Search Forums Advanced. Location: Perpetuality On Wheels posts, read , times Reputation: Advertisements Especially in current hot spell of US, may you offer some temp reading of your well insulated basement without AC? Quote: Originally Posted by seagull84 Especially in current hot spell of US, may you offer some temp reading of your well insulated basement without AC? Quote: Originally Posted by seagull84 Basically your basement stays about 64 all year around, what marvelous structure do you have!
Quote: Originally Posted by seagull84 may you offer some temp reading of your well insulated basement without AC? Quote: Originally Posted by MrRational Quote: Originally Posted by seagull84 Rational, just wonder under similar weather condition, why your number is much higher than Cam's. City-Data Forum Message. Cancel Changes. Quick Reply. Im curious how cold your basement would get without any heat, you might not want to experiment though with frozen water pipes the result!!
Jan 2, wisconsin. We do not have any heat in our basement. Old fieldstone walls. I am curios to find out how cold it is down there but not enough to go down It has been below zero forever this winter with temps at with the wind chills at night We have heat tape on the pipes under the kitchen because they are in a crawl space and freeze even when it's not very cold.
They are about 20 feet away from the basement. Pellet-King Minister of Fire. Nov 30, 1, Northern Ct. Enigma Feeling the Heat. Aug 27, Massachusetts. Unfinished basement in my house, with no heat. I really couldn't tell you the temperature down there, because I don't spend any time down there, so don't really worry about what the temperature is. Jan 1, Vermont.
I would be surprised if it went much lower than 50 with no heat at all. We have a finished basement, with R19 in the walls, none in the ceiling, and the temps never get below I have the thermostat set at 50 and I don't think it has ever come on.
This friday should be a good test though, with a projected high of Our plate and joists are well insulated, so we have less of a chance of freezing pipes. If you want to see how cold it will get, you might want to do it with no heat when the temps aren't too cold, to prevent freezing pipes. Jan 11, 1, Southeast PA. Ranch with unfinished basement. No heat and the basement is a consistent all winter. Nov 16, 1, Upstate, NY.
CamperWill said:. Click to expand My signifigant other complains that it's to cold down there at 50 so I can't imagine what she would say if it drops below that. I know our basement drops below 50 as the boiler kicks on late at night and early morning. Nov 29, Massachusetts.
I don't live in the basement, so I don't regulate it, yet it's always a comfortable temperature when I travel down there for something. Your level of comfort is a different matter, though. Viewing a basement prior to finishing, you may look at the below-grade walls and flooring as the source of all of that cold. Surely these broad expanses contribute to all of the coldness that you feel, right? The greatest offender, though, is ground-level cold.
Walls that extend above grade, vents, ducts, windows, and more act as freeways that allow cold to cascade into your basement. One poorly insulated dryer vent and duct will chill your basement far more than an entire below-grade basement wall.
Basements are inherently damp places, even if you don't have active sources of water. Cool temperatures plus humid air makes one feel cold. Humidity can create other problems, as well. Cold foundation walls subjected to 20 to 30 percent relative humidity will cause condensation, which can lead to mold , mildew, and rot. More than 60 percent of basements in existing homes have a problem with moisture, according to the American Society of Home Inspectors.
Winter months make spring in your basement so chilly. Studies in Canada—a nation that knows about cold basements—have shown that exterior foundation wall surfaces take about 3 days to react to changes in outside temperature. At the exterior base of your foundation wall about six feet down , it takes about 69 days to catch up to outside temperatures.
Snow may seem like another cause of basement cold, but not so. Researchers have found that snow accumulated on the ground near your basement walls have almost no impact on basement temperatures. It's only when snow exceeds two feet that temperatures in the basement can start to be dramatically affected.
That is one reason why temperatures in your basement often feel so unseasonal. Basement foundation walls can literally be one season behind, transmitting those temperatures into your basement. Do you have a single zone heating system?
With this, one furnace supplies heat to both the basement and upstairs. The thermostat is located upstairs. Solar heat gain warms the upstairs during the day but it does not warm the basement. After all, upstairs has the windows, downstairs does not.
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