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Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Hey Guys,  So as many of you may remember my adventures of living through Hurricane Sandy.  We have been back home for 2+ years now and all is well.  The Feds and NY state have a program called NY Rising, which was created to offset damage from future storms and floods to those worst affected.  In other words, they will pay to raise my home.  The process is very cool, and we are still many months away from the project start, lots of planning to do until then.  Basically the house will lifted 8+ feet higher, a new foundation and slab poured and then my current ground level will be a 2000+ sq foot man cave and garage.  I can improve the base level, but technically its not living space and they won't pay a dime if any flood damage occurs to any contents on that level.  I don't see it as being a issue at all,  aside from Sandy there has never been a flood in my area in modern history.  All i have to do is get enough Birds to fill the new garage!








1983 FORD THUNDERBIRD HERITAGE 5.0
2008 SAAB 9-7X AERO 6.0 (LS2) 1 0f 554 Made
2011 FORD FLEX SEL Family Hauler

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #1
Sweet. I wish I could get my basp00get redone! It's just an 1860s sandstone boulder-hole, lol. I can't do anything down there anyway.
CoogarXR : 1985 Cougar XR-7

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #2
Very cool!  Definitely post pics!
1986 Mercury Cougar - 2.3T/T5 swap, TC brakes and suspension and rearend, 3" exhaust, 255 lph fuel pump, Stinger BOV, Gillis MBC @ 18 psi
2003 Chevy Suburban Z71 - Daily driver
2015 Chevy Volt - Wife's daily driver

 

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #3
Hey congrats! Now that I've moved back East that kind of stuff has been on my mind. I remember seeing this on tv:

https://www.extremevehicleprotection.com/

Maybe kinda gimmicky? And doesn't seem to have any real-world reviews. But I'll probably give it a shot at some point as a plan B if flooding happens and I can't get the cars to high ground.
1984 Cougar Convertible
1988 Cougar XR-7

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #4
My basp00get walls are caving in...this house was built '79 (that's 1979, not 1879!), and it was built cheaply by my tightwad grandparents.

The cheapest estimate I've gotten is 41K to raise the house, knock down all 4 sides and take out the slab, and have all new poured. Of course, the walls now are something like 5", today's code calls for at least 6"....so, and yeah, concrete isn't cheap. Estimate doesn't cover that.

I'll probably be moving. My dad and his sister can do shag-all with this place.

Sad thing is, my kids would've been the third generation to grow up here....that does hurt, but oh well.
'84 Mustang
'98 Explorer 5.0
'03 Focus, dropped a valve seat. yay. freakin' split port engines...
'06 Explorer EB 4.6

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #5
Quote from: Loaded87IROC;457073
Very cool!  Definitely post pics!
I will dospoogeent this one in pics for sure!

Quote from: 4thqtr;457074
Hey congrats! Now that I've moved back East that kind of stuff has been on my mind. I remember seeing this on tv:

https://www.extremevehicleprotection.com/

Maybe kinda gimmicky? And doesn't seem to have any real-world reviews. But I'll probably give it a shot at some point as a plan B if flooding happens and I can't get the cars to high ground.

That would have saved millions of dollars in damages from a quick inundation like Sandy.

Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;457083
My basp00get walls are caving in...this house was built '79 (that's 1979, not 1879!), and it was built cheaply by my tightwad grandparents.

The cheapest estimate I've gotten is 41K to raise the house, knock down all 4 sides and take out the slab, and have all new poured. Of course, the walls now are something like 5", today's code calls for at least 6"....so, and yeah, concrete isn't cheap. Estimate doesn't cover that.

I'll probably be moving. My dad and his sister can do shag-all with this place.

Sad thing is, my kids would've been the third generation to grow up here....that does hurt, but oh well.

That sucks man, I'm sorry that you have to deal with that grief. I know too well how that feels.








1983 FORD THUNDERBIRD HERITAGE 5.0
2008 SAAB 9-7X AERO 6.0 (LS2) 1 0f 554 Made
2011 FORD FLEX SEL Family Hauler

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #6
Sandy was bad...anything below grade was definitely a 50/50 shot.
1987 20th Anniversary Cougar, 302 "5.0" GT-40 heads (F3ZE '93 Cobra) and TMoss Ported H.O. intake, H.O. camshaft
2.5" Duals, no cats, Flowmaster 40s, Richmond 3.73s w/ Trac-Lok, maxed out Baumann shift kit, 3000 RPM Dirty Dog non-lock TC
Aside from the Mustang crinkle headers, still looks like it's only 150 HP...
1988 Black XR7 Trick Flow top end, Tremec 3550
1988 Black XR7 Procharger P600B intercooled, Edelbrock Performer non-RPM heads, GT40 intake AOD, 13 PSI @5000 RPM. 93 octane

Lifting my house, and not with bare hands!

Reply #7
i have a slightly sloped grade of about 3' to 4' under my house.  I have a plan to dig a basp00get out and do wall, but its a real long term project doing it by myself.
low profile bob cat would do the trick.