Ground Level Below Floor Level

On some buildings floors below ground floor are usually marked as basement b but some buildings also marked these floors as minus for example.

Ground level below floor level.

Top of timber pile above finished ground level 300 mm or 150 mm with dpc top of concrete pile above finished ground level 150 mm with dpc top of foundation wall above finished ground level 225 mm suspended timber floor construction bottom of cladding 200 mm suspended timber floor construction underside of joists i e. The outside ground level should be at least 150mm below the damp proof course and ideally avoid hard surfaces next to the stone as water will splashback in heavy rain causing damage to the stone. The part of a building that is partly or completely below the level of the ground. To or on a lower floor of a building especially the floor at ground level.

Although a floor is defined as a level in america there is another level we see on the architectural plan. In this situation the lower level is called lower ground the main floor is called upper ground and floors above it are numbered serially from 1. This may be unavoidable in tenements built tight to the pavement. The british word is ground floor.

The solution is to lay the dpc in the inner leaf of the cavity wall level with the dpm in the floor. This is a laborious operation which makes it difficult to make a moisture tight joint at angles and intersections. If there are several floors below the ground then these are defined as basement 1 basement 2 and so on. An upper level in a building such as a church court.

There may also be a storage floor called cellar below lower ground. Basement floor is the floor which is built below the ground. Sometimes floor number 1 may be the lowest basement level. This level of below the floor fishing.

In that case the ground floor may be numbered 2 or higher. Above outside ground level and the floor level is at or just above ground level it is necessary to dress the dpm up the wall and into the level of the dpc. This level constructed beam that beam called tie beam. One of the levels in a building.

In few cases the floors below ground. That is marked as something like 4 0. This level between the base portion of the window and portion of the floor above ground level upwards is called the sill level.