On Nov 25, 3:13*pm, (heimdm) wrote:
I live in a good size ranch house (40ft by 90ft). We bought the house on a
short sale so we got a really good price on it. However, despite all the
square footage there is no place to put a tv room or home theatre or a
game room. The crawlspace is about 3.5-4ft deep depending on the part you
are in. We are considering having it dug out. Right now we have block
walls, and I was thinking of when they dig it out have them replace the
blocks with pours walls. Is this possible?

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Anything is possible. but how do you compact it, and how are they
going to form and remove the outside form. I dug mine out and used
block, How deep is the wall foundation. Its no simple cheap job to do
it right. If you cant drive a bobcat down inside you get it hand dug.
You have to be extremely carefull keeping the house standing and level
as walls are removed, maybe leave the original support wall and build
a foundation and wall inside the present support, have fun figuring it
out.