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<blockquote data-quote="AppleCori" data-source="post: 734960" data-attributes="member: 16024"><p>In some areas, you can’t build basements for several different reasons.</p><p></p><p>In Texas most people don’t have basements, either because the limestone is so close to the surface (and digging it out is expensive) or the clay soil isn’t conducive to basements. They use pier and beam foundations. Oklahoma may have the same concerns, because they don’t seem to have a lot of basements, as far as I have heard. Land prices are generally cheaper, so building spread out is cheaper than down, too.</p><p></p><p>Up north, they generally have to dig down farther to place the pipes so that they won’t freeze, so putting in a basement isn’t all that much added expense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AppleCori, post: 734960, member: 16024"] In some areas, you can’t build basements for several different reasons. In Texas most people don’t have basements, either because the limestone is so close to the surface (and digging it out is expensive) or the clay soil isn’t conducive to basements. They use pier and beam foundations. Oklahoma may have the same concerns, because they don’t seem to have a lot of basements, as far as I have heard. Land prices are generally cheaper, so building spread out is cheaper than down, too. Up north, they generally have to dig down farther to place the pipes so that they won’t freeze, so putting in a basement isn’t all that much added expense. [/QUOTE]
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