Lowering your Basement | Step by Step Underpinning Explained | How to Lower a Basement

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Looking to lower the basement in your personal or investment property? Stuck trying to figure out the proper steps to accomplish your underpinning project? Pay close attention to this video as Darren Voros does a full walkthrough of one of his underpinning projects from start to finish and goes into amazing detail on how you can achieve these amazing results!
Join Canadian real estate investor and developer Darren Voros as he dives into the topic of underpinning! Darren starts off the video by explaining what underpinning consists of and why it is important to know if you are ever looking to lower a basement floor in one of your properties. Darren does a full walkthrough of the three phases of underpinning and explains a few different methods you can use when going through the process yourself.
Darren also goes into detail on the process of installing the plumbing, sump pit, and interior waterproofing and ensures you will be equipped with all the knowledge necessary to complete any underpinning project without missing a single step. Lastly, stay tuned until the end of the video as Darren breaks down what it cost for him to have this entire process completed.
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@CrosshairLunchbox 6 месяцев назад

Just as informative as This Old House. Whoever you hired did an impeccable job.

@kingfloydz3031 Год назад

Can you do more construction videos?? The way you elaborate and explain things in detail is very clear

@DarrenVoros Год назад

Thank you. I appreciate the kind words.

@buelowexcavating 6 месяцев назад

Great video, information, procedures, ideas and work! A neighbor hired and an engineer that charged hime about $40,000! I have done a few of these with no engineer. One job, with one helper I removed about 210 cubic yards of dirt, foundation and walls. We supported the house as we dug it out. I did this in one day, it was in good working conditions with no problems. What I use on jobs depending on the conditions is a CAT 1 1/2 yard track loader, Bobcat mini track loader, conveyors and a back hoe. The inspector said this was the best design and constructed job he had seen. I sometimes sub out the concrete work, if it is small I will do it myself. I will not work for someone if they will not install the pex pipe. Before this policy had I too many people call me for a price to tear out their new slab and put in in floor heat!

@ikesquirrel 2 года назад

It's a good idea to put rebar pegs between the sections to pin them together.

@danielrutherford9456 2 года назад

I’m honestly surprised that wasn’t required. Those underpinned sections will now settle independently.

@paulrnash 2 года назад

Yeah, really surprised the see a general lack of steel.

@lostintime8651 2 года назад

I started my basement with shovels and buckets. Then I got smart. I bought an electric rototiller for about a hundred bucks. Then I just made piles of loose dirt. And called a company that had a vacuum truck and they suck the piles and took them away.. pure genius..

@gunfisher4661 Год назад

I would have opted for key ways that would help on keeping the water from bleeding thru the wall later.

@POLOLOUS3 Год назад

@@lostintime8651 I picked up an electric dirt conveyor made for basements for $400 and sold it a couple years later for $2000. Had some ledge and picked a ton but a roto tiller would have been great for 3/4s of mine. Definitely an experience in full house remodels I will never forget.

@jimpie231 2 года назад

We actually did something like this 40 years ago. We had a 3 story apartment building with 6 …4 room rental apartments. We noticed that the brick had cracked and was moving away from the building. We called a local contractor and he bid the job for $10,000, just to stop the brick from moving. I had a cousin that was this type of engineer in the old country (Poland). He suggested we did the foundation from the outside and pour concrete under the footing. This being an English basement, the footing was only 4 feet below the ground. We dug by hand the west wall for 15 feet and put concrete under the footing that was half exposed. The next weekend we did the north wall the same way. We then put foundation coating (tar) on the new concrete and covered up the hole thing. We used premixed concrete in bags and mixed everything in a wheel barrow. It was hard work. The repair worked and the brick did not move any further. We repaired the brick that had separated. The job cost $1000 and a lot of free family labor. Jim PS…..the reason the wall moved was a dry well that was in the front yard was too close to the house and some settling took place, bad design by…?

@tonymujan3097 2 года назад

We are waterproofing company in Canada and we put the Delta membrane all the way up to the ceiling not just the lowered section. Also we would run the Delta membrane throughout the floor so it's completely enveloped so that no hydrostatic pressure water would make contact with the concrete slab

@brotherbill1000 2 года назад

As a flooring installer, I like what what your are saying! Not enough builders/engineers consider hydrostatic pressure.

@Tatersalad812 7 месяцев назад

@@brotherbill1000 lol 100 year old farm house here with a very high hydro. drilled a 3/4 hole in the floor and had water spouts. 100gal a min sump pumps. good times!!! 6 inch tile from pit to creek did away with all 3 pumps. hand digging craw space now and will be sealing it up properly

@bishopknight7710 6 дней назад

Amazing video. I’ve been trying to understand this process to gauge if it was an option for me. I’ve watched dozens of videos of people digging out basements but this was the first to break it down and explain how it’s done step by step so actually have clear idea of what’s involved. Many thanks for the clear walk through.

@hunts318 2 года назад

Superbly executed, and highly educational. Thank you.

@zteaxon7787 2 года назад

Awesome project and explanations! Y Thank you! Extremely valuable to assess how realistically feasible something like this is.

@donhozy 2 года назад

Very informative. The editing was great. Very well put together! Thank you!

@steveleonard5206 6 месяцев назад

Fascinating video and wonderful to see an older structure renovated and not simply removed for the new build. In Toronto/Mississauga single-family neighborhoods consisting of homes from the 50’s & 60’s, the trend is to tear down and build new that max to the original setbacks. This dwarfs the remaining lovely old bungalows. It is very sad to see the transition.

@zachrawlings6523 2 года назад

Did you mention how they tie the new concrete into the old? Drill and epoxy rebar or adhesive applications? Interesting to see how this is all the rage in city building homes in england because there is no other direction in which to expand...lol.

@denissol 5 дней назад

Highly Valuable. Thank you Darren :)

@KoryMacKinnon 3 года назад

Radiant in floor heat is so worth it! Did it in our own house. Great video Darren! Looking forward to more videos on your channel!

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

It's the best kind of heat. Thanks for the kind words Kory. I follow your content as well. A great compliment coming from you.

@MrLamu8080 Год назад

This is the best video I had ever seen of this process I whish I could fo this to my house, great information good job

@MTAfrankie 23 дня назад

This was very informative and extremely appreciated. Thank you.

@grdelawter4266 2 года назад

I am a recently retired building inspector and I would just like to say that I wished every homeowner/contractor did the work correctly as portrayed in this video because my job would have been made so much easier. After all these years I’m really happy to be retired because it seems like every project I had to educate everyone and argue with the ones that were too thick headed to understand! This job was well done and I would pass with flying colors! Let me sign that inspection card!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

That's amazing insight. Thank you for sharing. Are you sure you don't want to come out of retirement? We could use some good inspectors in T.O.

@ubermenschen3636 2 года назад

Gr Delaware::: I don’t know your employer, but I suspect your boss would not agree with your opinion that “This job was well done and I would pass with flying colors!” Notice the new underpinning footings are constructed as several individual piers along the perimeter of the building. First error: the new footing needs horizontal reinforcement steel ( rebars) at top and bottom tying together all the individual footing piers. Second error: each new underpinning footing piers needs vertical rebars tying together the new footing to existing footing. Third error: the new footing needs rebar dowels tying together the new footing to the new slab. Fourth error: the constructed concrete slab had no rebars; it needs at least the minimum rebar density of 0.007. Fifth error: need shear reinforcement placed in each column pad foundation so as to resist punch shear. Sixth error: need perimeter rebars, typically #4 rebars, around an opening in the concrete slab. Seventh error: floor joist supported by masonry wall shall have positive connections each capable of resisting a horizontal force of about 300 lbs/ ft. Possible eighth error: the masonry wall appears to be unreinforced; unreinforced masonry must be reinforced when major structural renovation is made to the building as required in the building code. As to your “Let me sign that inspection card!” The Host of the Apprentice would say, “Your fired!”

@mareknosek9377 Год назад

I was wondering why he wasn't using reinforcing Rebars? pouring concrete on a dry section. What is your thaughts? Thanks

@sohailchaudry2240 Год назад

@@ubermenschen3636 Some excellent observations. The rebar is in my opinion an absolute must. Really makes a huge difference in strength and tying everything together.

@williamjackson5942 Год назад

@@ubermenschen3636 The host was fired!

@mr8966 Год назад

Terrifically done video. Thanks for putting this together. Very informative.

@jamesford8315 Год назад

Fantastic!! I learned something new today. Another bullet in my bandoleer. Thank you.

@bladimirmoran704 21 день назад

Excellent video, very clear details. Cheers

@jerryrobinson7856 6 месяцев назад

Well edited and highly educational. Thank you.

@marinellainvest8150 3 года назад

What an incredible undertaking Darren! Love the idea of the radiant heat in the basement, it's efficient, energy-saving, and cozy for the people who will live there.

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

We're using it as our main heat source throughout the house not just the basement. I'll have to do another video on that soon.

@marinellainvest8150 3 года назад

@@DarrenVoros that sounds like a good idea, it would be definitely interesting

@confidentlocal8600 2 года назад

I have electric radiant strip heaters (also known as "cove heaters") in my house. They look similar to baseboard heaters but mount up on the wall near the ceiling. The face plates get up to 300 degrees which does a terrific job of warming the floor and other surfaces, including furniture. Gives a very cozy feel similar to a fireplace. The heat pump provides baseline heat most of the time, and the cove heaters give us zoned control. The operating cost hasn't been too bad for the level of comfort.

@thomass2935 2 года назад

Great video, perfect actually. Thank you Darren!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Glad you like it.

@michaelduffy5691 2 года назад

Since the new foundation is NOT monolithic, rebar should have been installed in the foundation pour with the rebar overlapping at least 24 inches. Currently your new foundation is a series of unattached pier footings.

@emeltea33 10 месяцев назад

Was going to ask about this exact thing.

@MrAalejandro75 6 месяцев назад

Disclaimer up front. No engineer here. That said, I was thinking the same while watching the video. Im wondering if the following was considered with the non-use of rebar... Each key's rough and uneven edge provides subsequent pours something to bite into. Also, the ground at each key has supported weight for quite some time, and so it's packed and solid. There's the step (or "bench") at the base with the floor poured up against it. There seems to be appropriate joisting to support weight distribution and it doesn't appear that any specific key stands to be overloaded. I dont know enough to make any of this an argument. Simply asking if the decision not to use rebar was made on any of the above. I'm fascinated by the subject and enjoyed this very well made video and appreciate the work that was done. I do have another question with regard to the use of waterproofing membranes inside the home. Could holding the water behind them compromise the integrity of the masonry (concrete/brick) over time? I've never used them and don't understand how they work. Water moves in the direction of gravity and where's there's the least resistance. It seems that membranes applied against masonry walls would present the outward resistance and slow the movement of that water, keeping it in the brick/concrete longer.

@Joseph-yh4pg 6 месяцев назад

10:26 The “bench footing” is also needed to support the weight of the entire building. It looks to be about 8” thick and 24” deep which is about right to support this building which has brick walls about 1’ thick and is at least two story. Bench footings are all we see in my area though we just call them footings. This is a great video. Learned a lot. Thank you

@BigBrotherIsTooBig 6 месяцев назад

Good questions. I can't answer most of them, but I can answer about the membrane. If you look closely, you can see it's dimpled. This keeps the vast majority of the membrane away from the foundation, giving water a place to escape. In this case, they have installed a French drain that runs into a sump pump.

@c4fishfood 6 месяцев назад

The way it is shown here is how underpinning is done. The “hit and miss” way of excavating means that there is no way to overlap the rebar. Depending on the location it may not be necessary, but if you did need to interlock the adjacent underpins then the only way would be to either fully lift and shore the building (to allow for a continuous excavation/pour, or (depending on the loads) you could drill and dowel bars into the primary underpins when building the secondary ones.

@sohailchaudry2240 Год назад

Well done Darren. I started building in 1997 in Toronto. Started with Single family homes and now have "graduated" to land development and condominium builds. When I used to underpin we tied the Pex pipe to wire mesh. I would love to know why it was not done in the above video.

@basilkingsley 2 года назад

Just what I needed to watch. Thank you. Subscribed!!!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@marcsmith3748 9 месяцев назад

The walk through was much appreciated.

@DarrenVoros 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it.

@mssumerloving 3 года назад

This is extremely helpful and just plain cool!!

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Glad it was helpful! Thanks Ibi!

@mrrightpositive Год назад

Great job the best explanation I been looking for to do my basement bless thank you so much for share

@kenl2861 6 месяцев назад

This was awesome. Nice job, and Thank You!!😊😊😊

@anitajames7336 9 месяцев назад

Fantastic job explaining this process - Thank You!!

@DarrenVoros 9 месяцев назад

You're very welcome!

@Villarreal308421 Год назад

That was amazing, very cool and insightful. Thank you!

@DarrenVoros Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@mattgrizz1153 2 года назад

This is by far the best video explaining underpinning I’ve watched on RU-vid. What area do u work in?

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thanks Matt. I'm an investor based in Toronto, ON.

3 года назад

this is a very complete work! thank you sir

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Thanks for watching and for the kind words.

@davidelzer 2 месяца назад

great explainer. I'm inspired for my own basement project! 😁

@TheTexasmurph Год назад

Another extremely informative video Darren! 🎉

@DarrenVoros Год назад

Thanks Evan!

@antoniomarine1567 2 года назад

Great and informative video! Thanks for posting!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@knason1843 Год назад

So clear and helpful, thank you!

@DarrenVoros Год назад

You're so welcome!

@michaelz6870 Год назад

Immensely helpful, thanks.

@patchadams4me 6 месяцев назад

Great video.

@rodneydangerfield7153 2 года назад

Thank you, Darren, for the best underpinning video on RU-vid!

@danieljones741 2 года назад

...brilliant, a great help for me in the job i'm looking forward to completing!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Glad it helped. It's a fun process to go through.

@danieljones741 2 года назад

@@DarrenVoros ...thanks, again. i've started by insulating the roof and tweaking a few centimetres out of the plaster under the rafts in the attic flat. got loads of irons in the fire right now and i'm letting all the ideas i'm seeing here gell and take on the form of my to do next list. The family think i'm crazy!!!!

@sewingbreesinger4831 2 года назад

Wow! Looks great!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thank you! The project is coming along.

@michaelweiss3153 6 месяцев назад

Amazing job done

@rfventuri 3 года назад

thanks for all the great info!!

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@royalebukaonyemenam8085 Год назад

Thank you Darren

@cybermanne 6 месяцев назад

Very informative!

@lindseyrobloxlife8342 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing the video.

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

My pleasure Frymzim!

@Salt-N-Preppa 6 месяцев назад

You answered every question I didn't know I had! love(d) seeing every phase so clearly & concisely laid out!

@JohnSmith-pi3yp 2 года назад

Amazing job done!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thank you

@kingfloydz3031 Год назад

Wow what an informative video. I’m from Toronto as well. Thank you for the insight!

@DarrenVoros Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@gordonbrown6793 Год назад

When I was in my late teens my father got me and some friends to dig out our cellar which extended under the back third of the house. The old ceiling was about 5ft and we dug out about 2ft more to make a decent room. Then we extended under the next third of the house where the ground level was about 2ft below the floor joists, removing about 12 skip loads of earth so he could put in an internal staircase. We actually dug below the foundations of the 1890's house which consisted of the bottom course of bricks corbelled out by a half sitting on about 18" of cinders then put in strip foundations and built up blockwork walls and finally backfilled between the blockwork and the old wall/foundation with concrete a section at a time. That was 40 years ago and there's been no movement since.

@justinfry9844 2 года назад

Amazing video thanks so much!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

You're so welcome!

@habibsarr6262 2 года назад

Waaw I’m impressed… hopefully I didn’t proceed with the contractor who wanted to this in my basement as I didn’t understand the process… wish to see the project completely done … 5 star ⭐️ buddy

@lambsbecomelions8997 2 года назад

Wonderful video!!!! Very nicely done, well explained and easy to follow along! As a former contractor, this was a great job, done by the contractor. You gained a new subscriber!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@camelface1 14 дней назад

Great video! Awesome to see all that progress. I am curious about rebar in the footings and slab, and seeing it all tied together though.

@EGNW1 2 года назад

Nice. Good educational video how it should be done.

@Scott_Terry 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this! You're a role-model for the rest of us. I've been interested in basement digouts for years and am contemplating doing the process on two of my properties. ...also, how dare you not show us the finished product?!?! :D

@charlesmarion2032 Год назад

Outstanding

@KosteckiRealEstate Год назад

Excellent video Darren!

@DarrenVoros 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@TP-3000 Год назад

So useful thanks

@waterym1449 2 года назад

Very nicely done.

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555 2 года назад

Amazing!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Thanks!

@vijaydave6278 3 года назад

Vow. What a great piece of Civil engineering

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Right! The brilliant people who think these things up are amazing.

@stoveguy2133 2 года назад

Did same job on grandpas 1875 house in Stillwater. Whole house redo. Next to park. Nice.

@Junctionist 2 года назад

400/ft. Thank you VERY much. Will use that as a guide to get estimates. 50x20 footprint. If I can get it done for that it would be lots less than I expected. Looking at a quote I got from 2017 for $550/foot. Must be the competition in Toronto.

@AJohnson115 Год назад

I’m doing a similar project but the engineer that’s designing it wants to do horizontal rebar between each poured bay. And so I’m using hydraulic jacks to dig out 6 to 7 foot wide sections at a time even though I’m only coring 3 feet at a time because I’ve got all this lap rebar hanging out.

@rmgnair 3 месяца назад

Great video with ton of information for people like me who has a plan for converting a crawlspace into a basement. I was wondering why I-sections are not used to support instead of many posts.

@robsolg 3 года назад

Good communication and information

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Thank you Robert.

@martinp1544 6 месяцев назад

very interesting.

@ridvanaziri601 Год назад

Amazing explonation thank you

@DarrenVoros Год назад

You are welcome!

@scotttimmons8775 2 года назад

great video and explanation

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Glad it helped

@MichaelDillin Год назад

Great video, price given is good info!! Great job!! Liked subbed🤠👍

@Sombra_Azul_ 2 года назад

Good stuff mate!

@DarrenVoros 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@piggybakkers 6 месяцев назад

Really informative video. That is the neatest and tidiest building site I've ever seen! I subscribed.

@thewhlchrguy 2 года назад

Great video, well done! Thank you for sharing. I'm wondering how they conquered that load bearing middle section while still supporting the load? That's the only thing missing. Thanks again.

@drgunsmith4099 2 года назад

Very interesting.

@jan-ainsleylopez-mills6552 2 года назад

This is great, but what about the reinforcement? Would like to have seen the cages.

@bxblack Год назад

Thank you

@robsolg 3 года назад

I’m doing a research project and am able to use this as an example for my presentation

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

Ya go for it!

@ubermenschen3636 2 года назад

@16:38, notice the concrete slab has no rebar. Slab will develop cracks. Notice also there is no rebar connecting new concrete footing to new concrete slab - not a good design.

@zakglove6536 Год назад

No rebar? Shouldn't each section be tied to another?

@tonywilliams4066 6 месяцев назад

13:20 was my burning question: What about water seepage? I like the water proof membrane. And I didn’t know you could place drainage tile on the inside. This whole project is awesome! I want to do this to my basement!

@MrHellenas23 2 года назад

In NY its min 8 feet apart for the pins. If closer, then the engineer has to provide structural stability calculations to the dept of buildings that is safe

@rabeezyoud 3 года назад

This is amazing!! Indeed. Would be really helpful to know how the main wall support beam/wall was built, then removed the support pole. Any idea how? Thanks!

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

All of the bearing walls were removed with temporary shoring post and beams. Support on either side of the load bearing wall and then remove the structure. Once that's done, you can reposition the load bearing temp walls to make it easier to work around them. Hope that helps.

@jahunter7 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@patty109109 Год назад

Super interesting. This is a *hideous* amount of work and seems to me the most brave renovation one could do.

@DeadCat-42 6 месяцев назад

Tried to do this in my 1859 brick farm house. Im six two so needed a few inches for comfort. No problem as the fieldstone three feet thick foundation went far lower than the dirt floor. Found a large brick tunnel, evedently it was a wibe cellar (used to be a winery) and was used as part of the underground railroad where they would hide slaves crossing the Ohio to freedom. . Ive been chopping away at the old grape vines and they are very productive now. I prefer brewing so. I may make some wine and beer.

@dlg5485 2 года назад

This is the most informative underpinning video I've seen, by far! I own a 1960 brick home in Ohio that currently has 6'10" finished basement ceilings. I am planning a complete remodel of the property in a few years and I am considering dropping the floor to get a 8'6" ceiling height. My foundation is much smaller than this property (basement is about 1000sqft total), but based on the cost of this project, I suspect it would still cost about $25,000 USD to complete my underpinning, which is about 25% of my total budget for the remodel. One thing that isn't clear from the video is whether or not all the waterproofing/management, drainage, sump, etc were included int he price. Also, it doesn't look like you added any rebar to tie into the existing footer. Finally, did you consider using closed cell spray foam to insulate under the slab? I think it's a superior option because in addition to being an excellent insulator it is also an effective vapor, moisture and radon barrier all in one...especially if you run it continuously up the foundation wall into the rim joist.

@marcfavell Год назад

what a my first construction jobs when I was 16 was digging with a shovel and pickaxe doing exactly this, the no hydro connection at the home so they brought in a generator through part of the wall that was opened up and my dummy boss forgot to remove the generator untill after the wall was repaired 😂😂🇨🇦

@2Fast4Mellow 6 месяцев назад

The previous owner of our house did an underpinning early around 2002/2003, but I have seen pictures were they used conveyers to move the dirt out of the basement.

@winstonwyckoff7237 2 года назад

I WISH I could get a perimeter underpinning done for $400/ft. I am stabilizing a shifting/cracked (no rebar) concrete foundation in a 65 yo house on medium clay. All accessed from the outside. 210 LF. Should be around $85k. Bids range from $170K- $280k. Going with helical piers might save me about $50k, but half the engineers say it needs to be "capped" (essentially a partial underpinning) before the piers are set or sometime in the future, the foundation between the piers (23 of them!) will settle and the local contractors will need another infusion of $$. As best as I can tell, the "capping" (weird because it's under the existing foundation, I think) adds about $50k, so it's a wash. GREAT Video, btw. Lots of excellent information in less than 20 minutes. (Many arrogant inspectors and contractors have spent more time just telling me how many years of experience they have...)

@punicwar Год назад

Yours sound exactly like mine. 800 sqft house with poured 4ft deep foundation with no rebar. cracked due to settling on clay. I planned on doing this once i get an engineer to give me the plans. need a wider base to support the weight of the house. maybe double the width at the bottom. I would over engineer the rebar though i dont want to have issues in the future. need to find me a structural engineer that can let me know if this is viable.

@archangel20031 6 месяцев назад

Drop the basement 20 feet, build your dream survival shelter/gun room, then put back the basement floor like normal..

@riskitallcrypto99 2 года назад

Why is there no rebar hanging out of form 1 to connect to form 2 when poured?

@MattBroxD 6 месяцев назад

This guy is an alien, didn't blink once. 👽

@rabeezyoud 3 года назад

what steps do we need to take to deter radon from entering the house home? Thanks you! Your videos are amazing and helpful! Thank you!

@DarrenVoros 3 года назад

We put down gravel, a layer of 6 mil poly, then the 2" of rigid foam and then radiant infloor pipes and then the concrete. This area is not known for radon but if it was there are some additional measures that could be taken.

@TheRtRevFloydRBlair Год назад

Great video thinking of doing this on an old house creati g a 9ft basemen5 for more living space

@DarrenVoros Год назад

9ft ceilings in the basement doesn't even feel like.a basement anymore.

@TheRtRevFloydRBlair Год назад

@@DarrenVoros yep that's the idea

@Hessi 2 года назад

That is very fascinating. The house has no continuous foundation, but only a thin strip of concrete on which bricked? Furthermore, the new, deeper foundation is not physically continuous? It's basically individual blocks now. Reinforcement would not have done anything because there is a crack between the concrete blocks every time? Our small 1960's house has a continuous wide strip foundation under the walls. I never thought that such a large apartment building could stand on the bare ground. We'd also like to "raise" the basement, but we're afraid there's a reason the basement wasn't dug deeper, and we might hit rock.

@joemanflyer2001 2 года назад

Thanks for the great narration and pictures. I’m going the same thing in my cabin in Tahoe. Do you have videos of them digging, forming and pouring the concrete for the underpinnings? Thx Joe.

@joemanflyer2001 2 года назад

@Kyle White yes. It will be a great diy project

@joemanflyer2001 2 года назад

@Kyle White hi Kyle. Sounds great. I’ll be start work again in the late spring. Lots of snow up here. I’m sure you got your fill too.

@Reality_TV Год назад

$56,000 for the value add? That's GREAT! Thank you so much for putting this video together! This is absolutely awesome. Liked & subscribed! Thank you Darren. I'm researching how to do this to a property I just brought to flip. This was an absolutely perfect solution.

@DarrenVoros Год назад

Glad it was helpful!