15 years a groundworker. First time ive ever seen an inspector get in a trench!

@haroon420

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe because he was on camcorder!! 😆

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!

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.

This is brilliant Roger, can’t wait to see more of this . Proper warts n all site work

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Can't think why it has sat there for so long

wonderful good teaching skill no boring just a documentary, thank for expert work 10/10

Love the channel. Amazing what you can turn your hand to. Very enjoyable and appreciate all the work

Love your videos Roger, make the difficult jobs look easy, amazing!

@simonkeyse8185

Жыл бұрын

Love your videos Roger, make the easy jobs look difficult, amazing!

Love it cant wait for instalment 2 .love the commentary and singing

Never gave up and no swearing with the trench collapse, well done Roger and co

Great video, great narration, great accent. I love the details of your videos

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.

@shanekemp3141

5 жыл бұрын

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!!

Brilliant, can't wait for more!

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support

cracking set of videos mate. very infotmative.

Nice one Roger. Loving the videos

It is eyes opener to high quilaty work.

Excellent Roger. This is great content. Loved the narration. Real problem most builders face!

Great video building as it is 👍

This one is brilliant :)

Love your commentary Roger....

Lol, loving the commentry. Looking forward for the next episode

Awesome!

Great video of works 👌

was a life changing video

Great Video! Glad I found your channel. Thank's for sharing. That inspector looks like Michael Potillo's cousin!

Handy digging footings with a plumber

Good learning curve here lads..👍 is this a two storey extention, ? VERY deep foundation!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Really great entertainment Roger ! Better than TV mate..Excellent !! Men`s work brother LOL !!

Brilliant to watch. Keep them coming

Great video

Old mate with his cigarettes what a legend.

Brilliant commentary

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 👍 good video and keep up the diligence 👍👍

@SkillBuilder

5 жыл бұрын

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 £80,000 . Everyone wants £180 per day minimum and the brickies and plasterers want £220.00. Good luck to them but it all mounts up

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!

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Enjoyable video

i like your style

Been there a few times, dicing with death with that dumper in such a tight space, sometimes best to do in 2 hits

We use to do it over the old red brick wall at primary school in 1940's 11:14

Very funny. Enjoyed the 'everyman' quality of the presentation and the snappy reportage'. How much Did Jason Statham charge to narrate ?

Real world

Great job 👍 you have a very good neighbor. Here in New Zealand, you have to delay the concrete. The people wouldn’t allow any job after 6.😂😂😂😂

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Brilliant! Love it!! how on earth you keep fit for that kind of work?

@eddjordan2399

3 жыл бұрын

you work

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

That was the best commentary I’ve ever heard hahahahaha classic 🤣🤣

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

I see all the crew, Nicola, Dylan also.

Love the video, refreshingly honest. Great site! What year was this? I'm guessing 1997?

@mhailo1

6 жыл бұрын

The cement truck is 04 and looks rather new!

Building inspector doing it for the camera!

@SkillBuilder

Жыл бұрын

We all do it for the camera

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

How deep and wide was the foundation?

6:02 The technical term "maintain his shit-run wunnit" lol

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? 😀

Roger excellent work fella, just out of curiosity how deep is the trench? it seems well deep!

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Good stuff Roger, got to be careful with backfilling footings when those arisings are right next to the footings. Was this in Colchester??

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

yes in Colchester, well spotted.

Quelle équipe de bras cassés

I think all inspectors should be on site when the concrete is actually poured ... 😉

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

That is a tricky

Bloody hell an inspector in the footings?!! That's got to be rarer than dodo crap!

What was Boris doing and yes inspector in a hole, who'd believe it....

“Too quick” “doesn’t matter we can just cuddle. “

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/

Great video mate. Roger looks like you haven't aged a minute.......not!

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Frank What are you going to do? I was thinking about a facelift but they said it was too big a job.

It's the lived in look

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

I was born old, a little .wizened baby force fed with National Dried Milk living in an asbestos prefab.

No rebar in the concrete?

What year was all this

Roger, how did you do with the soil at the bottom of foundation before pouring concrete? Did you do anything to compact the ground?

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

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

@brightspark1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@SkillBuilder excellent. Thank you. Really enjoying your videos. 👍

You sound like Roger Daltrey!

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Dave, you won't get fooled again. What a band! I have seen them loads of times back when Keith Moon was on drums.

How quick and easy would that have been with a concrete pump?

@SkillBuilder

5 жыл бұрын

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 £300 for the pump alone and we had the dumper on hire. Not a huge job on a 36sq mtr extension.

What year was this Roger?

Would pumping the concrete be a better solution or would it be to wet🤔

@SkillBuilder

3 жыл бұрын

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 £300 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.

Great video. Love the commentary. One question though, shouldn't the foundation have rebar?

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@wayneleone

6 жыл бұрын

Skill Builder thanks. I was thinking you guys were quite deep alright. Looking forward to the next episode.

Jasus Roger you have not aged a day.

@Mentorcase

6 жыл бұрын

Yea he looked ancient back then too!

In 20 years of being a groundworker, ive NEVER seen a bco get in a trench

Why was the building inspector hammering the stake in the bottom of the trench?

@stpOwner

3 жыл бұрын

To test for soil density

You looked like Gordon Ramsey back then🤣🤣

Roger, was using a concrete pump out of the question?

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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 £2500.00 We tried hard to keep the costs of this job down. Our biggest bill was Chinese take-a-ways.

@rubikasuto

6 жыл бұрын

Skill Builder £2500 for pump? That's crazy money, I use pumps regularly for doing my basements, but only paying around £400 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

He is just going to a board meeting. Praise the lord.

turn that bucket around on the machine to undermine there lads feck doing it by hand

No pumper?

Colchester? Is that where this extension is?

@SkillBuilder

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry we can't say. Client confidentiality

@simonstones1918

4 жыл бұрын

Skill Builder are you from around here tho? Still working in the colchester area?

wheres that digger?

the building inspector looks like he got his codger out at 6:22

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?

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

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

@gdfggggg

5 жыл бұрын

This is funny comment of the week

Why is the soil pipe mounted on the facade?

@SkillBuilder

3 жыл бұрын

England, we like to look at plumbing.

@user2kffs

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkillBuilder 😂

Ha Ha. Good one tell the student there are ruins in the ground so he digs the footings out for you looking for them.

Was that Robin Garton? - ha ha wow it's a small world if it is.

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Nowhere to hide. They are the brains behind Skill Builder

Blimey old school Things really have moved on Not much 😂👍

elf and safety be dammed!

and that's where most of the money goes

0:29 - Steve Jobs was into part-time construction...who knew

@SkillBuilder

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! I just had a lol. Introducing the Apple Crusher.

@RRC5074

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkillBuilder Haha, good one!

I want to do ground work cource could you tell me plz where which college can go

@SkillBuilder

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@karolzawislak2064

3 жыл бұрын

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 🤣

The building inspector looks like Max Bygraves with a blonde rinse.

Has this guy been on TV, I recognise his voice? Is he the guy that does the B&Q guides?

@jp-lw5gl

5 жыл бұрын

It's jason Statham

@Ironbuket

5 жыл бұрын

@@jp-lw5gl oh yea, thanks

@jp-lw5gl

5 жыл бұрын

Nah haha it's not really it just sounds like him when he uses a British accent

@Ironbuket

5 жыл бұрын

@@jp-lw5gl No, it really is Jason Statham. I can tell when you lie

@jp-lw5gl

5 жыл бұрын

😂

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?

@SkillBuilder

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Keep digging keep smoking - ace

Concrete pump?

@SkillBuilder

6 жыл бұрын

Yes we could have but the small ones weren't around back then so you are looking at £300 and we had the dumper which was a £100 for the week.

@phil4543

6 жыл бұрын

Skill Builder what year did you do this job?

You had no pump available?

@SkillBuilder

4 жыл бұрын

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.

God you look young there

@SkillBuilder

3 жыл бұрын

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

Ive got a crush on you ,sweetie pie 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Commentary 😂

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