If you should see a crack in your basement floor, walls or ceiling; the understandable reaction is to set about repairing it. However, before setting about doing a DIY basement crack repair you might want to establish how serious the crack is.

A crack that appears in your basement could just be due to something heavy being dropped on the basement floor or shrinkage due to drying out of some plaster-work. Unfortunately it could also be symptomatic of something more serious and require monitoring before repairing.

You can, of course, install any type of ceiling lighting you want into your basement. However, the basement ceiling lighting you decide to use will be influenced by a variety of factors, of which the following three are quite important:

• Whether there is already any existing lighting in the basement
• Whether you want to simply replace an existing light
• What you use your basement for.

As each of these scenarios throw up there own challenges we’ll investigate each one separately.

More and more renovated homes are reclaiming their basements. The room in the home that has traditionally been used as a laundry room, storage room or workshop space now has a modern purpose; the home theater room.

If you’ve spent a lot of money in the past on your flooring, or perhaps you’ve just moved into the house and are ready to start working on upkeep, and find yourself in the middle of a sagging floor – don’t panic. Rotten wood joists in basement locations aren’t unusual, though it is an awkward hassle and needs to be fixed. The worst part is, in the basement, you can’t always simply get underneath the floor to fix the joists, which are what is causing your flooring to sag and creak.

Patching a cracked concrete floor is generally a simple task, something that you can usually do in only a few hours. The minute you notice a crack, it is best to fix it; otherwise, you may end up with a cracked concrete floor that only gets worse!

Preparation for Fixing