Thanks to everyone for your responses! I really thought this was just a
goofball idea that I thought up in my head. But, based on the responses, I
guess it's do-able and not too far-fetched of an idea. I'm really thinking
about it for the ranch-style house because it seems like such a waste to
have a 4-foot high crawl space under the whole house, when I could have a
full basement instead.

"LCD3" wrote in message
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Okay, I'm just daydreaming here, but I was wondering if anyone has a rough
idea of what it costs to jack up a house that is approximately 25 feet by
40
feet.

Here's the daydreaming part -- I was wondering about the possibility of
jacking up a house to add enough more rows of cinder block to the
foundation
as a way of changing a 4-foot high crawl space to an actual basement. The
crawl space already has a concrete floor. The idea would be to change
what
is now a ranch style home into raised ranch style home, and create a whole
new basement level usable area.

I was thinking about something similar with another home I own, but that
one
already has a basement and it seems like it would cost les to have the
basement dug out a foot or so than to jack up the whole house by a foot.