Re: ot basment

Posted by Mark - IN. on September 12, 2011 at 18:32:42 from (24.15.154.3):

In Reply to: Re: ot basment posted by gun guru on September 11, 2011 at 03:30:59:

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

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