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Pretty much much every house in my part of the world has a basement, don’t care for them much myself. It cheaply adds space and makes for a handy place to store important papers, lps, and in the spring, water if you’re unlucky. Our little place was built around 1915 and has cracks everywhere in the foundation (concrete cheese) yet seems stable as we haven’t had any shifting since we had the outside done many years ago. This included excavating down to the base, putting in weeping tiles (it didn’t have any!) insulating, waterproofing and about 50cms of river rock starting just below the surface to facilitate drainage down to the tiles.
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Yeah I do think there are examples of where it has been done well. The use case here of it being bedrooms and utility I think also makes sense as less requirement for loads of light. But I think it’s just something which seemingly carries a lot of risk that I’m not sure I’m convinced about it on that equation