This is our first 3D animation and we had a lot of fun making it ! We'd love to hear what other processes you'd love to see visualized ! Leave us a comment below
Very interesting video, looks pretty straight forward. Any problems you’ve run into with local building inspectors? Do you need soil geology before starting such a project?
When I was 13 or 14, 1983 or 84, my dad decide to dig out our crawl space to make a bedroom for my brother and I. He dug a small hole down to the footer and busted out a few cinder blocks. That started it. About a week later, one evening he told my brother and I that he wanted us to start digging out some dirt after school. The quota was to fill 5 - 5 gallon buckets and dump them over the hill. I was a scrawny kid. After 1/4 of a bucket, I could tell that it was going to take a long time. My brother was no help as he was 2 1/2 years younger than me. I took about 2 hours that first day to fill those 5 buckets. When dad came home from work he made the access hole bigger so that we could dig easier. 5 buckets of dirt is not much, so after a few days the requirement was 10 buckets a day. Still not much dirt, but with the easier access and practice digging I was able to dig 10 buckets faster than the first 5. My brother was beginning to help out, too. When dad got home he would dig some, too. It was going slow, so dad made the requirement 20, then 25. After a month or so we had a small dent in it. So we dug an access ramp, cut through the footer. We still carried the the buckets up the ramp, but used a wheel barrow to haul loads over the hill. It made it quicker. Our muscles became stronger. We became better at handling a shovel. We had standing room to dig, so 35 buckets. Then came spring and the rain. Water would run down the access and fill up the pit. After pumping we would still get our feet wet many time as the pump could not get the last couple of inches. We learned to leave a low area for pump. That helped, but the floor was not graded so it would still be a muddy slop mess. Then summer vacation gave us a lot more digging time. 50 buckets a day. We would take the wheel barrow down the access, but only take out light loads up the ramp. Only had about 15 to 20% of the digging done. It was still going to slow, so dad recruited my 2 cousins. One was my age and the other was a couple years older. Both were a lot stronger than I was. We would dig Monday trough Fridays and dad would pay them and mom would drop us off at the amusement park, Kings Island, on Saturdays. We did that routine all summer long. We were getting stronger, and better at digging. Counting buckets was long ago. We now counted wheel barrow loads. 50 or more a day on good days. We could actually see progress daily now. The 4 of us kids could move more dirt in one day than my dad and brother and I did in a month. We did not under pin the footer. My dad hired a block layer and we made a retaining wall around the footer. Which worked out good, as it made a shelf for our beds, half closets, and storage shelves. It was finished when I was 15. Us 4 kids did 70% or more of the digging. Our house already had a half basement, so it was only a half crawl space about 22 by 15. It takes time, dedication, and determination, but it can be done. I used the room until I went to the Navy. Came home and used it for about 4 or 5 more years. Now mom and dad use it as storage. By far, the hardest part of the whole ordeal was the first 5 buckets.
you could have done a handful of sand well points with pumps pumping them out to dry the dig site out. A sand well point is basically a pipe you drive into the ground that has little slits to let water in and you suck that out like a straw with a pump above ground. Can send them 10 feet or so deep easily for this and it lowers the water table. They use this to dewater digsites that go below water table and have flooding issues so they remain dry while working. You just space them out once every 10 feet or so and it dries everything in the whole region.
If every kid had an experience like that it would give them them the most amazing foundation appreciation of effort, achievement and reward, as well as a realisation that if you put your mind and body into something you can achieve almost anything, even walking on the Moon.
Great story. I like hearing about other families getting stuff like that done. When I was 14, we lived on the edge of a big canyon in San Diego. We put up a bunch of retaining walls. So, for me, it wasn't buckets of dirt, it was trenches & post holes. Digging a 3ft post hole takes time because post hole diggers only remove a small bit of dirt each time. It wasn't just building retaining walls or basements, it's building character & a sense of accomplishment.
Great story. My Dad grew up in Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan. When he was a kid, in the early 1950’s, he helped his uncles and they did a similar basement dig on their family home over one summer on Hochelaga street. The house is long gone now, but quite an experience I imagine.
Fantastic quality animation. Retired from construction management and I know that national design/build contractors would be pleased to have that type of visual marketing tool for their projects - package and sell your animation services to them as another one of your services. Well done!!
Watched the big basement dig, read a bunch of comments, saw the comment about releasing an animated video to show how you did it, and immediately checked the channel for said video ;)
Wish i would have started doing this under my own house 15 years ago. Might be done by now lol Awesome video! The time lapse is a must see!! Great work, men!!
This was really informative! I watched the timelapse of you all digging out a basement and was confused about some parts, but this answered all my questions! Great video
This is great! I live in the north east and have 70 year old house that the previous owner added an additional two bedrooms over a crawl space addition to the house. I had some work done before under it and it was difficult and want to dig out as well as the all season room that was added without a crawl space. I really like the all season room (it has sky lights and large windows looking into the backyard. Everyone talks about how expensive it would be to dig out from underneath and add a basement for the kitchen I want to turn it into eventually. I also don't think there are too many contractors that would do that here. I want to preserve these skylights and existing build, but feel stuck! This graphic makes it seem possible. Wish I could get a good advice on which is the best route to create the house I want.
I would just start digging and hope for the best! Or get a consultation from someone who's done it before goldsconcretechronicles.blog/product/30-minute-telephone-conference-gold-seals/
that was a great animation you did would be cool to build a huge I mean huge basement for my model train layout and to ensure that it serves as my secondary masterbed room in case of lets say oh I don't know a tornado or hurricane.
Great video and thanks for doing this. The process *can* be deduced from watching the in-progress time lapse videos but this is a good video to watch first to understand what is going on. Do you sell the dig out dirt as fill dirt to another operation? I'd love to see a video on making the footers - how is the concrete mixed, any additives included, is it vibrated into place, etc? Thanks again for sharing all this. Y'all do great work.
Thank you so much for this ! And we do, we have so much of it sitting on our yard at any given time because of these digouts haha. And We can definitely do a video like that in the future for you all !
I started last winter with a cheap shovel .only able to work an hour a day...but 3 months later I have 130 tons of dirt for my Earthbag House. Starting to fill bags next month...another year to go.
Visualisation is excellent, watching the time lapse it shows taking out sections of the original concrete pad and I looked a fair bit bigger than the ABABAB etc. how do you get on with the local government building for the permits for the underpinnings. I appreciate that you are specialists in this field. The owner must really like the house! Have a great day. phil
Love the animation and explanation. Let’s me know just what I’m looking forward too if I wanted to do this. Obviously it won’t go as smooth but I enjoy seeing the steps. It’s kind of like a syllabus for a class
Great Vid. I was wondering why the new walls seem to be offset (inwards) ? Is there any reason you can't poor directly under the existing wall (obviously done in sections) Would also love to know more about the animation software you used.
This is one of the better videos I've seen on here regarding the process of digging out a basement. The only suggestion I'd have is to spend a bit more time explaining/showing each step of the process. But overall this is great, good work!
Man I wish you guys were around 12 yrs ago. I had a house in south west MO. That has a walk out crawl space build into a sloping hillside. Contractor back then said it wasn’t safe to do it. What is the oldest job you have done?
Good question. It's done in collaboration with the new, permanent support posts according to structural design plans. The video doesn't really go into detail with that so thanks for pointing that out. We'll have to document those steps next time we do one of these
Amazing love the animation and the time lapse for the basement digging. Please let us know if you can get this done in other states. I am in Virginia. You got a subscriber. Nice work
@@JS-jh4cy Good point. The opening would actually need to be flush with or above the bottom of the old footer. We used to form it up and pump it in tight like this. Now we spray it in with shotcrete.
This is awesome! Very clear and well explained. Answers so many questions I had from your previous video. I'm guessing the last step is to add stairs to connect the basement and upstairs?
So I have two questions. I know they spray a black moisture barrier on the outside of the foundation. How do you guys do that if you don’t dig the outside out? Or is that something you need to do? Second question would be, if you’re kinda piecing the new footings together, wouldn’t it allow moisture through the parts that join? Just curious and thank you for the animation. Very well done
just finished mine, cost 52K for materials, buying a dingo, and conveyor rental for 4 months. my wife and I dug, removed material from basement and handmixed/poured 1000 bags of concrete for the underpin
@@GoldsConcrete we are just finishing up a pole barn for extra storage, but after watching this I regret doing this instead. Maybe something to consider in the future.
Did I miss where you waterproofed the new footings somehow? Won’t the walls weep? I do similar work on a smaller scale, you guys have a fine organization! I need some guys that enthusiastic with shovels.
I want to buy land. Put a tiny home or get a starter home put on the land. I wanted to see if I could get a basement done later and how it would be supported and this was an EXCELLENT visualization! Thank you very much. In this economy I’m going to have to do things in steps. This gives me hope that this is something I can accomplish later on down the road.
Do you make the footer only as wide as the wall or do you dig past the wall for more of a spread footer? So if the wall is 8in thick the footer is 16inches wide.
I love the actual basement dig out, and found the animation video very informative. Is soil constitution a big issue? Do you make these basements for anyone wanting the project? Are local building inspectors easy to work with? I have a pier foundation, and have thought for some time about digging out a basement, and how I would do it. But you guys make it look easy!! My sister in-law has immediate family that did this very thing in TN, but they chose to build retaining walls about 2’ inside the houses foundation. Still, I wish I could too!….
I am looking at buying a 900 square foot house in the NorthWest. Since it is 1BR 1BA, I wondered about raising the house 5 feet and digging out a basement 5 feet. The build is a 1945 and has massive cedar floor timber trusses. What do you think that might look like?
I did this a couple of times. The only time it was worth it was to keep a building from collapsing on a happy homeowner who decided he wanted a couple of more feet of headroom in his cellar and did a bunch of excavation without any forethought. Otherwise, think long and hard about what you are getting into.
Hello! Curious, how much would something like this cost? I understand the range might be wide, but just looking for a ballpark. 5k? 20k? 100k? In my case, I would only want to go dig 1-2 feet down for my pre-existing basement
Get video. I wish I could find a contractor who could do this for me. I’ve got a half basement/ half crawl space. I’ve thought about trying to dig out at least a part of it to make more room. How about hand digging from the inside????
Can you show more detail on how you do the side walls and build under the existing footers? In your animation it looked like you used the A-B-A-B approach to dig out a section at a time and undercut the existing foundation wall, but in your final image the new foundation walls appear to be INSIDE the existing foundations ???
Yes. Water can be seeping down through the ground or even percolating up from hydrostatic pressure. I’ve seen water continue infiltrating a dig 5 days after a good raiin here in the hills of East Tennessee. Every basement needs a water management system - could be interior or exterior drain tile or a combination of both, and a way to remove the water using gravity or a sump pump. Concrete is porous so the exterior walls and the footing need to be waterproofed, finished site needs to slope away from structure and downspouts need to drain at least 10’ away from structure.
This is our first 3D animation and we had a lot of fun making it ! We'd love to hear what other processes you'd love to see visualized ! Leave us a comment below
Start to finish, How long does this take? I’m sure it depends on square footage so let’s say 1200sq ft
Great video, thanks!
What program/software did you use to create this animation?
Very interesting video, looks pretty straight forward. Any problems you’ve run into with local building inspectors? Do you need soil geology before starting such a project?
What software was used?
When I was 13 or 14, 1983 or 84, my dad decide to dig out our crawl space to make a bedroom for my brother and I. He dug a small hole down to the footer and busted out a few cinder blocks. That started it. About a week later, one evening he told my brother and I that he wanted us to start digging out some dirt after school. The quota was to fill 5 - 5 gallon buckets and dump them over the hill. I was a scrawny kid. After 1/4 of a bucket, I could tell that it was going to take a long time. My brother was no help as he was 2 1/2 years younger than me. I took about 2 hours that first day to fill those 5 buckets. When dad came home from work he made the access hole bigger so that we could dig easier. 5 buckets of dirt is not much, so after a few days the requirement was 10 buckets a day. Still not much dirt, but with the easier access and practice digging I was able to dig 10 buckets faster than the first 5. My brother was beginning to help out, too. When dad got home he would dig some, too. It was going slow, so dad made the requirement 20, then 25. After a month or so we had a small dent in it. So we dug an access ramp, cut through the footer. We still carried the the buckets up the ramp, but used a wheel barrow to haul loads over the hill. It made it quicker. Our muscles became stronger. We became better at handling a shovel. We had standing room to dig, so 35 buckets. Then came spring and the rain. Water would run down the access and fill up the pit. After pumping we would still get our feet wet many time as the pump could not get the last couple of inches. We learned to leave a low area for pump. That helped, but the floor was not graded so it would still be a muddy slop mess. Then summer vacation gave us a lot more digging time. 50 buckets a day. We would take the wheel barrow down the access, but only take out light loads up the ramp. Only had about 15 to 20% of the digging done. It was still going to slow, so dad recruited my 2 cousins. One was my age and the other was a couple years older. Both were a lot stronger than I was. We would dig Monday trough Fridays and dad would pay them and mom would drop us off at the amusement park, Kings Island, on Saturdays. We did that routine all summer long. We were getting stronger, and better at digging. Counting buckets was long ago. We now counted wheel barrow loads. 50 or more a day on good days. We could actually see progress daily now. The 4 of us kids could move more dirt in one day than my dad and brother and I did in a month. We did not under pin the footer. My dad hired a block layer and we made a retaining wall around the footer. Which worked out good, as it made a shelf for our beds, half closets, and storage shelves. It was finished when I was 15. Us 4 kids did 70% or more of the digging. Our house already had a half basement, so it was only a half crawl space about 22 by 15. It takes time, dedication, and determination, but it can be done. I used the room until I went to the Navy. Came home and used it for about 4 or 5 more years. Now mom and dad use it as storage. By far, the hardest part of the whole ordeal was the first 5 buckets.
What a crazy story!!!
you could have done a handful of sand well points with pumps pumping them out to dry the dig site out. A sand well point is basically a pipe you drive into the ground that has little slits to let water in and you suck that out like a straw with a pump above ground. Can send them 10 feet or so deep easily for this and it lowers the water table. They use this to dewater digsites that go below water table and have flooding issues so they remain dry while working. You just space them out once every 10 feet or so and it dries everything in the whole region.
If every kid had an experience like that it would give them them the most amazing foundation appreciation of effort, achievement and reward, as well as a realisation that if you put your mind and body into something you can achieve almost anything, even walking on the Moon.
Great story. I like hearing about other families getting stuff like that done. When I was 14, we lived on the edge of a big canyon in San Diego. We put up a bunch of retaining walls. So, for me, it wasn't buckets of dirt, it was trenches & post holes. Digging a 3ft post hole takes time because post hole diggers only remove a small bit of dirt each time. It wasn't just building retaining walls or basements, it's building character & a sense of accomplishment.
Great story. My Dad grew up in Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan. When he was a kid, in the early 1950’s, he helped his uncles and they did a similar basement dig on their family home over one summer on Hochelaga street. The house is long gone now, but quite an experience I imagine.
can't tell you how much time I've spent researching what you were able to explain in 10 minutes.
Very well done keep this service going!!
Fantastic quality animation. Retired from construction management and I know that national design/build contractors would be pleased to have that type of visual marketing tool for their projects - package and sell your animation services to them as another one of your services. Well done!!
The animation is outstanding. Great educational tool and, I imagine, a great tool for explaining the process to clients.
It really is!
Best step-by-step I've seen of a basement digout. I'd hire you guys in a second.
This helped me learn so much so fast. Do more videos like this that shows this level of overall game plan clarity.
Watched the big basement dig, read a bunch of comments, saw the comment about releasing an animated video to show how you did it, and immediately checked the channel for said video ;)
Thank you for the support ! And we hope you enjoyed !
I was always curious about the footers. Great video!
Who ever is doing your animations… good job. Seriously, they are pretty talented! Excellent work!
Brilliant animation. It explains everything very accurately
Thanks for watching
The animation is fire my boy. I love it.
This is amazing! I love this. Thinking about doing this for my basement. This animation brilliantly demonstrates the process
Thanks for watching
Where do you run the sump pump exit house? Up the side basement wall?
Correctamundo
Great video detailing the steps. Keep it up please, VERY informative
I'm in awe. So cool!
Great video. Thank you for sharing
Awesome animation
Wish i would have started doing this under my own house 15 years ago. Might be done by now lol Awesome video! The time lapse is a must see!! Great work, men!!
Thank you so much ! And doing this work solo is brutal !
So you pour all the As footer walls sections first then go back all around and pour Bs sections?
When we can, yes. Depending on the structure and how it's phased, we may have to come back and do a few different pours for footer sections.
Absolutely fantastic. would be great if you could even show some people performing.
Like as in singing? or dancing?
Love the animation.
Thank you ! More to come in the future
Fantastic animation! Succinct and easy to understand. Thank you!
Thanks for watching
Gold, simple and straigh to the point.
Thanks for adding this 3D animation, this really helped in understanding your process. Keep the content coming!
We are glad you enjoyed it ! Much more to come
This was really informative! I watched the timelapse of you all digging out a basement and was confused about some parts, but this answered all my questions! Great video
Thats the best thing we could hear ! That was our goal with this and we're glad we delivered !
Totally agree. I missed some details as well in the time lapse video. Good stuff Golds!! Ingenious system to add a basement.
Love the visualization!
THank you!
That’s awesome. I always wondered how you did the footing when adding a basement to a house.
This is great! I live in the north east and have 70 year old house that the previous owner added an additional two bedrooms over a crawl space addition to the house. I had some work done before under it and it was difficult and want to dig out as well as the all season room that was added without a crawl space. I really like the all season room (it has sky lights and large windows looking into the backyard. Everyone talks about how expensive it would be to dig out from underneath and add a basement for the kitchen I want to turn it into eventually. I also don't think there are too many contractors that would do that here. I want to preserve these skylights and existing build, but feel stuck! This graphic makes it seem possible. Wish I could get a good advice on which is the best route to create the house I want.
I would just start digging and hope for the best! Or get a consultation from someone who's done it before goldsconcretechronicles.blog/product/30-minute-telephone-conference-gold-seals/
Approximately how much would something like this cost? Are we talking 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands?
love it!!! I have a crawl space that I want deeper, this helped me visualize what I want.
Thank you that is great to hear
that was a great animation you did would be cool to build a huge I mean huge basement for my model train layout and to ensure that it serves as my secondary masterbed room in case of lets say oh I don't know a tornado or hurricane.
Great vid, thank you!!
Thanks for watching
You guys want to do another home? Would love to do this to my home. I live in Vermont if interested.
Awsome video I never thought this was possible!
Fun fact, You can also lift the whole house up a few feet and dig under it that way !
@@GoldsConcrete that is crazy looking for a video on that soon.
@@GoldsConcrete That's crazy. I'm guessing not while the owner lives in it lol
@@AutisticMorty Its actually possible using this method ! And many of the homeowners do stay while we do this procedure !
Clear animation, this is very informative!
Great video and thanks for doing this. The process *can* be deduced from watching the in-progress time lapse videos but this is a good video to watch first to understand what is going on.
Do you sell the dig out dirt as fill dirt to another operation? I'd love to see a video on making the footers - how is the concrete mixed, any additives included, is it vibrated into place, etc?
Thanks again for sharing all this. Y'all do great work.
Thank you so much for this ! And we do, we have so much of it sitting on our yard at any given time because of these digouts haha. And We can definitely do a video like that in the future for you all !
great 3D animation mate! well done! NEW SUB 🙏🏻
We want to have this done on our new home. It would be so nice to have the extra space.
One the the best explanations. Thank you
Awesome! I have an 1880 farmhouse that I'd love to put a basement under.
So cool!!!
Thank you so much !
FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE 🎉😮❤😮THANK YOU FOR HELPING
I'm gonna need this done as soon as I buy this cabin.
I started last winter with a cheap shovel
.only able to work an hour a day...but 3 months later I have 130 tons of dirt for my Earthbag House. Starting to fill bags next month...another year to go.
Nice!!!!
Great Job..thank you.
Thank you!
Great animation!!
I live for this animation keep it ip
Many more to come !
This animation was cool
Great visualization, one question is what part of the process is permanent access added?
The staircase will usually go up with the framing, also windows and doors
Great!!!
Visualisation is excellent, watching the time lapse it shows taking out sections of the original concrete pad and I looked a fair bit bigger than the ABABAB etc. how do you get on with the local government building for the permits for the underpinnings. I appreciate that you are specialists in this field. The owner must really like the house! Have a great day. phil
Awesome video. Can this be done under a semidetached home?
Yes, absolutely
Great job
Love the animation and explanation. Let’s me know just what I’m looking forward too if I wanted to do this. Obviously it won’t go as smooth but I enjoy seeing the steps. It’s kind of like a syllabus for a class
Loved it!
Great Vid. I was wondering why the new walls seem to be offset (inwards) ? Is there any reason you can't poor directly under the existing wall (obviously done in sections) Would also love to know more about the animation software you used.
Good question. It's because the new wall goes in beneath the old footer, which extends out from the old wall. Not sure about the animation software...
Would lovd to do exactly this with our home built in 1885 with a field stone foundation!!
That would be cool to see!
I enjoyed this little visual. Do you have anything to share about a "sub-basement"? I'd like a "how-to".
This is one of the better videos I've seen on here regarding the process of digging out a basement. The only suggestion I'd have is to spend a bit more time explaining/showing each step of the process. But overall this is great, good work!
Man I wish you guys were around 12 yrs ago. I had a house in south west MO. That has a walk out crawl space build into a sloping hillside. Contractor back then said it wasn’t safe to do it. What is the oldest job you have done?
Oldest as in when we started doing digouts ? Or old as in the age of the home we've worked on ?
1:00 Here 3 Horizontal support beams are added.
2:50 the Vertical support beam 1 is removed, so how can the Horizontal beam stay in place ?
Good question. It's done in collaboration with the new, permanent support posts according to structural design plans. The video doesn't really go into detail with that so thanks for pointing that out. We'll have to document those steps next time we do one of these
Amazing love the animation and the time lapse for the basement digging. Please let us know if you can get this done in other states. I am in Virginia. You got a subscriber. Nice work
One more from VA.
Great animation! How big does the access point typically have to be to prepare to digout the basement? Thanks so much!
Great video!!!
How do you pour 🫗 the footer wall and get the top of the wall flush and tight to the bottom edge of the joist or concrete part of crawlspace wall?
The animation seems to show the opening for pouring is lower level than the footer wall
@@JS-jh4cy Good point. The opening would actually need to be flush with or above the bottom of the old footer. We used to form it up and pump it in tight like this. Now we spray it in with shotcrete.
Fantastic
This is awesome! Very clear and well explained. Answers so many questions I had from your previous video. I'm guessing the last step is to add stairs to connect the basement and upstairs?
Exactly that but that's usually when another company comes in and finishes the basement by adding electrical, walls, plumbing etc
So I have two questions. I know they spray a black moisture barrier on the outside of the foundation. How do you guys do that if you don’t dig the outside out? Or is that something you need to do? Second question would be, if you’re kinda piecing the new footings together, wouldn’t it allow moisture through the parts that join? Just curious and thank you for the animation. Very well done
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Bad ass. Super cool. Do you guys come to Philadelphia, PA?
just finished mine, cost 52K for materials, buying a dingo, and conveyor rental for 4 months. my wife and I dug, removed material from basement and handmixed/poured 1000 bags of concrete for the underpin
The real bear is keeping the dingo from eating the cat.
its a win win... i hate cats @@seanvogel8067
can you do this with a slab on grade house?
Thats rad. I wonder what this would cost
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Wow, the best animation and instructional video yet. Would love to connect and get an estimate, how do I do that? 😊
could you do this under a garage?
Yes!
@@GoldsConcrete we are just finishing up a pole barn for extra storage, but after watching this I regret doing this instead. Maybe something to consider in the future.
How much would it run to convert my crawlspace to a basement in Denver?
Have you found an estimate yet? I'm kinda curious to hear how much it may cost 😅
Did I miss where you waterproofed the new footings somehow? Won’t the walls weep?
I do similar work on a smaller scale, you guys have a fine organization! I need some guys that enthusiastic with shovels.
How much does it typically cost to install a basement on say a 1000sq foot house?
what's if the house don't have horizontal floor support beams?
how much would something like this cost on a 900 sq ft house
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Great video. What program/software did you use to create the animation?
I want to buy land. Put a tiny home or get a starter home put on the land. I wanted to see if I could get a basement done later and how it would be supported and this was an EXCELLENT visualization! Thank you very much. In this economy I’m going to have to do things in steps. This gives me hope that this is something I can accomplish later on down the road.
We're glad you enjoyed it ! And we look forward to seeing you reach your goals
Yeah cool. How about deepening a 5 ‘ basement with cement floors
You got it! When and where?
Do you make the footer only as wide as the wall or do you dig past the wall for more of a spread footer? So if the wall is 8in thick the footer is 16inches wide.
Its dictated by the engineer but we typically dig past the wall for a spread footing
I love the actual basement dig out, and found the animation video very informative. Is soil constitution a big issue? Do you make these basements for anyone wanting the project? Are local building inspectors easy to work with? I have a pier foundation, and have thought for some time about digging out a basement, and how I would do it. But you guys make it look easy!! My sister in-law has immediate family that did this very thing in TN, but they chose to build retaining walls about 2’ inside the houses foundation. Still, I wish I could too!….
There is no spread footing required under the columns?
Nossir
It looks like you have to dig out an area outside for an basement window and maybe steps with an entrance door
Yessir
What is a cost estimate for a crawl space to full basement and one window? I live in northern Illinois
I am looking at buying a 900 square foot house in the NorthWest. Since it is 1BR 1BA, I wondered about raising the house 5 feet and digging out a basement 5 feet. The build is a 1945 and has massive cedar floor timber trusses. What do you think that might look like?
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I did this a couple of times. The only time it was worth it was to keep a building from collapsing on a happy homeowner who decided he wanted a couple of more feet of headroom in his cellar and did a bunch of excavation without any forethought. Otherwise, think long and hard about what you are getting into.
where do you guys work out of? considering doing this to my house
I'm currently in Kansas and I'm looking to do my crawlspace into basement any good leads please let me know thanks
Really curious what the average cost per sq ft is for a job like this. looks very involved.
Hello! Curious, how much would something like this cost? I understand the range might be wide, but just looking for a ballpark. 5k? 20k? 100k? In my case, I would only want to go dig 1-2 feet down for my pre-existing basement
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Get video. I wish I could find a contractor who could do this for me. I’ve got a half basement/ half crawl space. I’ve thought about trying to dig out at least a part of it to make more room. How about hand digging from the inside????
That's the best way to go
Can you show more detail on how you do the side walls and build under the existing footers? In your animation it looked like you used the A-B-A-B approach to dig out a section at a time and undercut the existing foundation wall, but in your final image the new foundation walls appear to be INSIDE the existing foundations ???
What about a slab foundation? Can you do an animation for that?
Water coming in through the walls is inevitable how do you get it out?
I started digging out my basement and it’s solid clay but we got a heavy rain and after I had 8” of water is this common?
Yes. Water can be seeping down through the ground or even percolating up from hydrostatic pressure. I’ve seen water continue infiltrating a dig 5 days after a good raiin here in the hills of East Tennessee. Every basement needs a water management system - could be interior or exterior drain tile or a combination of both, and a way to remove the water using gravity or a sump pump. Concrete is porous so the exterior walls and the footing need to be waterproofed, finished site needs to slope away from structure and downspouts need to drain at least 10’ away from structure.
Great animation. Unfortunately my home is on a slope making this type of project significantly more challenging.