Air leaky house

[Guest guest]

Jeff May suggests keeping the basement separate from house. I knew

that would be difficult but I have done some things to separate it

off better. This summer I removed and threw away the carpet on the

first floor and walking around yesterday noticed I can SEE right

through the wood floor on first floor into the basement(!), so the

first floor air pretty much mingles with the basement, no doubt about

it.

It's obvious when lights are on in basement brighter than first

floor. I see the light from the basement through the floor here and

there. Down there is a sump pump w about a foot of dirty water. I

keep it covered but..? Sealed sump pump I was quoted about $2k which

I'm not going to do since this house is draining my pocket to point

I'm going to have to stop. I fixed the main problem and the other

problems are going to have to be for someone else with a bigger

pocketbook and normal health.

I don't think this house will ever be clean enough for me to live

in . I'm doing so much better in house than before - no comparison-

but now that have been sick, my experience tells me I can't take

average cleanliness anymore, and the amount of money it would take to

change this house into good indoor air q is just much more than I

have. It has a million SMALL problems but they all add up when you

aren't in good health. Of course July and August are the toughest

months. I do just ducky over the winter!

It'll be sad to give up on something I've put so much effort into but

you don't know unless you try and hopefully I've learned things that

will help me out some place else.