46% 4.His & hers walk-in closets 15.23% 5.Man cave 13.72% 6.Two master bathrooms 12.20% 7.Two master bedrooms 9.96%
While 58.7 percent of respondents said that a bigger house would also equal happier children, 58.6 percent said that a larger abode wouldnt necessarily mean theyd be having more kids.
These improvements dont come cheap, though, with a state-of-the-art kitchen costing $109,935, according to Remodeling.com.
"At least in this case, happiness costs money," said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com. "Some of these bliss-inducing improvements will require either deep pockets or a deep equity position and the use of a home equity loan or line of credit to make them come true. If the project will require extensive renovations, a 'home improvement mortgage' such as the FHA 203K or a Fannie Mae HomeStyle Renovation mortgage may be the vehicle to achieve some of these happiness goals. Of course, some desired 'improvements', such as a larger yard, might only be realized by finding a new home."
While a dream kitchen was the top answer both overall and for women, a man cave was the No. 1 addition that husbands would like to see. In fact, each gender had polar opposite rankings of what improvements would make them the happiest.
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