Basement Renovation Project
We have been watching the basement renovation project at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt8Q3XIS1DE
This project came about after the existing basement room walls collapsed after several years of heavy rain. Above the south wall looking at the right side of the video supported an existing outside concrete deck that had several large cracks which eventually allowed the rain water to seep into the basement.
A similar problem happened on the north wall. The rain eventually pushed the dirt from underneath the footings (left side of the video). Since then we have shored up the south wall with 900 feet of re-bar plus 30 yards of concrete. The south wall seems to be watertight and now we are working to shore up the east and north walls.
In addition we are re-setting the support posts since they originally were attached to a 2-3 inch slab. Instead these new posts will have a pad of 3ft x 3ft with a key of 2ft x 3ft and re-bar will then run from the notched out footing (key) up through the poured posts which should show up in the next video uploaded.