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House built in 1922 with less than 6 ft ceilings. Dug out 100,000 lbs of material and hauled it off in buckets. Took me about 3 months. Now we have 8ft ceilings. Foundation work handled by professional with proper permits.

** progress pics in the replies.

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[–] combomeal@lemmy.zip 39 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It originally had a shelf foundation which took up a large amount of space as the shelf comes inward and eats useable space. The shelf was removed and we did foundation underpinning.

The windows are now two ft higher. It hasn’t been something we are bothered by.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 weeks ago

Me starting to web search these new words "I don't have time for a new special interest I'm playing with fire on this one"

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

TIL shelf foundation. I've not seen these here in California, since we don't tend to have basement spaces in general.

But wow, you've moved literal tons of earth as a home improvement project. As the other comments remarked, this must have been quite the workout.

[–] combomeal@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 weeks ago

After World War II a lot of the soldier came back looking for work and many of them dug out the crawl spaces in our area plus added the shelf foundation. This is according to my father in law. I trust him but I haven’t looked into it further to confirm.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I made a 400sqft patio by moving 2 tons of pea gravel and 4000lbs of patio tile one tile at a time. In July heat.

What gets you is the tendonitis. But fuck decks, patios rule.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How many trips is 2 tons of pea gravel one at a time?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Many wheelbarrows.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

The shelf was removed and we did foundation underpinning.

Damn.