Identify Unique Structural Challenges

chicken cou it was never put on the proper footing so as we're digging along these lines we're coming to different areas in the house that were built at different times this wall has absolutely no footing underneath it whatsoever come on this way we're going to show you something even more fun and exciting if you look on this wall you have the water line line coming out come on over here and check this out what you'll typically find is in these constructions they don't pack the soil that goes over the water line so 10 20 50 years it Hollows it the soil compact we're standing on hollowed ground right now and I don't mean hollowed in a good way I mean this floor I can reach my entire arm underneath Hollow so what we've got to do is we've got to take all the sand that we can dig out of this basement and pack back underneath there and try to pack it in place cuz if we dropped a bowling ball right now on this we drop down 12 in you see that when you come across pipes now let's go do another fun area of the house okay so the house this is the drain toown J from H but it's the we love the customer he's standing right behind me turning on the lights for us watching us film this but this is what I want to point up look look at this difference in elevation we've already come up one stair we're going up two more stairs and this portion of the house was obviously built at a different era if I stand up straight and I'm no big man I would easily hit my head but that doesn't mean we don't have water problems in here just because the floor raises up the water still infiltrates into this area we may not be able to connect up with the main system so what we're going to do is we're going to install a separate system in here and see if we can hook up into the main system to do that we have to Jackhammer through his stairs to go into the main line follow me this way we've got one more area that we've got to connect up because the water is permeating throughout the entire basement we've got to come over into this room and capture all of the water that's coming into this area so what we're going to try to do is bring this drain towel system down and around and hook up into the main one and when I say try to do before we know if we can accomplish it or not we've got to make sure all of our elevations are set so that we have a positive pitch like they say crap rolls down Hill that's the same thing we've got to do in this basement is make sure all the water flows down and into one…