Forgive me if I sound care about a dork, however I have never had a basement before.
I was born and raised in the deep south, and down there the water table is too high for anyone to have a basement; Unless you live in a house on a hill, you simply cannot have a basement.
In my current town, most people has a basement, and most people have an attic, as well. This house is rife with storage space, and I am giddy about it. I want to turn the basement into my Man Cave. The only potential concern I see is that the Heating and Air Conditioning equipment is located down there, and it generates a legitimate amount of noise and ambient heat; Of course the oil furnace is supposed to generate heat, that’s the whole purpose, however when the actual equipment is in the same room that heat can get to be too overwhelming… During the Winter weeks this will be perfect, because the oil furnace will make sure the basement is consistently sizzling and dry. In the summer time weeks it could be a problem, so I will need to install some kind of cooling plan to balance things out. I spoke to a local Heating and Air Conditioning corporation over the PC, who warned me against doing that. He said that if I put an cooling system next to the oil furnace then the abruptly shifting temps will generate extra moisture. That extra moisture will slowly corrupt the indoor air quality of the basement, and eventually could lead to the growth of mold and mildew. I don’t suppose what to do!