Leonard you are a damn fine film maker. You show exactly what people want to see, ask the questions that people are going to ask. Hand's a little shakey, but you have the fundamentals of presentation down pat. Love to see more
I raised my house recently 4 blocks for $12,000 here in texas, a 1,200sqft home. My highest bid was around 25k to 35k. Great job looks like you know what your doing.
Hi, Did you diy the project or this was cheapest bid you got in Texas? We flooded during Harvey and no flood insurance. Bought the house 7 days b/f Harvey. We need to build a pony wall so want to raise the house. Can you provide additional details pls?
@@nabkhan01 I called 3-4 companies in the Houston area, the company Jose foundation put the pilings, then raises the house. But I had my dad stay with the company and make sure they actually did a good job by leaving everything level and straight to look good, took 1 week. I got them to fix the plumbing, cut off every pipe as they raise the house, trust me because pipes can snap off inside the walls and leak water. I then bought about 4k of select fill, and dirt and built a slope around the whole house for drainage, so it looks like my house is on a hill now, I used my dad's small tractor for about 3 weeks due to rain delay, then bought a 2 pallets of grass. You need to decide how much you want to raise it, I did 4blocks which is overkill, I recommend 2 blocks. I am still not done but the higher you raise your house the more money you will spend in the end, driveways, stairs, house add ons will cost alot more $$ In the long run. So 12k to raise house with pilings, add another 8k to make it look good if u do something similar to me. I didn't do a pony wall so I'm sure thats gonna cost more.
@@TheNotoriousNemo - Thanks for the reply. Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. So you raised the slab 4 blocks high correct? Are you happy with the work? And, is the company name Jose Foundation Repair? Does the 12K include the fill or was that additional?
You are one brave SOB to use manual hand jacks that require you to be IN the basement while lifting. At the very least I'd have sprung for Air over hydraulic bottle jacks that could be raised remotely (i.e, outside the house). There's a reason why people who do this for a living use remotely operated hydraulic jacks. Great job though! it turned out beautiful!
I bought beams from two brothers that lifted homes and barns around Lancaster Ohio. They moved an old grandstand. All lifting was done with screw jacks then later hydraulic jacks. Manually operated nothing remote no remote operated jacks.
I'm in a pretty old house, probably over a century, and it could go up about 8 blocks, maybe even 10 or 15 ? ha ha.. anyway, they used to move old buildings all over town, lifting them with cranes of course and then blocking only down the long sides, backing a pair of semi trailers underneath. Wonder how much just to get a crane on site and lift it straight up .. $5k? My framing crew used cranes to handle truss roofs most of the time, but sometimes we'd have to heave them up with sheer booty. Thanks for the video; shows a great method, but can't imagine buying I beams much less getting that good of a deal on 'em.
Cool project. Owner reminds me of Wilford Brimley with his matter of fact responses. I bought a cabin that got flooded from a busted water pipe. Has two fireplaces that fell through the floor due to the place sitting for years untouched after the water damage. The entire floor joists, Rim joists and plates need replaced. I’m a do it yourselfer and work as a carpenter but never tackled a job like this. I think o need to hit some DIY forums for advice.
I like it. Wonder how did you get the beams into place consider you have only 2 persons and they are heavy. Also, I think you should have build solid concrete columns and let the jack sit on them, seems safer that way...Finally, they should be jacked up to full concrete block height, I saw a gap between the full block to the beams...
Wow! As a professional house mover, my butthole is puckering just watching the video. He made so many rookie mistakes. Mostly in the way he set up his equipment. Fucked up way he stacked the cribbing, no jack plates, no safety cribbing, no bracing on the I-beams... These guys are lucky to be alive.
damn i paid $59000 to get my 2 sty house raised 10 foot and placed on a cinder block foundation...wanted to diy just like this but everybody said i was crazy.
You would have been crazy to DIY. I did mine as a DIY for about $15,000 and that included all the blocks, mortar, and concrete for the floor...but d@mn....it was a LOT of work. I'd never do it again. The house was about 24x30.
That may be the same case for my house, I can't find any anchor bolts coming through the sill plates, I didn't think they could do that, my house was built in 1920. I only need to raise one corner where the footer sank because of poor rain gutters missing or not doing their job keeping rain away from the house.
Camera moved too fast it get me a lot of headache and can’t see what really need to see...when camera swinging left right right left.... but thank you for showing
What a "steel" for buyng those 5 I beams for $120 each depending on thickness .31 or .594". likely these are 4.666 width x.31. you made out big time. 37 feet is 939 pounds per beam and you have 5! That 2.5 tons of weight alone and steel price per ton is now over $1500 a ton thank you tariffs for big big buyers. Meaning joe blow would pay >$4500-6000. Lifing a house by an XPURT is abut 10-20K. You prove to all of us- it can be done cheeper. Fill us in. on the permit process for you drawings plan inspections . After lift foundation cost & COST/fees permits to inspector/city?
I passed on a house in the late 90s right after I got a high school it had a cinder block Foundation with the Cellar Door just going down that was giving way so the whole house had to be jacked up and re blocked but the house itself was in really really good shape and it was only $7,000 and it was in a really sought-after neighborhood I should have bought it I should have had the work done because now you can't touch a house in that area for under $160,000
He can now finish the basement and make it liveable. It adds value to the house with adding sq ftg. If a house gets a little flooding, you can also do this so that the wood framing and siding etc wont get touched. Put in a sump pump and take it out.
Those older style decorative faced blocks are still available; you got screwed by the contractor who used the common blocks. The finished job looks crazy with the mismatched blocks.
Wouldn’t it had been safer to call a house mover to jack the house up for you, pay them for the beams and re do your foundation? Less hard work for you.
