Digging Out a Massive BASEMENT From Start to Finish - Time-lapse
The long awaited Start to finish basement digout video is here. Enjoy the complete series in one video from start to finish while jamming out to some tunes. This was a massive 5 month undertaking and we excavated at least 100 tons of dirt running a 4-7 man crew Monday thru Friday. let us know what kind of videos you want to see in the future and stay tuned for more !
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We just uploaded an animation breaking down how these basement digouts are done ! Check it out here ! kzhead.info/sun/qcutgr2na4V7h58/bejne.html
@@KevinPata-cm3ml Around 1,500 sqft !
I'm very curious about the cost for the entire job. I have a crawlspace 26' x 60'
@@GoldsConcrete very curious woudnt it had been easier and even cheaper to simply lift and move the house to build the basement ?
What brand of vapor barrier, stego, americover, or yellow guard.
How much did this xost
That's an insane amount of work, and you dug it all with shovels! Incredible. The home owner must really like the location to commit to 5 months of intense labor. Personally, I would have just built a new house lol. Props to the project manager who accepted the task of digging-out a basement under an existing house, so many things could have gone wrong. Really talented group you have to be able to pull that off 👍👌
Thank you ! It can get pretty brutal at times especially in the cold winter months. And we've noticed older couples/families like to go this route since they don't have to go through the hassle of moving all their stuff ! Once again thank you for the kind words, be sure to stay in tune. We have a lot more coming this year
@@GoldsConcrete WELL DONE GUYS
@@GoldsConcrete how much did it cost?
@@ArcolaBridge At least 30K including labor
@@1nsurgent That would be a bargain.
Me and my Dad dug a much smaller basement under our house in early 1960's around the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Papa was a WWII veteran. He landed at Normandy Beach and as he was a motorcycle courier , he rode a Harley Davidson across Europe in combat conditions. His unit was overrun in The Battle of the Bulge with 85% casualties. A remarkable man and my HERO. He meant to take care of his family as best he could so when it looked like America was going to get nuked he bought me a tiny mad dock and me and him crawled under or house and started digging. We ended up with a 14ft by 16ft fallout shelter with bunk beds and food and water storage. It was fun to me. Papa was a great man.
AWESOME !
Wow, a real LIVE hero, AND your Dad ?!........member of the greatest generation, thanks for sharing this with us , God bless you and your Dad......
Would that have been The Summer of '69? 🤔
Around 1965.
@@brianadams1907 man, you of all people should have picked up that Bryan Adams reference.
You can tell who the boss is because even in extreme time-lapse speed he still stands around a lot. 😋
Never seen someone build a basement underneath an existing house, this was pretty damn cool! And the fact you did it with shovels and wheelbarrows 😂. Bet that conveyer came in handy….
Haha, Right ! The conveyors are the back bone of these hand digs !
Pretty blessed cool. We don't want God damning it now do we!
You ought to see some the super basements dug under the old houses in London . Underground garages , swimming pools , gyms , cinemas the lot. Houses are so expensive it's cheaper to dig down to make more space.
@@hammyh1165 We've seen quite a few ! And like you said, here in these urban areas its starting to get cheaper to go down then up !
@@GoldsConcrete I was thinking that exact thing watching your video. When my wife and I bought our 1-story ranch, we did a general Google search for cost to go up, and it came back around the same price as the house. Your time-lapse video made it seem so easy to go down, that it got me considering it. Though now I've read the description and saw the 5-month stat, so maybe not so easy. :)
I did this in 1949 with my Stamford house. Converted from crawlspace to full basement. Took me over a year to dig it all out and pour new foundation by hand.
You my good sir are not to be messed with ! This kind of work isn't for the weak hearted and takes some serious balls to pull through, we congratulate you.
How old are you?
@@nikola12nis I'm a centenarian.
@@basspig For real?
I did this to a house in Evergreen, CO. Turned the crawlspace into essentially an underground grow room that was around 2400~ sq ft. Now watching your video I feel a little better about what I thought was my jerry rigging way of solidifying the foundation.
Basement renovations are crazy. We're currently doing the same thing with a couple of 7-story historic buildings downtown here, except the new shear wall and braced frame footings are so massive we have to lower excavators and skid steers underground through a hole in the sidewalk and dig them with machines because there's no possible way of doing it by hand, especially with the density of the glacial till we have here. It's a trip running machines completely underground. I need to take some footage soon because they're pretty wild projects, never done anything like them before. Already found a bunch of old bottles, shoes, and other stuff dating back to the 1870s that they just threw in the fill back in the day, including some lumber that was charred from the great fire we had here in 1907 when they demolished the old building and built the new one.
Hah where about are you? We have a 100 year old house in Seattle that has half basement, half crawlspace probably because it was good enough and they were sick of digging in the glacial till
@@RileyLabrecque This is Seattle too! One building is in Pioneer Square, built in 1908, and one is right in the busiest part of downtown, built in 1914. One of them is on the National Registry of Historic Places too. You never know what you're going to find digging under Seattle! We did a job in South Lake Union a few years back where we found native arrowheads and all sorts of other stuff, that one got shut down for weeks for the archaeologists to come in and excavate by hand.
That's got to be the most labor intensive thing I've ever seen, damn fine job fellas
Thank you on behalf of all the team! We've all done our time in the trenches!
This was an insane project and hopefully you get some good insight on how we dig out basements from this video !
I'm curious, is this like a $50k project or a $300k project? I have never seen something like this done before. Obviously a lot of variables, but that is a ton of work, hundreds of tons lol.
@@twodogsandtheirfamily This ain't no $50k project and while $300k is a bit high it is much closer to the real cost. In New Orleans, because it is below sea level, there are no basements so they just slide metal beams under the house, lift it up and build a new ground floor. Fairly commonly done - and I'm pretty sure a lot less expensive than this basement!
@DAMIAN WAGNER where in Wisconsin?
Props to the workers. I would have died
You know, you could place steel and shoot structural gunite instead of wasting time with forms.
God bless the United Mexicans of America, it took them only 34 minutes for the whole basement.
😂
This satisfies the inner kid in me. It's like building a fort under the house! Cool!
Haha, Right ! It's pretty fun when it goes smoothly !
I had no idea this was a thing. Now I wanna build a basement under my basement.
everything is a thing now
It's not a basement under a basement, it's same as one half of my house? it didn't have a basement but only a 2 foot crawl space under it but they wanted a full size basement and that required digging the rest out
@@RANS87IROCZ And honestly who ever was the crawl space guy for that house did an absolutely amazing job when making it
To the men that did the work.. Congratulations, that was incredible.
I can appreciate all that went into making that job work, what a talented team
Thank you so much !
We started digging ours 20 years ago with only 24" of headroom from the inside using 5 gallon buckets. Now enough room to fit a large van under the house, had to replace a (now it is 9 1/2' ) structural post. We had to make an area for a sump pit. I can sure appreciate your project. well done. thanks.
Its some hard, brutal work ! Huge congrats to you for going through with it. It's not for the weak heart that's forsure !
What a great job. High degree of difficulty, yet you knock it out of the park! So interesting to watch you complete the project. Great professionalism! Way to go!
Wow! Lot of work, great job!
Thank you !
Always a pleasure to see professionals do a good hard job well, Thank you.
We are glad you enjoyed ! It's been a great experience sharing our craft with the world !
What a great prank to do when they are away on vacation! Dig them a basement.
Ha!!! Only WISHING I could get a prank like that pulled on me!!
How amazing! That dirt seemed endless! Thanks for sharing!
The labour involved is pretty amazing. Great work!
This is amazing!!! I didn’t know this could be done! I’d love to have this done to my home.
Holy cow, I didn't know this was even possible. Where I live they don't build houses without basements. Must have been a staggering amount of labor.
Where do they build houses without basements? Almost the entire West Coast, the largest State. Most of the South, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico. States where the ground doesn't freeze.
These guys are amazing! Wonderful job. Everything was done so carefully!
the sheer amount of detail is mind boggling🤯
My dad did this in the 70's to our 1200sf home. Mostly by himself on weekends. My uncles and grandpa helped some. It took him 3 1/2 years.
It is no easy work and you really do need a crew of 5-7 guys if you want this done in any reasonable amount of time
Man that was so interesting to watch. You guys worked like beavers. We don't have basements in Australia so it was damned interesting. More power to you guys👍
when that person you know calls, "hey you busy this weekend?"
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Super insane job, digging a basement out with shovels, this is talent and organization skills for the contractor, no walls collapse no one was hurt to me successfully completed job 👍
Great job guy’s, it would be nice to see the final product when it’s all done and finished with the interior. 👍
They actually wanted a second story addition, but someone had the plans upside down…
Thats why the blueprint looked funny 🤔
@@GoldsConcrete ahh shit, happens to the best of us
Hell Yea, my friends. You guys kicked ass. Thats a hella lot of work. Great Job!
Very relaxing to "look at"! ( Lot of work) Well oiled machine ! Nailed it right the first time ! I like ! Good job 👍
Surprised this only has 65k views, you guys deserve way more subscribers too! Incredible job!
Thank you for this ! We have a lot more planned to share this year
its the music
1.2 million views and still rising!
You guys did an awesome job. My back started hurting just viewing the video. lol But seriously, I'm looking forward to following your efforts going forward (subscribed). Thank you for sharing.
We appreciate the support ! And trust us, it is not for the weak hearted that's forsure haha
Amazing. It sure is awesome to have a larger team working together!
Mind blowing! I didn't even know this can be done.
Being a Builder myself, I am very impressed with your work!
Also, avg cost of these? Thanks
Thank you so much ! And to answer your question there's a lot of factors that go in to it, but in our area on average the sqft cost for these is $100-120 !
@@GoldsConcrete There's gotta be a whole bunch of "ohh s%&$" factor built in for these!?!
Never Forget! What a great crew and I recognize the hard work you guys did! ...:)...I've been a general contractor here in the philly area for 30 year...I lowered a basement floor ( 2 feet) on a row house, 25 years ago...NEVER AGAIN!...There's easier ways to make money!
It's brutal work forsure but our guys are animals, and they have their shit down. Fast and efficient !
@@GoldsConcrete whats the average cost for a project like this?
@@davidblaney2024 he said it was closer to 300k then to 50k 😊
Agreed!!
@@GoldsConcrete Hard work is good for the soul...It gives you perspective..."Well, at least this is WAY easier than digging out a basement"..."_*
what a crazy effort you did there. Good luck man!!!
By hand, wow! When i had mine done they made a ramp for a small Kubota and it worked a charm. 10'6'' finished basement height, love it.
I can't even imagine the cost of that project, homeowner must really wanted a basement lol, nice work on it!
That's my question, estimated cost for a massive project like this.
My home is 125yrs old. My basement floor was originally dirt and then was concreted. We could use about 2 more feet down. Ceiling is a tad under 7'. It's an English basement.
Go for it!! Start digging. Or hire out and pay $30k - 60k
@@crbradbury8282 I did. I'm having a great time and decided to have a 10' ceiling. After I did 2' I decided to do one more.
Few years back I was dropping off or picking up something (can’t remember what or why) from an old guy. I think it started when I complemented his house and property but he invited me in and gave me a tour and when we got to the finished basement he told 20 or 30 years prior he and his son dug out the basement with shovels and 5 gallon buckets. It was astounding to hear him tell me how it was little more then a crawl space maybe 3 feet deep and when they were done it was 10 feet deep and added about 1000 sqft of living space.
All I can say is WOW!!!!! Beautiful job,great laborers!
Thank you so much, the guys have been working hard lately
I've helped do this before a couple times. It's a rediculous amount of work. Especially the old log cabin one.
Wow... That's amazing! All I was thinking was "I wouldn't wanna do that" and "geepers I wonder how much it costs to do all that!" It's a ton of work but y'all did a great job it looks like!
Thank you so much ! Its some seriously brutal work and not for the weak hearted haha !
@FCLC. I agree those are the main ideas .. but also "Is it worth it"? And "where can those quality hard laborers be found!!?"
Wow. Incredible
Hand digging all that is mad! respect 🇬🇧
It’s definitely a lot easier to build a basement before there’s a house sitting on top of it. It makes me think it would’ve been cheaper and easier to just demolish the house and start from scratch.
The line between the two is getting closer and closer these days with rising prices and the cost of real estate !
I did this once in Wayne NJ around 20 years ago but we used 5 gallon bucket to a conveyor that brought the dirt up to the first floor that got dumped out a window into a dumpster. One of the worst jobs I ever did. Fun when it’s done and you look at what you accomplished I guess.
We have massive respect for you, these jobs are no easy feat and leave you exhausted
This was insane project to watch, the cost of the project must have been huge! And taking out the foundations to dig deeper and then create a pad to make a new support was such an challenge, kudos to you for doing this project.
This was amazing work. Builders really deserve their money.
Wow. So glad this popped up in my recommended. Liked & sub’d. Great crew, excellent work. What an undertaking. The cost must be prohibitive for most homeowners who are thinking about this, but the value added might offset it it? Anyway, it was just amazing to watch. Thank you for sharing!
Welcome aboard! And you'd be right, adding this to the home increases the value, especially in a home like this in the heart of downtown !
This is an absolute incredible job . The labor involved is insane. Great work!! Unsure how this is financially viable for the owners , but just an incredible job!
Thank you !
Hats off been in concrete life 25 years ain't nothing easy about this job you pop up on my KZhead new sub going out on my own this year doing concrete hope you guys have great year.
Thank you ! We appreciate you, much moe to come
This is INCREDIBLE!!
Great job guys! Having a great team that can get down and dirty with serious manual labor is dying out fast!! These guys are hardcore! Half of the people walking this planet couldn’t handle the physical labor those guys endure on a day to day basis! How do I know this you ask? Im in the same line of work as these guys, I’ve seen a lot guys come and a lot guys go. Some just can’t handle it lol Thank you guys for you’re hard work!
Like you said, Most guys can't. We've built up a rough crew of some real men and the work shows. We're not afraid of a little sweat and blood !
Look closely they are latinos (myself included) not afraid of work most Americans wont even imagine doing at any pay rate America needs hard workers so plz dont trash migrants again they aren’t taking your jobs only the ones most wont do
Wish I knew how to do this, I want this done at my home. Willing to do the work, just don't know how to brace the walls from falling before the new foundation walls are up. Great work guys
My dad dug out 4 foot sections around the perimeter and poured the footers and 4 feet of wall at the same time. After that he dug out the center. He did most of it by himself a few hours a day after work and on the weekends my uncle would sometimes help him. It took him 3 1/2 years.
there's tons of basement underpinning youtube videos you can watch and take notes till you get it
Nice job and great follow through on a long tough project
Amazing!
Who can afford something like that !?! That was taking "labor intensive" to a new level.
Can’t believe no skid steer down there. Labor has to be crazy cheap. A good operator a month max. I’m thinking 2-weeks.A ramp on both sides. We’re missing something.
Awesome work, guys! How much does such a project cost??
31:18 really putting confidence into that column that has the texture of a behive
Good observation but the texture of that column has nothing to do with structural integrity
Awesome!!
That’s really amazing work and all by hand as well. I couldn’t imagine the price of that addition. I probably would have relocated. But really excellent work.
In some cases its way cheaper, however there are quite a few benefits in investing in your property like this. Especially downtown !
@@GoldsConcrete Particularly if you don't tell the city about it...😉
They do it in London, sky high real estate prices and historical propterties, only way to expand is down.
@@court2379 You have to get permits, the city will find out.
@@bigredc222 No they won't. Keep your mouth shut, and don't give the neighbors a reason to report you. This job, yeah something that takes months and you are hauling out 100cu m of dirt, you have pretty good odds of get caught. But most jobs are smaller, and not altering the structure much.
Wow 4-7 crew for months on end :O. One question though - so the house was originally supported with stilts on concrete blocks. And seems you remove those one by one and replaced them with longer stilts that were placed directly on dirt. And when the concrete was pursed, the stilts were isolated from the concrete. So how is the house finally supported ? Do the new stilts remain directly on dirt ?
Great question and unfortunately we weren't able to record this part but we do take out those temporary beams and put in the final metal posts which are supported by concrete !
Time lapses like these just make me think of king of the hill... Also amazing work!
This is the definition of "blood, sweat and tears" you guys are amazing 🎉
Thank you ! We appreciate it !
WOW! I will never complain about shoveling five yards of mulch or dirt! Just wondering how long it took to dig out under that house?
Its some brutal work ! And in total this was about 5 months worth of work with a few off weeks
Have you guys ever tried extending the footing down from outside the home? Wondering if getting in there with a backhoe and doing it from the outside would be quicker or cheaper?
They have to dig out for the basement anyway, why do both sides?
@@bigredc222 they could do the foundation retrofit digging with a backhoe and then dig inside with little concern afterward. Could be dumb tho 🤷♂️
@@ethos95 It's easy for us to second guess when we don't know the whole story, I do it all the time, but I tell myself, most people in business know what they are doing, so there must be a reason they did it the way they did it, even if we can't see it.
@@bigredc222 totally agree
0:26, oh yes, bring out the toys, the husquvana cut and break saw, what a god send. Great video!👍👍👍👍!!
Oh, an electric cut-n-break saw! I rented one when I added a walkout entrance to my basement, what a great little machine.
I wish I could do something like that! I have a small house in West Denver, it's 918 sqft. If I could almost double and have more room, that would be awesome! I'm too chicken to go in my crawlspace lol 🤣
It really does make all the difference, its like an entirely new home downstairs ! But trust us when we say its one hell of a process especially as a one man DIY job haha.
If you have a small dog like a rat terrier to take into the crawl space with you it might help.
wondering what you did to re establish footings for outside walls ?? maybe it was shown but hard to tell in fast mode ??
Check out the video where you see the yellow plastic, rebar and then a plywood panel to form up a concrete column. They dug out from under the footing in sections but left large sections of dirt to support the existing footings then formed up concrete columns and when cured removed the those sections of dirt and again formed up concrete columns.
It is a blink and you miss it moment in this, but we do plan on releasing an animated video showing a process for these digouts ! So stay tuned for that
A great effort by all involved. I am very impressed by this.
Thank you ! This means a lot to us
I was getting excited with the title, but having an already floating house standing on sand makes the work so much easier. I'd love my house to have a basement, but it's built entirely on masonry with stone foundations and it's built on very rocky land; doing this would be near imposible.
Dang with the man hours digging this by hand. It would have been easier and probably cheaper to tear the house down and build it back.
Its definitely easier to have the home built with basements from the start haha !
I would really like to know what the cost was for such a massive job, and beautiful work by the way.
Well, he said it took 5 months, and 4-7 people working 5 days a week. So you do the math at $15/hr for labor and average 5 people, you're looking at labor cost of $60k. Then you have materials, markups and all that jazz. I wouldn't be surprised if the homeowner paid $200k for this basement.
@@EricBandholz Company Owner said 150k for this job downtown denver
15$ for heavy manual labor in usa?
@@EricBandholz Do you think that when an employer pays you an hourly rate, that is all it costs the employer ? Did you even take into account, overtime, sickies and Super?
Incredible effort well done 👏
Amazing!!
Can you give a ballpark on square footage and cost? 5 months is a lot of labor.
This job was roughly 1700 sqft and $150,000 by the end of it all
I would have taken apart a mini skid steer and re assembled it in the basement before doing that by hand lol
Just be careful not to suffocate on the fumes ! And we will say the conveyors make a Massive difference. We use a skid steer outside to take the dirt to the trucks.
@@GoldsConcrete hopefully you were already pumping cool air down for the guys.
@@TheWISE67 We always are !
That's the nicest crawl space I've ever seen. Also a great basement.
Its pretty much a whole new house once we're done !
impressive and hard work with nice results. Fantastic
Thanks
WOW....that was amazing....couple questions how did you find and keep the labor and how many sq. Feet did this add to the house? Great job.
Thank you, and great questions. Our guys have done dozens of these digouts so they are pretty proficient at these, not to mention animals at getting it done. And in terms of added square feet it came out to be roughly an additional 1,700 sqft for them !
Well for everyone talking about cost...if my math and internet info is right....per sq. Ft of new construction in Colorado is around 136ish at 1700 sq feet that’s about 230,000ish if I’m correct in some of the posts you said the cost was 150,000ish I know there are a lot of variables but sounds like a great deal for them if they don’t have to go to all the trouble moving and want more space......again nice work
Wow, wow, wow!!
Thank you. Im sorry about your pump. That's horrible. Your videos are just great. I'm a lifetime student of the trade. Your narration explaining the why..behind certain aspects and I especially like the information about multiple tasks being able to commence after the job opens up a bit. To me, it a notch, another something to keep on mind when i try to deliver a quality experience to someone in need of my services.
This is why we do what we do ! We're glad you're able to get something out of these videos !
Great work! Josef Fritzl would be proud of you!
I got blisters watching this video.
🤣🤣🤣
AWESOME VIDEO AWESOME BUILD
I was waiting for Hank and the boys to stop and have a beer 😁👍
So cool
Awesome achievement, impressive 👍👍👍👍
Amazing
WOW!!! I didn’t know this could be done… i’m very much so impressed
Thank you ! We do our best
These the type of channels that keeps me out of KZhead trouble from my foul mouth thanks for the content
Haha we appreciate it ! Glad we could help
This is what my grandparents did with their house way back. But they put it on I beams before the digging started, and then all was done with shovels and wheelbarrows.. It's a sick amount of work, and if possible it's preferrable to put it on beams, move it aside, do the digging with machines, do the basement and then put it back again. But sometimes you can't, and then this what you do.. Awesome video to watch...
Wow!!
Crazy!