- Oct 3, 2007
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I'm in the process of finishing half of my basement. I don't have outside basement access and I don't think it would be worth it to add it, so right now I bring wood in through the kitchen door and down the stairs into the basement to the furnace. Right now the stairs are bare wood and the floor is concrete, so I sweep up the bark, mud, dirt, etc...that gets tracked inside. Once the basement is finished and the steps are carpeted I'll need to find a solution or the carpeting on the steps will get ruined in a hurry. My idea was to use the basement window opening on the unfinished side near the furnace as a pass-through. The outside would be a box with a hinged lid that you could open and stack splits inside of. Then you could grab the splits through the opening in the wall in the basement so that the wood never enters the finished area. Here's a rough sketch (not to scale):
The box frame would be constructed out of pressure treated lumber and faced off with T-111 exterior plywood. I'm pretty sure that if I build the frame well and anchor it properly (I was thinking Tapcon masonry anchors), the fact that it has no support from underneath won't be an issue-what does everyone else think? For the lid I'll use 3/4" exterior plywood on a piano hinge and shingle the top of it with left over shingles from the house. I'll add some weatherstripping around the edge too. Anyone ever built anything similar?
The box frame would be constructed out of pressure treated lumber and faced off with T-111 exterior plywood. I'm pretty sure that if I build the frame well and anchor it properly (I was thinking Tapcon masonry anchors), the fact that it has no support from underneath won't be an issue-what does everyone else think? For the lid I'll use 3/4" exterior plywood on a piano hinge and shingle the top of it with left over shingles from the house. I'll add some weatherstripping around the edge too. Anyone ever built anything similar?