Concrete Foundations - 35A Extension #1
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 22. 08. 2024
- The 35A Extension is our third project series and looks back at a single-storey extension that Roger worked on many years ago.
In Part 1 we look at turning a load of bricks and concrete into rubble with a hired in Micro Crush and the groundworks that take us up to preparation for the beam & block floor.
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15 years a groundworker. First time ive ever seen an inspector get in a trench!
Maybe because he was on camcorder!! đ
This is brilliant Roger, canât wait to see more of this . Proper warts n all site work
Thank you. Can't think why it has sat there for so long
I did a job one time, was deep in a foundation hole with drains poking out at head height; we told the occupants not to use the crapper for a couple of hours while we make adjustments to the pipework. Well, we heard the woosh of water coming down the 4 storey pipe and next thing we were being shot with shit pellets. Good times.
Loved this - shows what really happens in real life whether its now or 20 years ago - you make it work however you have to. Good job!
Great stuff. Any young hand that gets to learn from your team has truly been handed a blank cheque. Will never be out of work.
Thats the reason im here. Litterally blagged my self a groundwork job thanks many helpful videos like this. Its going well. The amount of content on you tube. Brilliant!!
Never gave up and no swearing with the trench collapse, well done Roger and co
wonderful good teaching skill no boring just a documentary, thank for expert work 10/10
Love your videos Roger, make the difficult jobs look easy, amazing!
Love your videos Roger, make the easy jobs look difficult, amazing!
It is eyes opener to high quilaty work.
I'm so glad I'm not the only guy that does this stuff. Sometimes feels like I am! Do use a pump wherever I can . Not knocking your work though everyone has their ways đ good video and keep up the diligence đđ
Thanks. I am not anti pump but when we did this job they were on massive great trucks. The mini pump on the back of a Transit was not around. Also we had the dumper truck paid for so why not make it work? We were about saving the pennies then. Come to think of it we still are though it is now difficult to bring an extension in under ÂŁ80,000 . Everyone wants ÂŁ180 per day minimum and the brickies and plasterers want ÂŁ220.00. Good luck to them but it all mounts up
Excellent Roger. This is great content. Loved the narration. Real problem most builders face!
Awesome!
def more realistic when the real problems are show! Im a fan of the old "yank the water main with the digger trick" Ive done at least 5 + 2 gas mains and one electric. Cant be avoided sometimes even with a CAT detector! great vids guys!
Mike P
As much as we try not to it is hard to avoid. I used to wrap the gas up with Denso tape and wait until the dig was over before calling them out. That way it is one just call and one charge.
Handy digging footings with a plumber
was a life changing video
Great video, great narration, great accent. I love the details of your videos
Old mate with his cigarettes what a legend.
Love the channel. Amazing what you can turn your hand to. Very enjoyable and appreciate all the work
This is what happens in real life. I've been so stressed doing mine and your vids gave me a fresh burst of positivity.
Thank you for the usefull video
Love your commentary Roger....
Really great entertainment Roger ! Better than TV mate..Excellent !! Men`s work brother LOL !!
Love it cant wait for instalment 2 .love the commentary and singing
Building inspector doing it for the camera!
We all do it for the camera
Please share your idea/opinion about the "trenchless foundation" trend. Personally, I prefer to stay with conventional/proven things rather than choosing new tech. But I wonder if it has actual advantages, more importantly a better durability/
We use to do it over the old red brick wall at primary school in 1940's 11:14
Great job đ you have a very good neighbor. Here in New Zealand, you have to delay the concrete. The people wouldnât allow any job after 6.đđđđ
That neighbour was one of the biggest bastards I have ever had the displeasure to meet. He made the whole job miserable. He wanted us to put that manhole inside the extension wall so he could get access to it. It was war from day one and, at one point, he assaulted the bricklayer. In the end we buried him under the patio but that's just between you and me.
Great Video! Glad I found your channel. Thank's for sharing. That inspector looks like Michael Potillo's cousin!
Lol, loving the commentry. Looking forward for the next episode
That was the best commentary Iâve ever heard hahahahaha classic đ€Łđ€Ł
cracking set of videos mate. very infotmative.
Brilliant, can't wait for more!
Thank you for your support
Very funny. Enjoyed the 'everyman' quality of the presentation and the snappy reportage'. How much Did Jason Statham charge to narrate
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Great video
Brilliant commentary
Nice one Roger. Loving the videos
Brilliant to watch. Keep them coming
Good learning curve here lads..đ is this a two storey extention, ? VERY deep foundation!! âïžâïžâïžâïžâïžâïž
Been there a few times, dicing with death with that dumper in such a tight space, sometimes best to do in 2 hits
Real world
What was Boris doing and yes inspector in a hole, who'd believe it....
I think all inspectors should be on site when the concrete is actually poured ... đ
That is a tricky
i like your style
Great video building as it is đ
6:02 The technical term "maintain his shit-run wunnit" lol
Great video of works đ
Loved it as usual fella, only thing i didnt like was that fire in the pit, if someone had fallen in there could have been very nasty
Roger excellent work fella, just out of curiosity how deep is the trench? it seems well deep!
Sharky
We usually say a metre deep and then if the inspector wants more down you go but the price is based on a metre dig.
turn that bucket around on the machine to undermine there lads feck doing it by hand
Looked like a stressful nightmare to me coupled with health and safety issues. Would it be done differently now or is that just the way it is? đ
Roger, how did you do with the soil at the bottom of foundation before pouring concrete? Did you do anything to compact the ground?
No the ground should be firm at that depth. If it isn't they ask you to dig down until it is. As this was chalk it was rock soild
@@SkillBuilder excellent. Thank you. Really enjoying your videos. đ
This one is brilliant :)
Good stuff Roger, got to be careful with backfilling footings when those arisings are right next to the footings. Was this in Colchester??
yes in Colchester, well spotted.
Would pumping the concrete be a better solution or would it be to wetđ€
Pumping is good but when we did this job there were no mini pumps so you had to have a big one and that was over ÂŁ300 for the morning. We had the dumper on hire and it is a small job so we decided to use it. Now you can get mixers with built in pumps so we often use those.
Enjoyable video
He is just going to a board meeting. Praise the lord.
I see all the crew, Nicola, Dylan also.
elf and safety be dammed!
I dug about 2 feet under the house footings (one corner of the house) to pour 40cm of deep concrete than put a concrete block 30cmx30cm of diameter to jack up the house levelling but at this depth clay is softer than where the original footing is. If l pour concrete than level it would it be ok or what is your advice? I need help. Thank you
What year was all this
How quick and easy would that have been with a concrete pump?
Simon
I can tell you that when this job was done concrete pumps on the back of a Transit did not exist. It would have cost ÂŁ300 for the pump alone and we had the dumper on hire. Not a huge job on a 36sq mtr extension.
The building inspector looks like Max Bygraves with a blonde rinse.
Blimey old school
Things really have moved on
Not much đđ
âToo quickâ âdoesnât matter we can just cuddle. â
How deep and wide was the foundation?
Bloody hell an inspector in the footings?!! That's got to be rarer than dodo crap!
No rebar in the concrete?
Why was the building inspector hammering the stake in the bottom of the trench?
To test for soil density
Brilliant! Love it!! how on earth you keep fit for that kind of work?
you work
Why is the soil pipe mounted on the facade?
England, we like to look at plumbing.
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What year was this Roger?
It's the lived in look
I was born old, a little .wizened baby force fed with National Dried Milk living in an asbestos prefab.
Quelle équipe de bras cassés
You sound like Roger Daltrey!
Dave, you won't get fooled again. What a band! I have seen them loads of times back when Keith Moon was on drums.
Great video mate. Roger looks like you haven't aged a minute.......not!
Frank
What are you going to do? I was thinking about a facelift but they said it was too big a job.
Jasus Roger you have not aged a day.
Yea he looked ancient back then too!
Keep digging keep smoking - ace
No pumper?
You looked like Gordon Ramsey back thenđ€Łđ€Ł
Love the video, refreshingly honest. Great site! What year was this? I'm guessing 1997?
The cement truck is 04 and looks rather new!
In 20 years of being a groundworker, ive NEVER seen a bco get in a trench
0:29 - Steve Jobs was into part-time construction...who knew
Brilliant! I just had a lol. Introducing the Apple Crusher.
@@SkillBuilder Haha, good one!
Great video. Love the commentary. One question though, shouldn't the foundation have rebar?
Highlighted comment
Wayne Leone
Hi Wayne
I the U.K it is not the done thing to use rebar in domestic foundations of this sort. In many other parts of the world they do but then they tend not to dig as deep. We dig down to something firm, which can be 2 metres especially if there are trees around.
Later in this build you will see where we changed the whole design of the foundations and built in a ground beam to take the back end of the house because we weren't happy with the way it had been drawn. We had a really useless architect (more of that later) and he failed to spot several things that he should have.
Skill Builder thanks. I was thinking you guys were quite deep alright. Looking forward to the next episode.
Can we ask, if this was before youtube, why were you recording a building job like this?
Just wondering.
These vid collections you do of jobs are a good watch. Just wondering, why, before youtube, you were recording like this?
The client is a professional video maker and works for a number of clients. It was merely a record and, since it had no value back then, the filming tailed off significantly as the project proceeded.
Was that Robin Garton? - ha ha wow it's a small world if it is.
Nowhere to hide. They are the brains behind Skill Builder
Type 1 isnt the same as (crush an run)recycled brick..and that dumper isnt two year old so how long you trying to say this was?
I know Type 1 isn't the same as crushed hardcore but the point is valid. I don't understand the point about the dumper. The video was made around twelve years ago
This is funny comment of the week
the building inspector looks like he got his codger out at 6:22
Ha Ha. Good one tell the student there are ruins in the ground so he digs the footings out for you looking for them.
Roger, was using a concrete pump out of the question?
No not at all but we are not talking about a lot of concrete and we had the dumper truck on site so, maybe 15 trips (tops) with the dumper truck and it was done. Concrete pump would have been about ÂŁ2500.00 We tried hard to keep the costs of this job down. Our biggest bill was Chinese take-a-ways.
Skill Builder ÂŁ2500 for pump? That's crazy money, I use pumps regularly for doing my basements, but only paying around ÂŁ400 Inc vat, still waiting for you to come up to Leeds as promised few years ago, you might not remember now, we are Back to basement, you have mentioned you might do an article in PB,
Regards
Rubi
and that's where most of the money goes
Colchester? Is that where this extension is?
Sorry we can't say. Client confidentiality
Skill Builder are you from around here tho? Still working in the colchester area?
wheres that digger?
I want to do ground work cource could you tell me plz where which college can go
I have never heard of such a thing. It is one of those things that you learn on the job. You can do a basic building course which includes setting out etc.
Work for a multitradesman or a brickie and you will no doubt be involved in groundwork, fresh out of school you will be made to do all the digging đ€Ł
Has this guy been on TV, I recognise his voice? Is he the guy that does the B&Q guides?
It's jason Statham
@@jp-lw5gl oh yea, thanks
Nah haha it's not really it just sounds like him when he uses a British accent
@@jp-lw5gl No, it really is Jason Statham. I can tell when you lie
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God you look young there
On that job I was around 50, the same age Robin is now and he looked like a kid on this job. We all grow old
You had no pump available?
This was back in the day before mini pumps so a job of this size didn't warrant it. Doing it now when you can get a batch mixer and pump in one is a different proposition.
Concrete pump?
Yes we could have but the small ones weren't around back then so you are looking at ÂŁ300 and we had the dumper which was a ÂŁ100 for the week.
Skill Builder what year did you do this job?
Ive got a crush on you ,sweetie pie đđđđđđ
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