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Basement Construction Time Lapse

by Shawn @ 5:59 pm · filed under House Stuff

I threw together a time lapse of the basement being built. The end of it is today, when they took all the forms off the basement walls and we actually have freestanding concrete walls. Now for the waterproofing of the walls... :)

The movie runs through 4 hours per second. The resolution is a bit lame, but hey... can't keep YouTube from down sampling it.


13 Responses to “Basement Construction Time Lapse”

  1. Ben Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

    Cool, you finally did it!
    Now, it would be cool if you could post a “how to” so I can do the same thing when I build my own castle in France ;-)

  2. yelena Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    that is so cool! now can you fast forward it till the house is finished??

  3. Patrick Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

    That can’t be your house. It’s too small, looks like you could fit only 2 or 3 of that white truck in there, but I could just have bad judgement.

  4. Shawn Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

    Ben - it’s easy… get one of these cameras, mount it in a dome and then use my spiffy PHP class to control it on a schedule.

    Then use Quick Movie to stitch the images together into a movie. :)

  5. Shawn Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    Patrick - That’s the basement, not the whole house (the basement does not have the same floor plan as the first floor).

  6. Tom C. Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

    Sweeeeeeeeeeet! cool stuff!!

  7. yfs1 Says:
    September 20th, 2006 at 8:45 am

    Yeah, it’s OK i Guess
    Though if you added some Benny Hill music it would be AWESOME!

  8. stefan Says:
    September 20th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    haha…benny hill music would be perfect.

    This is exciting stuff….lets play poker in the basement this weekend…

  9. Mark Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm

    This is off topic, but I thought you would especially enjoy it, Shawn:

    http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/9/20lloyd.html

    Mark

  10. Derek Clarke Says:
    September 22nd, 2006 at 4:50 pm

    Definately needs the Benny Hill music!

  11. Frank Lamb Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 5:12 am

    How about a live feed of the house site, some of us have nothing better to do you know. I think http://www.stickam.com will let you broadcast a live feed for free.

  12. Shawn Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 10:08 am

    There is a live feed, but it’s not public. :)

  13. Christy Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Very cool! So am I crazy to want a basement. The architect just told us it could cost $800k for just the basement. Any tips? Please email me directly if you do have some advice!

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