The Big Build Digging foundations, shuttering bad ground and pouring concrete
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In this Episode of The Big Build we tackle the groundworks and foundations. We started by identifying all underground services and drains that may be in our way before we started to use our excavators to dig the trenches for the concrete foundations.
Although we tried our best not to hit the incoming water main we did hit it and it was really close to the surface and not at the correct regulation depth, I knew it was a plastic pipe and we cary fittings to repair these so its a simple job !!
Our excavations where really nice and in clay, there was a delay of a few days between our excavations and the concrete arriving onsite mainly due to a bank holiday and also delays because of the national cement shortage, there was rain forecast in the time between us finishing the excavations and the arrival of the concrete so following some signs of the trenches slipping I took the decision to place some trench support shuttering to support the sides of the trenches.
Working in trenches can be dangerous and all precautions should be taken when working in these by means of trench supports and other advised methods
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I've noticed a variety of DIY videos, and then there are Robin's videos, which showcase next-level complex engineering and carpentry skills. It would be amazing to see Robin tackle complex national projects one day.
That would be good but...... take this example... near me in Surrey a National Trust stately home was destroyed by fire I recently read that after spending millions on consultancy fees and feasibility studies they are not going to restore the building, I know for a fact for the money spent already on this I could have had that roof built and back in the dry and done the consultancy for free along the way!!!!
@@ukconstruction That's a valid point. Sometimes the bureaucracy and expenses involved in large-scale projects can be staggering. It's unfortunate to hear about the National Trust stately home in Surrey. Practical solutions and efficient management are definitely needed in such cases.
I've been building for 18 or so years but still like to watch how other people do things to learn new ways to improve on what I'm doing 👍
I’m 16 and just starting I did terribly in school because I have no intrest but now I’m working I love learning at work
An easy way to do your levels is to put nails in the shoring before the pour at the level you want so you don't have to messing with the laser while you're raking the concrete.
Exactly
A lot of shuttering joiners will give you loads of tips. 1. Make you trench wider, shutter as you did, but use horizontal & vertical 4x2 or 5x2 along the outside, wedge/block them in to brace them against the soil, spray apply shutter release oil on face of ply/OSB, remove shuttering 2/3 days later, quickly back-fill & tamper voids solid. 2. Keep your feet clear so you don’t go over on your ankles. 3. On longer/bigger foundations, put a rope near the end of the concrete hose, it’s easier to manoeuvre it without hurting your back. 4. Hilti drill for concrete, nothing else compares. Wire brush (from Hilti) the holes bored for rebar. Etc, etc.
That is what I like to see and hear. plenty of dialogue and what every man has to do and what needs to be done. plenty of commutation so every man is on the same page. "plan what to do and then do the plan" nice one
I really enjoy your videos Robin. You're a great presenter and tradesman.
Having lunch and a Robin Clevett vid pops up .... good day so far!
Can’t beat a Friday evening video with Robin, looking forward to the next episode! Hope the weathers slightly better where you are than here in the midlands! I’ve just beaten the weather with my current garden room project. 🍻
Lovely job Robin! Sat here with my kids (girls, 11 & 9) - and we're all enjoying watching a master at work. Really looking forward to the rest of this series!
The sound of the concrete pouring reminds me of a Friday/Saturday night “doon the toon” in Newcastle after chucking out time.
Thanks Robin. Great insight into groundwork’s. You’re so diligent!!
So excited for the next episodes! Nice work and many thx to you Robin from Germany, you motivated me to get Projects started with the right attitude. Been following you for a year, never miss an Episode. Thank you!
Perfect timing. Just building my first house myself with footings beings dug in the next 3-4 weeks. Both in clay and with a section requiring a separate dig and pour along with dowel rods.
Great as always. Thanks
Awesome I've been waiting for this to start, this will be a great build for sure...
Super Robin! I love how well planned so no stress on site - actually fun!
Hi Robin, great to see you have another project underway. Look forward to seeing how you get on. C
Fantastic video. You are a very good presenter and the content is excellent. Great tips as well. Thank you.
Your attention to detail is amazing top notch tradesman you are Mr clevett
This is a brilliant series. Thank you to Robin and his team for taking the time to produce these. I love your abundance and I hope you pick up lots of 'cred' and business from it too. I am looking forward to watching ALL your videos - 'You Da Man' Robin! Thanks again. Regards Neil
Another fine job sir.
A man of many talents.
Loving the channel mate, really nice to see the process throughout. Well thought out work and no panic. Concrete work is lovely but can sometimes become a cause of great stress because of bad planning
Really enjoyed that detailed video Robin. Really interesting thanks.
Great method with the removable shuttering supports, nice work
Good one, great to get the concrete in without to much fuss, didn't see any reinforcing mesh going in 👍☘️🇮🇪👋
Doesn't look like it would need need reinforcement in this situation. There isn't a one size fits all, contrary to what some builders think, if no reinforcement was fitted then it clearly didn't need it (especially given he has videoed it and put it on YT for all to see), BC would have approved what is being done. Being on the design side of buildings, engineering consultancy, we design each detail on its own merits unless it is a very common detail. Reinforcement isn't needed in founds like this probably 60% of the time.
As I’ve said on Instagram I’ve been looking out for this video all week and here she is! Clevett getting down and dirty too!!! Production levels have taken off and so good to see such a long video. More please mate. Large vids and small we want the lot
Agreed, loving the production quality Robin. Mics are tip top. Loving the detail.
Great video Robin, thanks
Great job as always Robin!
Wow - I built a workshop down the garden on a raft - just 1ft deep at the edges and 4" in the middle using that ballistic concrete with thousands of steel spring like things in the mix - your foundations seem huge- great to see you training a lad
No cutting corners, everything spot on, and well thought out👍
Thanks 👍
Great to see you added extra self levelling compound
I love the English trades informal planning meetings - the most important thing needed is having hands in pockets while you’re listening 😂. Thorough work as ever Mr Clevett.
Heavy clay ground, great video series so far and looking forward to seeing the build progress
Cleanest footing I've ever seen! Brave man stepping into project management!
I like project management!! Been doing it for many years now!!
Robin great work and great to watch
Fair play to the young lad he seems kean and enjoying work👍
Great video, I’m going to be hopefully doing my foundations soon on my build.
So tidy. Great work...
A Very clean site Robin, enjoyed the video very much. 👍
"OK MATE" lol.
Brilliant alot of info from these videos.
Starting my own extension soon no experience in foundations!
Great video - thanks! Can confirm - concrete is NOT self - levelling! Key is concrete bloke - some are helpful - some are not - makes a big difference. I've not see such fancy shuttering. Very nice work!
Tidy site is a safe site, line pump a time saver. Good forward planning Mr C....
Robin you are incredible! Love watching this channel!
Cheers mate!! Thanks for watching!!!
Even his footings are immaculate!!
Loved it!
Thanks so much for sharing this 👍
IMHO a master class 👍👏
I've been concreting for 40 years and I could not find fault with that mate 👍👍👏👏
Thanks Rob, really kind to say mate cheers!!
Great video!!
Great work Robin to you and your team. Word of warning with chemical fixings. We were on a job and were using loads of that stuff but couldn't get enough of one brand so got different ones. On one fixing we used 2 types which when mixed got seriously hot, VERY very quickly, and resulted in a gas cloud. Not kidding. And we were working inside. The smell was very overpowering resulting in everyone running outside. Stupid move really as i should have known better but there you go, lesson learnt. Took the rolliking on the chin and moved on. DONT mix chemicals! Cheers guys.
Blimey!!!! I never knew that could happen, great advice and thanks for sharing!! I will never mix brands in the same hole knowing this!!!
thanks for the video, learning alot!
Interesting to see different approaches to the building game. we have used a similar method where we moved the OSB once the crete sets. The depth of clay and matrix of the clay often a factor in where we and how we proceed with the build. Not knowing the geology and where the build is going should make for a interesting series ahead but its good to see a little on the fly decision making in the process making it to the Directors Cut.
Great detail nice long video
Just found your channel, very good practical procedures, subscribed.
Blimey, look how neat that foundation trench bottom is, at 7:20, no problem there with Building Control. Right decision to shutter; I noted the change from clay to sand, at 7:38, just before you came in to discuss it = good video making.
The halfway pumping the dust out made me recall "It's all in the wrist action"
Just home cuppa and this pops up yippee happy Friday 😊
Nice job 👌
Great info.
brilliant video i hope all this build is going long detailed videos
Lovely work! Really wanted that kid to just move the hose instead of watching Robin rake up the Concrete! 😂😂
Text book. Nice work
Thanks mate
Great guy , very clever as well .
Keep it up 👍
Thanks 👍
Friday night. Watching concrete being poured. I WANT TO BUILD STUFF NOW.
Brilliant as usual, educational. Get yourself a few planter moulds of various sizes to use up the excess concrete. Imitation stone troughs sell for really good money. You do not have to clear up the waste concrete. A few minutes loading the moulds gives you a very nice payday the next day. You can even use plastic bags to line a cardboard box inside a larger box or wood off cuts. Enjoy and learn watching your posts.
Great Idea Keith!!!! I have never considered doing that! We always have about 2 or 3 good barrow loads left!!
Robin it has just occurred to me looking into moulds available for you. Given your stature commission a series of garden gnome mini Robins, say level in hand, hammering,wheel barrowing, digging, brick laying etc. A good artist could make the originals then you cast silicon moulds. You fans and clients would love them. Idea meant only out of kindness I really respect your work and presenting skills. I would not say no to a slice of the profits though. Best wishes Keith.
Good to see Robin getting down and dirty
What a great series this is going to be! Watched the stairs - so now back to the beginning - which is great as we are just planning an extension to our smallish Cape Cod & you explain things so clearly and logically - the designer will be here in the morning & in a perfect world what we'd like to do is a bit similar to your plans - just much more modest! Great to see the footings & foundations & wonder how it'll compare to Australian Rules! Tends to be a bit of a different ballpark! Cheers!
Hope you enjoy it!
Great job Robin, and always a relief once you can start to get out of the ground.😎
I had no clue you had your own channel buddy! Always love watching your stuff on Roger's youtube, so buzzing to find your channel!
Keep up the great work buddy! 👌👌😄😁
Awesome! Thank you!
Belt & braces as always Robin 👏👏👍
i love that the bi says you need to remove all the shuttering. its like they have never poured a footing, oh yeh they haven't. how are you supposed to get a 4 x 8 sterling board out of the ground with 3 cube pushing on it?
Robin, that initial blast of concrete shouldn't be placed in the forms - it's mostly water used to lubricate the pump hose.
Wasn't that much at all
Good Old Central Plant Hire, Loving seeing the steps here Robin Very Impressed.
Keep up the great work.
"Nice to be in the Sun"
"Its Better in the Daughter"
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Those are some serious footings for a small house
That little pump for the dust was awesome 😂
Great video, I’m learning so much 👍🏻 do you leave the wood shutters in? Thanks
Did footing just like this. It kept raining and the sides falling in so we shuttered it all and you can just leave it in there.
Lovely job, would it be more cost effective timewise to order acouple lengths of extra rebar and use them to sprag the shutter? Just thinking they wouldn’t have to come out just pour away👍🏻
great video mate. gave me an idea for footings im going to have to tackle in the near future in reactive clay.
do the surveyors/inspectors care if the boards stay inside the footings like you've done here ?
The base of those foundations didn't look very firm ? Did building control require it to go any deeper? Would you have considered vibrating the concrete because they were really deep?
Rather surprised how wet your concrete mix is. In the USA, footings and stem walls would be poured with about a six-inch slump and vibrated.
The best bit is the briefing. They get Sir Alex Ferguson to teach on the MBA course at Harvard Business School. They should get you to teach the trainee officers an RMA Sandhurst. At the RAFC Cranwell they used to use the mnemonic SMEAC for field briefings; where C is check of understanding. It should have been SMEAT. T = Tea! Excellent demonstration of a site briefing and management.
Mate, if I could anything to our amazing armed forces then it would be my honour, thanks for watching and commenting!!!
Where you put the starter bars in put lintels across the joint in the deadwork
I'm really enjoying it Robin. Listening to u educate, facilitate and entertain is excellent!! The terminology is quite different. But I'm getting it. That is one hefty foundation. I think the earth moved a little on its axis as u finished it up. Do u usually use the same camera person? R the sewer pipes going to b in concrete also?
awesome
Should have put a step in the concrete lapp the next pour over it with some rebar over it your way it can still flex forming crack in above work
Nice when you get a ‘lovely bit of gear’
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Robin in the muck again not seen you in this since first capel build hope your not putting those strides in the washing machine well done lovely job .
do you have to keep the concrete wet for a few days after the pour to stop it drying out to fast? im not sure if its really warm enough yet for that though. i remember pouring pouring a concrete slab last year for my new shed workshop and the neighbours were always asking why i was watering it during the day
Better than all the crap on tv Robin 👍👍👍👍
Love the drainage comment everything can come out “even the kitchen sink” 🤣
10:20 Robin after a mad sesh..
Excellence.
Hi Robin - do you remove the OSB shuttering after the concrete has cured or leave it in?
Tidy setup.
Always wondering if the OSB can be left in the footing. It definitely does creates some void space between the concrete and the surrounding ground and some degree of strength will be lost but probably is it negligible and can be discounted if the loads on the foundation remain typical for a 2 storey residential house.
Hi Robin,
I enjoyed this video, I'm always looking for ways to improve the foundation stage on my projects. I was wondering is it ok to leave the ply on either side of the foundations?
Look forward to your reply.
Jatinder
Do you leave the side plywood in the ground after the job is done ?
Just wondering why you didn't put any steel bars in to the concrete?
Hi what is that level called and also how do you take the OSB out after the foundations have cured
Great video Robin, really enjoyed it.
Also what brand of chemfix did you use to fix the rebar in the foundation please?