Ground Work ~ How To Build An Extension #1
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2021
- A new Skill Builder project with James King and The Supreme Finishing Company.
Ian and James are carrying out the groundwork in the bitterly cold winter.
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#ExtensionBuilding #Foundations #Groundwork
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Great to see you taking the surface water out from the foul system
James is a very pleasurable fellow in front of the camera. I think its great that you respect the clients privacy and are still able to put together a video series. Looking forward to following it. Cheers.
Thank you for following.
Love seeing these from the start.
Best part of the work is before and after makes you proud of what you done
I am always explaining to people how much work there is in getting up to DPC. Customers always surprised how quickly the brickies can get the walls up.....after I have toiled in the dirt for weeks.
.. top video for groundworks. never remove it.. I watch it again and again .. gives so much confidence to the DIY'er
10 seconds in and i cant wait for this series!
Liking the look of this series and great timing. As a DIYer I’m early stages of planning a big kitchen extension this will give me plenty to think about as I idly fantasise about doing it myself. Ultimately I know we’ll end up deciding to get a man in but for the next few months I can pretend I’m going to do it.
Hahaha exactly the same for me.
Haha same here too, I always tell the Mrs 'I'll do it, it's easy'. Then call a bloke round about 2hrs into the job 🤣
😂😂😂😂so true
this is gonna be a top series this is
Clever way of finding the gradient of the land!
The dream team are back 👌🏼. Nice big project there . Love the 2 minute tip ..... any digging get Ian to do it . Get that man a brew ! 🥵🧱👍🏼
I am the chief tea maker on site!
Very good Video Rodger/James and Ian .....That introduction at the very start with James stepping out of the "Thunder Box" (Toilet) should have doctor Who music playing. Or maybe James is the "New Doctor". Very posh nowadays with toilets /Bog supplied years ago clients would not let you near the house to go to the Toilet think they thought guys in the building trade did not need to go. Remember on a small site the guy who owned the house took great pains to explain to the boss to not let any workers near his toilets. Guys had to run up to the pub and use their toilets. We went up for our grub at lunch time and someone bought one of those huge frankfurters (Long German sausages) and stuck it down the owners pan/ toilet. The owner of the house had a fit got hold of brother Danny who was boss at the time and took him through to the toilet and showed him this Sausage down the Toilet half sticking out. Danny looked down and got hold of Frankfurter /Sausage the owner nearly fainted (thought it was number two that one of the builders had left behind )...Happy Days as they say......good quip from James about banned from buying paint.
can we get a video on soakaways? a dark spot for me.
top work guys
It would be good to see a video specifically with soakaways discussed.
Another great video with James.
More to come! Keep watching the Friday night output
Haha like the window on the site hut
I suspected that James was a Time Lord. Nice work chaps, always a pleasure to see people happy at work.
Thanks for explaining why no rainwater into the sewer 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Keep it coming lads, I'll never finish my extension without these videos 👍
Another Excellent Building Project Lads👍
Especially the bit about been banned from the decorating stores 😅😂🤣👏👏👏👍
That pipe debur and chamfer drill bit looks awesome 👌👌👌🏴
Looking forward to the next one already. A great start to hopefully a great series.
Jurgen klopp living in a hire toilet since Burnley defeat.
Loool
Loving to see this work and skill, great attention to the details too!
Great guys at work here.
Great lad's, Keep up the Good Work 👍
Great video guys, loved the level tip looking forward to the series have a awesome weekend everyone all the best Tony 👍
Yes! A building series 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Lovely work as always!
Brilliant guys. Really missed the previous loft build so I’m looking forward to seeing this one develop 👌🏼🏴👍🏼
Your rapport really came through on this video, looking forward to further videos.
Great informative video look forward to seeing the build progress.
Love all the videos 💯👌🏻
8:06 inherited....builder talk for nicked it off my mate 😂
I'm a field service engineer for a vending machine company, we have lads I work with who moan when the machine isn't completely clean, and they get a little bit of grease on them. I should send them your way and get them doing some groundwork. Big respect, lads lovely job 👏
Great video
Great series more please. Will be good to see a brick soak away as just watched A and E builders put a crated soak away in will be good to compare
I agree that Top Knot is the way to go haha
Really good of you to redivert the rain water away from the foul drain. Not to bad that way round but when people put foul into the rainwater that really gets my goat. We have a brook in the park at the end of the road that was a complete mess prompting Thames Water to investigate the whole area and test every house. Lots of heavy fines handed out which was great news. Nice one lads and keep up the good work. Oh, and a big shout out to Ian!
I see that a lot where the foul goes into the surface water. On my bike rides in the countryside I often smell oveflowing septic tanks etc. People save the money and chuck the overlfow into the water course.
My father built an extensive French drain from his septic tank to get rid of the liquid waste. It was well over 200 foot long, gravity fed on a small gradient. It went out from a single drain and branched out into 7 branches in one of our fields where he had a reed bed. Obviously all the solids were pumped out by contractors. No smells @@SkillBuilder
First one from the start can’t wait 👍🏼
Love it
love the videos.
Thanks for the info about the 1:40 gradient for the foul drain. I live on a slope so I'll check this whenever I redo my extension.
It's the Banter everyone misses with this infernal Lockdown. Good start to a Saturday :-)
What a lovely work my friend
Regards
Faruk
If I win the lottery I’d like Roger, James and Robin to build me a house 😊
The teabag cost would bankrupt you
That would be amazing, you could watch it like a CZcams series 😂
@@davidhill431 and you wouldn’t have to wait until the end of the year to see all the bloopers!
A series on an extension is perfect for me, majority of our jobs are extensions.
If the majority of your jobs are extensions why look at how there done 🙄🔨
@@tomsmith9048 to learn something?
@@tomsmith9048 Because people who are passionate about their work enjoy seeing other people's approach and techniques to compare. Building follows some principles but these days there's many different ways to construct an extension just like e.g. chefs look at other chefs methods. You may learn something new. Enjoy your weekend
@@db7610 Got to know how to cook the books.
Exactly, cheers @D B. He’s not just gonna show step by step how they’re done, they’ll show different methods, usually a bit of a laugh and like d b said I can compare it to our jobs at work.
Great video, like the office window.. 😳.
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We are waiting for the curtains to turn up
@@SkillBuilder it has an osb curtain but we only remove it when the sun is out.
I like the look of the 110mm chamfering power tool attachment. I bet that saves tons of time.
Tools nowadays are brill we've used stihl saw for years just bevelled the edge with it . I want one of these trouble is I need London prices 😆
When a pro like James says a brickie is a good chap, he must be a really good brickie.
Hi Trevor
It is interesting because James initially judged the guy by his demeanour. Some of the people who applied were just rough guys, that may not mean rough work but maybe it shows a certain lack of pride.
@@SkillBuilder yes, don't want thugs onsite even if they do good work. I've always regretted hiring people I wouldn't invite into my own home - tools tend to get nicked in a midnight raid...
Great work from the lads, really looking forward to seeing how this one goes. Not seen Robin on the channel for ages, he packed in?
Nice
Looking forward to comparing this to the extension at #35A! 😀
You don’t get better Friday night entertainment then this. ( or are we just sad bastards ) 🤪
Neat tip with finding the 1 in 40 fall..
Lovely work as always guys. Roger gets the easy job again though.
True that! I have done my time at the coalface. Now I do the wobbly camera and annoy people.
The bit they missed, unless I did by accident, was drains. Where is the rainwater gutter down pipes going to go? Etc. I’d love to see a video specifically on new drainage.
So much work upto DPC people just dont realise do they.
Good video guys like tip for digging get someone else to do it 😂😂😂👍 bang on
Justin brickright 👍
Looking forward to this one since I'm mulling over whether to have an extension built myself.
Great series James and Roger. Question - how did you attach the floor joists to the block work? Cheers.
@12:40 Opposing hands, downward pressure, hip swing. Bit like the crux move on Johnny Dawes route. Quarryman in Twll Mawr, Llanberis, but with more grunting.
You now your climbing. Bloody hard route that.
@@SkillBuilder Hardest route I ever on-sighted was Face Route at Gordale. E3 6a. 28 years ago. Freed and aided classic N W face 1/2 Dome in Yosemite. Mad, impetuous youth that I was. Nowadays, I just grunt. Hey ho!
Thanks for another great video.
Why didn’t they lay the lintels straight on the foundations? I build extensions myself and I’m always interested to know how other people do things to see if I can make improvements on my own builds.
Love watching videos from James and Ian. Great workmanship and eye for detail. Do they have their own channel or page?
No they don't have their own channel. ..... yet
@@SkillBuilder I can’t see it happening 😂
I’d love to see how that soak away is done that way, I can’t bring myself to fork out for plastic crates for one I’m going to dig.
Could you guys do a job site table saw showdown, Just like you did with the plunge saws. loved that series and think it would be great to see it done with table saws. Cheers guys
Harry
A lof of people use tracksaws these days which does most of the work a table saw does. We will look at the market first.
Great work chaps, though us northern lads would of had that dug out twice as fast 😀
Ian is a Norhern lad, couldn't you tell by the way he tore into it? He comes from Appleby.
Good work Ian .. keep those southerners straight
Great video. any info on the architects used for this job?
That was interesting and entertaining, good information and a few laughs! Id like to have seen how the block wall was laid out and built, could you ask him to take it down again and rebuild it so i can see that? 😉 only kidding, Im looking forward to the next episode.
Plenty of block laying in the next few episodes.
Roger has done a previous video on setting out if that helps
That pile of rubble looks real nice with the yellow leaves at the back. You guys using a new camera?
There’s some exciting stuff coming up with that pile of rubble!
Great job fellas, you could may be talk about macerators at some point if you're skimming below ground drainage, to give hope to people with the wrong site / invert levels. Not ideal, but worth a mention eh?! Keep up the good work 👍
Yes that is certainly one for the future. Like you say, not ideal, as nothing is as reliable or cheap as gravity but at least we have them.
I’m a retired civil engineering draughtsman, new to skill builder and rubbish at new technology. I’ve worked on projects in Kent, and London all my working life. I hope Roger and James get to read this. I saw James’s latest building project and it immediately rang an alarm bell! The property is on Chalk, there is a seam of chalk that runs from Dover to Winchester, it’s called the Hythe Beds. This seam surfaces from time to time. Where it does it has certain impacts on conventional building practices. If a property is on chalk the LA will often allow surface water to drain to foul, as seen in this video. There is a serious reason for this. If surface water is allowed to discharge into a shallow soak away over time the acidic rain water will erode fissures in the chalk. Eventually a Sink or Swallow hole will appear with disastrous consequences. The engineering solution to this is Deep Bore Soakaways. Bore holes are driven deep into the chalk. A chamber sits at the top which acts as a reservoir, the rain water then slowly discharges to ground water level. Naturally this level of engineering is not going to occur in a domestic extension thus the surface water is allowed to discharge to the foul network. However it will all be approved by the LA anyway.
This chalk is way bigger than that seam. The whole of the North Downs is chalk and there are buildings that are over 500 years old and have never moved an inche. Chalk is a very good thing to build on. The slight acidity of the rain water will indeed help it to penetrate the chalk but so do the countless rivers and streams which criss cross the country side. As for the swallow hole this is true and the River Mole actually dives under ground in some places and then reappears. This is a bit of a nuisance if you are trying to make your way to the Thames in a canoe but that water has been running that way for a million years which is slightly longer than Roger has been around.. I would say that the run off from the M25 is a bigger cause for concern.
Fancy using that nice precision festool drill for groundwork operations🤣
It is a tool not an icon
I love that pipe deburrer, where's it from and how much.
Would like to see more video on that soakaway, isn't chalk very porous???
I would form some sort of holding tank there with overflow to soak away so I have a free water supply for the garden.
Couldn't work out the window in your shed, is it boarded over inside or is window just hanging on outside board??
Great vid. 👍👍👍👍😀
www.keahproducts.co.uk/keah-pipe-chamfer-tool
It’s an OSB curtain, I remove it to watch Ian digging while I drink tea.
Can't believe I've never seen one of those drill bits for the soil pipe before, gotta get me one of them.
They also do a smaller one for waste pipe . Keah is the name
Could you show construction of the honeycomb soakaway when you get to it?
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Good job lads i would use crates in soakaway as there designed to control the water dispersal rate
Even with chalky ground your still in danger of that clogging up aftertime doing it without crates
Hi Dave. There is nothing to clog up with the bricks
How well does water soak into that chalky ground?
Many years ago,I hand dug a soakaway and encountered solid wet clay,told the builder this and he went ahead regardless.☹️😔Of course,the water isn’t going anywhere!!
Could you please explain what is that Honeycomb soakaway? I need to build one soon and those crates are expensive
Are floating desks worth it?
Hey guys..
I’ve just got a plot up in Scotland and will be doing a complete new build… thing is I want to do as much of it as I can.
Is there a book that I can follow that takes me from ground works to ridge tiles and everything in between?
I will be using some tradesmen and I’m a sparky to trade but I’m on a budget (who isn’t eh?).
You should setup a time-lapse camera so we don't miss anything, James works so quickly he will be finished by the time Roger gets back to film 🎥 😀 😉
We have a time lapse on it.
Love the skillbuilder bids 👍🏼
Please can you tell me what's being protected from frost at 600mm? Thanks 😀
I think the idea is that at 600mm the ground is not getting frozen and then thawing so putting the bottom of the concrete on ground which is competely stable is a good precaution.
@@SkillBuilder makes total sense now! Thank you 👍🏼
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This is funny as my extension has just had the doors put on. This bit is a distant memory.
Is plain and simple hardcore not allowed any longer for soakaways?
At 10:04 what is he doing to the end of the pipe and what is the tool he is using?
3:20 It depends what surface area it's taking. If it's a floor gully taking a small area then routing it into the foul makes very little difference. RWP's taking main roofs should be separate unless it's a combined system.
Any chance of seeing the soakaway when done please?
I think we have footage later in the series
@@SkillBuilder Excellent! Thanks for the reply.
@@SkillBuilder When he says they will be using honeycomb bricks will they just be dumped in the hole? Laid out but not cemented? Laid out and cemented in place? Or something else? I discovered one for my rainwater recently and it appears to just be a load of old building rubble dumped in a big hole, it has probably been there 50+ years and seems to drain with no issues but I was curious how this one would be done as I read in a comment you made to someone else in the comments section that you aren't allowed to just dump a load of rubble in a hole these days and you said in the video you were planning to use crates which seem to be the modern solution. Thanks.
With every passing video I change my mind over which breed of dog his hair reminds me of
Is that a shaggy dog story?
Labradoodle!
Love watching your videos, can you assist me I am thinking of do external wall insulation and I am using EPS and I need to render it can I use simple cement what I use in normal mortar and what should be the ratio I should be using on EPS with mesh on it
If you haven't tried them yet talk to the EWI store in Chessington.
ewistore.co.uk/
They sell the bagged product and the mesh.
If you are going to the trouble of putting the insulation on then it makes sense to complete the job with materials that are made for the job.
There is a lot of choice out there and they will guide you to the right product for you. It might seem expensive but making a mistake is a lot more expensive.
@@SkillBuilder i wish I could but I live far from england . I reside in kashmir so I have only one option fiber mesh and Portland cement . I can try mixing lime in it. Please advise
wha is the goop you put on the pipes inside`s?
Thanks for the engineering bricks instead of crates in soakaways.
It was great to see you today Roger.
Andy you too my friend. Best thing about this channel is all the great people I meet doing really good work and enjoying themselves.
Our groundwork contractors have poured the trench-fill concrete in two levels in the sides of the public sewer line. Now there's a level difference of about 1 and half bricks (73mm bricks) between the sides where the lintel is to be laid. Is that normal in the industry? or is that a bad job?
hahaha i would like to see progress on this construction.
Thanks for answering the rain water question. Roger preempted me asking it. 😂
Is this a regulations requirement?
Hi Haroon, it is a regulations requirement when building an extension. You must fit a soak away at least 5 meters from the building. There are, however, a few exceptions where you can put it into the foul drain like if you don’t have enough land to come 5 meters from the building or it’s extremely impractical, for example we built an extension on a house that was on a hill, there was a small patio between the house and a retaining wall to hold back the garden which started at almost head height and continued to rise away from the house so to go 5 meters into the garden and dig a hole that would be 1.5 meters lower than the ground floor of the house would meant a pit of 5 plus meters deep!
Hi there can I ask you a question please on a some what related matter? I need to drill into my concrete floor (residential ground floor) to attach a fixing. I understand there is screed then the concrete then the DPM. How much depth do you think I have before I end up going through the DPM? I was thinking I drilling around 50mm into the ground. Hope you can help :) thanks in advance
Hi Christopher,
Your screed is likely to be around 50-75mm thick and the concrete slab should be around 100mm thick although occasionally the Dpm is between the concrete slab and the screed so be careful not to go too far. When you start drilling the screed you will likely feel a change once you have gone through it. Hope that helps.
@@jimichip really between screed and concrete! That must be rare, then again it's a Bellway home
What's that brown pipe? Some sort of special PVC? Don't have it in the US. And looks like pressure-fit joints rather than glue? Using soap paste on the joints or something? Can you explain why it's the preferred method of 'foul' piping?
Correct! It’s a plastic underground drainage pipe, the joints have a rubber seal just inside and it all just pushes together with the help of some silicone lubricant. It’s the most common and widely used underground drainage that we use over here but we do have other types.
Did James star in the Eddie the Eagle film?
does olimestone get eaten by anything? is it safe to buildon?
So that’s where my silicone drainage grease went !! Hahaha
It was in amongst all the bags of fittings you gave me. It’s like a never ending pot, I’ve been using it for years!
You have no use for silicone lube now.