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.
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.