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I would like to know how they keep the basement dry, in a downpour, considering the base is sitting in a pit below ground

🤩 wow

cheaper to level it and start over

Total waist of time and money on a garbage house. It would have been better and cheaper to have tore it down and built a new 2 story home instead .

I would love to have this done to my house

Looks like the cost of the project would exceed the sale price of the house, but prehaps it is located in a third-world area like California.

I’m curious of the decision to add on under the existing house vs raising the roof and adding a second floor. I can think of a few, like Twsp code, total cost, able to continue living in your house, as opposed to having no roof during construction. What was your reason?

whats the cost?

That is something we cannot do in South Africa as our houses are made of brick.

Wouldn't this be considered a basement and not a floor?

W H Y 🤷🤷🤷😲❓❓❓

Ok so you lied. This is a basement, adding floor means above ground. Though I will admit that I only watched this video because I wanted to see them lift that house up on top of another floor above ground.

Dude, you didn't have to use the truck. You had to use 4 jacks. And it would be cheaper. And not so laborious.

stop the gay music and describe whats going on

What a waste of money, why didn't the owners pull down that slum and build a brand new home in its place

I dunno why the music had to sound like Spiderman was on the hunt for Doctor Octopus lol.

My house was moved to a new spot in 1950. We found a newspaper article about it shortly after we got it. New foundation and all. It was supposed to be demolished but some rich guy did not wanna see that happen for some reason so here we are.

totally misleading title to this video. they did not "add" a floor to this house they rebuilt the basement.

In Houston TX if you live within a few blocks of a big bayou raising you house 3ft would be a waste of money your house would still fool. You would need to raise your hose 6 to 10 ft to keep it from flooding.

Clickbait lie title, all you did was replace the existing basement/foundation with a new one, you did not add another floor to this house as implied in this title. 👎👎

This video is absolutely amazing. I actually enjoyed EVERYTHING about it. Especially watching Autumn turn to Winter. The actual construction of the addition was just wonderful to observe. It was educational and extremely calming. For a little over 19 minutes, I was truly at peace. Thanks for sharing this exceptional video. This actually made it to my playlist. ❤❤👍🏽👍🏽

This kinda looks exactly like my house in Fallout 4

Excellent!

I want to do this to my house to add a foot or two of height to my foundation walls so I can get the basement floor repoured higher. Whoever built my house (at the bottom of a hill) built the foundation floor level with the ground. When it rains heavy the water creeps up towards my garage doors. Adding 4-6" of floor height would raise the floor above the potential flood level while increasing the overall ceiling height in my basement. I'm guessing this isn't a cheap process.

Waste of money and time that house is garbage the foundation is everything not what goes on top of it. This cost over hundred thousand to do this lift and foundation however removing it and building a new home would have cost 150k in total well that sized house.

Zoomers: Can’t find/afford a house Boomers: Let’s take out another $200k loan on this little cash cow I bought for $20k in 1975.

War bestimmt eine teure Angelegenheit.........aber ich finde diese Aktion sehr mutig. Schade, dass der Film nicht alle Bauarbeiten zeigte bis zum Einzug.

Pretty crazy.

this is wicked and something I would love to do BUT I have to ask....you're telling me this was cheaper than just dozing the house and building a legit house from ground up that is already 2 stories? I suppose what is making me scratch my head is that now the first floor, I'm assuming, is going to be the second floor? I admit im commenting only 5 minutes in without seeing the final result. This process CAN'T possibly be cheap.

I sure hope its a fish eye lense because those walls look so crooked.

that's the advantage of living in a shed.

Very annoying "music"

Where I have a getaway camp in Mississippi, every trailer/house if lifted off the ground about 20’ high as it tends to flood with bad weather

dem dudes musta have balls O' steel ta be woik'in unda der dats fo sho

It was cool to watch, but I fail to understand why they wouldn't install electric outlets along the walls, etc. And they packed dirt around what insulation they wrapped it with. Was this just an upgraded cellar?

Bet this was more like 300k

That foundation wall system is pretty slick.

Nice job, professionally done work. Where in London is this? I recognize the neighborhood but can't figure it out.

Very cool.

you could definitely take a city and push it somewhere else with this strategy

Ahh, machinery! Don't you just love them. They make the impossible, possible.

How is this cheaper than building a new house? Structual engineering involved is amazing

Why? All that time and money for a POS house on a tiny POS lot. No disrespect; just calling it....

Interesting time lapse. I am curious why a concrete vibrator wasn't used during the pour though. Pretty standard practice regardless of the cement type.

This was really cool to watch. I would love to see a follow up video of the finished house and yard.

I’m just trying to understand Why? It just seem cost effective for this House.

seems like it would have been cheaper to do complete tear down and build from scratch... also a lot of work just to redo the basement...

Do you plan to finish the basement.

Cool