I've looked around, but all I can find is people wanting to add a walkout basement after the fact. This is different.My deck is clearly going to need replaced. My wife and I had kicked around the idea of a 3 seasons porch. Iowa winters don't allow for 4 seasons.However, we also have a walk-out from the finished basement. Therefore, my plans are to shorten the new deck and run it to the end of the house. Then put an under-deck roof in and enclose the patio.The deck obviously has to go from the upper door to over the lower door to achieve this. What I'd like to do is dig out the sloping grade back to that corner. I'm thinking a hot tub back in that corner would be pretty bad ass.Now for the questions: Is that dirt possibly providing any exterior wall support? What do I need to look into to verify that it is/isn't? And most importantly, on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being replacing a faucet and 10 being adding a post-build basement, how crazy is this?Here is what I am looking at.For reference, I'm an engineer, currently adding a basement bathroom basically from scratch (there was a toilet drain), and time is not an issue. via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2wIEQfk
