| CMN - 11/3/2025 07:41
Back in the early 90s a neighbor supported their entire full two story with attic 100+ year old farmhouse with a four foot basement in place with jacks, dug out another four feet, poured a new concrete floor and eight foot concrete walls while never moving the family out of the house. The house was setting on screw jacks/temporary posts only most of one summer. Being a dairy farmer/concrete construction person he did the work himself...along with some help from friends/neighbors.
Even back then there was no way he could he have built the exact same house for the money he spent on the remodel...not even close. And the house is still standing today in great shape so I would would say his efforts were worth it.
Exactly what dad did with the 20x36 foot section of our house in 1976, cribbing and about agood number of hydraulic and screw jacks.
I am not sure, think they left one side sitting on the wall and poured the other side then did the other side, with the house sitting on the new wall somehow it ended up lower in the end, it was quite a high basement wall to start with, but low ceiling.
Lowered the whole house about 6 inches then dug the basement out 18 inches. Used a old slusher pulled with a cable out the basement window to lower the floor.
I was only 11, had to be interesting running the slusher with mom on the tractor pulling it, they were married till dad died in 2016, LOL. I don't remember watching this part, think I was in school when they did it. |
100 year old house foundation
