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Yeah, this is the video! Oh yes, now my name is Colin Furze, over the past three years
I've been digging a tunnel from here in my workshop, along and up through to my house,
and this is the video where we finally break through. Now if this is the first video you
have seen, as you can see from the intro, it's been a hell of a project, go onto my
channel, there are six other videos. Some of the most well-liked videos I've ever made,
drop a SUBSCRIBE and LIKE because this is an awesome project but, of course it's been
a lot of work to finally come up to this point where we break through to the house. Let me
show you where we're at. OK, here we are, this is the plan, I'm currently stood here
in the shed and we basically want to tunnel along, down here, under the garage and across,
and up into the house, and then eventually up here to the underground
bunker, which is at the bottom of the garden. Now, the last six videos have essentially
gone from the edge of the shed here, right to this corner just underneath the garage,
but this is the video where we need to turn left, come under the house and come up into
the cupboard and this is the most exciting part. There's also a lot more to consider;
we've got the house foundations, we've got the sewer pipe, we've got the cold water main,
all of that sort of thing to try and negotiate before we did that we just want a little bit
of extra ventilation, so we've pushed the pipe up at the edge of this tunnel and now
underneath the lawn, always looks really weird when you see a pipe coming out the ground.
So to get started on this we need to now put another one here, because these pipes not
only are for ventilation, we also pour the concrete down them to then surround the inner
tunnel with concrete and make it all secure. Now before we go drilling holes around here,
I have a sewer pipe running down the passage, so we need to locate that first, yes we do!
It goes off at the angle. OK not quite what we wanted to see, I was hoping to see a nice
elbow, and a straight line going up the passage, but it goes over the 45 degrees, but of course
how far does it go before it then kicks under. So gopro on a stick with a torch.
I reckon a 45 straight after which is probably in line with the edge of this I think, Give
it a wide berth.
So had a measure up in between, these two bits of tape, we think is the sewer pipe.
So I think if we drill a hole just here, all the way down, you should come out in the little
corner, in between a little bit of mesh, which I should be pointing at now on the video.
So if we get the long drill bit, drill a pilot hole down see if we're anywhere near, and
then we'll push the tube up and put a vent up.
Oh yeah... spot on boy, spot on!
Right let's get the old um... you know, the big stainless steel,
push it up, drill it out, ventilation!
Haha! the old Swing o Simpo!
We were totally ready weren't we, oh you see a black pipe, bloody hell! This is the plan
we're just gonna change the angle of our tube and go past it. It's all good we've sorted
it, we've just put it on the wonk, we're going to go
straight past it! and the plumber's key Aww! Orh! haha!
Haha! It's our first day back today after Christmas! haha!
Missed it, there's the pipe, new hole!
Whey! There we are, hole done. Well that was eventful. Right, this way...
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So then, tunneling, where we at? OK, minecarts ready, buckets are ready, we're all ready,
to the house, to the house, to the house, to the house, to the house, to the house!
Ok, exciting bit, roof's supported so we can start moving forwards again. Now this is the
dig where we probably end up getting level with the house, so are we gonna see the house
foundations or are we gonna end up going straight underneath them. All will be revealed very
soon! So do I want to see my house foundations when we're digging, because there's a few
things to consider and a few different ways we can look at this. Now if we look at a cross
section of the tunnel, we've got this clay at the top here, that of course is not very
hard. Then we've got this soft looser stone, not too bad and then we've got the rock hard
stone at the bottom, very good. Now if we dig down and we see our house foundation either
on the soft loose stone, or the rock hard stone, then we know the house is on completely
solid footings. It's not going anywhere, we can dig under it to our hearts content, nothing's
moving, that's all good, but of course the downside we'll have to chop a big arch out
of the house foundations that could potentially disturb, vibrate things, might cause you know
a bit of cracks and stuff inside. That's not so good! Now of course if it's up here somewhere
right up here, we've got less to chop out, that's good. If it's completely not here,
we don't have to chop anything out, that's really good, but of course that means that
the house is sat on something which is slightly softer and therefore us digging under it's
more likely to disturb it. But there is another thing to consider, in the winter, like it
is now, there is more moisture in the ground and that can cause the ground to swell up
slightly and the house can very slightly lift up, as you can see with my wonderful lego
and sponge demonstration. Now of course in the summer, when the water content goes down,
the house can sink slightly, we're only talking you know fractions of an amount here, but
Colin goes and builds a tunnel off this hard stuff, right up to his house foundations,
I'm effectively putting something that's not moving on something that is moving and then
I could end up actually cracking the house over the tunnel.... hmm! It's not so straightforward
is it this tunnel in malarkey. Right back to me with a silly face laughing because I'm
digging under my house, not worried about any of this!
Right despite a lot of digging there is no foundations to be found, so we've got the
steel up. We've got it all like supported properly. What we're going to do, we're going
to drill a hole down the edge, down right down as close to the house as we can see where
it comes out here, just to double check that we should be seeing the foundations by now
and then of course if the drill comes out somewhere here or whatnot then we know that
basically we're never going to see them, we're just going to, we'll just keep going straight
underneath them. That's the plan. Now we're just reacting to what we find.
Where's it gonna come out? Where's it gonna come out?
Oh look at that! Well it just goes to show, our measurements are very good! Right, No.
No? No, no I mean no foundations! I can see the drill, it's literally four inches the
other side of our, our frame thing. Right so, so yeah, yeah. You'd think we would see
them by then wouldn't you. No, definitely not there. Right I've got a plan.
Yeah, this is where I'm gonna be coming up inside the house, but there's an order I want
to do this in. If we dig underneath and then chop this floor up, all the vibrations of
doing that, will kind of vibrate that top layer of soil and then we'll end up with bits
coming down and we risk disturbing it, because we want that to stay as tightly and as compact
as possible. So, our concrete basically just goes back up to it, pushes up against it and
it was like we were never even there. So I think now chop this floor up, get this down
to dirt, once we've done that then dig under the house, and then push our hydraulic pipe
up into the center of this cupboard and then when we've got a hole we can kind of like
push it all in and then sort of take it from there. It will reveal where the foundations
are with this supporting wall, whether there just sat on the screed, you name it all sorts
of things to do. That is a plan.
That went down quick didn't it? Yeah, not much underneath that!
Somebody's already tried to dig a tunnel already!
Right, that's got the pantry floor dug out, basically swapped it for a small allotment!
So next up, I'm just going to dig down here a little bit and see if I can see where the
bottom of the foundations are, just because it'd be nice to know.
Ok, right, got a plan, so we dug down, found the concrete foundations under here so we've
got a measurement now as to how deep the whole thing is. We've actually drilled a hole through
the concrete foundations, we know that they're about eight inches, 200 mil thick which is
uh, not particularly thick, so we know that in our tunnel we're actually very close and
there's not much dirt above us, underneath and we're going to try and keep that there
if we can. So we're going to dig a bit more out,
and then we'll drill that hole again, see where the edge basically of this wall is in
terms of using in and make sure we don't put any framing on the ceiling too far forward,
support that and then of course it's the lovely moment when we could dig under a little bit
more and then we can break through, and i can finally get into my house via the tunnel!
To the house!
Right, Rick's going to drill a hole through that bit of foundation, flush with that wall,
we can see where it comes out and then we'll know exactly where the inside wall is in line
with this, so we don't put any ceiling stuff in the way!
I mean it might not come out here, it might be over here somewhere, I presume it's about
here. Oh yeah, look at that! Look at it boy!
Spot on! I see you! Well that's our line there, we've got a line now where our inside wall
is, so my head is now definitely under my house! oh! oh! It's exciting! You'll never
believe it, we drilled another... haha! fell over again... we drilled another hole at the
back of the cupboard, like dead in line with the wall and it's literally come out there,
oh! This face is completely in line with the house up top and that's not a fluke!
We have planned this meticulously. I'm very pleased with my tunneling abilities you know!
Ok, here we go, last bit of roof is supported. All we got to do now is do a little bit of
digging in this direction, and then Furze is coming up in the pantry.
This is the bit we've been waiting for! Right, bit more digging, yes!
There we are, house foundations. That's weird, you never thought you'd see the underside
of your house foundation, we've done a hole up and we've now exposed the house foundations,
this is the bottom of my house foundation. We've dug a little bit more of a hole, we
think we're about two or three inches away from the hole in the bottom of the pantry.
Right let's get in the house!
Oh, this is as cool as imagined it would be!
I'm in the house! haha!
Right, it's all dug out ready for a nice steel inner tunnel to be covered in concrete, but
there's a few things we need to consider. we come up the ladder.
So basically we've got our brick foundation's, engineering brick and obviously the house
with all the plaster. We've got this concrete ledge here though which is across the house
foundations. It sticks out a bit, which is what the space is going on, but it needs to
be flush. Now I don't want to go whacking this off because of course there's not much
dirt between the bottom of that and then the bottom of our concrete is going to be, so
what I think we do, is we build all the tunnel up to a certain level, concrete it up, so
it's got support under here, and then smash that off, because that technically is going
to weaken the house foundation. So until there's something underneath it, holding it all up,
I think we'll leave that in place. oh yes! Now of course we have dug ourselves closer
to the kitchen, which means I'm closer to the tea making facilities, so we've made this...
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finally finished steeled, up concreted up all in the next video, you will not have to
wait months for it this time though, it won't be next
week but the week after I apologize, for the weight but as you can imagine, this is not
a quick job and it takes a long time. So SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, you don't want to miss out! This has
been the best project I have ever worked on. So glad that you've all been along on the
journey, I'll see you all in the next one!