How to build your own annex, the footings disaster and pouring concrete, Part 7
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Welcome to all and I want you to keep in your mind, this is real life, no fancy editing, no retakes, you are watching real raw footage.
If you are new to my channel, I stay true and keep things real, if its bad, you know it's bad!
If it's a win, you'll know the win when it happens.
Building can go smooth, it can also turn to a massive pile of badness, I've always been a firm believer, what makes you different is how you can adapt, and jeez, I'm having to adapt as I run here.
Half way there now, I can see the light🤓
The rain got me and it's cost me!
To the guy who said about the visqueen on the side of the trench, mate, you are a star!
Great to see John and Paul, shame the budget doesn't include a team with me.
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For anyone feeling low and like they can never catch a break, they should watch you for inspiration cos that's what a shining example of resilience and triumph over adversity looks like. Well done mate 👏🏼
Thanks mate, it’s been a tough one, but I can see the light
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you should 100% do a live stream from a window in your garden 247 on twitch id watch it... 100%
Enjoying the new videos, a time-lapse camera on the whole project set up on the house would be a good watch?
Great to see you in good spirits in this one Liam, good to have the lads for company and banter. We should be in for a dry few days now so hopefully some more progress for you.
Your mood changed when you had your mates around laughs and good banter.
Talking to yourself in your garden has a different vibe mate
I’m a bricky and I feel like it’s not stopped raining last 2 years
My brother scaffolds on site, he said the Brickys have never known a year like it 😭
@@thegardenroomguru Geoengineering clouds
Given dry next 10 days yippee
Miss John and the rest of the Gang the 2 boy's Well earned the 2 trays of Free Beer 🍻 💪💪
Good Mate's 👍 Piss taking like out time's 🤣😂🤣 ❤ the Banter on this Video, have the Boys around More! They bring ☀️🌞🔆😎😎
Liam you have made my day watching you having a bit of laughter instead of doom and gloom with the rain ! I've been in stitches here when you said you couldn't get out of the trench 🤣.
the struggle is real mate😭🤣
Love the video, correction love all the videos… keep it up fella 💪🏼💪🏼
Thanks , appreciate it’s not team based and often low key, but it’s true to life, appreciate your input mate
Big fan, loving this series. Now you are a highly skilled tradesman, years of experience and knowledge and can work around all manner of problems, when this series compares to Colin Furzes bunker, car park and tunnels he must be a one of a kind….as are you, but man it’s made me appreciate some of the channels content on UA-cam.
Hard work on your own mate could you not get a youngen to pass the spanner’s
When i was doing my walls footing - my dad came and helped as he is the ex-builder. He used to do flood walls for the environment agency - and pour concrete into footings under water, the concrete still sets.
I already can't wait to see the next instalment and that's what it's all about. Concrete day tomorrow!
You'd have been a bloody legend in the trenches during WW1 Liam
Blackadder goes forth 😂
@@thegardenroomguru And John is Baldrick with a cunning plan? 😂. Seriously though, no longer any need to be up to your knees in wet muck, you're going to be able to enjoy the next phases of the build. Looking forward to he next installment.
I'd have lobbed those pieces of concrete post into the trench and covered it with concrete.
Just Keep Going You Will Get There And When Its All Done You Will Look Back And Reflect On What You Have Achieved With A Sense Of Pride
Looking forward to this series liam. Do you not need rebar in the foundations?
not that I know of mate, I told the inspector my plans and he was happy with them
To get that done in that much rain is class Liam , looking forward to watching the rest 👍
Well i must say the no swearing lasted a while, not, and since also see john staying within the 100mil rule, couldnt count 2 block and cavity till 250
Im not understanding all the batterns that u marked for level? Why not just make a tamp with ur lazer reciever on and u just level it as its poured...
main reason is I'm expected to barrow with these guys mate, its standard practice to put some kind of batten at height in the trench pal
@@thegardenroomguru been doing groundworks/ footings for 15 years seen it done a few times with rebar etc.. not saying its wrong or knocking u... respect what your doing 100% but for ease and speed stick ya recieving on a made tamp... rake the gear about and tamp to level...
Like every good craftsman never gives up regardless the weather
Thanks for all the info, I've been stuck in planning for almost 20months and just got my plans approved. Hopefully at some point this year ill be digging footings too so watching this gives me useful ideas. Hopefully i get better weather ha, good luck m8 and keep going
Good luck with your project mate, hope the sun shines on you
Shutter UP. Good to see somebody who knows what they’re doing LOL. Nice to see John and Paul. Good and rough ha.
Great vid. I know the pain. Looking forward to the next stage.
Hi Liam keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall
Carnt beat giving ya mates aload of stick on the job , nowt but laughs gets you through the day 😂😂👍
I feel for you Liam. But progress is being made. Fingers crossed for you with the weather. 🤞👌
think everyone who knows anything will agree that this looks like a train wreck from start to finish. But we've all had these jobs and what matters is the end result. Getting out of the ground and starting to build will make all that difference.
Personally. I'm loving all the videos!
It was great to see you laugh again Liam, Get your mates around more often bro, at least tell them you will share your future lottery win with them lol.. Keep er lit man
Good work Liam. Are you working on your own house or is it a client?
It’s my house mate, that’s why I’m alone, just doing this now atm
I started a self build last may. We had a heatwave at the time of digging the footings...turns out that was the only i would have...pissed down ever since! Feels like it never stops for sure.
Good lunch with faze 2 i hope the weather gets better for you
Can i ask why you didnt do just a thicker guage rod system for the base or is it too much heavier duty of a build.best of luck with it
the build will be block and brick mate
Hopefully this is the hardest week or so out the way, however I think you need to get yourself a swear jar, after your last video and youtube swearing/monetisation 😂
😬it’s been a tough one! I promise I’ll do better
@@thegardenroomguru I don't doubt it, I was keeping track for the first few minutes I think it was 3 so I'm sure 1/min is ok for UA-cam right? :)
Fuck that love the swearing 🤬😂😂
@@staceyismine yeah, but it's his job now and he needs to follow the rules to get the money, otherwise how else will he sell his Only Plans Calendar?
Fab progress, Liam, what with all the rain and fence collapse so be proud if what you've done. Good to see John too x
Liam can I please ask what brand of cordless power tools do you use?
I've always been Makita mate, the impact and combi drill are ergonomically perfect, they haven't got the power of Milwaukee, but IMO a far superior. The battery platform are good, they just let themselves down badly with the nailers, 1st and 2ndfix, with these, I prefer Paslode.
Thank you so much, Liam. BTW although I am now registered blind, I am the fella you inspired to build his own garden. I am a qualified civil and structural engineer and your building inspector as a nutcase to ask for deeper foundations when looking at your neighbours tree, which appears to be in another county LOL 😂
Enjoying the build! Nothing like troubleshooting on the fly when you’re down on options. Keep up the good work 👍
150mm cavity, bloody crazy regs😮
Love your videos Liam raw and real just like life keep it up mate 💪
you continue to be an inspiration Liam.i hope happier (and drier) days ahead for you.
Raft foundation, would have been a nightmare, digging out way more, which you need to store for back fill, stone, trying to get a roller in that hole. Steel, alot of concrete, then build the substructure, backfill it all.
Its not ideal to do in a confined working area.
Ultimately Liam, you just got f****d by the inspector and the weather which you just cant odds.
thanks for this mate, lots of people saying you should of done this or that, with no explanation as to why, appreciate your content.
Can’t wait to see the finished product brother, you’ve got this man
Looks like you've had a lot of fun, even with all the set backs
Would have been nice to see the inspector falling over to was a Benny hill style comedy bit to the video 😁
Missed it mate, but even when he fell, I felt only his pain 😬it’s been a tough week🤦🏻♂️
@@thegardenroomguru Regarding your troubles with the shuttering, I can't remember which Robin Clevett video it is but it was on his series with the piggery rebuild where he used a system where you didn't need any screws to hold the noggins in
No help now I know but worth it for the future 👍
Raft, piles you would have been
In the same situation Liam . Waters the nightmare not alot you can do . Hindsight is brilliant . Sometimes you get lucky and get a dry window other times you dont . Keep going always like watching you !
Cheers mate, it’s blazing 🥵 now and no digger on site 🙄
Great video, thanks
It would be a good idea to backfill your shuttering so it doesn't blow out
I tried this on the 1st day, snd the 11mm osb caved in when it rained mate
Atleast u have the concrete in now as u say the rain spoilt it
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How many stories is your tower block going? Was it easy to get planning permission for a rear garden multi storey building? If you look on UA-cam you will find a chap who builds garden rooms with piles.
insane isn't it
Yeah the weather is totally rubbish hopefully it will get drier...fingers crossed 🤞I sanded my 64 year old wooden siding on my house a week ago and I am still waiting for it to stop raining so I can paint it!! Keep up the good work Liam don't let the weather spoil your day/week/ month however long the bloody rain will last!
Fingers crossed!
Love the videos !!
Glad you like them! thanks mate!!
However this project turns out (and I'm sure it'll be ace) this is the best, most honest and most important content you'll ever upload.
This feels like a real, proper, honest journey... Unfiltered, warts and all.
Us blokes need more of this... Thank you mate.
appreciate your comment mate
What brilliant videos Liam! Including warts and all mate. On the positive side it’s for yourself so losses you will gain on your property. I watched a good lot of your garden room videos when I was building my own (30m2) so gained lots of tips. As a time served carpenter I decided to build my own side and rear extension on my house. Now completed few years this brings it all back!! The pure s**t you encounter bud it’s a struggle to look out of the window let alone get on with it!
You have the stamina to complete, fair play Liam 👍🏻👌🏻👊🏻
I'm too old for been in a trench trying to get a handful of sloppy clay off a shovel thats for sure mate🤣
Thanks for the videos
It's safe to say your definitely going to hit your weight goal climbing in and out of that bastard😂once all your concrete is in you can breathe abit
its not easy🤣
Must have very understanding neighbours 😉👍
Great progress, good to see you having a win with the weather
Apparently the warmest Spring and May on record would you believe it. Loving the build and your honesty as always.
The tropics are also warm, but they have very wet seasons. It may have been warm, but it has been the wettest year we have ever had.
Liam it had to be soul destroying when it rain's but your enthusiasm for what you want will see you through mate. 💪💪
Hope so mate
Imagine the men that would dig by hand
Great to see John and you having a laugh 😊
Raft/slab option? Deep footings in that confined space seems like a nightmare.
Nightmares almost over 😬
Like a scene from the Somme !
Looking good nice too see John and friend 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴☘️☘️🥃🥃🥃
Top man always a positive attitude
Well done for showing it like it is. Weather has been terrible this year. Great to see you get round problems.
Thanks 👍
Hi Liam, I feel your pain. I’ve doing doing a massive build on my own house for two years now, getting out of the ground is the hardest part, covered in crap all day including all your tools!
my drill looks unrecognisable mate😬
@@thegardenroomguru I can see that! 🤣
Looks like your loosing the pl0t calm down
Read the description
Good to see John naking a cameo appearance
Best tradesman by far look forward to every episode have a great weekend mate
Thanks, you too!
Good to see the lads back keep going Liam your a star
Thanks 👍
Your the Fred Dibnah of the garden room business
So the gym is not needed for awhile LOL. Bless you mate.
can't even get out of the car when ive been sat in it for a bit mate, gym can wait 😭
its such a wet year
Is it ok to leave the osb and timber work in the ground ?
yes mate
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What happened to the garden room business
went under last year
Nightmare
Worst May, I can remember
Horrendous mate
If was doing normal foundations 1m deep and the rain didn’t come would it still require shuttering? I’ve never had any experience with foundations footings etc.
Footings are usually around 900mm deep, or to the depth of the original footings if your extending, with concrete layed to a minimum depth of 225mm. If the banks aren't caving in, you dont need shuttering. 👍
Thanks Stephen appreciate that👍
Your welcome. 👍
no mate, just my bad luck created this scenario. my drawings show 1mtr depth footings with concrete at 450mm
Never heard of having to have 450mm concrete. Usual deprh is 900mm with 225mm concrete or until you hit more solid ground if its still soft after 900mm. Strange why architect has asked for 450mm. I usually tend to flow concrete higher than 225mm anyway as blocks, labour and cavity fill you might as well flow higher. 👍 good luck with the build. 👍
Fair play to you Liam 👍
Thanks mate
100mm block + 150mm cavity + 100mm brick = 450mm 😂😂😂
he counted it 3 times before it registered😭🤣
Where has the 'global warming' gone? lol
It ain’t leeds bound