Hopefully ill get to help dig the basement of the second largest house in Ohio

[MikeMike]

just smaller than the house of the late Al Lerner (now owned by his wife) which is about 33K square feet iirc.

the house we will be digging is a 17 coarse basement (13' high) and im figuring about 28K square feet.

it will be owned by a wolstein son, whose father was well known and donated tons of money to CWRU.

lets just say, when its gunna take a full week to dig a basement, thats huge. it took us 1.5 days to dig a 14 coarse 7300 square foot basement through 8" of shale at the bottom.



its big and big and BIG. way to big for me, but whats 20 million.

 

[djpolstee]

i hope you've got a back hoe or something more than a shovel

 

[mugs]

uh... ok.

 

[loup garou]

I understood about 3 words in that post...LOL.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: djpolstee
i hope you've got a back hoe or something more than a shovel

eh, we have two of them.

one 120 and one 200. (12 and 20 metric tons)

now a shovel, that would be fun. but i will get to shovel some dirt.

 

[icejunkie]

Originally posted by: djpolstee
i hope you've got a back hoe or something more than a shovel

I'd definitely need a hoe after that much digging 😛

 

[nageov3t]

second largest house in ohio... so we're looking at what?

2 doublewides glued together? 😛 jk

 

[hypn0tik]

Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

 

[The Sauce]

I didn't realize that trailers had basements.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

:Q

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
...

lets just say, when its gunna take a full week to dig a basement, thats huge. it took us 1.5 days to dig a 14 coarse 7300 square foot basement through 8" of shale at the bottom.



its big and big and BIG. way to big for me, but whats 20 million.

Only a week from was said...

 

[Shooters]

For those of us who live in places where there aren't any basements, can you explain what "x coarse" means.

 

[amdskip]

Do take pics please.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
...

lets just say, when its gunna take a full week to dig a basement, thats huge. it took us 1.5 days to dig a 14 coarse 7300 square foot basement through 8" of shale at the bottom.



its big and big and BIG. way to big for me, but whats 20 million.

Only a week from was said...

you will see a hole. compared to no hole

thats all we do. we dig a big hole, then they come and put up the block and pour it, and then we downspout it and backfill it (unless it needs inspected, then we backfill it after the downspout inspection) and then they build the house, then we do a rough grade, then we finish grade it after everything is done (our job is fully complete), then it gets landscaped etc.

a house that large is 5 years or so, Al Lerners house was over 1.5 years of just dirt hauling, we didnt dig that one though.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Shooters
For those of us who live in places where there aren't any basements, can you explain what "x coarse" means.

how many block high it is going to be. 1 block = 1 coarse.

normaly 8" block.

 

[Shooters]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: Shooters
For those of us who live in places where there aren't any basements, can you explain what "x coarse" means.

how many block high it is going to be. 1 block = 1 coarse.

normaly 8" block.

Oh, I see.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Shooters

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: Shooters
For those of us who live in places where there aren't any basements, can you explain what "x coarse" means.

how many block high it is going to be. 1 block = 1 coarse.

normaly 8" block.

Oh, I see.

but sometimes 12"

 

[BigToque]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

It took 2 years to tear down a huge department store and build a 15,000 seat arena in my city. How could it take 5 years to build a house?

 

[Kindjal]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
its big and big and BIG. way to big for me, but whats 20 million.

Not to knock Ohio (as I currently reside there) but if I was going to build a $20 million dollar home it would not be in Ohio.

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: Stefan

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

It took 2 years to tear down a huge department store and build a 15,000 seat arena in my city. How could it take 5 years to build a house?

I think they use larger crews for building a city structure than for a private house but I could be wrong 😉

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Stefan

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

It took 2 years to tear down a huge department store and build a 15,000 seat arena. How could it take 5 years to build a house?

to build the outside of the house your talking about a month maybe, a house that size is gigantic.

heres the differences.

thestadium prolly had a union crew working on it, and prolly ahd about 30 ppl or more. we have 7.

stadium prolly had a time limit.

we dont have one specifically.

the stadium didnt require a septic system, basement, driveway, (2500-3000 ft driveway) graded out so as to make the house look like it belongs.

they prolly had scrapers to level the place out.

there are a ton of differences.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Stefan

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Show us some pics. Before and after the digging.

you are talking 5 years from now between start and finish grade.

It took 2 years to tear down a huge department store and build a 15,000 seat arena in my city. How could it take 5 years to build a house?

You have never seen women choose paint colors?

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Kindjal

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
its big and big and BIG. way to big for me, but whats 20 million.

Not to knock Ohio (as I currently reside there) but if I was going to build a $20 million dollar home it would not be in Ohio.

eh, he grew up around here, has ties in places around here, and 20 million will get you MUCH more house and land here than in any other well populated area.

 

[dug777]

MIKE!

😉 i missed doing that 😀