My Basement Floor Is Freezing

If you want to be able to use your basement as a playroom guest bedroom apartment or theater you need to first understand why your basement is so cold before you begin with measures to warm it up.

My basement floor is freezing.

This lifts part of. It cascades into your basement through windows ducts vents pipes spaces around intrusions around the rim joist header joist and from non conditioned rooms overhead. I have an operating attic fan. Heat rises in your home and because basements are generally underground those floors are often the coldest place in the house.

A form of ice block formation occurs when moist soil lies under the foundation footings and the frost line or freezing point penetration reaches deep enough into the earth to form expansive ice directly under the footings. The basement walls were insulated between the foundation and drywall. Including a new central air system. When the ac or heat is set to 71 the basement temp is 52 and my bedroom on the 3rd floor is 75.

Q we have a two story house and in the summer the basement is cold. My basement was refinished last year. We have run the. There are two basic mechanisms which can cause a basement to move because of freezing temperatures ice block formation and ad freezing frost heaving.

But you can expand your living space with in floor heating. Is there a way to get this cold air into the rest of the house and minimize use of the air conditioning. Another bedroom upstairs is even warmer.