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[quote=Anonymous]We moved the basement stairs and it was $$$. We had to have an architect and engineer draw up plans and calculate the load. We had to cut through one of the steel beams in the house to turn the stairs. We had to then have all these extra footers dug into the basement floor to support the load since we cut the beam.

Still worth it to us. Almost every single person comments on how useable our basement is. Many have the same builder and style of house as they're neighbors. Previously we would have had the stairs turned to go to the back of the basement and then you'd have to have a hallway and walk to the front (where the doors are and the family room area is). Now our stairs just open into our basement great room. We have a long rectangle room, with no weird hallways.

We had a 100k basement remodel, but dh's family owns a construction company and did it for 1/3 that. We did a lot of the work ourselves, but none of that was the beam cutting/architect/new footer work.[/quote]

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