As a 66-year-old carpenter from Maine with 47 years' experience, I'm impressed. I just found your channel and if it wasn't 11:30 PM, I'd keep watching tonight.

Being both a contractor and video guy I love both the production value and educational value of this video. Great work!

It's nice to see that there is now a choice of the finner points in the new home building industry. Looking forward to what's coming next. This looks like you have the know-how to do what needs to be done and your willingness to pass this know-how on to us want to be builders. Hope the guys over at This Old House aren't too upset with you.

The audio quality in the intro shot is awesome! You can see how windy it is but you certainly can’t hear it lol. Great first episode!

Looking forward to this series!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear!

Absolutely fascinating. It took me 40+ minutes to watch the video as I kept rewinding to take it all in. Great energy, explanations, and shots of the construction team as we learn about all the new (to me) technologies. Love to watch someone who takes such pride in his work and talks up and respects his crew. Way to go Jeff. Now if I only had a little piece of land in RI. I'm in - subscribed! .

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

That nail puller is sweet especially if the nail is in a lvl food old fashioned leverage.

Been researching the helical piers to lift a footing for a chimney, might be something i go with over a complete chimney rebuild

Fantastic...looking forward to EP02!!!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, happy to hear!

Excellent series!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Badass!!!

Good stuff!

Much more interesting than watching the NFL or the NBA.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

We couldn't agree more!

Great idea Jeff! Keep doing that

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Love the new video series and channel. My only suggestion is to dial back the soundtrack especially when Jeff is talking. It’s ok to have just him talking with nothing going on behind his voice. Just a suggestion.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it. Really appreciate the feedback on audio, thank you!!

great job guys

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow so many material recyclable

absolutely awesome!!! Can not wait to see more of this series!! a real build show

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

More to come!

A very well done video. Lots of production value. Additionally, this video is very informative. I have heard of helical piers before. But, I have not seen them or watched them being installed. I have been watching Sweenor Builders over a few years on TOH. I am excited to watch more in-depth videos of the building process altogether. Thank you all for taking the time to produce such high quality and informative content. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great Content 👍

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More to come next Wednesday!

Wow, Incredible & so very interesting, intelligent and very much needed these days with coastal erosion. Here in Nova Scotia, Canada, these systems are very much in need. I would love to partner up with Sweenor Builders and introduce these systems here on the East Coast of Canada!!! 🌊🌲🏗️🏡💪🏾

I used to live in Wakefield in the early 2000's and always admired the projects your company had signs in front of. So happy to see the series on KZread, I hope you guys can kepp it up. Great production value! Give Matt Risinger a call, you guys should be part of the Build Show Network!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank You Chuck!

Love it! Story line clarity is fantastic. Can’t wait to see more.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Next episode comes out Wednesday, 11/4/20!

Ah Bonnet Shores. I learned to swim across the street from there about 60 something years ago. Corner of What Cheer Rd.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Fantastic job Mr Sweenor. First saw you and your crew on TOH, and then NS. Excited to see this new series of videos. Keep up the great work. Health and happiness!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What fantastic craftsmanship!

Very informative,you need your own tv show 👍👍👍

Awesome series, definitely lived up to the hype!

Jeff, love you on TOH. Thanks for giving us an in depth look at what you do. I''d love for you to incorporate some costs so the average Joe like myself has a working knowledge. TY

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe and dully noted!

What a shame to tear down that beautiful home :-(

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

The owners of this home enjoyed it for 40+ years as a beach house and wanted to make multiple upgrades to make it a durable, weather tight year-round home.

@alank64

3 жыл бұрын

It's even more sad that they couldn't remove the windows and doors and give it others that might use them! :(

@rmontena4583

3 жыл бұрын

wasteful. it's why the US is going down the tubes!

@rmontena4583

3 жыл бұрын

building this close to the coast should be illegal.

@monkeybussiness76

2 жыл бұрын

@@rmontena4583 Get your money up then you might be able to do it

Wow thank you for filming this!

This could’ve been an hour and I still would have watched every second. Great craftsmanship and fantastic video quality.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

What a compliment! Thank you Andrew - appreciate your comment.

I wish you would try and salvage more materials from the house while doing the demolition. The roof, siding and windows all looked to be fairly new and still usable for other projects like habitat for humanity. Otherwise this was a pretty cool video and excited to see more.

@jackpatrin8415

3 жыл бұрын

@h2s we also need to think about larger green building practices. Not just dollar and cents for everything. For example say you’re building/remodeling and trying to make a “net zero” house. Can you really call it net zero if all the old usable materials end up in a landfill and all your new products get shipped in from around the world and have massive carbon costs to make? Sure your heating bill is nothing, but how much more resources did you take up to make that house?

Love it. Kevin from TOH sent me. This is obviously the next big channel, excited to see it grow!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciated, glad you like it!

Love the new show! Can’t wait for more.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Next episode airs Wednesday, 11/4/20 - save the date!

You're not going to salvage any of those windows, doors, siding? Everything looks like it's in perfect condition. Other than than, great video! Subscribed.

I just came across this series and it’s been great!! Looking forward to the upcoming episodes! Keep up the great work Jeff and crew!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian and welcome aboard!

That spooky music selection for when the X is doing the demo is amazing 😆. Just finished your videos and ended on this one and they are great. Building airtight in Vancouver, Canada. Looking forward to your next videos.

Love y’all. This is awesome.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

I'm so glad I found this channel,

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

We are glad as well George, thanks for following!

Awesome episode! Detailed explanation of foundation with helical piers.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great build

are you able to do this in the midwest (illinois)? very interesting. i like it. not having to pour footings is a damn game changer!

Awesome series. Keep it going please!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Zach!

At 11:56 you have a deformed tube, this would be rejected here in Australia, the horizontal and verrtical loading has been compromised even when any form of footing is added on the top.

Great and informative! So good to see professionals work.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Great job!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for following!

Production quality 🤩

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very interesting.to watch.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I dream to be like you one day! Hopefully one day:)

Just an observation: ( @7:02 - 7:08 ) - I was taught to never allow the tape to rewind without using you finger as the stop. Allowing the tip to slam against the hard surface of the case will cause excess slack over time resulting in inaccurate measurements. It can also result in the tip breaking off and then the tape is ruined.

Good start , no safety protection gear

I would love to hear the story behind that trailer deck under the mini excanator.......

They are doing a lot of this tearing down of old and not so old to build new in the Jersey Shore community I live in. Many homes are unoccupied most of the year. A few years back a carpenter I know was working on a house when they started tearing down a house nearby. It is cool to watch so as he was watching them tear into the house something looked wrong. Pictures on the wall towels on the towel rack in the bathroom. Turns out right address wrong street.

It seems odd the shafts twist... We used these constructing a large gas plant in West Texas about 8 years ago and we never had the shafts twist like that. It seems like the shafts size are undersized for the torque required by your engineer.

@MvpBouck

Жыл бұрын

It sounded like the engineer required 4000 psi and they over torqued it to 4700 psi😂 that pier should have been replaced

The video barely featured the helical piers.

AAARRGGHHH!!! Coastal Rhode Island, but where? I grew up in Tiverton! I'm a RI born, RI bred, RI dead, (not dead yet... :-), proud URI grad. I just found this channel....been in construction my whole adult life in Seattle. I'd come home and work for you as a laborer for free! Show more pictures of home!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin, we are on the other side of the bay. Glad you found our channel and thanks for your interest!

@kevincasey2947

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sweenorbuilders YEA! I binge watched all of your vids, I figured out where. I used to live in Bonnet Shores when I was in college. I was a quahog and lobster lumper on the docks in Island Park in Portsmouth when I was a kid growing up and in Pt Judith and Galilee when I was at URI. A bag of rocks, a box of bugs! I even shook hands with Buddy Cianci once too at the Blessing of the Fleet, he said thanks but I smelled like fish!... ha ha that was a trip! I painted houses all over Wakefield and Kingston in the summers, I even did one helical pier job out here in Seattle too! I love your Tool Belt segments! Throw a snowball at somebody for me! :-)

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevincasey2947 love it all! Thanks again and will do!

The Helical piles system I am used to seeing are usually round which would make them less prone to twisting under load. Any particular reason you guys are using squared piles?

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Some brands are round, some are square, Chance brand are the ones we use and they are square. I actually like that we can see them twist because it let's us know that we achieved good resistance.

I see you are high ranking builders. I was wondering if you ever had experience of using jcb hydradig 110w.

Were those windows not suitable for Habitat for Humanit?

Looks like some pretty pissy piles to bend them like that thin wall tube must be

Round screws are much stronger than square ones 😕 The square ones can bend at the joints when drilling down. As seen the poles are twisted and warped

I've heard that there is a way to replace the audio of a video without resetting the view count or other metrics. Something to look into.

Wondering why square shaft rather than CHS? I noticed a few USA videos have SHS shafts?

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the brand. The brand we used in this case was "Chance" piles by Hubbell

This is what a $100k foundation system looks like

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

About half that

@jacobmillyard6799

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sweenorbuilders honestly a great deal given the requirements and commercial grade quality. Good work.

Enjoyed watching the video. And will enjoy watching the rest. My only comment is that in many cases the background music is too loud. Just my opinion. Thanks.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the feedback! Noted.

@sbennet1447

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sweenorbuilders Let me just tell you a story that might make you smile. I'm 55 years old and work as an engineer (not in construction). But for the past 35 years I've been building and renovating at my house (new windows, new siding, new roof, finished a 2nd floor, built a garage). I can retire in a year (my employer is very generous). I plan on starting a handyman/light construction business (I really like it) when I retire. And people say I have a knack for it. A little while ago I found "the Build Show" on KZread. So I watch it on the tv in our living room when nobody else is around. Often times my 20 year old daughter will come in an watch it. We also watch TOH. She'll often sit on the couch and do her homework and watch what I am watching too (I don't know how she does that). And she's paying attention because she often asks questions. So KZread suggested your channel (I didn't know it existed) so I started watching this episode. My daughter came in shortly afterward. She had to go to the bathroom halfway thru and she asked me to pause it. So I did. I knew she was interested. She asked a couple questions, mainly if your client had to build at a certain elevation why didn't the guy next door have to raise his house. Anyways we watched the hole episode and will watch other. We also watched the TOH house you did as well. So this morning she whisper in my ear before she goes to work "I like watching construction with you". She is a freshman at UMass studying Homeland Security. But I wonder if that doesn't work out if she could wind up as a GC. Anyways, thanks for making the videos. Scott

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbennet1447 Scott, you are correct...it did make me smile! Thanks for watching!! Jeff

This house looked fine. What a waste to tear it down for no reason.

Demolishing a perfectly acceptable house. Only in America.

Stringline on top of columns?. What is going on here

Great information and production values, but the music is a little loud.

Why did you donate the windows and stuff like that

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

We try to whenever we can (in our most recent demo, all the cabinets, doors, appliances, windows and more were repurposed on a different project), but in this case they were over 20 years old and so close to the coast... They were fairly beat up.

Wow ,how much to build.i bet a mill or 2.

Hi, I really appreciate the content in this video, and I also operate a construction with my family in Asia. If you like, adding some extra software-generated videos to show the value in your work will boost your content to another level.

The existing house looks to be in decent condition, was any consideration given to reclaiming any building materials? Shame if it all ended up in the landfill.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed Mike -- always looking for ways to repurpose. We work frequently with our local Habitat for Humanity and on this project donated to their ReStore program. Thanks for asking, and watching!

Great video guys, but you got to turn down the background music. 😂 We're here for the content not the tunes.

That they did not even bother to reclaim the windows in the demolition house was disgusting.

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

They were over 20 years old & in fairly bad condition due to the location being right on the water. We always salvage windows, cabinets, doors, appliances, etc. when they’re worth saving!

@g35hunkers

7 ай бұрын

Aren’t you Captain Righteous.

Lower the background music. Great show!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Noted!

@dbconstruction7892

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Awesome content and great insight to the details of construction. I'm glad we'll be seeing more of this project in future episodes. I want to see how this project proceeds to completion.

The tool belt scenes are great! Your music guy needs to dial back the music volume, and match the music to the scene better, instead of letting the entire song play straight through, no matter where or what is being shown. You’ve got a top notch building crew! Keep up the good work! 👍💪🇺🇸

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate feedback, and thank you!!

Only in america.

This house will NEVER move an inch

Why not wait for a hurricane to do the demo? Since the pieces will get scattered all over the county you save fortune in labor and landfill fees ;) ahhh the Government :( anyway I'm here for the helical screw piers ... thanks for the video ... and I thought the screw piers were supposed to save excavation like in the prairie, but live and learn ... good grief these coastal houses gobble up resources!?!

23 below grade 32 above sounds like the architect likes witchcraft

You drive a way better truck than Kevin!

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

Right!!

It took half the video to just get to talking and showing the subject.

😮Jesus Almighty!!! Couldn’t you contract out a crew to disassemble much of this house to be re-used, recycled!!!!😡

Who’s dollars are paying for this?

@Sweenorbuilders

3 жыл бұрын

We are paying for the videos as high level marketing! Thanks for watching!

TURN DOWN THE MUSIC!!! I want to hear the person talking, not some annoying instrumental.

this ought to be illegal.

Not exactly fans of materials recycling... time & money I suppose 🙄