Andy, you need to keep an eye in your garden since some rascal has sneaked in there and rebuilt the old rotten garden shed you took down a few episodes ago ;)
I can highly reccomend a rain collection system for your rainwater drains. The costs pay off quickly as you don‘t have to use drinking water to water the lawn or plants in the garden. Were I live it is common to use the collected rain water for flushing the toilet. This requires a separate circut of pipes in the house though.
Oh the rain 😣 that always happens! I remember digging out the collapsed trenches just before the pour, that wasn't fun. Them bluebells will look nice next year
Get a load of sand put over your clay mix in some organics and with a Rotivator mix it all up you'll eventually end up with lovely "Loam" the best sort of growing soil.
Native Americans reputedly had a "rain dance" for use in a drought. If I find any reference to an "Anti-Rain-Dance" I'll send it along. Just as you did for the carpeting people, you prepared everything meticulously for the brick folks. Your contractors must love you, and hopefully that will have its effect on their bill.
Cheers Bob! Yes, could really do with the anti-rain-dance right now 😂. Thank you! It's all in the preparation and as you'll see soon it resulted in our bricky building the entire extension in 13 days. Amazing!
Last year I planned some work on my house. Mainly a totally new kitchen with a new roof on that part of the house, and a totally new bathroom. The day the roofers were supposed to start, torrential rain, so we had to weather watch for 2 weeks 🤣. The day after the kitchen was gutted back to the brickwork, the country went into lockdown for the first time. So the builders had to rush around getting materials. Eventually the kitchen was done. Bathroom is duly gutted later in the year, and yep,the country went into lockdown again. I'm not risking any more large work 🤣🤣
Omg, we're doing almost the same at the same time! Took 50 tonnes of stuff out, 500 blocks 2500 bricks etc etc in, into the back garden, all by hand though! Quite a bit of demo and clearing. ...and I had to bail out the slab 'pond' a few times. Now on the roof and enjoying our December weather! The joys of building!
I get knackered just watching you lot! Was doing a gig in a pub in Edinburgh the other week and I was wearing "Drink coffee ..." t shirt. Woman came up and said she enjoyed the evening, and then said; brilliant t-shirt too. Great taste or member of your family? Keep up the good work. We're learning loads.
Wow, that is amazing. You have dug out so much soil but I suppose that's what you have to do to prepare for the foundations. That little dumper truck is pretty awesome as well.
@@GosforthHandyman I wondered if something like that would happen, must have been a bit unnerving. I worked out where the house is in the first video (I like exploring google earth!), but can't say I had the urge to turn up and bother you!
More great content. 👍 I had similar rain with our side/front extension. Instead of a pump though I had 2 buckets on ropes and got daughter's to bail it out😂 I'd best not show them there are pumps to do the same job😭 Had a collapse too between next doors(1m away) I was in a right panic thinking there garage was moving into our dig. 🤣🤣
Good update Andy - I feel your pain with the weather. Was tempted to say it might be useful to construct a bund at the end of the garden using the crap and clay you need to get rid of as a ‘flood defence’ but thinking about it - if any of the neighbours did not do similar it would be a waste of time.😉👍
Both you and Mrs Mc are grafters Andy..... another job well done, despite the atrocious inclement weather. Those lifts that raise the rebar and mesh are apparently called 'chairs' according to Tom Hause (of Concrete With The Hauses fame - great channel).... Hope it continues to go well.
Awesome vlog Andy and well done so far bless you dealing with the weather over the last few weeks Its going to look very nice once its all done. Loving the series so far. Keep safe buddy.
@@GosforthHandyman hi there. Silly question.. What is that machine called 🙈🙈🙈, and where can I hire it from. I need to get that for our project and can't make out in the video if you mentioned what it's called. I've only just found you on UA-cam and have already spent hours watching your videos. Thank you for sharing such helpful info
Excellent! I’ve just watched the whole build so far over the past few days and my gosh what a big job you’ve taken on! Hats off to you mate you’re doing great work 👍
Would a mine cart or something be helpful if you're carrying so much? Colin Furze recently built one. Also, do you have a recycling centre locally? If so, you could get rid of a lot of stuff for free. They don't take everything but still might be a decent penny to be saved.
What a great update! Question for builders/roofers perusing the comments: We are planning on having a side return extension on our semi-detached house. I want to know what you believe is the one essential bit of mechanical kit you need room to drive down a side return for any future building works, without which you/your boss would balk at taking on any *future* job to the back of the house. Or to put it another way, what is the minimum side return I should leave?
Was the rain in July? That was when we had the floods in Germany, Belgium and here in the south east of the Netherlands. I had to abort all my digging because trenches and height differences all collapsed and ended up as liquid mud, it took several months for the soil to get stable again, soil here is clay as well.
Ah, so that’s why my builder couldn’t get 7N blocks for my garage build! 😡😉 My build is still ongoing having started demolition in late September but thankfully the metal webbed joists arrived yesterday so hopefully I’ll be seeing the builders again soon 🤔
Hi Mr Gosforth, I drove through the Cumbrian Gosforth today and though of your Channel. Quick question. What is your latest white gloss/satin trim recommendation for a rental property? Thanks for the great channel! Have almost watched every video now!
EEERRRRR soggy concrete blocks, mud rain, used to make our 2 & 1 gang be in the pub by dinner time LOL ( had bad dreams of past life after watching) Dinner time was about 1/2 10 LOL
Great stuff, Andy! Did you think about shredding the organic waste and using it for compost/mulch? With a garden as big as yours, a proper shredder really cuts down on the amount you have to move around and get rid of!
Did I hear correctly you've got 600mm deep of concrete going in? Is that standard these days? When I did mine a few years ago I think I went with 225mm deep (top of foundations required depth to limit heave etc)
900 deep foundations? Strewth! Is that all? Down our way (SW London) they wanted 2m and, since then, our insurance company said they should have been 2.5m minimum.
Another fantastic video! Just out of interest, could all of that organic waste be made into compost for the garden in future? Maybe if it was all thrown into a chipper to break up the big branches and increase the surface area of it, I imagine it would work well over time getting mulched down, or is it something that isn't worth the time and space for compost bins?
You can use it more directly than that - you can bury logs and branches under beds and they will slowly decompose and release nutrients over several years (as well as helping retain moisture). Wood chippings can also be used under beds for a faster but less long acting treatment, as well as making a great natural path material around beds.
@@GosforthHandyman to many new builds and renos in my neck of the woods have no rear access. Or at best a standard door width through the garage. Makes getting furniture in and out harder than ever.
Aren't you grateful you had side access to the back of the house. lol. Digging out foundations and moving spoil when it goes through the house is not a lot of fun. Weii done for your team. I wish my wife was so proactive. On jobs, I and the lads had to handball the lot. Sort of made your body ache LOL, That clay, if mixed with other mixtures will eventually open up and become very productive soil.
Follow this project in a bit more detail at: selfbuildextension.co.uk/ 👍
Andy, you need to keep an eye in your garden since some rascal has sneaked in there and rebuilt the old rotten garden shed you took down a few episodes ago ;)
Lol I know - just can't stop 'em! 😂
I can highly reccomend a rain collection system for your rainwater drains. The costs pay off quickly as you don‘t have to use drinking water to water the lawn or plants in the garden.
Were I live it is common to use the collected rain water for flushing the toilet. This requires a separate circut of pipes in the house though.
I love that you saved the Bluebells!🥳 It's certainly progressing well. And well done Mrs Mac too!!
Cheers Moira! Love bluebells on a riverbank so looking forward to Spring! 😁
that dumper looks awesome fun !
Nice to see the old shed back up🤣🤔
Ha ha, yeah - I only spotted that after I uploaded it too! Oops! 😂
Mrs Mac is a star. Project is looking good
She's amazing! Getting there! 👍
Oh the rain 😣 that always happens! I remember digging out the collapsed trenches just before the pour, that wasn't fun. Them bluebells will look nice next year
Yeah, I was so paranoid about the sides caving in. Shuttering for that lot would have cost best part of £1000 with current prices! Luckily all OK. 😁👍
Great job Andy,whole family mucking in!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎
Cheers Alan - my son is a much better digger driver than me! 😂
Everyone needs a Mrs Mac
Brilliant work and thanks for sharing this with us take care
No worries and thank you!
I never knew the ‘Burn was that big in that part of town!
Great video - Thanks. . Yep, one thing you can guarantee, rain when you start the footings!
Get a load of sand put over your clay mix in some organics and with a Rotivator mix it all up you'll eventually end up with lovely "Loam" the best sort of growing soil.
Native Americans reputedly had a "rain dance" for use in a drought. If I find any reference to an "Anti-Rain-Dance" I'll send it along.
Just as you did for the carpeting people, you prepared everything meticulously for the brick folks. Your contractors must love you, and hopefully that will have its effect on their bill.
Cheers Bob! Yes, could really do with the anti-rain-dance right now 😂. Thank you! It's all in the preparation and as you'll see soon it resulted in our bricky building the entire extension in 13 days. Amazing!
Last year I planned some work on my house. Mainly a totally new kitchen with a new roof on that part of the house, and a totally new bathroom. The day the roofers were supposed to start, torrential rain, so we had to weather watch for 2 weeks 🤣. The day after the kitchen was gutted back to the brickwork, the country went into lockdown for the first time. So the builders had to rush around getting materials. Eventually the kitchen was done. Bathroom is duly gutted later in the year, and yep,the country went into lockdown again. I'm not risking any more large work 🤣🤣
Yeah, it's not been the best time for building projects! 😬😂
Omg, we're doing almost the same at the same time! Took 50 tonnes of stuff out, 500 blocks 2500 bricks etc etc in, into the back garden, all by hand though!
Quite a bit of demo and clearing.
...and I had to bail out the slab 'pond' a few times. Now on the roof and enjoying our December weather!
The joys of building!
I refused to pour the slab until the roof was on. 😂👍 Best of luck with yours!
I get knackered just watching you lot!
Was doing a gig in a pub in Edinburgh the other week and I was wearing "Drink coffee ..." t shirt. Woman came up and said she enjoyed the evening, and then said; brilliant t-shirt too. Great taste or member of your family?
Keep up the good work. We're learning loads.
Ha fantastic! Where was your gig? Sounds like great taste! 👍😁
Royal Mile Tavern.
Lots of hard work, Andy! Well done. And well done to the Mrs. too!
Cheers from both of us!
You could use the clay to line a garden pond.
You'd still need a pond liner.
Looks terrific. Lot of hard graft
Cover the bluebell bulbs with soil and don't leave them exposed to light.
Also, what to do with clay? Foundations of a pond are a good use for clay.
Yup, the bulbs are all buried ready for Spring 👍😁
@@GosforthHandyman I'd also consider using the clay to line the bank of the river, but you may not have enough. Great update!
We're due our planning permission on 9th January for a rear L-shaped extension. This is so perfectly timed for us. So many useful tips! Thank you.
Wow, that is amazing. You have dug out so much soil but I suppose that's what you have to do to prepare for the foundations. That little dumper truck is pretty awesome as well.
Cheers! Yeah, couldn't have done it without the little dumper. Amazing bit of kit! 😁
thoughtful of you to blur out your neighbor's house. Bravo!
Cheers! Yeah, we've had some randoms turning up at the house - not cool. 😬
@@GosforthHandyman I wondered if something like that would happen, must have been a bit unnerving. I worked out where the house is in the first video (I like exploring google earth!), but can't say I had the urge to turn up and bother you!
More great content. 👍 I had similar rain with our side/front extension. Instead of a pump though I had 2 buckets on ropes and got daughter's to bail it out😂 I'd best not show them there are pumps to do the same job😭 Had a collapse too between next doors(1m away) I was in a right panic thinking there garage was moving into our dig. 🤣🤣
Good update Andy - I feel your pain with the weather. Was tempted to say it might be useful to construct a bund at the end of the garden using the crap and clay you need to get rid of as a ‘flood defence’ but thinking about it - if any of the neighbours did not do similar it would be a waste of time.😉👍
Yeah, it would just go around the bund but I've never seen the river come up to garden height so should be OK. 👍
Absolutely loving those Acer View vids you recommended mate! Binge watching those - cheer for the heads up 👍🏼👍🏼
Aiden has a great channel - glad you enjoy his vids too!
It's always a real releaf when you get out of the ground, fingers crossed for a dry spell.
Absolutely! Did you go to Newcastle College?? 🤔
@@GosforthHandyman
No I went to College in Grt Manchester, why do yo ask?
Feel your pain Andy, just dug our foundations & poured 26 qm of concrete poured recently.
Sounds like fun - well done!
Both you and Mrs Mc are grafters Andy..... another job well done, despite the atrocious inclement weather. Those lifts that raise the rebar and mesh are apparently called 'chairs' according to Tom Hause (of Concrete With The Hauses fame - great channel)....
Hope it continues to go well.
Interesting - will check it out, cheers!
@@GosforthHandyman Andy, I hope the weather settles down for your brickie...
Awesome vlog Andy and well done so far bless you dealing with the weather over the last few weeks Its going to look very nice once its all done. Loving the series so far. Keep safe buddy.
Cheers Neil! Yes, challenging weather.
Looks like hard work!
Wasn't easy! 😂
Once made trench reinforcement out of some old (free) fully boarded pallets fromGumtree.
Not a bad idea! Gone are the days of using OSB I think!
@@GosforthHandyman I’m a Yorkshire lad so free is good!
Watching you blitz about on that thing has made my day. Definitely worth the £60 a day for one, they look like buckets of fun 😂
Too right! They're amazing!
@@GosforthHandyman hi there. Silly question.. What is that machine called 🙈🙈🙈, and where can I hire it from. I need to get that for our project and can't make out in the video if you mentioned what it's called. I've only just found you on UA-cam and have already spent hours watching your videos. Thank you for sharing such helpful info
Here across the pond, the proper color for sewer is green. Blue is for water, red is electrical and yellow is gas.
Interesting! Here it's whatever spray can I pick up first. 😉
👏🏼💪🏼 To you and Mrs Mac.
Cheers Mandy! 👍👍
Could someone explain the single brick that sits proud of the back wall? It looks to be a metre high and between the old kitchen and living room.
Excellent! I’ve just watched the whole build so far over the past few days and my gosh what a big job you’ve taken on! Hats off to you mate you’re doing great work 👍
Cheers! It's had its challenges! 😂
Would a mine cart or something be helpful if you're carrying so much? Colin Furze recently built one. Also, do you have a recycling centre locally? If so, you could get rid of a lot of stuff for free. They don't take everything but still might be a decent penny to be saved.
What a great update!
Question for builders/roofers perusing the comments: We are planning on having a side return extension on our semi-detached house. I want to know what you believe is the one essential bit of mechanical kit you need room to drive down a side return for any future building works, without which you/your boss would balk at taking on any *future* job to the back of the house. Or to put it another way, what is the minimum side return I should leave?
Cheers!
Was the rain in July? That was when we had the floods in Germany, Belgium and here in the south east of the Netherlands.
I had to abort all my digging because trenches and height differences all collapsed and ended up as liquid mud, it took several months for the soil to get stable again, soil here is clay as well.
Oh no! No, it was September time. But yes, when it gets that muddy it's a disaster! 👍😬
Oh no! Weather is such a pain in the UK 😥Do you need a license to rent a digger? And how do you know that you won’t dig into pipes/wires/gas etc?
A real life sized Tonka toy to ‘play with’.
Too right!! 😁
know the weather we've had in the last week (present day) I hope there was nothing that could go flying at that point
Ha ha, yeah... about that. All OK luckily, but there's an up to date version of proceedings on the Member Zone. 👍😁
How deep did you dig for the foundations ? How much would one need to dig for a for a two store house ? 1.20 ? 1.50 ?
I thought you said in an earlier video that the North East is quite a dry part of England!!! I think it is normally.
I know, it's since I said that that it never stopped raining. 😂
Ah, so that’s why my builder couldn’t get 7N blocks for my garage build! 😡😉 My build is still ongoing having started demolition in late September but thankfully the metal webbed joists arrived yesterday so hopefully I’ll be seeing the builders again soon 🤔
Nice one! Yeah, we bought all the blocks. 😂
Hi Mr Gosforth, I drove through the Cumbrian Gosforth today and though of your Channel. Quick question. What is your latest white gloss/satin trim recommendation for a rental property?
Thanks for the great channel! Have almost watched every video now!
EEERRRRR soggy concrete blocks, mud rain, used to make our 2 & 1 gang be in the pub by dinner time LOL ( had bad dreams of past life after watching) Dinner time was about 1/2 10 LOL
Ha tell me about it! Amazingly I managed to keep the blocks relatively dry. That was the only thing kept dry mind. 👍😂
Great stuff, Andy! Did you think about shredding the organic waste and using it for compost/mulch? With a garden as big as yours, a proper shredder really cuts down on the amount you have to move around and get rid of!
Shredding that sort of stuff is a nightmare as it just jams up, lots of bindweed etc. in it. Got a shredder though - vid coming!
@@GosforthHandyman Yeah, garden shredders are never as good as the one in 'Fargo'! 😉
£70 a sheet for OSB? Holy smokes, I thought €47 per 18mm sheet here in Ireland was expensive, but £70 is on a whole other level lol
Did I hear correctly you've got 600mm deep of concrete going in? Is that standard these days? When I did mine a few years ago I think I went with 225mm deep (top of foundations required depth to limit heave etc)
Skill and attention to detail by the barrow loads.. wonder how you will feel eventually looking back on this content,
Cheers Les! It'll be interesting since I normally forget how much we did! 😂
900 deep foundations? Strewth! Is that all? Down our way (SW London) they wanted 2m and, since then, our insurance company said they should have been 2.5m minimum.
Another fantastic video! Just out of interest, could all of that organic waste be made into compost for the garden in future? Maybe if it was all thrown into a chipper to break up the big branches and increase the surface area of it, I imagine it would work well over time getting mulched down, or is it something that isn't worth the time and space for compost bins?
You can use it more directly than that - you can bury logs and branches under beds and they will slowly decompose and release nutrients over several years (as well as helping retain moisture). Wood chippings can also be used under beds for a faster but less long acting treatment, as well as making a great natural path material around beds.
That was mostly non-compostable waste, like old brambles, bind weed etc. It just jams in the chipper.
When did the other shed appear ?
The new one? About 6 months ago. 👍
Will you still have side access after the renovations are finished?
Via the garage, yes. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman to many new builds and renos in my neck of the woods have no rear access. Or at best a standard door width through the garage. Makes getting furniture in and out harder than ever.
What’s the UA-cam censorship at 5:14?
Not enough clay for a flood barrier😉
Lol, not quite... but the river bank is a fair bit higher now. 😂
Where is part one please?
ua-cam.com/video/OiRgJKlgsDA/v-deo.html here you go ^^
ua-cam.com/video/OiRgJKlgsDA/v-deo.html
Did you hire or buy that water pump Andy?
Ended up buying one as I seem to need one quite regularly and the last cheapy one I bought from Amazon went in the bin after 2 uses. 😂
Are you a builder and do you have your own company
No I'm not a builder!
very interesting. time to build a biblical ark?!
Tell me about it! It got worse! 😬
yeah first in lol - hope the weather is kind to you!
Nearly Martin! 👍😁
5:27 when did your neighbors become shitty about their property appearing in the videos?
Aren't you grateful you had side access to the back of the house. lol. Digging out foundations and moving spoil when it goes through the house is not a lot of fun. Weii done for your team. I wish my wife was so proactive.
On jobs, I and the lads had to handball the lot. Sort of made your body ache LOL,
That clay, if mixed with other mixtures will eventually open up and become very productive soil.
Oh yes! Could never have survived without side access. Was always in the plan. 👍
Even mdf costs a fortune these days. Terrible for everyone really except the suppliers.
Love u Andy Mac
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I think i found your house on Google earth..........lol
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English weather has little respect for buildiing projects, holidays or weddings . . .
Tell me about it! 😂👍
Yikes that mud and clay is just misery
Nice 20 min distraction from wanting to end it all.
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