 I don't know why it's on so tight. Hang on, just go the other way, that looks like it was tightening up then. Oh my god, we've finally made it. It took us a bit of a while. A bit of a while. It took us quite a bit. Just like elastic tension, I won't say good morning. It's raining again. It's crappiest morning of the week. We do it again, we delayed this job in hopes it would be a dry day and just like last time, it's raining again. And the mini digger and the little tack bar are on the way so we couldn't just we couldn't just bugger off home and build some lager. We have to get here because the Hodgson's goodies are arriving. But we've got another extension job. We were a bit more prepared this time though. We've got our five is pant, no waterproof pants. And I've got my waterproof gloves on for them store. It's going to come in very handy today and I'll just show you quick what the layout is at the front. So just like last time as well, we've got some big boards that we're going to lay out for a grab wagon. Me and Dad came here the day and did a bit of measurements to see if we can get can get a grab wagon when we can. So just go lay some boards out to dump the rubbish on and have some as a little ramp just to get the digger in the top bar through. But other than that, that's the front bit and I'll take you around the back and we'll see what's going on there. And there we have it. So the extension is coming out I believe, two bucks here. I can recall right because I'm not 100% sure about the here, up to the end there. So and I think as you can see the height there, you don't really need to take any of these out just yet because they won't be in the way of the actual footing. So here we've got our footing does here with the digger, move all the rubbish for the top bar and that's about all I know so far. Hodges are here. So I'll get you set up over there then. So see you in a sec. Hey, there's our little digger. The only downside is there's no rubes so we're gonna have some wet asses. Doesn't look great, seem dead all unhappy about that. Looks like the groundwork is on slights. There you go. Hutchins. So go to for our goodies like this. That's our air. Toys are us. So I'll get you set up somewhere as well we get this sorted. Like you said it's only until about 10 o'clock this enough. Just passing over. A little tack bar if I will. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't get them both on the trailer. We have a guest viewer. This is pretty intrigued. But we're going to get it through. It's a bit of a struggle because obviously it's a narrow entry but we've got it through. We're just waiting on the top bar now because obviously they can only get one thing on the trailer at a time but once that's arrived we'll get that wheeled through and to make a start. Thankfully it's starting to ease up a little bit and the guy at Hutchins is meant to stop at 10 so fingers crossed for that. But I hope that I get this bucket set up and we'll catch you in a minute. And there's how you don't, you don't, oh forget it, I'm too knackered already. Steel's ready for collection on Tuesday. Oh good. Look I just said that. Okay so I'll just give you a quick update since everything was dead on the GoPro so in the meantime while that's been happening Dad went to JM to get the steels ordered and we'll just say next Tuesday. Ready for collection Tuesday. Ready for collection on Tuesday which is happy news. While Dad went off to Bersko, well we both went and as we got to Bersko we saw the fair wards of lorry coming past so we had to go back. I made a start just getting some of this stuff up now. I've got all these up and now we're just getting some of the flags up to make room for the sticker but just been a bit of shambles so we're back here now. Just going to try and get a head stuck into this and just get what we can done today. I don't want to jinx fate look on wood but the rain's easing up a little bit so we're just going to try and get this blast as quick as we can. More of what we get done today while it's dry, but that's what we have to do tomorrow so all right if I get you set up and we'll get digging. I just saw in the fan laps there's our trench so we've got that set out you can just about see the orange there it was marked that's the end the edge of our trench so those are where we're digging which works out quite nicely for the digger just one straight little dig here and then Liam he'd be proud of me because I'm operating the tukbara which I'm actually enjoying so far but yeah so we're just getting this corn a bit dug out now. I hope we might find a foundation in this one because remember again blast extension it wasn't on because it was a story underground but so we're just going to get this part dug out now get all the get it loosened up and then just back and forth with this tukbara. And for anyone curious my dad's supervising me don't worry he's making sure I don't hit anything so you can ease yourself. But we've got a plan at least and we've made a start so that's always the nice part isn't it? Yeah it's always daunting before you start but once you do it was a terrible start today. Yeah it was a bit everywhere but we just get right here we're going on with it so I'll stick you up somewhere and we'll keep cracking on. That thing takes up doesn't look big but we're seeing somebody's back gardening. So you can see we're making a bit of progress we're just now moving some of these flags to get the digger back a bit more you want to spin it don't you? We're going to spin it so we can get the blade around the back get more room to dig and just so dad can be more stable loading into there. We're going to keep all this because it's pretty good stuff we'll use that for back filling or whatever yeah so that's why we're keeping that stuff anything else going straight away. So catching a sec. Right it's after lunch and we're going to get cracking again doesn't look like a lot but we've we've been digging down to find the foundation which I think under all that bit of rubble there is we have the foundation so it's obviously quite a bit deep and obviously just getting all this set up as well. It's time to rain again enjoy. We're running out of room now anyway it's 9 30 on fry at Friday so we're going to nip down and get ourselves a baking and we're here it's fry at Friday this is our go-to for our bacon butties the spar just in homescook I get the cheeky monkey coffee and then they do a deal bacon butty and a coffee three quid keeping down Lemington boys and we're back we got a nice fry up fry day very nice and uh yeah because we've got to can't get into this house so anyway and we'll get back down there so it's about half 10 I think let's have a double check what are they with oh dad keys for the machines 25 pass and like I just know we just need to grab the keys because when we went out we were responsible and took the keys with us because god forbid we come back here and we don't have a uh a bar or a digger but just giving another progress update we'll make it get in there since we've managed to get an extra day priced in it takes a lot of pressure off now to like stay here till the god knows what time and get this done so now we need to get up to where we can today get the rest of it finished tomorrow and then get the concrete in for Monday because we can't get concrete on Sunday as you can see as well we're starting to run out of room so it does come up with the idea of getting a but we're going to get a sheet here and a before sheet and we're going to try and spin around on here I think you should be here with the keys now so yeah we'll catch you later happy Friday it's happier than Thursday isn't it yeah it's drier yeah as you can see this is where we're we're at at the moment it is damp course no but one two oh wait well this is our yeah this will be our damn course but this is like their damn course there's our fire down Robbie's just to tell me that um this back bit used to be a garage and I didn't see the built on top of it so obviously from the build on top of it the foundations have been checked so the original garage foundations a bit of are okay which means we're doing the right thing by going down to the bottom of them and following them so from our dig to DPC is five foot which is way deeper than we ever go so we had to stop and let the customer know that obviously it's going to be a bit extra so bit of a shock for them which is of course it is the extra expense but now they've seen it they can see that we're not pulling the fast one we've um it's took we've been on this a day and we've probably not even got a third of the way through yet so it's got to be another red day on this we're going to need probably another skip extra concrete extra blockwork so um it's not not nice for anybody but you've got to do these things properly the alternative is get a pile which is two grand two gram plus concrete so um yeah as we said on the last job you can't engineer a foundation so what we're going to do plan from plan now is we're going to get as much done which can today we're going to get to the end with the machines get rid of them I'm going to have to hand dig the other the far side because there's just no room now the little micro dig is fantastic the only downside is is loading the tack bar because it's so high up I mean a decent driver it's not a problem but I'm struggling with that and that's the other thing um I'm not a very good driver so um yeah so um so yeah happy Friday we'll just crack on get these things off fire today and back tomorrow to get the last leg in and then hopefully we'll get up concrete organized for Monday Saturday morning just a quick one we're going to nip to berries and we're going to pick up some mesh I'm going to cut it into strips I'm going to reinforce it um doesn't need reinforcing but like we just just with it being a deep one we're going to stick it in so yeah come into here so obviously once this is here there's no no swing there's no room for the digger so we're going to get to this corner good for learners like me but anyway this is where we're at so far so we're at dinner time now on day two making much better progress now I've got the digger set up properly we've taken it down so it's nice and flat we've got a nice ramp in for the top tack bar and you can skid steer around there and you can line up there for me when the tack bar is higher than the mini digger it's really difficult loading it without getting the shit everywhere it's much easier having it down on the same level as you and it's slightly lower there too which is much easier so basically yeah I'm going to dig through now until I can't get past any further so I'm going to go that far as long as I can still get through once we're to there I'm going to spin around and we're going to start pulling off the house this way which means we're going to end up with a triangle left here which will be hand dug tomorrow because obviously we've run out of room so these are due back to go back tonight anyway we're just going to let them know so yeah another three hours after dinner and then they'll be gone maybe even longer maybe quicker if we can get it dug out quicker but yeah back to hand digging tomorrow but that's not too bad it's beautiful ground it's lovely soil sandy soil so it's not going to but it's going to be a pain in the arse but I'm sure a qualified digger driver will be able to get the lot out but we're not qualified digger drivers so yeah it's um just on 12 I think yeah quarter past 12 so here's Alex come see where I am we're going to head off for lunch now won't be a big lunch because we've had fry at fry they are not hungry mainly a brew so yeah catch when we come back oh time's it Jeremy's still on so it's not two o'clock yet it is half one right so quick news update I'll hand you to the our correspondent down in the trenches hi well we've come all this way and we finally found it that is the pipe which we've which we've we've been wondering about since we started digging because our first assumption was that this was going to fall out this way to some kind of manual somewhere but obviously nothing so we kept digging kept digging we've had all the concrete patches like I said nothing but now as I'm trying to get this bit of concrete off I hit some thankfully I've not gone through but I've just uh I've skimmed it and I realized that's no brick that's a bloody pipe but at least we found it now better to find it this way since the bloody grab it up with a digger so yeah thankfully we've stopped doing the digger dig around here now we're gonna dad's just been doing some magic with the still saw so that's all cut ready to move and we're going to start digging that way now because these are going today we're about three after three so we're gonna just try and get what we can with this and then the rest of us be hand to hand dug we've got a whole day at it tomorrow so yeah we've got a whole day out to hand digging which is now definitely needed because we've got a got a pipe there now so so going great guns today we've offired the gear tack bar was a bit close as I took it out then this one's took the hit what we didn't know was there's a pipe there right on the edge of the dig coming from that gully it goes right into that track and drops down there so as the tap bar has gone over it's loosened it once we've come over it it's just collapsed onto the drain obviously we'd known that was there we wouldn't have dug the trench then we took the digger out so at the moment it's not going to fall in it's just sat there at the moment we just need a couple of bodies to push it up push it up so it's straight yeah it was just it was just going to get up there but when it gets to a bit of an obstacle it does tend to struggle a bit and as it's doing this it's like pushing itself down into the hole so we just need to push it up get some planks or something underneath it a couple of blocks just get it level once it's on a level plane it will go straight out the hole out there out the entry not the hole we don't want it in the hole it's half in the hole now but yeah that's what we've got left we've got this two and a half meter dig to do most a bit done already and then round to there so that's our day tomorrow so it's up early down to up to berries for rope drop installation and mesh for the I'm going to put mesh in it eight mil mesh that's the plan tomorrow and then we're going to go to fairwoods and sort some stuff out of fairwoods and then back here and finish the dig job and not job and not tomorrow get it dug get it get the levels in and then try and get some concrete for Monday which I think I'll ring up for now so I'll catch you in a bit hopefully when this is over there and there we go it actually looks like you've done something today we bloody have so still a reminder we've dug all this up with a digger and we found the pipe here so we've stopped there went over to this side and did some digging with the digger stopped pretty quickly because it was a bit awkward and unfortunately there's the casualty because as you've seen before the digger kind of collapsed in because pipes right there yeah Rob saved the day so thank you Rob and a big mistake we made was I left the tracks off I should have had the tracks we'll really realise that then well that's all sorted the only casualty was this which we're going to get fixed tomorrow we're going to berries tomorrow so we're going to get this fixed up just get some clay to plastic just get that fixed up should be an easy fix I think it's blocked anyway but regardless that'll be fixed tomorrow and this'll remember the puddle one day one with rain yeah oh yeah there you go something every day apparently but yeah so all that's left is that so we're going to get that ready for concrete and get that for Monday so this is our finished height and the plan is 600 mil of concrete with some steel reinforcing in it and two course of trench then our brickwork so that's it for today we're going to get the stuff cleaned up get it sent off Hodgson's have come and picked up the tack bearer so they could come and get the digger now and other than that I'll see you tomorrow and good morning stop and good morning from berries we're just making a quick side stop here to pick some stuff up eight o'clock we've just got in just have to rope drop got in just have to rope drop yet so as well dad's getting out we're going to get the still start on the PPE because we're going to get the steel mesh first it's comes in sheets six two meters by three point six so if we cut it with ways we'll get six pieces at 600 to lay in our foundation and it'll look nice in the back of the van because if you remember last time it did not want to go on top of the van so we're going to save ourself a lot of grief and just get it cut here and then we're just going to pick up a few more things going to get that handle for the spade that that's snapped and we pipe this stuff as well don't we yeah so we'll get you set up and we'll catch in a minute here we go Alex just changing the blade I know that's saying it's a universal blade cut anything but it's not ideal just to cut metal with it and it was 60 quid so I wanted to last a bit longer take the plate off mate there's a washer on there's a plate on that take that off so we've got these got a pack of five only one to one by five so that's just a metal cutting blade so there's there's the stealer through the van we're going for the eight middle this time it's the middle one now the blades changed let's go over and get it cut there we go oh there you go all cut up there's the expensive stuff it's not that much thicker anyway there we go a quick pan round of berries a small section of berries we're over at the far side at the boundary we've got all your loose aggregates still here loads of basal loose aggregates you can still come in and get loaded you've got all your lintels here all your concrete lintels fencing and underground drainage a few other bits and bobs over there so um yeah let's head over to the shop now they know we need to go for installation don't we installation need to get four more sheets of this and one at 25 mil so see you over there and we finally made it took us a while but we finally got here morning yeah but we had a lot of uh collecting stuff to do a lot of sorting out bills to pay bills to pay so all that sort is at least Jason's doing some more of off wall yeah that's why he's not here he's uh he's he's busy he's working at ours today he's got his own life now he's not working for us hello but um dad asked him do you have a new Jason now yeah that's what the tech bar is called dad asked if you could spare some time he said no he's a busy man now yeah i would like to say for the record this man is insane because we're going to open this van and we're going to see why you're insane right let me explain first right um board's all stuff which has been delivered but the insulation is a lot cheaper from berries so the plan was go to go to berries collect the insulation and obviously bring it back but we also need a seal which was an extra so that made that meant we could get that as well but it takes a lot more room than you think and you said we also got two packs of cavity insulation so um it snug and you decided to pack the other insulation at our tens garage yeah people could have brought that anytime i stuck it in the van yeah so yeah psychopath here so wait for it i'll let you open the door open ready come on insane person wait for it go on yet we're not done yet wait for it it's like billy maze but wait there's more i'm gonna stack a skip no fresh air and there's the steel as well which you've watched is cut so before we do anything we've got to get all this out of the van so here's where we were looks a lot different without the other machinery now so we've got a finish title here got the pipe there and obviously that's going to get sorted we're not going to do that straight away because we're going up and down with some bars so we'll do that when there's going to be a lot less pressure going over it so there's no rush for that especially since it's blocked so today let's get this ready we'll get all the stuff brought over just put it in the garden and just make sure that this is done it's um plus 10 o'clock i think it's nearly 11 so we're just gonna get started as we were exposing that pipe more and more but you'll see for yourself it stops there you go it's it's obviously dead because it's not connected to anything so the toilet waste or whatever must come out somewhere over here because it's obviously not coming out here but that's good news for us in the fact that that's not in the way now so if it gets damaged it doesn't matter because there's nothing in it we're just uh we're getting there that's just marking out where the uh outside of the trenches so we don't deviate from the path and just keep keep digging you're in the most peculiar position you've ever been at i'll just show you your shadow there you are there you are on the end of the rake the reason being we're going to give give you a fly through this bloody footing so we're going to lower you in show you how deep it is this one's done all the digging all the digging i've done all the wheelbarrowing and we're running out of room out there i think we're going to be i think it's going to be more than a wagon load let's get you off there then we're going to end up with another skip with the leftovers we'll save this for backfill in the outside it's probably half a ton there i reckon we're getting up towards 18 come out there probably yeah i'm up to about seven feet high now so there we go lunchtime on a Saturday so once that's out and it's the levels are in we're going home who knows when that's going to be hope soon let's see how long it takes and dead's back with the barriers we've got a section done well almost this part here is all concrete so we're the assumption right now is that there's a pipe under there because that waste is going to go somewhere and as we know that one is dead so maybe it's been buried under concrete we're not too sure so we're going to figure that out we'll go try and ship away at it and see if there's anything underneath if not just break it all away but as it stands this is the finished height here we need to reflect that in this little bit obviously not that far either it's about up to here because obviously this was where the cabin was because of the yeah it was all nicely set out before the flags fell in so it's not as much as it looks about that much there knackered and dad's rocking the the proper merchandise not yet the merchandise shall we say looking very proper as am i actually i'm wearing the t-shirts you're looking like a bleach date of it yeah i've been christianed already by the soil and rust yeah so but yeah you're looking good doing it though all designed by nia so thank you lovey so back to digging there's light at the end of the tunnel we found the footing level so that's it i just dug a bit there was a bit of clay but that that should be it there hallelujah we're finally getting there oh and actually it's looking like there's a pipe under that concrete because if you look it's very formed very formed and round so our assumption is that there's a pipe in there we can't really afford to take the risk that there is or isn't and smash this concrete because then we might smash the pipe and as you can see yourself that would be a nightmare to fix so we're gonna dig underneath even if you can see because the buddy the sun but that is a dug footing and you can see by dad that's a deep footing i definitely think we should title this our deepest dig deepest dig yet yeah but there we go it's finally done the dig it's about half past four we lost a few hours this morning but it's just one of those things the main thing is it's done now we've got we've knocked off the excess concrete there so we've got plenty of room for concrete and under and shuffling off the the pipe as for the pipe over here we've made a start but we're going to need some extra pipes extra piping sorry and we're just too tired to do it today yeah so i'll show you i'll push it to dad and you can show you what we're trying to connect to after we've took this out you see how blocked it is as well but yeah here you go hello right there you go that's what we're connecting on to so we've got to take all this out dig back get all this sand cement around it from around it it's looking like it goes into the exterior under the garage but um rather interestingly that gully runs down does a 90 roughly where that take measure is yeah so we do go away longer expecting to find a pipe going out to the garden no man holes so where Alex is pointing there's a bend there and it goes through the foot in he's shown you all this but you see the concrete we cut all the concrete back it's a clay pipe and the clay pipe comes this way so it's heading down here towards this lot somewhere so i'm guessing the the pipe runs out under the garage this is the existing garage which has been extended so yeah that's that we've got to try and get an end on that and get connected to that bring it out slightly 45 45 straight through the wall easier to lintle over then like over here somewhere because we've got our return here and we've got outside skin comes here cavity wall that's going to be a stud wall across there just easier on top of the slab because we can't dig a foot in for that um yeah that's it um i think that's it yeah pack up and go home get back on to that on Monday so next day we see us up in Monday morning we'll be getting ready for concrete so until then