Will the digging out ever stop. Retaining walls and footings
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this episode we will be continuing to dig out to get ready for our footings and new floor levels. looking forward to brickwork and the scaffold going up so we can finally start working on the building
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This is a real heavy duty job and if I was the owner I think I would have had the main house demolished and started again from scratch. You guys are doing a quality job and I take my hat off to you all. I thoroughly enjoy this series on this house. Keep the good work up guys 👍🙂
yeah, I'd have gone with flattening it and starting over....
@@mrbluesky2050 Then it would be a boring new build, making good 90+ year old faults in the original house and dovetailing a new extension is more interesting, also with flatten and rebuild we wouldn’t see a video for about two years with planning/waiting services/builders on different jobs.
Massive job! So no need to apologise, you have done loads.
Will watch this avidly, as I have the feeling, it's going to be amazing.
That garden is huge
Another entertaining video. Looking forward to the work progressing
Huge job, looking forward to this 1 👍
The wire lock tool is used extensively in the aircraft industry for nuts and bolts, filters and clamps.
I'd have got concrete in as soon as possible. I've had a job that the digging took longer than expected and I couldn't concrete until the Monday morning. It rained all weekend, and come Monday, the trenches had collapsed.
Now that job has got some serious digging out, a few hundred ton easy!
Thanks for the video boys
You did an excellent job of opening the fridge to Find nothing ,and managing to prepare a half decent meal,thanks
ya doin well guys, great to see
Great to see some progress, thanks guys. The "tool" you were using is "wire locking pliers" extensively used in the aircraft industry.
Cheers for the update. Looking forward to the progress. 🍻
No need for any apologies guys, you are completely up against it regarding the work needing to be done. Good progress in the last few weeks, I'm guessing you took around 200 tons of debris away too !! Love it, all sorted now, heading in the right direction at last. Wicked.
Good update guys. Getting out of the ground seems to be the toughest part. Nearly there
This year the gazebos are selling like water. Aug-Sep weather has been marvellous. Good luck with the digging!
Hi guys, welcome back 🎉
Brilliant work, looks nice and tidy, ready for the fun stuff! Cheers for showing us so much, all of it is interesting and helpful.
i use that locking wire tool to lock bolts in my car, i've had it now for about 30 years and thought it was very expensive when i bought it, but it's a great bit of kit
Great progress there. Blast from the past with those wire lockers, used them loads in the Air Force locking down connectors...
Another great video. Thanks for taking the time to produce and share these. Really informative, entertaining and great to watch. Nice job.
Great work as always lads
Well done guys, slow work but completely understandable for such a mammoth job. Adam’s plastic chair looks so lonely! I am sure it won’t be long now before he is sitting pride of place watching the rest of you work :-)
Cheers James
He’s gonna have to fight for it as Elliot has took it as he’s own 👍🏻
Can you send me some of your energy please? Great job thanks for the update can’t say enough about you guys. Regards Mike
Thanks for the continuing support Mike it means a lot to us. Have a good week mate 👍🏻
great video again
our BCO and warranty wont allow bricks to prop steel. have to use castles.
How would you price something like this? hats off to you. Lots of people on site for a long period of time, plus the cost of materials now 😳 hope the client has deep pockets 😁
Did you go to cornwall for your holiday?, if you did I think I saw you and your son in Asda bodmin on sunday. Norman ps love your channel look forward to Sundays.
I have a situation where a garden retaining wall is leaning due to last winter's excessive rain. It is not attached to the main house so not insured. Bear this insurance issue in mind if you are considering separating the wall from the house?
Question from an observer with zero knowledge - wouldn’t it be cheaper to just knock the whole thing down and start from scratch, sticking to the existing footprint? Would be built to newest regs, zero complications and got to be faster?
Not always that easy unfortunately. 👍🏻
Do you take out the bricks as there will be a point that will not be cover with concrete at the bottom if you don’t. I thought stand offs would be used designed to keep the point of contact to a minimum?
The concrete will be poured and go around the mesh as the concrete is poured. If the mesh sat on the dirt it would be right at the bottom close to the base of the footing which wouldn’t be ideal.
Why does the retaining wall foundations step in as oppose to remaining straight on the boundary?
Seem a real serious shame you weren't able to get a few squatters in whilst you were away in the hope they'd finally demolish the place eh! 😁
If only eh... that way you'd have been able to get some real bigger toys on site to get things moving. But thems the breaks. 😉 Just hope the clients last out the delays and don't cack themselves too much over the process.
Jeez the client has some money to do this , probably could of invested in a better property
Hi lads, I've got a samll issue I thought you guys could help me with. I've laid my OSB roof on my Dorma flat roof, I've left a 3mm gap between the boards but I'm worried about the gap lines showing through the rubber roof. I'm regretting leaving a gap now! Is there anything I can fill the joints with so the joints don't show through? Like a tape or filler/ sealant etc. Any advice would be much appreciated 👍 Cheers
Hello mate, hope you're well. We always try and leave a small gap too and we've never noticed it showing through so I wouldn't worry. If you like you could go for the thicker rubber but that's only thicker by point something of a millimetre and is more heavy and expensive so again I wouldn't worry. As long as all your board edges are flush and the fixed down with proper fixings like there's no tomorrow...then sleep easy my friend!
@mrabuilders6723 thanks for the reassurance matey, we've nailed it down with 60mm ring shank nails so it shouldn't be going anywhere, might add a few extra before we put the rubber roof on, just need a nice sunny day. Thanks for the reply 👍
No worries at all man, all the best.
So why is there a 'dog leg' in the retaining wall footings ?
We found out in a later video when it all went pear-shaped. Well spotted! 👍
Apparently the dog leg was to protect a tree and not undermine it's roots. I'm not sure if the dog leg was in the structural engineer drawings. But when the wall was built the customer was annoyed.....but this was one of several problems. Looks like customer dreams bumped up against the reality of the site and builder got the boot.
You mentioned Adam was no longer with you? Is that temporary or permanent? Rich and Adam are a great team, don’t want to to see the team split. That would be like when John Noakes split with shep the dog, or when Wallace left Gromit 😂😂
He was talking about Adams track barrow is my understanding
Sorry for the confusion I was talking about Adam’s breaker 😂😂👍🏻
That’s a relief.
Or Laurel without Hardy
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
The extension looks to be larger than the original footprint of the house.
Not quite but it’s a big one. Thanks for commenting 👍🏻
Mechanics use those on a regular basis
Still would’ve been better pulling it down get a proper machine and dumper in been quicker and cheaper + vat back on new build
what is hardcore? in my day it was what i danced to at a rave back in the early 90's ;). renovations are always hurry up and wait