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.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    LOL, my dad and I did that to turn our crawl space into a 6ft tall basement. That was something. You’re in my book for free beer if I had any.

    • combomeal@lemmy.zipOP
      4·
      3 days ago

      What a bonding experience lol. Very cool. That’s a lot work going from a crawl space to a basement.

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        3·
        3 days ago

        Don’t ask me how’s my back today. That was many years ago. Also I forgot the number of times I hit the top of the crawl space basement door hole… Because I hit it pretty hard.