Re: OT Basement project

Posted by Mark - IN. on September 09, 2010 at 20:42:08 from (24.15.145.199):

In Reply to: OT Basement project posted by Bryan iniowa on September 08, 2010 at 18:30:48:

Two ways to do that. My way, which is the wrong way, or the right way, which isn't my way.

My first home had a crawl space, about 5' deep and I wanted a basement for lots of reasons, including that my area was ravaged by tornados like every year, starting one week after I bought it and I got tired of diving into the crawl space and never having anything to show for it except coming out of the crawl space all muddy, everytime. Now here's the problem. My entire town, at the time was built on solid rock. Two feet deep, rock. So when they built the homes, crawl space up to 5' deep if they were in a good mood. I didn't know that when I moved to that town and bought the home. I went down to the crawl space with a few pales and a shovel and figured a few buckets a night over months, and I'd have it dug out. Problem is that everywhere I tried to stick the shovel, I'd get in about a 1/4" and hit rock. Then I found out the whole town was that way, so I tried a pick axe that only bounced off of the rock and would get stuck into the bottom of the floor and I'd have to twist it out of the wood, but little by little I was making headway until my new neighbors began talking about the John Wayne Gacy (me) that moved into the neighborhood and was always carrying buckets of rock and dirt out of the house. THAT KIND OF TALK, RUMOR ABOUT ME PUT AN END TO MY HAND DUG BASEMENT, and then my neighbors liked me, and we all lived happily ever after for a few years, except I never got my basement...but the cops never came over to see if I was burying people, which I was NOT.

Then we come to the right way to do a basement, which a neighbor of mine did do. They hired a contractor that charged them $7,500 to come over with a small dozer, like a D3 or something like that, went through the back wall and dug out under the house with that small dozer, actually driving around under the house (I saw it do it), as they shored it all up, then poured a new foundation and floor, and got their basement, and since he dug out around the foundation to get through the foundation, they expanded onto their house by extending the basement out more.

There's a right way to do things, and then there's my way to do things, and you don't want to do things my way...trust me.

Mark

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