we got a spider on my head yeah it's sort of like a zombie spider mummified spider
just got brown here I want to know something why does this keep happening to me why do
I keep getting jobs where I have to dig foundations underneath the house we had that Bungalow
job where we had to Chisel into volcanic rock in order to add a foundation and then the
very next renovation we had to re-pile the entire backside of the villa and now that
I bought my own house here I am again crawling under a house to be fair I always had help
working under these houses and this time I have help again
you guys ready to dig under the house yeah sure I was ready yesterday I was going to
come midnight this isn't a job I'm interested in learning about actually so you're on your
own we need to get ready for the foundation of this beam and that involves going under
the house and digging a 700 mil deep 700 mil wide by 700 more wide oh under a post that's
the problem room that we want to get rid of and it's one end of the beam so you've got
that one post over there and then you come all the way over to here and in line with
this wall there's the other posts the theory I have a theory that um you can tolerate crappy
jobs if you understand the bigger picture there's all these posts going down the side
of this house here and they kind of share the weight of the wall but all of a sudden
you're putting one end of an eight meter beam onto one post so that post all of a sudden
has more importance placed on it more weight more responsibility so if you understand that
when you're digging underneath it it helps it makes sense I think but at least that's
what I'm going to tell Leela [Music] hey bro are you out of the house that looks good on
you Scott under the house oh yeah really oh thanks yeah that's really necessary well yeah
there's a lot of cobwebs under here oh is that right but you're supposed to go through
the improvements clear them all out let's go you don't feel like digging under a house
rich no no I'm going away for the long weekend I can't help you out so I thought I thought
I'd just checked me I would have been there in a heartbeat but um I made other plans oh
mate cladding so you've got a few pole holes to take it yeah yeah just two so not too bad
but they're big ones
good luck welcome Layla hello not too bad under hero no I almost can stand up meeting
of the mole people so there's three of us Raymond Leela and myself and only two small
shovels
three small shovels [Music] get a trade behind you son you can always fall back on it [Music]
assuming right now when I'm doing nothing
foreign about 300 mil down and I'm starting to hit clay that's a good thing
the size of that
how's the camera good done you guys are making it look easy yeah when does the heart work
starts that is a crater I mean I can I can fit in the hole these guys have been digging
a lot faster than me so now I have to try and convince them to finish the whole I'm
doing oh hey Ray what are you up to you since you did such a good job on the first hole
I wonder if you could look at the hole I'm working on um I can have a look here I've
just got some important business to take care of that's all oh yeah for ordering materials
and it's a bit complicated it's too busy luckily we got an apprentice today yeah well I'll
show her where to show you I think my plan's working
good guys thank you
all from under the house
all right the next step in our footings journey is to get some steel reinforcing steel and
drill it into the existing footings we've got to bond the new concrete to the old concrete
easier said than done
you're a tall guy man your legs don't even touch the bottom of this look like a little
boy it's a big hole
that's not what it looks like yeah maybe I mean the beads don't help do you go right
thank you what do I do with this do your imagination run wild you don't want that Squad
[Music]
thank you [Music]
messed it up what do you think I think it'll work a lot better with a vacuum yeah it's
not bad though for a vacuumless system yeah
to the old [Music]
this is bonding agent oh yeah yeah if you've got relationship problems and use a bit of
bonding agent uh bonding agents if you want to bond old concrete with new concrete make
sure that you got a good grip good Bond clean the old concrete block brush this on [Music]
[Music]
we basically have eight minutes before this glue goes off I've done one side now we need
to do the other side but we just realized the holes aren't deep enough
foreign
[Music]
steel cage at the bottom 70 mil up from the clay so the top stuff ties the new footing
to the old and the bottom stuff makes sure that the new footing has a solid base and
now now we're ready for the inspection
[Music] see this uh see this this black building here that flat building right there they made
the ring from Lord of the Rings fun fact [Music] here for my fractured toe there it's mostly
healed that was a fail we failed the inspection but we kind of passed I made a mistake during
the inspection this might help you actually if you have to get a building inspection one
day he was very happy with the footings very happy with the steel very happy with the space
around the steel the depth of the footings where they were located he said yeah it looks
perfect to the plans happy with everything and I said oh great so you'll just send through
the documentation he said yes he sent for the documentation and it said a big fat fail
now where I went wrong is I assumed I assumed that him saying that it all looked good meant
that we could proceed with the job I should have said so are we ready for the next step
can I book in the concrete can I pour make that clear you know because now I'm not sure
the documentation says footings look good but there's a couple of other things may be
needed the point is I'm not sure if I can pour concrete and now I have to spend time
emailing and phone calling before I pull the concrete assumptions assumptions are the mother
of all stuff UPS that's what my first boss used to always say he used a different word
but I know some of you watch this with your kids so I'm sure I'll be able to sort that
out in the next 24 hours and get the concrete sorted but that's the end of this exciting
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never assume always clarify see in the next exciting episode we're building stuff in here
a juicy truck that's the first time I've seen one of those in months which means people
are starting their South Island Road Trips summer is definitely on the way [Music]