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Basement obstacles: pipes and poles
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| If your basement is like mine, you'll
have lots of pipes, poles, and ductwork to contend with. Some
stuff you'll be able to hide or work around, but you may have
to move some things around to get your basement plan to work.
- You'll probably just be enclosing your main ducts in a soffit.
Not much you can do with that. If you want to go with the 'industrial'
look, you could just paint the ductwork.
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| Pipes
and ductwork are examples of some of the obstacles
you'll need to overcome as you finish your basement.
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- To save a little space, you could just paint your support
poles. There are also fancier rounded columns available that
you could put around them. I'm just enclosing mine in 2x2s and
drywall.
- If you're installing a drop ceiling, its height will be 1
½ inches below the lowest point. Measure from the lowest pipe
to the floor to ensure that you'll still have enough clearance
after installing your ceiling. Your ceiling must be higher than
7' (except where you've used soffits to enclose ductwork). If
you don't have enough clearance, you'll have to re-route the
pipes.
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