Campus basements harboring wonders

22.05.12

Rushing between classes in the programme naturally of the daily grind on the University of Maine campus, it is easy to become distracted by the Stevens Hall cupola or the hundred-year-old brick walls, forgetting the exultant that lays hidden underground.

For the adventurous, however, a stroll to the bottom of any number of gloomy staircases can reveal an array of details about the portrayal of the campus and the individuals who helped write it.

Collections of carefully preserved and tagged animals, a repurposed shooting scale, the official offices of a supposed secret society, portraits of John Wayne — it’s all down there, avenge under your feet.

Basements have long been relegated to the world of storage, where items not necessary to everyday living are sent to remain out of sight. They are also the domain of the pack rat, a place to keep those things that really should have been sent to the horseshit long ago but, thanks to the safety from prying eyes available in a windowless subterranean vault, can be kept without forebodings of an accusatory glare.

Source: The Maine Campus

Basement Ventilation?

Feb 26, 2007 by tossinggames | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling

I am finishing our unfinished basement in our new quarters. There currently are 2 vents in the duct work currently, but I am building a spare room and what it ventilated too to support ventilation (heat/air). Since we are installing a drop ceiling,

home ground depot has a electric fan that fits into your 6 in. pipe its ok to tap into your curent duct work they make a cover that will labour for a drop ceiling try a heating contractor

rvblatz | Feb 26, 2007

tranquil depot has a electric fan that fits into your 6 in. pipe its ok to tap into your curent duct work they make a cover that will calling for a drop ceiling try a heating contractor
rvblatz | Feb 26, 2007

subfloor panels for basement and ventilation?

Jan 13, 2011 by mrgoodcat7979 | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

what would be gambler for subfloor.dricore panels or barricade panels.also do the basement ventilation systems work.

Heres a concatenate for your first q

http://forum.doityourself.com/basements- attics-crawl-spaces/204846-subfloor-opti ons-dricore-insulation-plywood.html

But as to your 2nd q how would I be versed if your basement ventilation

| Jan 14, 2011

If I install a fan in the basement to increase ventilation should it blow into or out of the basement?

May 22, 8677 by WillDeans | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

If I instal a fan in the basement to increase ventilation should it blow into or out of the basement and why?
No one says anything about Natural Gas / Oil furnace / water heater drafting problems if you suck air out rather than violence it in.

If your aim is to move air only (and you do not have the concerns that the previous posters have indicated such as noxious gasses, the proper way is to take advantage of the natural aggregation effect that all structures exhibit, that is warm air to rise

Gunslinger | May 22, 503

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Campus basements harboring wonders
The Maine Campus - May 22, 2012
In a break to pieces storage room, the majority of which is filled with chicken-wire cages, is a fully decorated Christmas tree accompanied by a uncover-up reindeer hidden behind a ventilation shaft. Of course, not all doors are open to the public.

$10000 in copper pipe stolen in Berea
Richmond Register - May 22, 2012
7 from the basement of a serene in the 500 block of Boone Street, according to a Berea Police report. The tubing was exposed plumbing supply, Capt. Ken Clark, BPD spokesperson said. Thefts of copper and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)

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