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Make downstairs comfortable, dry, and useful. Plan the layout, moisture work, services, and approvals before the walls close.
A kitchen does not make a legal apartment. Here is the approval and design sequence for an additional residential unit that is safe, useful, and documented.
Read the postUnderpinning can preserve more usable floor area; benching can avoid digging directly beneath some existing footings. Neither is a casual excavation. Here is how to choose without letting ceiling height become the only number in the room.
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