How a Basement Digout is Done by Hand
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2022
- It is important to keep in mind that there are many ways to do any given thing, we are sharing with you our process and what we found works best for us. And in most cases that is hand digging these basements. If you have any other ideas for an animation, let us know. We Ould love to do some research on a topic and turn it into a visualization.
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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!!
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 !
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!!
This helped me learn so much so fast. Do more videos like this that shows this level of overall game plan clarity.
The animation is outstanding. Great educational tool and, I imagine, a great tool for explaining the process to clients.
It really is!
Who ever is doing your animations… good job. Seriously, they are pretty talented! Excellent work!
I was always curious about the footers. Great video!
Gold, simple and straigh to the point.
Great!!!
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
One the the best explanations. Thank you
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 !
Love the visualization!
THank you!
Love the animation.
Thank you ! More to come in the future
So cool!!!
Thank you so much !
FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE 🎉😮❤😮THANK YOU FOR HELPING
Loved it!
Clear animation, this is very informative!
Great animation!!
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 job
I'm gonna need this done as soon as I buy this cabin.
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.
We want to have this done on our new home. It would be so nice to have the extra space.
Great video!!!
Would lovd to do exactly this with our home built in 1885 with a field stone foundation!!
That would be cool to see!
great 3D animation mate! well done! NEW SUB 🙏🏻
Fantastic
This animation was cool
Great Job..thank you.
Thank you!
Awesome! I have an 1880 farmhouse that I'd love to put a basement under.
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
That’s awesome. I always wondered how you did the footing when adding a basement to a house.
You guys want to do another home? Would love to do this to my home. I live in Vermont if interested.
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
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!
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 !
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 !
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
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.
I live for this animation keep it ip
Many more to come !
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.
Don’t you wish it was as easy as this simulation makes it look? The only thing I’d change is the staging area being my yard. If you ever do my house, just use the neighbors yard. I’m sure he won’t care.
Forever wishing this were the case ! And we have yet to meet such outstanding neighbors like yours haha
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
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!….
Great animation! How big does the access point typically have to be to prepare to digout the basement? Thanks so much!
Bad ass. Super cool. Do you guys come to Philadelphia, PA?
Great animation. Unfortunately my home is on a slope making this type of project significantly more challenging.
I enjoyed this little visual. Do you have anything to share about a "sub-basement"? I'd like a "how-to".
Wow, the best animation and instructional video yet. Would love to connect and get an estimate, how do I do that? 😊
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 ?
How much does it typically cost to install a basement on say a 1000sq foot house?
Great video. What program/software did you use to create the animation?
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.
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 ???
cool I'll cancel my gym membership tomorrow
No need in this line of work haha
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...
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.
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 😅
what software program did you use for this awesome animation?
Thank you, it was done by Sage who is no longer with us. I'm not sure what software he used
TIL this is even possible. I had always assumed that if a house wasn't built with a basement, then it didn't have one.
Hey, question: is this sort of project doable in expansive clay soil?
Awesome video. Can this be done under a semidetached home?
Yes, absolutely
Water coming in through the walls is inevitable how do you get it out?
Where do you run the sump pump exit house? Up the side basement wall?
Correctamundo
Can this be done on an old home with stone foundation? maybe if the footings replace the stone a bit at a time or some other way?
where do you guys work out of? considering doing this to my house
It looks like you have to dig out an area outside for an basement window and maybe steps with an entrance door
Yessir
When I look at the window cut-out detail at the 3-minute mark, I realize your new foundation does not align with the center of the stem wall above, why not cast the wall directly below the wall above? You guys cover a lot of ground, I understand the A/B process with the foundation, but I still think people find this part confusing. Keep up the good work.
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
This can be done under a slab too??
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
How do you deal with shallow water levels?
What is a cost estimate for a crawl space to full basement and one window? I live in northern Illinois
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU MAKE A FLOATING HOUSE BOAT BASEMENT.PLEASE🎉
Can this be done if a house was built on slab?
Really curious what the average cost per sq ft is for a job like this. looks very involved.
I saw one of your videos and kept asking myself how you guys dealt with the footers. From the animation it looks like the footer only extends like an “L” shape into the basement. Or is it more of a “T” shape (like a traditional wall and footer)?
Great question, this depends on the soil conditions. We generally do mostly L shaped as the dirt we work with is more stable. However we do use T shapes on more sandy and less stable soils.
@@GoldsConcrete thanks for the info. You guys do great work. Keep up the videos. super interesting.
that was a good sort video .. How ever can you make one were you have a slab home with no claw space and digging out a 20` deep basement with out lifting the house up... Every thing I have seen already has a crawl space or a basement .. but have not seen a new dig from a slab home..
I'm currently in Kansas and I'm looking to do my crawlspace into basement any good leads please let me know thanks
There is no spread footing required under the columns?
Nossir
What about a slab foundation? Can you do an animation for that?
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.
Dumb question, but can this be done on a house built on slap with no crawl space or existing basement ???
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.
Is it possible to do this with a slab on grade house? With no existing crawl space? I would be interested to know how much something like this cost. I have a 2000 sq foot 2 story house with no basement. Would love to add 1 one day!
Yes it is definitely possible. The process would not change much at all. They would just need to create beams to support the underside of the slab which would be the roof of the basement.
I want to extend my basement. I wonder what the cost would be for about 300 square feet 🤔?
Good question! We talk a little bit about general cost in this video ua-cam.com/video/ZchQaFTPglE/v-deo.htmlsi=CEtbfscSuw7tybf_
What does a project like this cost?
is permit needed ?
No place to put an window in if you are on basement below crawlspace unless it is 6 inches high or so?
I don't understand
You just pour the concrete on dirt? No stone or sand?
What would something like this cost?
do you sell the dirt for gardening?
Good question! We shout out to you in this video, I think ua-cam.com/video/B7191UDu8NM/v-deo.htmlsi=f_nM1xnf8ZAu8QG0
How much does a project like this cost approximately?
Can this be done on a slab foundation?
Great question! We shout out to you in our most recent video ua-cam.com/video/ZchQaFTPglE/v-deo.htmlsi=WL93qn_avA0mo1ut
Is the average cost to contract this between 50-100$ per sqft?
Is footer/underpin the same word here?
Good question. The footer is just the slab of concrete in the ground beneath your feet. The footer combined with the wall going up to meet and support the previous footer is what we refer to as underpinning.