How much would it typically cost to have a basement floor removed and the basement dug deeper and re floored.?

Basically I want to raise te ceiling height of a basement. I know it can be done but I am wonder if this is anyones area of work. Give me an idea of price for a 3-4 foot drop in a 600 sqft basement with existing house above.

Answers:
Several years ago we bought a country house wherein the basement had been put in after the house was built back around 1929. There were 3 problems with that (which you might want to consider).

There was no gravel around the base of the home so therefore the walls were damp (you have to have several feet of gravel around the house plus a plastic barrier for the basement to remain dry). the bottom addition (which was added to the height of the crawl space) was built on cement block walls which made a "shelf"..and when it rained then water would come in at the shelf level.

After we moved in the city decided it needed new water and sewer lines which came in from the street, thru the yard and was supposed to come into the house at wall level under ground level. But since the builders didn't allow for that pipe to come thru the cement blocks (they didn't plan ahead) then the only choice there was was to bring the pipe "under the house" and that was a problem because the house sat on shale and stone (plus the bottom layer was cement with no plastic under it) so the drill bit (drilling for the pipe to come thru) broke and it took more time and cost us a lot more money to get accomplished.

I'm thinking that since homes (depending on the size) can be lifted off it's beams ...if you have more land then the house could be lifted and placed on the other land while you build the new basement, then the home replaced (check out the main beams for carpenter ants while you're at it).

Or, find land and put the new basement in, and then pull the home off the beams and put it on top of the new basement...even if the land is just down the street that would be ok too. And then put a top on the old basement and use it for civil defense security to live in or use it for food cold storage.

Other answers:
There is no typical cost because this is not a typical thing to do- Jack the house up, and lay Block on the existing basement wall.
There is no typical cost because this is not a typical thing to do- Jack the house up, and lay Block on the existing basement wall.
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