Anyone have experience building house w a 5' crawled below. ( raised due to flood control requirements?

Anyone put a sill slab, lights, drains, and painted it? Or just gone standard gravel, drains, vented on sides and a few lights?

Ryan the Temp said:

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Bellard said:

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Anyone have experience building house w a 5' crawled below. ( raised due to flood control requirements?

Anyone put a sill slab, lights, drains, and painted it? Or just gone standard gravel, drains, vented on sides and a few lights?

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If it was raised due to flood control requirements, you will need to determine the limitations of what you can do with it. For example, you may be required to allow water to flow freely under the structure during a flood event. Enclosing the space would violate such a requirement.

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Yeah, we had family just build an elevated house for flood control requirements and the city (Houston) required the space below the house be permeable. They have black star gravel down there.

htxag09 said:

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Yeah, we had family just build an elevated house for flood control requirements and the city (Houston) required the space below the house be permeable. They have black star gravel down there.

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Unless that was just added, that wasn't traditionally a REQUIREMENT. If their lot is smaller than 15k square feet, they were doing that to try to avoid having to put in detention. They also may have been doing it to reduce the "Impervious tax" (fee) that the city now charges. You can still put a slab under your house and park a car there if you want.

I mean I'd assume 90% of residential lots in houston are under 15k sq ft…