My wife and myself at 60+ years old laid a 130 foot long block paving drive because we didn’t want a builder to do our bit of a joint project. I am an engineer and fairly intelligent so looked on the internet for what to do ( thanks Brew Cabin!) and asked loads of questions. It turned out to be fairly simple overall and is still in great condition over ten years later. We even had seven people ask me do quote for their own drives, so just learn what you can, know your own limitations but go for it.
Well done Andy, I did a similar job many moons back and a JCB took a chunk out of the drain and we had to put it right in pouring ran and our good neighbour refrained from flushing the loo for a day. I am glad you kept those smells to yourself!!.
Totally agree with Philip....astonishingly accomplished work in every respect. As I've said before, if only all artisans and trades were as thorough and dedicated.. and he's a tasty percussionist to boot! Also huge shout out to Mrs mac....Young Andy is a very lucky guy but I think he knows that!!!!
I enjoy your videos Andy. Learn a lot from them. I loved Mrs. Mac's sound effects when you were cleaning out pipe. I'd do the same thing! Thanks for sharing!
It is good to notice on the mockup at the beginning that buildings on both sides have had extensions already. These neighbor build outs will let GHM fit in. I like that you are keeping equipment access to the back yard through the garage.
Awesome !!! At first i thought Gosforth !!! ) That's just up the road from Barrow (where i live). But it's Gosforth near Newcastle. Anyway this series is perfect as got a similar project lined up ........
Cheers for this video Andy, have a similar job to do my self, remove and build over old inspection chamber and tie in with 4” clay outside proposed foundations. And only problem I have is clay system is totally encased with concrete. So stihl saw and breaker at the ready, tho I did find some internal connectors to fit the encased stuff. But your video means I can sleep now! 👏👏
Good job, well explained. Interesting you said the new inlet was for rainwater. Here in the south we are not allowed to run rainwater into the main drain, it has to go into a soak away.
Pretty straight forward job that mate once you get your founds in ,a good trowel and joiner will sort that out.if you have any steels to go in its a good idea to do them first if you can and it saves a lot of hassle later 👍
Before u fill in around the man hole put a slow 90 bend on one of the inlets and bring a riser pipe up and back fill. And when u need to connect the drain water to the man hole at least the pipe will be easy to dig to with out going to deep. Just forward thinking
You seem lucky with your water board. When we moved an inspection chamber we had to use their recommended contractors and the inspection chamber had to be brick built.
Started my very tiny extension some years ago which had to go over a sewer. First time building control came round it was stop what your doing, this is a public sewer. It was shared with next door and I was obviously very naive in my knowledge and also my architect hadn’t warned me also. Anyway water board did the survey and granted me build over rights but it disrupted the build somewhat. My build over fee for water company about £500 15 years ago.
Another great video. Wish I'd had this to watch before I did my extension in 2019. Check regs for footings to inspection chamber. Sure ours(in Wales though) had to have 500mm between! Clay sticking to tools, dip them in water or spray with wd40👍
might be able to recycle the concrete, i know in california they recycle concrete and use it as a base to put new concrete on. check around your area to see if there are any places like that, also keep in mind that if you put rubble back in it could shift over the years, i saw a video of a drain repair where a concrete pole had sunk over years and years and pierced a pipe. it's on the drain unblockers channel, they repaired it
Great Work Andy, One mans inspection pass is another mans fail. You should send in a complaint and the video footage to the waterboard, since your doing their job for them. As I keep saying to the Misses its just a job to the workman its pride and satisfaction and knowing the jobs been done correctly for yourself. Keep the Videos coming, really enjoying them.
Really enjoyed this video. Not sure if it was as good as the curtain rails fitting video. 🤣🤣 Seriously though good video from start to finish. Cheers for sharing Michael (from Scotland)
How long will it take? Longer than you’d hoped. How much will it cost? More than you’d expected. These seem to be the pretty much universal rules when building an extension. Great to be in at the start of everything and looking forward to seeing the project progress.
Bet the blockage will be where a neighbour has built over another chamber and the building rubble was chucked in. Surprised NWL let the pipe be reduced from from 6 to 4 inch. It does take sewage and rain?
I have an old pair of electricity boards rubber gloves for doing such things. There like a much thicker and bigger marrygold and up to the elbow. Think you can also get them on eBay. Excellent videos thanks.
You're doing amazing work Aidan! Lovely videos. Your channel deserves a load more subscribers - cream floats to the top. FOLKS! Subscribe to Aidan's channel: ua-cam.com/users/BuildingAcerView 👍👍
@@GosforthHandyman where we are in Northumberland the utility room gully, kitchen gully and bathroom gully all run to the same manhole and the rain water goes down the same manhole aswell
Ahhh the smell of success, been there and it stays up your nose for days no matter what you wash with 😂 well done clearing it out , many would have left it to someone else or covered it up quickly . Good job 👍
Get a nice nose and mouth PP3 face mask. Noticed that it stops the smell from the cat and she produces what can easily describe as an eye wateringly smelly bio-hazard poop.
I'm not sure that many builders plan every detail of a project as you have, but with recent supply chain and labor shortages, being a little OCD will pay off. I wouldn't be keen on having someone else's sewage running under my kitchen, but you have no choice, and you know that the new installation will function well for the next century or two. I imagine that Mrs. Mac insisted you have a chlorine bath before she let you get very far into the house.
How is your outside header, that is supporting your rear most ceiling trusses supported. It looks like it might be touching that block structure a bit right in the middle, and then on the two outside walls on either side of the house. Is this enough support for the roof and being above it?
Never trust the water board to do anything correct, should of got all new drainage pipework fitted then get it jetted instead of messing around with that shite in the drain.
Nice job! I would not want this job. Shouldn't it be called personhole instead of manhole for the new people? I'm over 70 so manhole is correct as far as I'm concerned!
Yeh those inspection people are useless. They used to just clean the pipes but all they did was put a camera up and said it’s fine. Then said if I wanted to have something done it’s my problem.
at the end of this series can u show us a finish floor plan and a quick tour of the whole house ( only areas u wanna be public of course ) because im a proper nerd and would like to create it in the sims ;)
I swear when you sprayed the hose down the pipe and the "water" ran back out, I got a whiff of sewage! The mind is a wonderful thing. New to your channel and I find ir very entertaining, thank you.
Excellent Mr. Mac, you are one heck of “ an all rounder “ and a lovely bloke ‘t boot ‘. Best wishes to you and all your team and thanks for sharing, even though it was a (crap) job ! You take it all in your stride and I am well impressed with your skills. If a jobs worth doing ……….
Amazed by your overall knowledge and confidence . The line from Oliver Goldsmiths poem comes to mind when I watch your vids. “ And all around the wonder grew one small head could carry all he knew”. Top videos mate and all the tips are appreciated
Was that your son working the digger? Reminds me of when I used to work the digger for my late step dad back when I was about 12 or 13. Edit: Just got to the part where you said Mr Mac Jr was doing the digging haha
25 years ago, the drain pipes at my grandpa's house stank, it was very hard to bear in the kitchen and laundry room (especially in the summer). The water company has also examined the pipes and said it was all super in order. Since the old septic tank should be filled in a garden renovation (was used at times when the construction area was not yet connected to the sewer system), he renewed the pipes. Same result, the pipe sat 80% tight with stinky gloop, that stank beastly. My grandpa called the sewage association, let himself be connected to the responsible clerk and yelled at him for ten minutes (I was 8 and learned a lot of new swear words hehe) and filed a complaint 🤣The neighbors took care of the problem themselves. So unfortunately it's not better here in Germany.
Nice job, horrible smell, no doubt! Surprised you didn't have a set of drain rods and a drop scraper - would have made short work of your blockage. Only £25 at screwfix.
Excellent video, great pre-planning and so clearly explained but please get some better gloves for messing about with drain gunge Andy!🤣🤣🤣 I got some rubber gauntlets that go up to my elbows for about £6 from a local independent DIY shop but I would've got complete arm cover gauntlets for £11 if they'd have had any in at the time. It just makes dealing with drains so much easier. Well done mate!😁
Follow this project in a bit more detail at: selfbuildextension.co.uk/ 👍
please remember not everyone has your knowledge
knowledge needs paying for
My wife and myself at 60+ years old laid a 130 foot long block paving drive because we didn’t want a builder to do our bit of a joint project. I am an engineer and fairly intelligent so looked on the internet for what to do ( thanks Brew Cabin!) and asked loads of questions. It turned out to be fairly simple overall and is still in great condition over ten years later. We even had seven people ask me do quote for their own drives, so just learn what you can, know your own limitations but go for it.
Totally agree but for those that can't do it it needs tobe paid for
You deserve a medal Mr Mac, meticulous in your approach and it pays off. Very much enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Enjoying following along & getting to see a proper renovation from start to finish!
Thank you - glad you're enjoying the vids!
Well done Andy, I did a similar job many moons back and a JCB took a chunk out of the drain and we had to put it right in pouring ran and our good neighbour refrained from flushing the loo for a day. I am glad you kept those smells to yourself!!.
Totally agree with Philip....astonishingly accomplished work in every respect.
As I've said before, if only all artisans and trades were as thorough and dedicated.. and he's a tasty percussionist to boot!
Also huge shout out to Mrs mac....Young Andy is a very lucky guy but I think he knows that!!!!
Having watched all those Mersey Rod drain unblocking repairs videos I was able to follow your general philosophy of this project fully.
Those Mersey Rod vids are so addictive.
Haven't seem those! Will have to check them out!
@@GosforthHandyman The channel name is "The Drain Unblockers". There's nothing more satisying than a blocked drain being cleaned.
You are brilliant. This is by far the best on UA-cam. Keep up the great work.
I enjoy your videos Andy. Learn a lot from them. I loved Mrs. Mac's sound effects when you were cleaning out pipe. I'd do the same thing! Thanks for sharing!
Been looking forward to the extension starting. This is going to be interesting. Thanks for showing us the bits we don’t usually get to see
Cheers! Hope you enjoy it!
Clear, concise & unambiguous; many thanks. This is perfect timing as I hope to be starting mini next year; BIG thumbs-up
It is good to notice on the mockup at the beginning that buildings on both sides have had extensions already. These neighbor build outs will let GHM fit in. I like that you are keeping equipment access to the back yard through the garage.
Awesome !!! At first i thought Gosforth !!! ) That's just up the road from Barrow (where i live). But it's Gosforth near Newcastle. Anyway this series is perfect as got a similar project lined up ........
Oh my gosh that's seriously hard work. Great job!
Excellent. Very descriptive and helpful for anyone contemplating their own ground works.
Cheers! Hopefully it's an eye opener! 👍😁
Cheers for this video Andy, have a similar job to do my self, remove and build over old inspection chamber and tie in with 4” clay outside proposed foundations. And only problem I have is clay system is totally encased with concrete. So stihl saw and breaker at the ready, tho I did find some internal connectors to fit the encased stuff. But your video means I can sleep now! 👏👏
Yes- very tidy at the bye! Well prepared and very well done!!
Great presentation as always Mr Mac! Keep doing your thing 👍🏻
Thank you! 👍👍
hmmm. 100 year old logs in a 100 year old drain. My fav.
A set of drain rods with the screw attachment are very handy 😉
Dude! Super Thanks for that!
Nice tidy job. I like to see diy builds. Good luck with the rest 👍👍
I remember the first time I used breaker for the whole day. Could barely grip anything the following day.
Wow amazing job Andy and one for someone with a good gag reflex. great job as always. loving the series.
Nice job Andy , last for years .
This project is so fascinating to watch! But I don't mind being unable to smell it.
Your a soldier mate,👍
You tube keeps suggesting all of your older videos weather ive watched them or not, so iam just re watching them :)
Good job, well explained. Interesting you said the new inlet was for rainwater. Here in the south we are not allowed to run rainwater into the main drain, it has to go into a soak away.
All combined sewers on this street so no need. I think if I remember rightly the soil isn't great for soakaways here. 👍
Really informative thankyou so much
Great video, amazing how you can make even the crappiest subject seem interesting 😉🤣
Ha thank you!
Pretty straight forward job that mate once you get your founds in ,a good trowel and joiner will sort that out.if you have any steels to go in its a good idea to do them first if you can and it saves a lot of hassle later 👍
Looking forward to this series, great stuff as always Andy 👍👍
Use Denso tape round the jubilee clips and other things you want to remove easily - oil rig equipment uses lots of it.
Before u fill in around the man hole put a slow 90 bend on one of the inlets and bring a riser pipe up and back fill. And when u need to connect the drain water to the man hole at least the pipe will be easy to dig to with out going to deep. Just forward thinking
It would interfere with digging the footings. 👍👍
Another task accomplished!
👍
Amazing work. Great to see what this stuff looks like and what it's like to work on.
You should send the part with the drain too the waterboard and ask them how is that clean 🤣 brilliant videos on the house keep them up
You seem lucky with your water board. When we moved an inspection chamber we had to use their recommended contractors and the inspection chamber had to be brick built.
Great job Andy, Toolstation are very useful , tap tail adaptors 15mm x 3/8!
Yup! Been there too with the 3/8 connectors - Grohe?
@@GosforthHandyman yup, followed your advice!
Started my very tiny extension some years ago which had to go over a sewer. First time building control came round it was stop what your doing, this is a public sewer. It was shared with next door and I was obviously very naive in my knowledge and also my architect hadn’t warned me also. Anyway water board did the survey and granted me build over rights but it disrupted the build somewhat. My build over fee for water company about £500 15 years ago.
Another great video. Wish I'd had this to watch before I did my extension in 2019. Check regs for footings to inspection chamber. Sure ours(in Wales though) had to have 500mm between! Clay sticking to tools, dip them in water or spray with wd40👍
Yeah, it ended up being about 500mm anyway. 👍👍
Brilliant video! I've been looking forward to your extension build 😉
Lots to come!
Andy, you was lucky, my clay pipe was in cased in concrete!
Good job.
Cheers!
No gloves no mask!!! Crazy!!! I would have a damn haz mat suit on!!!
Brilliant work and thanks for sharing this with us take care
might be able to recycle the concrete, i know in california they recycle concrete and use it as a base to put new concrete on. check around your area to see if there are any places like that, also keep in mind that if you put rubble back in it could shift over the years, i saw a video of a drain repair where a concrete pole had sunk over years and years and pierced a pipe. it's on the drain unblockers channel, they repaired it
Great Work Andy, One mans inspection pass is another mans fail. You should send in a complaint and the video footage to the waterboard, since your doing their job for them. As I keep saying to the Misses its just a job to the workman its pride and satisfaction and knowing the jobs been done correctly for yourself. Keep the Videos coming, really enjoying them.
I think they just wanted to know if the pipe was broken. They didn't seem to care about it being blocked. 😂
Really enjoyed this video.
Not sure if it was as good as the curtain rails fitting video. 🤣🤣
Seriously though good video from start to finish.
Cheers for sharing
Michael (from Scotland)
Ha thank you!
Do you not run a handyman business anymore? Great videos mate
“I don’t think I should consume anything” 😂😂😂
Toolstation - Always the bridesmaid and never the bride... They do have a very wide range of products available!
How long will it take? Longer than you’d hoped. How much will it cost? More than you’d expected. These seem to be the pretty much universal rules when building an extension. Great to be in at the start of everything and looking forward to seeing the project progress.
Jobs a goodun. Love watching 🤗
Cheers bud!
Bet the blockage will be where a neighbour has built over another chamber and the building rubble was chucked in. Surprised NWL let the pipe be reduced from from 6 to 4 inch. It does take sewage and rain?
Attention to detail, as always.
Hopefully! 👍
Really interesting video, well done.
I have an old pair of electricity boards rubber gloves for doing such things. There like a much thicker and bigger marrygold and up to the elbow. Think you can also get them on eBay. Excellent videos thanks.
Good job mate
Cheers bud!
"I think I've cut myself....fancy a can of pop"...what a brave guy.
Respect Mr Mac, bet that smelled lovely 🤢😳!
"haven't a clue what we are doing" 😂 welcome to my life haha
You're doing amazing work Aidan! Lovely videos. Your channel deserves a load more subscribers - cream floats to the top. FOLKS! Subscribe to Aidan's channel: ua-cam.com/users/BuildingAcerView 👍👍
@@GosforthHandyman thanks Andy mate 😊👍 fingers crossed I'll get to your level one day
@@GosforthHandyman where we are in Northumberland the utility room gully, kitchen gully and bathroom gully all run to the same manhole and the rain water goes down the same manhole aswell
Han Solo: What an incredible smell you've discovered!
Better you than me!
😂
Satisfying stuff!
Cheers!
Ahhh the smell of success, been there and it stays up your nose for days no matter what you wash with 😂 well done clearing it out , many would have left it to someone else or covered it up quickly . Good job 👍
Get a nice nose and mouth PP3 face mask. Noticed that it stops the smell from the cat and she produces what can easily describe as an eye wateringly smelly bio-hazard poop.
@@davideyres955 so does a bit of vicks under the nose
Luckily no number 2's so could have been worse. 😂
Use the morticians trick. Vic's Vapour Run under the nose.
I'm not sure that many builders plan every detail of a project as you have, but with recent supply chain and labor shortages, being a little OCD will pay off.
I wouldn't be keen on having someone else's sewage running under my kitchen, but you have no choice, and you know that the new installation will function well for the next century or two. I imagine that Mrs. Mac insisted you have a chlorine bath before she let you get very far into the house.
Lol cheers Bob! Yeah, I had to avoid biting my nails for a while. 👍😁
I have exactly same job lol to do
It is wise not to put chunks of rubble in the pit.
I've come across my own rubbish in the ground so often before which made digging more difficult.
I think ill need a bigger stick 🤣🤣
How is your outside header, that is supporting your rear most ceiling trusses supported. It looks like it might be touching that block structure a bit right in the middle, and then on the two outside walls on either side of the house. Is this enough support for the roof and being above it?
30:00 got a real clay artist on the job site :D
Yes, he was very proud of that. 😂
Please can you do more videos about new builds
I'm doing a new build if you're interested 🤷♂️
Love your channel Aidan! YES - subscribe to his channel, it's awesome! ua-cam.com/channels/uhwDJ7olVHbV6tYzpVmIVg.html
guess you should have just waterjet it instead. damn i can imagine the smell all the way from here in msia😂
I just vomited 3 bottles of beer onto the carpet....
Next time you would be better off taking that concrete out with a breaker for the mini excavator, not a jackhammer it saves so much time.
35:25 why is it blue ? lol
I hope you got your money back on that inspection 🤔😳
Lol if only! 😂
Never trust the water board to do anything correct, should of got all new drainage pipework fitted then get it jetted instead of messing around with that shite in the drain.
Try putting WD40 on your spade when you dig
Ah the old kitchen connected drain, foul fat and grease smell. :(
Some lovely fatbergs down there. 🤮
I'm really glad they haven't invented smellevision yet!
😂😂
how did all that clay get in that pipe. lol
😂
B
Nice job! I would not want this job. Shouldn't it be called personhole instead of manhole for the new people? I'm over 70 so manhole is correct as far as I'm concerned!
Ha, in the 1920's it was called a manhole... so I'm just being true to history. 👍😁
Yeh those inspection people are useless. They used to just clean the pipes but all they did was put a camera up and said it’s fine. Then said if I wanted to have something done it’s my problem.
Why do people use crappy breakers just get a used hilti 100x better never struggled or fatigued
Great video - enjoyed that. Hard work using those breakers. Drain rod set?
at the end of this series can u show us a finish floor plan and a quick tour of the whole house ( only areas u wanna be public of course ) because im a proper nerd and would like to create it in the sims ;)
Yup - will show that at some point! 👍
@@GosforthHandyman i will share a video of it at the end if u are interested :)
28:00 so dya think thats just the streets houses gulley flow at the back where people hook up their kitchen and utility waste into ? looks very soapy
Yeah, nobody seems to have loos at the back. We do but we're bringing the loo waste to the front. 👍
I swear when you sprayed the hose down the pipe and the "water" ran back out, I got a whiff of sewage! The mind is a wonderful thing. New to your channel and I find ir very entertaining, thank you.
Thank you James and welcome on board! 👍
Good job
👍👍
Excellent Mr. Mac, you are one heck of “ an all rounder “ and a lovely bloke ‘t boot ‘. Best wishes to you and all your team and thanks for sharing, even though it was a (crap) job ! You take it all in your stride and I am well impressed with your skills. If a jobs worth doing ……….
Thank you! Sometimes I get a bit impatient with it all... but Rome wasn't built in a day n'all that. 👍
im only 3 min in and have to stop. your father was a spark. where did you learn to be a tidy trademan. definetly wouldnt be from a spark nowadays
Check out artisan electrics, he brings the super @nal to sparks. Jobs look ok but jesus...
Ha ha, he was even more OCD than me! 😂
I bet you didn't know Stevie Wonder was doing inspections for the local water board, until this fun job.
I know, tell me about it! They weren't here for long. 😂
Amazed by your overall knowledge and confidence . The line from Oliver Goldsmiths poem comes to mind when I watch your vids. “ And all around the wonder grew one small head could carry all he knew”. Top videos mate and all the tips are appreciated
Thank you! Most of the spec for what I needed to do was provided by the water board, so wasn't too bad. Lots of digging!
Was that your son working the digger? Reminds me of when I used to work the digger for my late step dad back when I was about 12 or 13.
Edit: Just got to the part where you said Mr Mac Jr was doing the digging haha
Yup! Teenage gamer thumbs. He's way better than me with it. Of course it means I barely get a look in. 😂😥
25 years ago, the drain pipes at my grandpa's house stank, it was very hard to bear in the kitchen and laundry room (especially in the summer). The water company has also examined the pipes and said it was all super in order. Since the old septic tank should be filled in a garden renovation (was used at times when the construction area was not yet connected to the sewer system), he renewed the pipes. Same result, the pipe sat 80% tight with stinky gloop, that stank beastly. My grandpa called the sewage association, let himself be connected to the responsible clerk and yelled at him for ten minutes (I was 8 and learned a lot of new swear words hehe) and filed a complaint 🤣The neighbors took care of the problem themselves. So unfortunately it's not better here in Germany.
Nice job, horrible smell, no doubt! Surprised you didn't have a set of drain rods and a drop scraper - would have made short work of your blockage. Only £25 at screwfix.
Excellent video, great pre-planning and so clearly explained but please get some better gloves for messing about with drain gunge Andy!🤣🤣🤣
I got some rubber gauntlets that go up to my elbows for about £6 from a local independent DIY shop but I would've got complete arm cover gauntlets for £11 if they'd have had any in at the time. It just makes dealing with drains so much easier.
Well done mate!😁