Live in Wake county, NC. I'm in the planning phase. I want to turn my "basement" into conditioned, usable space. The whole "basement" is unconditioned space, accessible only from the exterior of the house. It's got vents in the walls.
The house is built into a hill. So half the "basement" has 12 foot ceilings and a concrete floor. The other half is a dirt floor that slopes up to about 4' ceilings.
Most of the space is slightly below grade, except one wall is at grade. This means a good portion of the walls are actually wooden stud walls.
So do I have a basement, a crawlspace, or both? Finishing a basement and encapsulating a crawlspace are both separate sections in the code book and I don't know which applies here.
The house is built into a hill. So half the "basement" has 12 foot ceilings and a concrete floor. The other half is a dirt floor that slopes up to about 4' ceilings.
Most of the space is slightly below grade, except one wall is at grade. This means a good portion of the walls are actually wooden stud walls.
So do I have a basement, a crawlspace, or both? Finishing a basement and encapsulating a crawlspace are both separate sections in the code book and I don't know which applies here.