Posted by Mark - IN. on October 28, 2012 at 21:39:56 from (24.15.151.102):
In Reply to: OTBasement posted by Bryan iniowa on October 28, 2012 at 17:03:36:
Long, long time ago I lived in the old, original part Romeoville, IL. called Hampton Park. Was track housing built back in the '50's, affordable for returning vets was the plan. There were only three styles of houses built there, pretty much over solid rock down about 24", and tons of stone to get there as it turned out. I didn't know that when I first bought it. The week that I bought or closed on it in 1990, I forget which, there was a prison break down the road where six inmates escaped, a oil tanker hit the bridge knocking it out of commision for several years, and a tornado 3/4's of a mile wide and on the ground for 12 miles came through, but missed Romeoville, but just barely. What the heck did I get myself into, I wondered. There were only three homes in the area that had full basements, the rest of us had crawl spaces, and mine was about 4' deep, and very damp. Every time the tornado sirens went off, and they went off an awful lot, down into the crawl space I would go, no tornado ever came, and all that I had to show for it would be covered from head to toe with muck every time I would come out of the cave. The heck with that, I decided to dig myself a Michigan styled basement, figuring to come in a few feet from the foundation, dig down, shore up, dig down, and do concrete work. Thing is, I was new to the area and had no idea the whole place was a couple of feet of top soil over miles of bedrock. I went down into the crawl space with 5 gallon buckets and a shovel, figuring over time at night after work, and weekends, and over time, done. Not so. Everywhere I dug, shovel went in an inch or two, and rock. Then I got a pick axe and tried that. Stuck it into the rock, brought it up, stuck it into the floor, back and forth of that non-stop. Of the few pails of dirt and rock I did carry out, my neighbors were looking at me like John Wayne Gacy moved into the neighborhood, and that is not at all what I had planned. I guess I couldn't blame them. New guy in the neighborhood, coming out of the crawl space all muddy with pales of dirt, shovel, and pick axe and all. All in all, my plans of a basement in Romeoville didn't work out so good, and after doing some research, I found out about the bedrock, and that there was a reason in a town of 16,000, only three homes had basements, and the rest had crawl spaces.
I sold that place a decade ago, moved back to Indiana, and bought a small farm here, much easier to work, good soil.
Good luck Bryan, you are still doing very well, and here's to wishing you a Merry Christmas family get together one of these years in your finished basement.
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