This is the beginning of my house addition. In this video we do all the dirt work for a walkout basement as well as dig and support the existing house for a basement.
In the late 30s, my father and his brother in one summer put a cement block wall, full concrete floor, and rebuilt coal furnace under the house I grew up in. They did it working after work and on week ends. They did it by hand.
As a contractor I’m impressed and impressed you are even taking that on your own. But all I can think based on my personal experience gutting an older house, is that it would have probably just been cheaper to tear it all down and start over new. The headache and extra time it take to save it. Good luck ether way
there is one difference. i´m a home owner of an 100+ year old wood house here in Sweden. first time i thought of cut upp my floor i almost burnt my sawsaw blade.. Old houses have good wood in them slow growing hard wood. to just waste that to build a osb home that blows in pieces next storm is not my cope of the
I'm sitting here in awe of the ingenuity. But also keep asking myself...How much is a basement worth?!?!? Almost easier to rent a few cranes and move the entire structure 40ft to the left, then 40ft back, no?
I was thinking the beams front to back could be axels. Set the house on wheels and roll it out of the way. After basement and foundation are ready, roll it right back.
@@ess2870it is cheaper to build living space above ground . It is more comfortable to be in the space above ground and when it is time to sell your house, living space in the basement will be appraised only 50-60 percent from living space above ground.
I'm not worried about the vertical capacity of your wide flange beam columns, but I'm definitely concerned with the lack of horizontal racking strength. You don't have much of anything preventing the sideways movement of the house, and the beam to column connection is not enough to form a moment connection. All it takes is a good windy day, or a slip of the controls on the mini to bump it. Be safe!
@@Palo-jm7xc I would much rather see crib stacks made with 6x6 material... Crib stacks are easy to place and move, and they give you an easy place to put the jacks to lift. There is a reason pro riggers use crib stacks!
I'm more worried of the weld to the steel plates in the ground than the connection to the beams but I agree. When (read before) the entire houses foundation is a beam-pillar deck it needs some trusses to take up the horizontal loads in each direction.
I was thinking this too but it is still attached to the addition on the back so that is keeping vertical movements to a minimum. When he lifts that part up it's going to get sketchier for sure. Make sure it's not windy when you get into that part for sure!
Easier to build block walls when restricted from above. ( I’m guessing you planned this project yourself without using an experienced basement project manager?)🤔
My dad and I did this to a lake house we bought back in 1990. Instead of digging under the house like you we jacked it up with railroad ties 12’. On the day we were pouring the footer (in New Hampshire it’s 6’ deep) my dad was running the backhoe and he couldn’t reach this one spot to dig and bumped the house we thought. Well Dennis Delesio was inside using the bathroom taking a leak. He comes running out with soaked pants because that little bump was more like a magnitude 10 earthquake inside the house lol. You never thought you’d see a grown man come running out a house on this flimsy set of stairs with his pants almost down to his knees lol. That’s gotta be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Things could have gotten very bad but luckily it didn’t.
This process seems just way too complicated and dangerous. On a large open property like this you could just build a basement next to the house and just roll the house over it.
You have bigger balls than me with that structure lol - I would be scared crapless that framing would shift, especially at @26:37, thats a fecal factor of about 12 when that concrete hit that framing!
I have done many projects like this!! I have a house moving contractor move the house away from the excavation, pour the footings, then the walls, backfill same, then move the house onto the new foundation!! Simple, very safe!!
Saw and old army truck set up to move a house on a lot in Southington, CT years back. They were moving the house back on the lot to escape the growing road in front of the property. The amazing part to me was that a much smaller truck than I imagined could pull the house.
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentalsit depends on how friction free the rollers are. You can shift a giant oil tanker with a small motor boat if you get it positioned right.
If you just moved the cabin over to one side you could have just dug the basement hole without all that earth moving cost, (unless you are building a basement car garage of course….)
I worked doing this back in the late 70s and 80s .I was the man who threw the cribbing and stacked it. the company's name was B&M Construction out of Epping New Hampshire. we did over 100 buildings in 4 years that I work there. some lake houses some barns some old farm houses old commercial buildings very hard work but it paid well and kept us on our toes . Lol
seems like it would have been easier to dig and pour a basement in front of the house and just move it onto the new foundation. doesn't look like you have setbacks to deal with.
The thumbnail got me interested to watch but the German Shepherd barking at the big nasty yellow "animal" with a metal hand at the beginning was an even better introduction to your channel 🤣
You could have built a new building and have a basement under the new building twice the size of the Basement under the old house For the price that you're paying just to have the 1 basement under the old house, And you could have built a new building close to the old house and just put a room from the old house over to the New building and new basement , But I enjoy the video of watching what you're doing it's your land and you're building, I enjoyed watching the video , Thank you,
Started watching because who would be crazy enough to attempt digging under your house, (hope it doesn't get too windy) stayed because I love watching your dogs probably thinking the same.
🤔 No era mejor buscar una grua gigante y mover la casa d un lado a otro y así se les hacia mas facil hacer en basement y despues poner la casa para tras en su sitio original creo yo que se les viera echo mucho mas facil, rapido y sobre todo mas barato todo ese trabajo. Pero cada cual con sus ideas y pensamientos al final les quedo bien el trabajo 😉
It was in the late Twenties when my father dug-out the celler in the house I was raised in. He did it with a pick, shovel & wheel barrow. Shored-up the rubble stone foundation to make room for a furnace, laundry room and large coal storage bin. Needless to say, none of the equipment you are using existed in those days.
Your operator on those machines was a professional, you all have cajones of steel everyone of you the meticulous way you did that was a just epic you sir have a follow and subscribe just for that. Can’t wait to see this progress
My partner and superintendent forgot to put the walkout basement . The masons just ran with it . Standing there the builder asked " Where's the lower level? " after the first floor wall were already stood .. I asked him " Did you look at the plans .. Did you notice ? ".. He just laughed about it and caused a $60,000 fix
Everyone does their own thing, but for me, I would either, have demolished the house and built one with a basement, Or, jacked up this one shifted it out the way, and built the basement structure, then put the house back.
A pretty big project, understatement! You are going to drive YT safety police bonkers 🤣 but I think it is amazing and cannot wait for the rest. Good luck and happy digging.
Are The Beams crossing under the House, 1/2 or 3/4 inch , Just Putting My 2 cents, I would have Got 2 beams 1 inch thick steel,Beams 4 ft past each side of the House and Blocked up with Railroad ties, They would Have been strong enough, To dig out under the hole center, Of your House, Just Trying to Keep safe.
LOL this is such unnecessary madness, I love it. Looks like there's enough room next door to build a "basement" without digging under the house and you still could have had covered stairs walking down into it.
Watching intently as I’m about to attempt pretty much the same thing but with a manufactured 16 x 40 garage / shop metal building. Wind is what I worry about. And wondering how you’re handling foundation. Wondering if I can get away with just piers or like you, just metal plates.
Cool stuff but my professional self is screaming... 😅 Unnecessary risky, although being horizontally secured by the beams it could have been washed away with some rainfall since you had no soil retention made. Faster and less risky solution would have been to disconnect plumbing, jack it up, install those beams with 2 house lengths extra lentgh on one side and use strand jacks to pull the building aside. After that use a heavy excavator to do the ground works.
Seems crazy to put your garage in the basement. My uncle had one, it was planned into a new build thou. Would've been way cheaper to just put a basement under the new addition & built a garage. Unless there was a problem with the existing foundation
When I was young, my uncle did the same thing without having any experience. He spent about about a year and half on it while still working his normal job. He has a nice basement now.
Ii USED TO DIG BASEMENTS UNDER HOUSES IN SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS, MAKE SURE YOU SHORE THE EXTERIOR WALLS AGAINST GRAVITY PULL TOWARDS THE CENTER. mAKE SURE YOU LEARN THE MOISTURE SWELL OF THE cLAY BEFORE YOU STERT ANY CONCRETE WORK ANYWHERE UNDER THE HOUSE. SWELL CAN TEAR THAT FRAME HOUSE ALL APART. mAKE SURE YOU HAVE MANY PILING UNDER THE HOUSE TO MAINTANE THE INTEGRITY OF THE BUILDING.
Just use common sense years ago we had a house that although it had a full basement. It was mostly below grade at the front and the sides every time we needed to look out the windows we needed to stand on tippy toes the basement floor was 2x4 joists on 4x4 concrete sleepers with hardwood flooring one day my mother stood on her toes to look out the window and went through the floor and then sleeping wrong she got so stiff she could barely move the basement toilet was tucked under the stairs and after she had used the bathroom got up turned the wrong way and hit her head on the states so she asked if I could lift the house and I said I think I can and she said let's do it so I bought 9 jacks second hand checked with the city planing department and found out the rules were too much to meet but I was planning on a pressure treated foundation and was told I needed it designed and inspected by an engineer since I already knew that I went an got the engineering company aftrer making it beam at the front and back pre built all my basement walls and started jacking it up once I had it up I removed 4 foot of the old foundation wall and pur in the pressure treated foundation walls just finished settling down the house on the new foundation and the building inspector showed up and had a fit I told him I had the engineering company plan's he eaid I needed a city permit first and gave me a stop work order until I had one took my plans in the next and got one but I had the house raised-and on the new foundation no no need for having papers to show I was qualified to do the work put a sob basement in for my mechanical room and put a pressure treated foundation under my back deck gave me a 14 x30 foot storage shed and access to my mechanical room without having to lift the trapdoor I went from a 24 x 30 to 40 x40 up down duplex
For The sides of the driveway puerto retaining wall in.Then you don't have to slope the driveway downing into the driveway and you will have a place to put the dirt
To me it would have made a great deal more sense to have moved the house, install the basement, then place the house on it! Did that 50 years ago with a full two story house after hauling it 17 miles.
You obviously contemplated just lifting it 2 feet and sliding it sideways, it's not like you have space limits and the extra steel could have been used for support beams in the other half of the build, what made you go this way because it is more complicated and takes more time.
Mostly because we are still using the house, electric/utility still connected. Also I believe it would take the same amount of work if not be more complicated when I go to slide the house back over a new foundation with 10 foot hole. I believe just lifting it up a few feet and setting it back down is a safer alternative.
I am hoping he is working with an engineer, long before digging under the house! If he is not, please, someone lie to me.. no really, just lie if you need to!
How in the world is this not falling over? There is lo lateral bracing at all! You get a 10 MPH wind and that house will be like a sail! push itself right over!
Why couldn't you built the basement interior giant hole and have a crane or two cranes for that matter and set the house on top of the new basement, So much easier I'd say
I am wondering why, seeing as you have had to jack up the house and put it on I beams, why you didn't slide it to one side, do the foundations, then slide it back on the foundations. A house removalist would be able to help you do that for not too much..considering the risk of doing it in situ.
29:56 you going to do what at the four tower points? 😅 sorry for my childish comment that looks scary to work under was really interesting too watch not sure how i ended up here but i watched the entire video so you are doing something right
I am a house designer by hobby, I am amazed at how you did this, can't wait to see the video of the walls being poured and then the house setting on top of them!!
Why are you doing this….. this way? You have already picked the house up just move it sideways far enough. Then put it back once foundation is completed???
Your vid was in my feed a few times the last week so i had check it out ! I used live in navada was on a crew that was removing wheels & axles on modile homes to set on a monolithic foundation & we had a wind storm hit that wasn't predicted I was under the house removing the 6x6 cribbing when a wind got the house to twist just enough it fell & 2 of us was pinned under it & ny head was pinned & trying get loose i crashed a disc had have 2 surgery's to fuse c5-c6 in my neck & also damaged spinal cord just enough that i had trouble walking from nerve damage that was 14 years ago I'm doing good but got chronic pain & refuse to get another surgery on the lumbar area that has 2 dick partially crushed !
