northeastern Ohio | havin’funfarming - 9/23/2020 20:53
What is the reason you can’t build a straight walk out on the back side of the house? From what I understand the terrain drops away on the back side. But you said there is a crawl space under the house? How do you have both a crawl space and a basement? Is the basement only under part of the house? I’m just a bit confused as to why you can’t build the walkout on the back side of the house.
It looks like a very nice house BTW.
Yes the terrain does drop at the rear of the house (newer addition). The main part (original part) of the house has a basement. Years later they added onto the main house but left the original sandstone foundation between the old and new. Just a crawl space under the addition to run ductwork and water lines (punched a hole through the sandstone). This is very common in the old houses in my area.
So it would require putting a basement under the newer addition and punching a hole though the original sandstone to access the original basement. That would be a huge project and really not needed. The basement is 18x25 which gives plenty of space for a furnace, hot water heater, freezer, shelves and storage.
The opposite side of the house has the septic tank, so I can't make an entrance there either. The front of the house is close to the road and would require moving a lot of dirt.
Thanks for the replies. The ramp makes sense but I might have to make one step at the top to keep the slope reasonable. Otherwise I would need to run the ramp all the way to the driveway.
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