Low Ceilings!?! We RAISED the ENTIRE HOUSE! 

Honestly with the amount of structural issues you showed (rotting wood, lack of cement reinforcement/rebar), this project was just as much a necessity as a nice thing to have!

Wow! Not sure how this popped up in my feed, but glad it did. That was scary and amazing at the same time. My mind is boggled that people can raise a second story of a home.

The author does like to from scratch, ru-vid.comUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.

I did the same thing to my house but also moved it over three feet . Me and my wife lived in the house while doing this and actually felt the house rocking while sleeping . This was almost 20 years ago and looking back what the heck was I thinking ! Good luck it's a fun project .

When I was a kid my dad moved our house on two car trailers about 350ft. The house was at risk of sliding off the hill in it's original location. It was super sketch. I remember helping with the plumbing once it was on the new foundation.

i've watched a lot of house lifting videos but this was easily the most professional and well executed one to date

Having worked with my father in concrete work back in the late 70’s we have had to go in to at least 20 houses and remove collapsed cinder blocks walls that failed from hydrostatic pressure from failed downspout drainage systems. Personally after installing solid concrete walls for a builder on at least 30 of his homes there has never been an issue will walls failing. We would do the necessary jacking and or supporting of a home that suffered a collapsed wall. Yes it is a Very funny feeling working under a home supported by timber and hydraulic jacks. Glad I listened to my old man, got my degree in Architecture. All of my home designs specify concrete walls with the extra height to begin with so the homeowner has full height of his basement should he want to finish it.

Wow! As I young architect from Europe I really appreciate this video to show the process. I work mostly in architectural design, so unfortunately my on-site experience is very limited. I decided to watch as much videos about construction, structural, methods, materials, for renovations and such less about design more about the onsite process. I find your channel very interesting, I subbed and looking forward for the next videos!

Great job! However using a concrete saw with no mask,water, eye or ear protection is crazy! Like you said, at the end of the video, be safe! And that polyurethane sealant/construction adhesive might be the wrong caulking for the seal plate.

Thanks for not making me watch 30 videos to see this process. More videos should be like this!

Love house lift/ move projects! Keep ‘em coming!

I lifted my place two years ago. Your lifting crew needs a better pump with a counterbalance valve in the system. That will compensate for the uneven weight distribution of the load

Surprisingly since the old blocks were not filled or reinforced it did allow you to tie everything together with concrete and rebar. Great Job, btw!

Really enjoying this series, thanks for sharing

So many people lift the house to the height of a normal door, and forget about the lintel above it. As pipes of "U shape or S shape" plumbing will be protruding downwards, out of the floor above, another foot (300mm) of headroom will be needed.

Great job! You video is really informative!

I've seen these lifts and moves before, but you gents were beasts! Nice work!

Totally off the wall incredible as I had never seen anything like that before. Looking forward to your next video. Happy Holidays to you & your family! 👍👍🌲🌲

Great work!👍

Красавцы! Тонкий инженерный расчет, мощные домкраты, золотые руки мастеров.

You've got to love that caulking gun... Purchased it this summer for a retaining wall job. Best investment ever. I'm interested on this series since I live in a house built in 1942, however, mine is two stories, don't know if lifting is even possible. I'm relating to many of the situations already like low ceiling and bay windows. Thanks for sharing!

There's a guy in Bryan, TX (Dell Wayne Crenshaw) who owns his own business Crenshaw Mobile Home and House Moving who I use to help move houses with when I lived in Texas. I remember helping him and several other guys move an Old Victorian house several miles down the road. We did everything like they show raising it, but we blocked it up and pulled steel beams under the house then raised those and put axles under the beams. It was a hard but fun job. And it took several days to do it, but Mr. Crenshaw knows what he's doing and does it well

We had a second house on the gulf coast with 7 foot ceilings and I always told my wife I could do this. We ended up losing it in a hurricane but I am with you!

We are doing a project in canada Toronto and truly appreciated for this video. I have my own expertise, but this video will help to life the church 1 feet higher than before. Thanks alot.keep up to date good work brother ❤subscribed!🙏✌️👇👇👇👍💯💰💰

My!!! What a job!!

With Ryobi tools? Damn these guys go hard

Love this series. Its always going to be good when you say your lifting the house.

That is probably the most interesting video I have ever seen! It was so easy to watch and everything looked like it went seamlessly. It was actually a bit scary but very interesting. I know this is a second home for you guys, but did you really know you were going to have to do this? Can't wait for the next video! That caulking set up was great, have you done a video of that?

I'm just happy to see ryobi on a jobsite.

Impressive. Great to understand considerations vs. Cost

This is the ONLY way to get a 2nd story when the original structure's walls and joists can't support the added load. It's fairly common in the San Francisco Bay where many of the tiny bungalows are worth jacking up and installing a new lower level.

Great video, very interesting to see the process

This is amazing!

Strong work boys!

Thank you for explaining how twisting of the house is avoided

Fun watching.....tHanks for the video. (I've done add a level additions .....lots of interesting work but have yet to lift a house. Great video)

Good job

This was fascinating, thanks for sharing. No idea this was even a possibility.

It looked like in your situation for the most part all the electrics came down from upstairs and all you had to disconnect was the plumbing and furnace. I’m curious why not build a stub wall on top of the existing foundation?? Neighbours of ours did similar, they jacked up the house and put a proper foundation under it with a full basement and lived in the house while they were doing the work. Just the day they were jacking it up was the only time they couldn’t be inside.

I did the same thing by myself with 10 bottle jacks - 22' x 32' raised 22 inches

amazing I always heard of this being done but never seen it this was great

I've jacked houses up an inch or two and people thought it was crazy! Old Cleveland houses are big and always unlevel. I've always been able to do it. I wanna live my living room, kitchen and dining roof roof up to make an addition above those three rooms. I'd love to talk to you about the right way to do it! Great job though 👏🏽 👌🏽 👍🏽 🙌🏽 💪🏾

Totally jealous 😍

whoa, that was amazing. i've never seen that done before.

This is a great video!

Damn! Such an impressive effort here

the fact the power was left on kinda had me amazed i saw those lights on the rafters on almost the entire time

Love how the work was set to a rockys training montage melody lol

Mike Holmes would be happy to see this. 😉

Millau Viaduct, France is awesome example of computer controlled jacking

Jacking company did awesome job. To eliminate the hydraulic pressure/flow issue and you have a lot of money, enerpack makes a computer controlled system that automatically increases/decreased flow based on jack pressure.

I love this kind of work and this kind of content I've had to do this on my own house. I did it myself. It's a very old home, though, balloon framed, so I can't lift it by the floor alone. I have cribbing up against the foundation in my basement as well, except I set mine on a shallow layer of sand to spread the load out more and to take up the inconsistencies in the laughable "floor" finish. I use ibeam under the joists as you did, and outside I have to take the wall apart. I use heavy C channel there up against the exposed studs, and I run temporary king studs next to each existing stud from the underside of the top plate down to the c channel. My jacking and supporting arrangement lifts the inside i beam and the outside c channel together as a unit. in my case this is all to replace the sill because of termite damage. I use steel shores (screw jacks) and bottle jacks with screw jack supports

I'm guessing that the floor slab was surveyed before lifting as all the weight was spread on the outside walls and not just four points within the slab. Plus I'm interested as to the cost effectiveness of this lift against taking off and rebuilding the top half higher. Very interesting vid chaps.

nobody talks about using ryobi when dude is lifting up the whole freaking house 😂😂😂😂 lol sick video

This completely makes sense to me, but I simply did not know this process existed. Neat.

Quite a job! Well done and well documented! I'm curious though, how did you go about connecting the lifted structure down to the sill plate? It was hard to see in the video but Im assuming you had a clever way of tying it down? TIA

Really cool to watch!! Came up with a wicked good drinking game. Take a drink every time he says “beam” lol

The top course of new block should be bond beam with #4 bar and 5/8” foundation bolts.

you still have wires attached to the house from an above ground utility pole

Love it - my man at 6:20 with no gloves, no mask, no eyes or ears, let’s have a smoke……

What needed to be done to all the mechanical aspects before you raised the house? Plumbing,hvac,electrical, gas etc.

I would like to know more details about how you pieced together the sill and seal in the areas where the steel beams rested. Did you do anything extra to secure the rim to the joists before the lift. This is not the way the building structure was designed to carry loads. Did you have any issues with cracks in the walls upstairs afterwards? How much did the house lift cost and how much for the foundation work. Where is this job located?

Comparing @0:22 with @12:15 I'd say you made a few hundred thousand dollar difference in value! Very worthy back yard :)

Very cool lift… I was a little surprised by the two new large openings without the kind of seismic engineered framework I’m used to seeing required. That wall looks like it’s shear strength might be a little sketchy for a foundation story, but maybe that’s not as much of an issue in lower seismic risk areas?

How did you attach the floor joists to the sill plate?

Maybe the guys told you how much the house weighs, based on hydraulic pressure and all that stuff... Nice work. This is as amazing as a video I saw from Chile, where they push the house into the sea, it starts floating (which is the craziest part), and then they tug it with boats to the new location and put it back on land...

6:20 Dude using the vape pen as his only PPE will have silicosis by 40.

Don't know if anyone else has ever said it but I thought Ben Affleck got a new gig while I was watching. Very informative content, keep up the good work.

The sill sealer also prevents any moisture from the cinder blocks getting into the sill plates and rotting them out.

That song hit hard....

What was the cost for for the company to come out and lift and lower only, not including the other work?

Have u ever jacked up a house where someone has forgotten to disconnect from a water line or an electrical line. Just curious

Just guessing here. That looks like approximately 700 to 800 sq.ft. house. Would love to hear if I am close to correct on that. In my youth, it was quite common to see houses being hauled down the road. About 15 years ago one of my neighbors moved their house due to highway widening project. It was only about 5 years old at that time.

I was amazed there wasn’t any electrical, piping, or plumbing to disconnect.

1 1/2" SS screws, lmrao. They look pretty.

How much was budgeted just for the lift? Not including new block and all that, just kind of curious as you don't see this done that much lol.

may have been asked already but how is the house attached to the sil plate?

It's interesting for sure. I'm curious about the cost vs benefit. How much did the value increase? Also, were there any other cheaper options?

Wait I am confused. I live on Long Island where they raid houses all the time. Isn’t is supposed to sit there for at least a year and no other work gets done ? Seems to me like this “coordination” between the trades is some sort of witchcraft.

I would agree that block is the right way to extend a foundation, but I have seen it done with 2x6 or 2x8 framing and drywall plus insulation to fill the gap. They reused the J-bolts in the top to hold everything to the original walls. Either way, quite the project.

I don't know if it was zoned for this, but I would have lifted the house a good 20 feet and built another story. Then I would have enough space to put two more units in there and make a lot of rent money.

I have an old 16'x24' cabin on piers with a tiny 18" crawlspace at one corner but almost 4' on the opposite side. Would something like this be a good solution to try and get a partial basement?

8:43 as long as you aren't wearing ruby slippers, you should be fine

What is the cost to do this, and how long does it take?

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I knew you could dig out a basement, but this is next level lol. how much???

My inlaws built a new house with a 5 ft tall crawlspace. It doesn't even make sense. The site is on a hill and should have a walk-out basement.

I think I missed whether the guys were able to bolt it down to the foundation?

Are you going to use steel ties to tie your joists to your new sill plate?

I have a house that is on block walls and going to build on a 3rd floor I had them come out and look they said if I want to fill the block I could the Engineer said since every wall down in the basement was block wall I good to go

How do you reconnect it

I guess my grandfather did this to a house over a few decades ago. My question is, at what point does it make more sense to just tear it all down and build a new house?

I had no earthly idea this was an option for houses with low basement ceilings. Like everything though... it sounds prohibitively expensive. I see this is for a lake house, so... yeah, expensive. Neat as hell though.

Question. Jack up the house and dig down 4 feet of dirt to redo the foundation. Which one is cheaper, better and faster? Thanks!

What is the purpose of raising the house?

Dang, that was amazing to watch. But how much does that cost? For just 2 ft of clearance? Worth it?

Cost???

How much did it all cost?

What is the cost to raise a house roughly? Is it cheaper to dig it out or raise it? Thanks

What part of the country are you located?