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Title: not that helpful for basement issues
Review: This book covers, in great depth, basic framing and finishing techniques. In other words, it's full of information that's available in myriad other remodeling texts. That information is well presented, but it's nothing exclusive to this book. What I expected, and where it falls woefully short, is a good discussion of issues particular to basements. Water gets perhaps two pages, humidity/moisture nothing at all, slanting floors and floor drains nothing. He does mention egress windows and basement mechanicals. Overall, however, far too much space given to general building techniques (probably over 80% of the book), when in fact what I think is needed is a lot more depth and detail regarding issues related to basements.
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