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here are some pics of todays work , block layers making progress

Hey Bryan, That is really some project. I always wondered how that is done. It looks like the girders are holding up the house did they have to pour pads for the jacks to sit on? It looks like a costly job but it really is going to be great when it is done.

wow--thats a project! i like the skid steer
in the basement.

I have a block crawl space. What does it cost to have a basement added? and what square feet do you have on the main floor? Is it the whole house that is getting the basement?

Go over-kill on the water drainage. I under-estimated 30 years ago when I dug mine out and have a nice full cellar wading pool when it rains heavy. Good luck! joe-

Nothing like building a house from the top down. Just kidding. Looks great.

Like the progress, sooner or later it will be done. The photos remind me of commercial work, skidsteer, scaffold, materials,conveyor confined space to work etc. has that look to it.

Appears the mason or whomever is putting on a parge coat on the face of the C.M.U. wall, exterior. Hopefully you have waterproofing or what is needed to seal it up.

Looks good, best of luck with future progress

Is the house habitable (water/sewer) while it's lifted?

Thanks Billy ,,always appreciate words of encouragement ,,finaly looks like progress being made . 1/2 way home ! Man can those block layers drink ! lol

Yep , still living in house , doing one corner at a time . Only lifting 1/2 -3/4 inch . Dig out , pour footing block up , new sill plate , drop it down

whole house . 28x60 ? they quoted 36 thou to do whole job . Not sure what I have in it so far , will try to pencil down some numbers for you.

Thank you. Lot of man hours , after work and weekends . Jack posts are on 2x2 pads of 2x8's double stacked

Hi Bryan, I can really appreciate the amount of work going into your project; it sure looks great and I know you will enjoy it. Good luck.

please be carefull. OSHA would shut you down in a wink of an eye if they knew you didnt have shoring on that dirt. I know it is most likely vergin and wont move under normal conditions but. Id spend no time down there with out a ladder within arms reach and that may not be enough if things shift.

Be careful you don't get to much beer in the mix. Happened to a friend of mine. His wall turned out wavy.

I used to live in Romeoville, IL up until about 2004. Prior to that, I had thought about a basement, even tried hand digging my crawlspace out a couple of feet deeper to make it so I could poor soupy concrete into it to walk around and use it for storage. Problem was, it was basically shale rock at the depth and hand digging didn't touch it, neither did a pick axe, which is why there were less than a handful of basements in the old built in the late 50's section of town that I lived in. There's a reason are a couple of rock quarries in Romeoville, plenty of good rock I learned the hard way. About 2000, I had a neighbor that expanded onto his 1,400 sq ft house, same size as mine, and not only put a basement under that, but they jacked up the existing house, then dug out under the house with a 450 Cat. Charged my neighbor $20K to put a basement under the old, another $5K under the new section. That was in 2000, and under a brand new construction 2,000 sq ft home in Romeoville back then, was about a $7.5K option. Eleven years ago, with inflation, I could easily see double that these days. With construction being down and guys hurting for business these days, maybe you could get a deal worked out. People gotta eat, and less money in one's wallet is better than an empty wallet.

And to Bryan, sure is looking good. Coming right along. I'd raise you a toast to many long, happy, healthy years in almost double the living space with a couple of egressed windows to get out of in emergencies, by code as far as I know. And, if do put in egressed windows, do not forget to put in a plenty of gravel for the water to drain in, a whole lot of gravel that my sister and brother-in-law didn't get, and a couple of real good rains flooded their then finished basement a couple of times, and now unfinished basement.

Good luck.

Mark