3+-room house. Full basement. Currently renovating an old cold porch. It's like a concrete box you could say, cast against the basement wall, filled with stone and gravel.
Today I drilled a small hole because I'm running a pipe from the basement to the underfloor heating that I'm going to lay on the concrete. Then I discovered that the sill plate on the basement wall is rotten. I assume moisture has been able to transport up there and hasn't found its way out again. The sill plate is lying in that gravel and stones. I should mention that the hole I made is close to the concrete box wall.
The damage is quite shallow, maybe just over a centimeter where it's worst. It's dry, creates a lot of dust when I touch it. I can't feel that it's worse the closer to the concrete box wall I get. And I think it feels pretty okay when I dig with my hand away from the box wall.
What do I do about this? Fill it in and forget about it? How long will it take before it becomes a real problem and is that a crazy idea? I didn't plan to break up the entire floor in the cold porch and replace the sill plate...
That kind of surprise and an unpleasant delicate problem to deal with is recognizable.
Your hope is that it is an old dried-out injury.
How is the sill on either side of the cold hallway (outside)?
Could it be that the cold hallway was originally not a hallway but just an external staircase?
How is the soil and drainage?
Is it completely watertight in the corners/connection between the cold hallway and the house foundation?
Is there a lot of water splashing from shoes during the winter?
Can you install an inspection hatch/well in connection with the new floor?
Then you can see/measure the development over time. (Good for you now, and a security for future owners.)
If the house is from the 1930s and it isn't worse than this after 80 years, the process might not be going so fast, if there is even an ongoing process at all.
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