Low Ceilings!?! We RAISED the ENTIRE HOUSE!
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- The first level of our 1940s lake house was way to short. Coming in at only 6’8” and 6’0” under the beam. To make this ceiling an appropriate height we decided to lift the entire second level and add 2ft to the foundation. While doing that we also cut in bigger windows and patio doors as well as strengthening the foundation itself before setting it back down. This was such a cool process and in this video I go over all the steps.
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Honestly with the amount of structural issues you showed (rotting wood, lack of cement reinforcement/rebar), this project was just as much a necessity as a nice thing to have!
Very true!
Looks like they replaced much of the floor joists too. That's a lot of work
I did the same thing to my house but also moved it over three feet . Me and my wife lived in the house while doing this and actually felt the house rocking while sleeping . This was almost 20 years ago and looking back what the heck was I thinking ! Good luck it's a fun project .
Holy crap! That’s insane!
How did you perform the lateral movement?
After the house was raised to the desired height we placed sets of steel rollers on top of the cribbing. The steel i-beams that supported the floor joists just rolled across the steel rollers with a little push from a skid steer. These rollers came in a steel case approx 12''wide by 18'' long with a set of maybe 12 steel rollers approx 3/4'' x 12'' long spaced 1/2'' apart .If you can weld you can make your own . @@jason_paulin
@@rogueengineerwhen I had my house jacked up I was living in it until I got the foundation built . The bats would fly up the open staircase and round and round while I was watching TV . 👍🇨🇦
When I was a kid my dad moved our house on two car trailers about 350ft. The house was at risk of sliding off the hill in it's original location. It was super sketch. I remember helping with the plumbing once it was on the new foundation.
In the U.K. we call them mobile homes! 😁
The author does like to from scratch, ruclips.net/user/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
Having worked with my father in concrete work back in the late 70’s we have had to go in to at least 20 houses and remove collapsed cinder blocks walls that failed from hydrostatic pressure from failed downspout drainage systems. Personally after installing solid concrete walls for a builder on at least 30 of his homes there has never been an issue will walls failing. We would do the necessary jacking and or supporting of a home that suffered a collapsed wall. Yes it is a Very funny feeling working under a home supported by timber and hydraulic jacks. Glad I listened to my old man, got my degree in Architecture. All of my home designs specify concrete walls with the extra height to begin with so the homeowner has full height of his basement should he want to finish it.
Great job! However using a concrete saw with no mask,water, eye or ear protection is crazy!
Like you said, at the end of the video, be safe!
And that polyurethane sealant/construction adhesive might be the wrong caulking for the seal plate.
It's okay, safety squints were engaged!
ill never understand how ppl dont use proper ppe.
Wow! As I young architect from Europe I really appreciate this video to show the process.
I work mostly in architectural design, so unfortunately my on-site experience is very limited. I decided to watch as much videos about construction, structural, methods, materials, for renovations and such less about design more about the onsite process.
I find your channel very interesting, I subbed and looking forward for the next videos!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for not making me watch 30 videos to see this process. More videos should be like this!
This is the ONLY way to get a 2nd story when the original structure's walls and joists can't support the added load. It's fairly common in the San Francisco Bay where many of the tiny bungalows are worth jacking up and installing a new lower level.
That makes sense!
Not the only way. Might be the easiest.
@rogueengineer what's your position on bench footings/underpinning? This house kinda seems like it'd be an ideal candidate since half of its on a slope. We do this in canada where we got century brick masonry style homes sitting on stone since there's no jacking anything like that up lol😅
I've seen these lifts and moves before, but you gents were beasts! Nice work!
Thank you!
Wow that's great looking
So many people lift the house to the height of a normal door, and forget about the lintel above it. As pipes of "U shape or S shape" plumbing will be protruding downwards, out of the floor above, another foot (300mm) of headroom will be needed.
We had a second house on the gulf coast with 7 foot ceilings and I always told my wife I could do this. We ended up losing it in a hurricane but I am with you!
Sorry to hear that. But I guess you can rebuild with higher ceilings now!
Surprisingly since the old blocks were not filled or reinforced it did allow you to tie everything together with concrete and rebar. Great Job, btw!
I was looking for that too. How was footing rebar added/ tied to rest of the vertical rebar?
Impressive. Great to understand considerations vs. Cost
Glad you liked it!
We are doing a project in canada Toronto and truly appreciated for this video. I have my own expertise, but this video will help to life the church 1 feet higher than before.
Thanks alot.keep up to date good work brother ❤subscribed!🙏✌️👇👇👇👍💯💰💰
Great job! You video is really informative!
I did the same thing by myself with 10 bottle jacks - 22' x 32' raised 22 inches
Thank you for explaining how twisting of the house is avoided
Love house lift/ move projects! Keep ‘em coming!
Great work!👍
We used trucks with 10ft boon with a winch 60ton to pick house's up.
whoa, that was amazing. i've never seen that done before.
Thank you!
Love this series. Its always going to be good when you say your lifting the house.
So true! Thank you!
It looked like in your situation for the most part all the electrics came down from upstairs and all you had to disconnect was the plumbing and furnace.
I’m curious why not build a stub wall on top of the existing foundation??
Neighbours of ours did similar, they jacked up the house and put a proper foundation under it with a full basement and lived in the house while they were doing the work.
Just the day they were jacking it up was the only time they couldn’t be inside.
This is amazing!
That is probably the most interesting video I have ever seen! It was so easy to watch and everything looked like it went seamlessly. It was actually a bit scary but very interesting. I know this is a second home for you guys, but did you really know you were going to have to do this? Can't wait for the next video! That caulking set up was great, have you done a video of that?
Thank you so much! I was a bit nervous as well! We thought about it but figured it was out of the budget. Luckily it wasn't as much as I initially thought and we figured we would go for it! I have not done a complete video of that but figured it was something worth including as most people don't think of these things.
Totally off the wall incredible as I had never seen anything like that before. Looking forward to your next video. Happy Holidays to you & your family! 👍👍🌲🌲
Thank you! It was a first for us as well and I can't wait to tackle the rest!
With Ryobi tools? Damn these guys go hard
Millau Viaduct, France is awesome example of computer controlled jacking
Fun watching.....tHanks for the video.
(I've done add a level additions .....lots of interesting work but have yet to lift a house. Great video)
Thank you!
This completely makes sense to me, but I simply did not know this process existed. Neat.
They did this with entire blocks of Chicago back in the day (1850s) when they had to add sewers. It's called the Raising of Chicago. If this video interests you, check out out. It's astounding!
Strong work boys!
Love how the work was set to a rockys training montage melody lol
Damn! Such an impressive effort here
amazing I always heard of this being done but never seen it this was great
nobody talks about using ryobi when dude is lifting up the whole freaking house 😂😂😂😂 lol sick video
This was fascinating, thanks for sharing. No idea this was even a possibility.
6:20 Dude using the vape pen as his only PPE will have silicosis by 40.
Don't know if anyone else has ever said it but I thought Ben Affleck got a new gig while I was watching. Very informative content, keep up the good work.
😂😂😂 thank you!
Comparing @0:22 with @12:15 I'd say you made a few hundred thousand dollar difference in value! Very worthy back yard :)
If I was interested in getting this done for my house, who should I call? We just bought a 1950s Ranch style house that has a very low ceiling in an unfinished basement. I would love to add a bedroom and bathroom down there. Thank you for the help!
I would agree that block is the right way to extend a foundation, but I have seen it done with 2x6 or 2x8 framing and drywall plus insulation to fill the gap. They reused the J-bolts in the top to hold everything to the original walls. Either way, quite the project.
Unless I’m not understanding what you’re describing properly that sounds like a major hinge point wich if there is very much backfill pressure could be a problem.
@@MichaelHoffer-qd2qx we're talking about raising a house to gain headroom but not raising the ground level. The soil stays where it is, and any wood / farming is well above the ground. IOW, the soil is well below the existing ground, where the foundation has been for decades already!
It being a solid continuous wall to the floor system is because it being tied to the floor system is what’s holding the backfill out
@@MichaelHoffer-qd2qx Good point but adding rebar and filling the cores just makes the wall stronger. We didn't see enough in this video to know if that first row of block is actually tied into the slab / footing. Hopefully it is.
The top course of new block should be bond beam with #4 bar and 5/8” foundation bolts.
Maybe the guys told you how much the house weighs, based on hydraulic pressure and all that stuff... Nice work. This is as amazing as a video I saw from Chile, where they push the house into the sea, it starts floating (which is the craziest part), and then they tug it with boats to the new location and put it back on land...
Thank you! Thats insane!
Have u ever jacked up a house where someone has forgotten to disconnect from a water line or an electrical line. Just curious
The sill sealer also prevents any moisture from the cinder blocks getting into the sill plates and rotting them out.
Love it - my man at 6:20 with no gloves, no mask, no eyes or ears, let’s have a smoke……
I'm just happy to see ryobi on a jobsite.
Good job
Great video, very interesting to see the process
Thank you!!
What needed to be done to all the mechanical aspects before you raised the house? Plumbing,hvac,electrical, gas etc.
Anything that passed from the lower level to the upper level needed to be disconnected. The electrical panel was attached to the floor joists so it could go up with the house. All HVAC was removed and gas and plumbing remained with the first level.
I don't know if it was zoned for this, but I would have lifted the house a good 20 feet and built another story. Then I would have enough space to put two more units in there and make a lot of rent money.
I love this kind of work and this kind of content I've had to do this on my own house. I did it myself. It's a very old home, though, balloon framed, so I can't lift it by the floor alone. I have cribbing up against the foundation in my basement as well, except I set mine on a shallow layer of sand to spread the load out more and to take up the inconsistencies in the laughable "floor" finish. I use ibeam under the joists as you did, and outside I have to take the wall apart. I use heavy C channel there up against the exposed studs, and I run temporary king studs next to each existing stud from the underside of the top plate down to the c channel. My jacking and supporting arrangement lifts the inside i beam and the outside c channel together as a unit. in my case this is all to replace the sill because of termite damage.
I use steel shores (screw jacks) and bottle jacks with screw jack supports
Sounds like you got it figured out!
Totally jealous 😍
Just guessing here. That looks like approximately 700 to 800 sq.ft. house. Would love to hear if I am close to correct on that. In my youth, it was quite common to see houses being hauled down the road. About 15 years ago one of my neighbors moved their house due to highway widening project. It was only about 5 years old at that time.
Really cool to watch!!
Came up with a wicked good drinking game. Take a drink every time he says “beam” lol
This is a great video!
Wait I am confused. I live on Long Island where they raid houses all the time. Isn’t is supposed to sit there for at least a year and no other work gets done ?
Seems to me like this “coordination” between the trades is some sort of witchcraft.
Very cool lift… I was a little surprised by the two new large openings without the kind of seismic engineered framework I’m used to seeing required. That wall looks like it’s shear strength might be a little sketchy for a foundation story, but maybe that’s not as much of an issue in lower seismic risk areas?
Thanks! Yea pretty low risk around here and that wall is filled solid with concrete and plenty or steel.
Mike Holmes would be happy to see this. 😉
I was amazed there wasn’t any electrical, piping, or plumbing to disconnect.
Oh there was. I did that all prior to this
Quite a job! Well done and well documented! I'm curious though, how did you go about connecting the lifted structure down to the sill plate? It was hard to see in the video but Im assuming you had a clever way of tying it down? TIA
Thank you! That will get toe nailed or hurricane ties installed where toe nailing is not possible.
you still have wires attached to the house from an above ground utility pole
this is actually insane, wonder how expensive this is
About 20k
@@rogueengineer that's not too bad considering the scale of the job
Cost???
About 20k all said and done.
It's interesting for sure. I'm curious about the cost vs benefit. How much did the value increase? Also, were there any other cheaper options?
I'm not a professional appraiser but I'd say this job probably cost in the neighborhood of 10-12k with all the trimmings. Instead of being a low ceiling walkout basement, it is now a 2 car garage. Probably added 20-25k in value. It makes the house more attractive to buyers especially if the property is small with limited parking availability.
@@DodgecityhorseThat's not bad at that price. I would think about twice that price but I have no idea.
@@HousesandCars sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze.
@@Dodgecityhorse just the materials cost 10-12k
I have a house that is on block walls and going to build on a 3rd floor I had them come out and look they said if I want to fill the block I could the Engineer said since every wall down in the basement was block wall I good to go
What was the cost for for the company to come out and lift and lower only, not including the other work?
I knew you could dig out a basement, but this is next level lol. how much???
About 20k
Why not pre-build the mid lift sections from lumbar and bring those to site? Far quicker obviously…
That would make a hinge point and he’s already stiffening his wall that was failing from backfill pressure as it was.
I think I missed whether the guys were able to bolt it down to the foundation?
They did not use anchor bolts at all. Used the Simpson brackets, which my Building Code would not accept unless signed off by a PEng.
Lots of people can pass that test, what did he prove
I had no earthly idea this was an option for houses with low basement ceilings. Like everything though... it sounds prohibitively expensive. I see this is for a lake house, so... yeah, expensive. Neat as hell though.
may have been asked already but how is the house attached to the sil plate?
Wow! Not sure how this popped up in my feed, but glad it did. That was scary and amazing at the same time. My mind is boggled that people can raise a second story of a home.
I would like to know more details about how you pieced together the sill and seal in the areas where the steel beams rested. Did you do anything extra to secure the rim to the joists before the lift. This is not the way the building structure was designed to carry loads. Did you have any issues with cracks in the walls upstairs afterwards? How much did the house lift cost and how much for the foundation work. Where is this job located?
How much was budgeted just for the lift? Not including new block and all that, just kind of curious as you don't see this done that much lol.
why does everyone run demo saws without a respirator...
Good question. I don’t like the idea of it either.
Are you going to use steel ties to tie your joists to your new sill plate?
Yes
I guess my grandfather did this to a house over a few decades ago. My question is, at what point does it make more sense to just tear it all down and build a new house?
We are not far off but it still financially makes sense to renovate due to the high cost of building nowadays. not to mention the fact that rebuilding would require relocating the house due to new zoning guidelines.
What is the purpose of raising the house?
Pros make it look easy. No hard hats rated for 50,000 pounds of crush force? 🤔
😂 not that I’m aware of
I was going to have the house lifted to pour a basement and foundation. Turns out the house is four entirely separate eras of construction! It can't be lifted as a single house! (One portion wasn't even built properly. They took the shingles off and nailed the new portion to the outside of the house!!!) 🤦🤦🤦🤦
8:43 as long as you aren't wearing ruby slippers, you should be fine
Nice job boys, love to see real work being done. Not the bs architects or engineers that know nothing about real building.
How did you attach the floor joists to the sill plate?
How do you reconnect it
What is the cost to raise a house roughly? Is it cheaper to dig it out or raise it? Thanks
Mine in Ontario was $12,500, and got a higher quote for $20,000.
Dang, that was amazing to watch. But how much does that cost? For just 2 ft of clearance? Worth it?
Thanks! It cost about 20k all in. Was it worth it? Debatable but to us yes. This will be the main level with kitchen and living room. 6’ of clearance below the beam just wasn’t enough and since we were going through the trouble of redoing everything else, it made sense to us to do it right
@@rogueengineer I figured way more than $20k. Nice change!
What part of the country are you located?
What is the cost to do this, and how long does it take?
Really nice video! Music and speaking volumes were really different.
Music loud ,speaking normal.
Thank you
Question. Jack up the house and dig down 4 feet of dirt to redo the foundation. Which one is cheaper, better and faster? Thanks!
Are you asking for yourself? What and where is the issue with the foundation?
Decisions are always specific to the house and the lot and the local regs ...
If you dig down 4 feet ... where does that leave your lower level entrances and exits?
How much did it all cost?
Thats not cinder block (fly ash). Those are steam cured CMU's
Stairs?
If not filling the block makes a weak wall why didn't you fill every course of the new block?
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I have an old 16'x24' cabin on piers with a tiny 18" crawlspace at one corner but almost 4' on the opposite side. Would something like this be a good solution to try and get a partial basement?
Something like that was done near me and the guys hand dug a basement. Took them about 6 months, while living in the place at the same time. In a nutshell, they used heavy timbers and supported each corner diagonally, then built a pyramid with block to support that corner. Gradually each pyramid was made wider till they met in the middle.... one side at a time. When it was done, they leveled the dirt floor and poured concrete to finish that. I thought it was an odd way to do it, but the end result was lots of sweat equity and a decent looking job. In the end they reused the timbers and jack posts to level the floors in the 150 year old house, from the basement.