Well, things have been going okay in the basement. I got down there to do some framing I got the rec room closet framed in.
I also got my shop framed in.
Here is where things started to suck a little. Upon inspecting the rim joist I discovered that the current insulation was far from adequate. It was simple fiberglass bats and there was so much air leakage that warm interior air was condensing on the inside of the rim joist and creating problems. To fix this I cut down some foam insulation and then foam sealed it in the rim joist. That should stop the warm air from hitting the cold rim joist. I will then cut add fiberglass insulation to further insulate. This isn't a budget buster (only 30$) but it is a few hours of unexpected work.
Additionally we have a frost problem in the attic. It first came to my attention two years ago when we had water dripping through a light fixture in the bathroom. When I searched the attic I discovered that the bathroom vent had detached from the roof vent and we were venting the bathroom directly into the attic and icing up the sheathing. I fixed the vent and thought I solved the problem. Inspecting the attic last night I discovered an excessive amount of frost in the attic, this time concentrated above the kitchen. Well, a four hour fact finding mission distilled to a picture:
I discovered that the kitchen vent was never properly vented outside but merely terminated in the soffit directly below a soffit vent for the attic. Since I was making a conscious effort run the kitchen fan more often I was expelling all the humid kitchen air directly into the soffit where it was immediately sucked into the attic. So now I need to add extending the kitchen vent through a proper soffit vent to my to do list.
Owning a house is "awesome"
If this is the logic the builders used I bet all the drains in your house lead to a pipe connected to the drain tile around the foundation. From there the sub pump will take care of it.
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