Wow! Thanks for the inspiration....my crawl space needs help and your video has given me hope. You are a hard worker. Also I have an abandoned well that a previous home owner filled in with dirt, bottles and cans. I have been excavating my well, like you, one five gallon bucket at a time. Most people don't understand why I want to save this well but I want it for my garden. Thanks.
Wow John -- that's tremendous amount of work you did there. You are a genius. 8100 buckets -- that'a lot. You are indeed a hard worker and know what you doing. If you are in the chicago area, please let me know -- would like your expertise on the crawl space I have. Want to convert it into a home theater. Thank you
Good to see that You did it porperly with real supporting under the walls, othevise one are asking for problems in future if the walls did not get proper support on both sides the whole way around.
I want to dig out my basement for my dad and create an apartment in the basement for him. I too have brick walls but I don't know where to begin. It looks like you are doing a fantastic dig out 5 stars.
That's funny you actually kept count of how many buckets (10 gallons each)..8, 100 holy crap! I've been removing excess gravel out of my 300 sq. ft. crawl space so i can be able to crawl under the duct work, and I decided not to keep count..but I think I've done about 40 buckets so far..I been dumping it behind my garage and when I'm done, I dump 2 full buckets into a wheel barrow and than dump it. I'll contact some kind of construction company to come scoop it out of my driveway after I wheel barrow it out, which I think would be about 20 - 30 wheel barrow trips, sure not easy. I don't know why the guy that built the addition decided to put any gravel at all inside the crawlspace, when it got wet (and it did) from seepage and or hydrostatic pressure, I don't think it had any benefit to moisture problems. Seems that the best fill would be stuff that is absorbant, such as peat moss, maybe mix it with some lime powder, since mine was overfilled, I am shooting at getting it level with the ground outside so I don't get issues with flooding. I already had one corner of it effected by poor land grading which I've worked on a bit too. Anyway, wanting a to convert a crawlspace into a basement so badly that you'd dig it out manually, all one can say is "wow"..and hope you eventually are happy with how the project went and it didn't end up with seepage issues. I understand why a basement is better than a crawlspace but if it is already built one way I think it would be more economical to move.
Wow! Thanks for the inspiration....my crawl space needs help and your video has given me hope. You are a hard worker. Also I have an abandoned well that a previous home owner filled in with dirt, bottles and cans. I have been excavating my well, like you, one five gallon bucket at a time. Most people don't understand why I want to save this well but I want it for my garden. Thanks.
Wow John -- that's tremendous amount of work you did there. You are a genius. 8100 buckets -- that'a lot. You are indeed a hard worker and know what you doing. If you are in the chicago area, please let me know -- would like your expertise on the crawl space I have. Want to convert it into a home theater. Thank you
good job John, Thanks for the books also
Good to see that You did it porperly with real supporting under the walls, othevise one are asking for problems in future if the walls did not get proper support on both sides the whole way around.
I want to dig out my basement for my dad and create an apartment in the basement for him. I too have brick walls but I don't know where to begin. It looks like you are doing a fantastic dig out 5 stars.
were's part 2?
Do you have a book on how to do this? I'm starting my crawlspace to basement project. Over 11,000 5 gallon buckets, O boy!
I just did it. Go to your rental center and get an electric portable conveyor belt . Not all places have them. Will save your life, im telling you.
That's funny you actually kept count of how many buckets (10 gallons each)..8, 100 holy crap! I've been removing excess gravel out of my 300 sq. ft. crawl space so i can be able to crawl under the duct work, and I decided not to keep count..but I think I've done about 40 buckets so far..I been dumping it behind my garage and when I'm done, I dump 2 full buckets into a wheel barrow and than dump it. I'll contact some kind of construction company to come scoop it out of my driveway after I wheel barrow it out, which I think would be about 20 - 30 wheel barrow trips, sure not easy. I don't know why the guy that built the addition decided to put any gravel at all inside the crawlspace, when it got wet (and it did) from seepage and or hydrostatic pressure, I don't think it had any benefit to moisture problems. Seems that the best fill would be stuff that is absorbant, such as peat moss, maybe mix it with some lime powder, since mine was overfilled, I am shooting at getting it level with the ground outside so I don't get issues with flooding. I already had one corner of it effected by poor land grading which I've worked on a bit too. Anyway, wanting a to convert a crawlspace into a basement so badly that you'd dig it out manually, all one can say is "wow"..and hope you eventually are happy with how the project went and it didn't end up with seepage issues. I understand why a basement is better than a crawlspace but if it is already built one way I think it would be more economical to move.