Restoring A $7,000 Mansion: Pouring A New Concrete Foundation
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- Upon discovering no footing under my foundation walls, I dive into my $7,000 mansion's largest and most challenging project yet.
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As a retired teacher of 43 years- I can say that if farming ever doesn't work out, you would make a fantastic high school teacher! Your energy and simplicity in explaining subjects would make you fun in the classroom.
I agree with you! I suggested to Cole that he market his videos on farming and now renovating his mansion to Community Colleges and High Schools. Yes, Cole is an awesome teacher! His sons are going to be as smart as he is! You can be sure Cole is teaching his boys things right now...
Interesting!
All 3 of them could form a house construction company too!!
Yes I'm in class with Cole every time I tune in..😊😂
Sign me up please!
You need large gutters, and then you need to feed the water from the downspouts 10+ feet from the house and you will reduce your water by a large amount as well. My 100+ year old basement has been dry for 5 years by doing this.
He has a natural water way in his yard 3 feet under ground.
The water table must be close to the basement, or the water would drain away.
if you watch an older video its show the underground creek running in the yard behind the house.
@@brandogeberbin7563 I'm aware of that but getting rainwater away from the house is also helpful.
Would a French drain against the wall also help? Instead of larger gutters?
Option number 5 is to extend your Gutters and make sure your grade falls away from the house
The rebar from these holes is gonna make digging the next set of holes even more of an adventure.
I thought so too
100%. I don’t envy these guys.
Exactly it's going to be a problem.
i think cole is way over doing a lot of shit! he acts like he needs to live in a fortress!
Not to mention the rebar that comes in contact with the dirt/mud will rust away over time
With a small excavator, dig outside and make trench. Paint roofing tar on outside of cement to make waterproof. Add drin pipe and drain rock with an outside sump pump if there is no slope. 2 day job. Sons business does this every day of the week.
Truly don’t understand why he didn’t do this. If there were a bunch of cracks in the foundation, I could maybe understand wanting to place a footer. But this seems like an overcomplicated “solution”. Cole also needs gutters.
@@Getagriponthisnewhandle He evidently needs gutters VERY BADLY.
Can’t do this without tearing out wrap around porch and supports for roof extension over the wrap around porch. Disturbing the soil all around at once with excavator would be bad.
Exactly!!!!! They already have a small backhoe they use to dig graves. Perhaps 1 - 2 hours on the backhoe and all the exterior excavating is DONE.
You guys work so hard. Hats off to all men who work like this to provide for their families. Massive respect.
Hey coal as a master plumber you may go with a French drain around the outside of your house we may give you a better tight situation on taking the water away from the basement the one thing you will need to do is set that pie in gravel so the water will have a way to sleep up I saw before that you're going to sit piers Pole pylons underneath your foundations great idea lot of work I'm not too sure about your putting the drain underneath the foundation of the basement I think you'll be better with a French drain outside and depends on what kind of soil do have
All I can say is you're doing a fantastic job in best of luck on what you said to do my opinion of French drain on the outside would be cheaper and more efficient but that's just my opinion you know what's best for your house it is a beautiful home and those kids oh my God and you could have picked a better wife
…..and you could have NOT picked a better wife….I am certain you DID mean to say that 👍
Cole, if you use a concrete truck for your basement, please make sure you ask for the company to give you the concrete delivery ticket to prove they used the right additives to yield the mandated psi strength. SAVE THE TICKET in your important papers for decades. It is your only warranty.
Just like the binsite!
This is the way as well!!!!!
This is actually pretty fascinating. More people have to deal with these foundation issues than you’d think! I think it’s going to work and you will not regret doing it.
Amazing job! This is really really hard work.
Go get a construction job, it's every day normal shit.
@@BobDevV But first you need to know what a FOOTING is!
@@BobDevV😊
Three tough,strong hard working men.
This project is the definition of working HARDER, and NOT smarter....
Cole, gotta say, I appreciate your enthusiasm. May you never lose that spark.
Cole, if I were you, I'd excavate the entire outside perimeter and first seal the outside walls. Then pour the footer from the outside in sections. Install the perforated drain pipe at the outside wall perimeter and route it to a pit inside for the pump. I had to do this (minus the footer pour) 34 years ago to a house in Kansas. From your pictures, it appears that the ground slopes away towards the road (at least on that side). I'm not seeing gutters on the house .... and wondering how much of the water problem is due to not routing it away.
This is the way
Totally agree
Concrete advice =)
This is the way!
This is the way.
Rent a 1 inch air compressor with a 30 pound hammer with a 6 inch or bigger air spade to make digging under the footer as easy as dipping ice cream.
I can't get over how good your front yard looks, nice!
And it's SAD parts of it have to be ripped up for the new septic system and drain field, and the 6ft trench all around the house for water mitigation.
Me too! I remember when Cole planted all that Kentucky Blue Grass seed! It is lush now!
I think it would have been easier to dig a trench around the house and dig under the block wall for the footings, then put the french drain in the trench around the outside.of the house and bury more tubing from the drains out at least 10 feet from the house to get water away from the house.
no gutters is your problem, the old house had them, and the stain on the floor isn't 100 years old, so start there.
Yea, I was wondering if he inspected the exterior drainage - hydrostatic pressure is very powerful, but if the water is draining away from the house then it shouldn't be an issue. The gutter spouts should also be extended to carry water away from the house. He also didn't say if the water leakage was all around the basement perimeter - if it's just one side, then address that side externally.
Either way he wants a proper footer. Since the dirt will be moved, he’s adding a drain while he is already In there.
@@westonmeyer4456 yes since a after 100 years, one day it might go bad, but not yet,
I'm happy to see the 3 of you "cement" your relationship with each other. 😂😁😅
I know an individual who redone a large old home similar to yours. He had a house moving company put the house up on large wood blocks and then he used a skid loader under the house to remove all concrete including the walls. Then he poured new footings and put in new concrete block walls. Installed drain tile around the outside perimeter of the block walls. He ended up with a super nice perfectly dry basement which he finished off into a large game room, etc.
But you can't do that to a gutted house that had no internal structure. Even now the structure in the attic is not finished yet.
My dad put a basement in the house I grew up in block by block house jack and a shovel and his trusty 63 b10 early allis chalmers garden tractor to haul out all the dirt.
My wife and I did this in 2006 to a 107 year old farmhouse in WI. It was far less expensive to jack the house up, remove the old basement, and pour new footings and walls then the labor to try to fix it. We even moved the house 8 feet to the west and 12 feed to the north to better position it for an addition we put on. We were then able to put drain pipes on both the outside and inside as well as seal the outside with a waterproof coating.
long story short: Old Houses need a lot of love. That love costs money. Be awesome to see Cole show us his costs so far. Probably bow a lot of people minds.
I really like the way Cole thinks. He works through the options and considers their pros and cons. I'm age 22 and turned gymnast to guy in construction. I'm enjoying the restoration videos the best--and sometimes hold my tongue and sometimes take mental notes on good solutions.
I understand why you hold your tongue. I am 68 and know just how you feel.
@@greghamann2099 I"m age 22 and only been full time for 2 years. And still learning.
@@anthonywilson1754 I understand I have nothing but respect for you personally.
Wow, you write just like my buddy the Nigerian Prince that keeps sending me letters! Go figure!
@@peterhaan9068 Are you Nigerian? You have royal blood. Cool!
First time ive seen it done from the inside. With Ron Im shocked you didn't go with trenching around the outside giving the ability to seal the wall itself before backfilling
That’s the proper way to do it- this is how the basement waterproofing guys do it. We’ve got to do it on our place too, because whom ever built it was too lazy to install perimeter drain tiles. It gets tied into sump pits and ejected outside
Exactly what I thought.
Yes very bizarre.
My thoughts exactly
Most likely didn’t want to take out the deck that he just built all the way around the house.
Years ago, we had an older home. We were in the house a couple weeks and discovered water coming through the walls. After many pros coming and suggesting how to fix. Majority said to repair from outside. We'll my husband being younger at the time, took on the project himself. Dug down below the foundation ON THE OUTSIDE. Sealed the router walls with tar and then a heavy duty plastic . Then gravel, perforated drain pipe, more gravel. Then back filled with dirt. Lived there 22 years and never leaked again. Also sealed in side walls as well.
Your videos are a breath of fresh air, always enjoy watching
I had to laugh at Roman's enthusiasm at digging holes. Funny guy. Great to see Justin smiling. Cole...is this drain you are putting in the same thing as a French drain?
By putting the pipe beside the footing under the concrete slab, the water will still come in between the wall and footing right on top of the floor if it level with top of the footing. To stop the water from coming into the basement you will have to dig around the outside of the basement walls down to the top of the footing, wide enough out to work in that space. Now, knowing there is no footing, it needs to be put in first of course which you're doing a good job of, but you can't waterproof the basement correctly from the inside. Once you dig down all the way around the basement walls, which means where the porches are too, because it has to be a continuous four inch perforated pipe, what Cole calls tile, put in around the walls on top of the footing. The walls need to be cleaned of all the dirt, then coated with a rubberized waterproofing coating that is applied like paint, from the footing up to where the surface of the ground will be against the house. Then a waterproof membrane needs to go over that. It comes as fabric and plastic sheets that are attached to the wall. Then you put in the pipe, or tile, which must be daylighted out somewhere so the water can drain out of it. Over the pipe you need at least two or three feet of clean ¾" washed stone that is covered with a fabric that lets water through but stops dirt getting through. Then you can fill in the rest of the way back up with the dirt you removed. That is the proper way to waterproof a basement. This will involve removing the wrap around porch to be done correctly and to work. That being said, you can make a drain in the floor on the inside if you want to go the easy incorret way. That is not a waterproof basement though, and is just taking care of the water that gets in, just like any other solution that doesn't involve doing the outside of the walls like I described already. I've only waterproofed around 100 new basments before back filling around them, but what do I know. You need a radon detector to make sure the air is ok in the basement if y'all are getting headaches from bending over in the holes. If its just you getting a headache then you're just a wuss. The way you're having to do the footing is crazy but I don't see another way. Just pour a dry bag of concrete in the water in the hole before you put the other mixed concrete in.
Great advice that! Makes the perfect sense, if he only wants to do it once.... do it properly first time around! Great shout
This is exactly what we did along with the interior drain, but my parents already had two sump pumps installed that were built in when they built the house. I would have been a little nicer lol 😂
@@Big_Josh That was me being nice.
I think the boys are going to pour another floor when they are all done. Cole did lightly touch on that when he was "short" on the last footing.
@CJMactaggartknits Yes, they are taking up the entire basement floor and redoing it as far as I understand. But if they don't put the floor on top of the footing and instead pour it even with the footing then the water can come in between the footing and the wall right out on the floor pipe or not. But by putting the pipe so low in the ground under the concrete like I think they are going to do, it will keep water from coming up from under the concrete seeping in thru any cracks. But there is still the water coming down from rain that can go between the dirt and wall outside and come down the outside of the wall ending up on top of the footing then that could seep thru if they don't put the floor above where the wall and footing meet. Even if they do that, it's still a possibility the water can find its way in. Think about the wall and footing he's putting in now there will be a microscopic crack between them and the floor poured on top of the footing there will also be a microscopic crack between the footing and bottom of the floor because they weren't poured at the same time and there will be a microscopic crack between the concrete floor and the wall so if the water comes in between the wall and footing and it's path under the floor between it and the footing is blocked it's going to come up between the crack of the wall and floor letting the water into the basement all because it's not sealed on the outside. Like I said in my original comment I've done around a hundred basment waterproofings on brand new houses while being built and gone back like Cole needs to do here and dug all the way around the outside of basements that have been in the ground for years and years and waterproofed them. I know a little bit about it. If he plans on finishing the basement for living space where there will be a stud wall built aganist the basement walls and some kind of flooring put down I'd suggest that he get the liquid ruberized waterproofing and paint the perimeter walls around the bottom a foot out from the wall on the floor and the entirety of the walls with several coats to help keep water coming in the cracks like I described. Also a sheet of very thick plastic on top the ground as a vapor barrier under the concrete would be wise.
Everybodies dream, to take a family treasure and restore it to former glory, way to go Cole 🙏♥️
Except this house will not look anything like it's former glory.
I put an interior pipe around the inside of my basement about 28 years ago. All water problems vanished. Later on I dough down on the outside at the sump hole and ran a pipe directly out of the sump hole. I put minimum fall so the water would gravity feed to the front of my neighbors yard. but I notice your up high so you should easily be able to do the same. No more sump pump, but I leave it there in case the pipe gets blocked.
So basically Thank God for TH-cam it’s a learning place literally lmfao God Bless you an your family you guys are amazing to watch the humor an jokes always lighten up the mood an day stay blessed 🤝🏽👍🏽
I've never seen it done that way. The water mitigation systems I've seen are on the exterior of the foundation (fill w/ sheathed covert pipe) & they use sealants on the exterior foundation. This is great to see some other ways to do it.
French drain and a sump pump work great. Also direct your gutter downspout at least 10 feet away from the house. I have both on my house. 3000 sq ft basement. Bone dry and my water table is about 4 feet down.
good luck digging around those rebar in the next holes
You can put water sensors in your basement. It will beep very loud if there’s any water penetration. $30.00
He will he has a sponsor that will give him that for free probably. He has the whole farm under a free security system and water sensors are a part of that.
Great solution for his parents
Love your style, keep rocking it!
Trick I learned many ears ago.. use a 1/2in impact drill to drive the rods into the soil. The rods fit right inside the drill.
Install a French drain and run it to a sump pump
That is what my dad did at his place. Worked well
Yeah. French drain!!
I would elect to go with an external French drain system to sit alongside the rebuilt foundation.
If you have the elevation, run the water away not into the house.
OMG. This is REALLY BIG. Big time physical labor. Please be careful! And one thing about you, Cole: you will NOT be stymied!! 💪
They definitely got a great concrete mixer. I've seen them here and like the continuous mixing and pouring. I'm learning a lot watching.
Wowzers, Hercules would be proud of you guys for the sheer volume of work you have undertaken. ( DC is thinking; "they ain't never moving out") love these videos. you guys rock 👍👍
Your Kentucky Blue grass is looking good
I'm a little shocked Justin in shorts! Wow, I thought he was allergic to them. I enjoyed the video, keep up the good work fellas
In Norway, where we are dealing with frost and a lot of rain, we are used to put the drain pipe OUTSIDE the walls at the bottom of your footer, not inside your house higher than the bottom of your footer! If you follow your plans of putting the drain under the floor, your house will be standing in water, and I guess your house will take in water trough the concrete around the whole perimetet.
Best way to keep water out is to separate basement floor and walls from soil by layer of bitumen/asphalth membrane. This require you to have two layers of concrete floor in basement. You can also add additional polystyrene insulation to keep your basement warm in the winter. Quite unussual in US while standard in Europe. By ignoring separation layers between surface and floor, you have to deal with water and moisture and mold in your basements. Water will come up through the concrete to the wooden frame as Cole (and other builders too) also ignored separation between the footer they poured previously.
You three are working so hard. I recognize this because my husband has done this same type of work on three homes we remodeled. One had small stones as a foundation. He too had to raise the home up, crawl on his belly under the house, dig out the stones using a wheelbarrow on a rope with no wheel, build a footing and lower it onto a new poured cement foundation. Seeing your work makes me more thankful for him! I appreciate that.
Just remember, this isn't necessarily an investment. No market for a huge farmhouse unless they farm. However, a great way to spend your you tube money to continue your cornstar legacy. A beautiful home for your wife and children. More baby's needed! 😅😊🎉
Great big farm houses sell everyday to people who just want to live in the country. You don’t have to be a farmer to live in the country. Many times homes and farms sell separately and the house only has an acre or two. I’ve personally looked at several of them.❤️🐝🤗
@@deborahdanhauer8525 You know this will stay in the family and will never see the market. My brother lives in such a house. It was inherited. Never would a farmer sell it to a stranger from the city to make a fast buck.
@@greghamann2099 Seen that happen so many times actually. Parents die kids want nothing to do with the farm so farm and house get sold. 5 acres with house.
@@greghamann2099 My dear friend, the farmer might not, but his heirs certainly will. I doubt this particular house will sell out of the family for awhile, but no doubt, someday, even this one will sell to someone else. That’s what happens when all the children are grown with their own homes and no one needs it, but they could always use the extra money. I grew up in farmland and saw it all the time. ❤️🐝🤗
Now the rebar you pounded through is going to be in your way when you are digging the next footer, next to it.
You poor guys! What a job! May God give y’all strength & endurance! Job well done! TYTY for sharing! ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️
As a retired construction project engineer, I have watched a great many people in the process of causing themselves both present and future misery. Appreciate this little spot of reminiscing that experience.
Yup, they need a professional to at least guide them. The cost savings from not making expensive mistakes will more than make up for the expense of a pro to lead them. Like watching a train wreck on this channel lately. I respect the gumption but the most valuable part of any large construction job, is the wisdom and knowledge from the guy who’s fallen in the pitfalls before.
You guys all do so many things! I'd be curious to hear what each of your favorite parts of this process have been so far. Personally, I like watching the attic content the most! I wonder what was the most fun to work on!?
My friends neighbor had to dig out all around the foundation deep enough to reach where it ended and then seal coat to keep water out. Your all confident and competent men who tackle any obstacle in the way and you work well together !
Cole you sure are blessed to have people in your life/friend pool who will help take on a task such as this.
He’s paying them! $
My favorite youtuber ever
Boy this is gonna be a JOB!
Wow, oh wow - I can’t imagine the enormity of your project! One surprise too many, but fortunate to find now before more load in the upper floors. I gutted my house down to outside walls and had all new plumbing electric etc. the impetus for all that? Foundation issues: had a 2” grade difference from one end of house to the other….and to me it made sense to clear it off, fix it (foundation) then put the house back together. Im in awe that only the three of you doing the work. Hats off to you.
It will be hard on digging the next holes with the bar you put in.
CoIe,I am a proud member of Menards my store is the Indianapolis South store. I'm a kitchen designer there. I'm watching your video where you've gone to three separate Menards for bags of concrete. Do you have the Menards app on your phone? If you don't, download it and then pick your favorite store you can order everything online and it will be back in our order pick up delivery department for you to pick up. And if you need to go to a different Menards in, just switch your store preference.
Menards is probably getting advertising form this and your suggestion is good, but they love to see that big sign in the videos. You know who gets a sweet discount.
He just wants an excuse to be away from the worksite half the day..
That concrete mixer is the ticket!!!
You’re the man! Thanks Cole! Always enjoy your channel!
6' piece of 3/4 or 1'' black iron pipe slid over the rebar works pretty good for leverage. Mount a piece of pipe to the trailer or other heavy solid object and use a second piece for your leverage.
Mark your rebar at at 20" with spray paint. Make a heavy "rebar driver" with a short piece of pipe similar to a T-post driver?
Cole, if you are gonna do the entire house, go rent a concrete saw. That way the edge will be even and smooth the entire way.
They are going to tear out all of the old floor and replace it with new concrete.
Watching through the camera probably makes this seem easier than in truly was but when you first explained this I thought it was going to be a horrible process. Looks great
I really like that style of cement mixer you've got there.
I wish I had one of those about 20 years ago. 👍
Roman (or is it Romin?) - we need a full episode that covers your life in Ukraine, your emigration to the States, your story of arriving and adjusting to another agricultural based region, your observations of America as a somewhat recent immigrant, your family, and your faith
I like your attitude about fixing the source of the problem and not just the symptoms.
Hey Cole, great videos . I suggest options 2 and 3! Always good to have a backup plan.
My goodness a lot of digging. He is to another 100 years.
I'm sure some folk will disagree with me here but, you can use a cordless impact wrench with a suitably sized socket to drive the rebar into the soil, save swinging the baby pound hammer all day, the vibrations from the impact wrench should drive the rebar in tike a got know through butter, it's faster and less physical exertion, you guys work hard enough as it is, great work guys 👍👍👍👍
Hot knife through butter *
“I stayed at a Holiday Inn” honestly y’all are the hardest workers
good job explaining. Better than most pros. You are on point as far as technique.A kerf cut with a concrete saw makes demo easier.
Roman is wearing " corn star" shirt! Yay, good for him....
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Looking forward to when you can sit back, relax and enjoy your all your hard work. 👍⭐️
Woooo, I was hoping you'd discover the continuous mixer!!
Digging the off sets will be fun trying to clean holes with rebar in them
You are highly intelligent Cole. You are dedicated husband, father , son and Christian. I always look forward all your videos. Stay true to yourself cause you’re a pretty amazing young man.
A waterproof barrier around the outside of the basement wall would help a lot and there is where the french drain works best. It does involve digging a trench all the way around the house. Sealing the inside walls does not work as well.
If you're going this route...... install a D-drain!!!!!!! This will allow you to service it if there is ever a problem
The amount of work your doing and still popping out videos every couple days blows my mind man. You are one diligent hardworking guy. Keep these videos coming man im addicted. You do all your research and I havent seen you cutting any corners. I've seen some sketchy videos here on TH-cam but I'm happy to see you are doing everything right. Hell yeah. Good shit.
I believe Cole has a videographer filming and editing the house renovation. It’s not apparent but if you notice many takes are filmed by someone other than Cole like him at Menards. But to your point he works endless hours.
Cole has a guy editing the video's he and the guy's do the video's them selves.🙂
@@MikeZMonroe are you sure about that? several videos ago he showed his laptop setup in his truck and he said he took a break from the job and was editing videos while the other guys were still working away at the house. either way, even if he does have an editor, compiling all his videos, its alot harder than you think filming while you work
That’s serious hard work! I’m amazed at your work ethic, and that of your friends. It’s also good to see someone do it way above whatever standard is. I think that’s always a good plan. That house is going to be like a Roman road and astounding people thousands of years from now lol❤️🐝🤗
Looks to me they barely saved the thing from total collapse.
I'm very proud of your accomplishments on your project Cole and friend's 😊❤
Water runs down hill. Check if yard slants towards house. If so, water goes to house.
It’s called under pinning
Wow! Roman finally got some Cornstar gear! The shirt looks great on him!
Coal you are some guy. Hard-worker and to have friend that will work with and for you . This is quite a project. I thank you for all the videos so I can see this word be done.
Definitely going about the hard way . Probably going to cause more problems than solve.
They make an SDS bit for your hammer drill for driving rebar and ground rods. They work really well and can save you tons of time.
yes and put a spade bit on to help with the digging ....there are many places a demo hammer drill would help
Man, that's tough, building this house from the top down. I admire your diligence and hard work, looking forward to the next episode!
Eventually, you should consider adding the French drain. Long term it is a good way to go.
Very nice work Cole Roman and Justin
thank god for utube....I learned how to sew, grow food, can, knit, install toilets, and learned about farm equipment on ur channel. so I guess I can say utube has educated this big city girl into a real dyi country woman.
This series gives us farmers a bad name. A bulldozer is looking better each time I watch. Now I watch to know what the next disaster will be.
Should have used a backhoe and dug around the outside and put your drainage around the outside also....
My wife got me a Cornstar farms t-shirt. Love it! I love the $7000 mansion series. I watch every episode. You did a great job cleaning up the farm and the mansion will be beautiful!
I impressed with your work ethics. Equally surprised that you didnt think to start at the bottom, the foundation, first. How you are able to keep everything Level and plumb is amazing. Dont quit now...
Thank you Cole, for sharing.
hey Rome and Juston you can't hide Cole's body in the foundation of his own house that just won't work you need to hide the body somewhere else lol
Chicken coop?
😂😂😂
To ensure that your house survives another century, you should think triple redundancy. In addition to installing an interior perimeter drainage system, you should also consider an exterior drainage system at a later date. An exterior drainage system would be your first line of defense. Added to a new sump system, and proper maintenance, you will never have to worry about water intrusion in you and your children's lifetime. It's a time consuming project and an added expense. But considering the future costs of repairs, I would think it is a no-brainer. My brother's company has been building high end houses for over 30 years. He calls it the "triple threat" and includes it in all of his basement and conditioned crawlspace designs. To date, there has not been a water issue in any of his builds.
I love how you guys work as a team.
Roman: “And I have to sound like Juston, Yeah!” 😂😂😂
The water won't hurt the concrete! it will displace it!
Grandfather in Iowa used to pour dry sackrete around fence posts. Never added water. The concrete pulled the water it needed from the surrounding soil.