That seamless transition between voice-over and on screen is superb. These videos are excellent, not only in subject, but the production values are also top notch.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Well thank you very much - Much appreciated!

@AndyAdsAndyAds

10 ай бұрын

Completely second this view, what was a humble diy channel has blossomed into something really really special. Keep up the superb work 👍

@tinaforbes1059

2 ай бұрын

Beautiful flowers 👍. Just came across your channel . Thank you for sharing .

This channel is great -- this is the stuff that I'm too embarrassed to ask somebody to tell me how to do. Thank you, Stuart.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

It would be really helpful if you put links to the tools you are using in each video. As we can trust they're of a good quality if you're using them

Brilliant the life of Riley 😂. Great job 👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😆

Cool to hear the Lightning Seeds, Stuart! Nice video and a well-explained process.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant Stuart, this is classic Proper DIY content, entertaining, great tips, humour, practical pragmatism, humour and the Lighting Seeds, what's not to like, one of the best channels on KZread ! Oh, and a great project outcome too, it looks excellent, Cheers Stuart ! 🍺

I love this channel. You’re living the dream Stuart!

Nicely done, as per. I have to say, though, when Tje Life of Riley started playing I had flashbacks...I half expected to see the goals of the week😂

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video Stuart. That raised bed compliments your green wall fantastically well. The wall itself has come on nicely and looks great too. And to top it off some great music to carry us through. Thanks for the video.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thank you so much for reintroducing the Lightning Seeds to me again. My better half and I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the fantastic work, and please do keep sharing your great taste in music. Much love from Cape Town.

I used DPM to line raised beds about 10 years ago, sadly that's when I discovered that DPM isn't UV resistant and the part above the soil broke down. However I covered the ragged edge with wide damp course and it's all sorted. The next one I built I lined it out using 200mm wide damp course which is UV resistant and much tougher.

Love your channel. Newby and no diy er, but will be putting up a Billy shelf soon, so hopefully, it will all go to plan.

I built a (wonderful and cheap) planter based on your earlier video, and now that I have some pavers to put down, I’m definitely going to copy your technique here!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Nice one - go for it!

Great video, great music (love that song) and the raised bed looks fabulous. Well the whole green wall and raised bed looks fabulous. Great to see a follow up from the previous video. Cheers Stuart.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is a brilliant video Stuart, I was hoping you would make a follow up to your previous soil stabilisation video but now I know how tot tackle my new build garden and get some slabbing in!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

I just want to say this channel has been a brilliant find. I myself have a new build and have found these videos very helpful for work in the garden etc. Next job is the loft lights in time for Christmas hopefully. Thanks from dargavel village Scotland 👍

You really sre outstanding in your own field

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Excellent as always Stuart and really cool music track too. The green wall and bed look stunning 👍👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent work, Stuart.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

❤❤❤when Ancellotti speaks we listen 😂

What an exceptionally beautiful video - well produced and really inspirational content. Thank you so much for sharing this with us

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Well thank you very much

Great tips, technique,advice and humour. Thanks Stuart for sharing 😊

That looks brilliant Stuart, I'm going to have to dig up half the back yard and re route a foul drain now.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Have fun

Looks great!

Another excellent video Stuart

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Looks great and so easy to do thanks Stuart

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark

A man after my own heart! Heineken in a GLASS! Well done mate!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

That’s superb Stuart. Loving your lawn tractor!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Awesome job, Stuart. It turned out wonderful 👍.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Great video Stuart. I never knew about the cement in the earth trick before. Will definitely be giving that a go.

Great video Stuart 👍🏻 music choice spot on! 👌🏻

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Nice job Stuart.👍👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Nice job Stuart, you really show how a DIYer can do these jobs themselves and don’t need to pay a landscape gardener to do it. One question though, how to prevent weeds growing between the block paviers? You just put soft sand down which I find is a perfect bedding material for weeds. Weeds growing in our patio paviers is driving me mad at the moment!

Amaze-balls! Incredible work ❤😊

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Great job, the end result looks fantastic! 👍😃

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

That looks absolutely fab and so easy to do👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It was!

A great job well done Stuart, most splendid correct.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Enjoy watching ur videos.. very very helpful...

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

End result looks absolutely lovely Stuart ❤, 😍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Love this channel 👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Hello Stuart you kept the John Deere tractor a secret or have I just not been paying attention. Keep up the good work.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

A recent investment!

@AndyAdsAndyAds

10 ай бұрын

Not sure we have had drone footage before either!

Top choice of music; Lightning Seeds are a great blast from the past, hope the royalty payments are reasonable! Really inspirational project too, the outcome looked fantastic. Thanks for putting out another cracker, all the best

It's turned out quite nice Stuart, absolutely stunning. Lovely music you've got playing there ;)

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

Great job...I love how you always completely finish a job.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

Absolutely brilliant Stuart. Well made video and content how to build this. You make everything look so easy and cost effective.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great video !!! thank you

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

good work again !

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

The end result is so beautiful

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Recently subscribed to your channel and been loving the videos. I actually just Googled you assuming you are an ex-TV presenter or the like, but it seems you are a regular DIY’er with a natural gift for presenting and explaining. Absolutely superb quality and a great project

That looks great

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Thanks Stuart! I think I'll give this a go for my outside faucet area, looks clean and professional. Thank you for the clear and entertaining walkthrough, cheers from Texas. I look forward to the next video!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thank you - and hello to Texas!

Glad you go the music sorted!

@stananderson8146

10 ай бұрын

What was the issue,?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Yes finally after a bit of back and forth with the company - not straight forward though!

Would be interesting to see strength, stress/strain, water permeability on cement stabilized soils of various percentages. It's probably published somewhere.

Excellent video Stuart, it was worth waiting for the music; good choice. We have a much smaller garden and a couple of years ago decided to turn it all into raised beds, some of which have a routed top edge and it makes all the difference. I like your DPM method and will be put this to work on some of our beds in the autumn.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'm going to try your method under my water butt, which is currently sitting at a drunken angle having sunk into the ground.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Perfect for that

Great video thanks

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant

Legendary ❤

Very nice

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Life Of Riley - classic song....

Impressive!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Ya gotta love an engineer's perspective. 👌🏻

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It's the only way!

Great video Stuart, your channel is quickly becoming my favourite on KZread! I'm planning to use stabilized soil under a shed base instead of MOT Type 1, would you still use a layer of sand and some DPM?

Brilliant as usual. The music did work, shame you had to wait for it (patreon insights) Did like the drone shots, a great addition

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks David - glad you enjoyed it

Great video, just a quick question, 'Cement Stabilised Soil' method of constructing a solid base for a garden wall, I want to build a raised bed made of bricks . the high of the raised bed will be around 1 M. thanks

Love your channel. Do you have a video about sleepers and installating them?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Not yet! But soon!

Stuart that is excellent .It's made me think about next year all ready. .The drone shots were interesting too of the paddock how about a pond ?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Nice!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

Always look forward to a Proper DIY video. 🙂 5:12 - Just wondered what had happened to the paint on your lovely garage door?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. The boards have shrunk a touch so I have filled them but not painted it yet.

Nice tractor! That’s new, did I miss that?! What’s next? Pond project please!

Amazing video and knowledge as always, thankyou! Loved this and the soil stabilisation video. One question: do you think this method would support a raised bed with brick walls? About waist high.

Amazing video buddy. And brought back memories that Lightning Seeds track! Think I'll give them a listen on the way home from work on my Apple Music sub. You may have already answered, or put it as a resource elsewhere, but what equipment and editing software do you use?

Cool channel, been learning a lot since discovering you a few days ago. Might want to edit out the closeup of some of the things in your garden however 😂

@nowirehangers2815

5 ай бұрын

Time stamp?

There is up to 10 mm of loose soil beneath the turf, but it is all clay below that. Can I use this cement method, and to what depth do I need to dig? - cheers

Hi Stuart, have you got a video that covers the sleeper-specific parts of this video in more detail? I'm probably going to be building a sleeper raised bed at some point, and it looks like you were going through some extra steps there with the dipping and the supports and maybe even painting?

Great work pal, as always! Can you use the soil/cement technique for the front of a house to walk over block paving? Thanks

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely - perfect for it.

@dingdong7777777

10 ай бұрын

@@ProperDIY Appreciate you always taking the time out and replying. Fame ain't got to you....just yet🤣

Great work looking well. Love your videos. What type of drone do you have.?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. Mini 3 pro

Great video Stuart. Well done. Did I spot a pump on your IBC? I'd love to know how that was done!!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Yes, for my pop up sprinklers

Stuart, have you ever mucked around with 'exposed aggregate' please? I can't find any UK DIYers who've done it, though it seems a good solution between functionality and form.

Hi Stuart very impressive , do you ever have a problem with the alkaline affecting the plants . Which could leach out over time . Best wishes as always 😀👍👍👍

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

If you mean in the cement - once the cement has gone though it's reaction it is completely inert so no threat to anyone or anything.

Nice video Stuart, gardens looking good. What finish did you put on them sleepers? They went front standard to proper smart in one clip

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes I did zip over the sleeper installation a bit - I just used the same stain as the fence - Ronseal One Coat Fence Life - it needs 2 coats!

I like the new sit on mower/tractor. When did that arrive and can we have a review please?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

A recent purchase - a review may be coming

You did another video on laying block paving for an area where you put your bins (very good video by the way) using conventional mot1 etc. Why didnt you use this soil stablalised method for that ?

Awesome. Any links on that mean tractor?? 😂

Looks beautiful, what kind of plants did you put in?

would your base mix work for a simple patio and a block paved walkway instead of type 2?

Does the cement technique work with heavy clay soils?

Some really useful tips there- what I was wondering though is why don't you use a mix of cement and sand between the blocks instead of jusrt sand?

@martinmorgan9

10 ай бұрын

I love blockwork, because of its flexibility, but confess I'm still struggling to come up with a permanent solution to weeds growing in the blockwork joints. My latest experiment (ongoing) is to clean the blocks of their algae patina by jet washing (which also blasts out the mixture of sand and silt) then re-sand the blockwork joints and seal the sand AND blocks with an acrylic sealant.

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It's called 'Channel Investment'

Hi Stuart. Thinking of using soil stabilisation under a gravel garden path. Can I ask what I need to do about drainage - camber?

Really impressed with the production quality of this video!

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Could this method be used for a large paving area (60m2), and would you use mortar for the slabs on top of the stabilised soil? Cheers

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Yes and yes - exactly!

That banana's gonna take over that bed.

Hang on Stuart, drone footage & ride on lawn mower😍Have you won the lottery or something?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It's called 'Channel Investment'!

@colingoode3702

10 ай бұрын

@@ProperDIY And no doubt tax deductible😉Keep up the good work.👏

Excellent video mate. Did this not qualify for the garden series??

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Thanks - yes should have done but I had a slight IT problem so well with the standard intro

Hi. I work at a major bulk earthworks company in Derbyshire who work with the wirtgen a and cement/lime stabilisation so can relate to this video a lot. I’m considering doing this for a base for a fire pit area to then cover over with rubber square flooring tiles - question. Do you think weeds would still grow up through the soil - needing to lay down terram etc - Or would the cement base mix hinder any growth?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

I think if you put a reasonable amount of cement in it I don't think weeks could get through. More chance they will come from above and take root.

Would this method allow water through it better than compacted MOT 1?

If this method is used can rain water still drain through the soil/cement or will it run off it?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It will run off in the same way as compacted MOT type 1

@seanrtkelly

10 ай бұрын

@@ProperDIY Thanks so much for the reply. So if this method is used, you always have to leave a slight slope on the finished soil/concrete mix. Otherwise the rainwater will pool and not sink into the earth?

I need to build a garden shed greenhouse combo but due to an extremely restricted budget could I use cement stabilised soil for the shed floor? But say at 5or 4 to 1 until such time as I can afford to concrete it

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

Yes exactly. As using cement like this is relatively cheap then increasing the percentage will help without breaking the bank.

Very nice Stuart, looks very colourful, I'm going to be using your idea with the block paving base as I watched your previous video, amazing, it would have saved me loads of cash if I'd hsve used that method 2 months ago when doing a cement base under my corner pergola, however I do have another area I will use your method, thsnk you ❤

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

No problem

any solutions for london clay? or is type 1 the only way?

@ProperDIY

10 ай бұрын

It can still work with clay but you really do need to put more effort into the mixing. If the clay is really heavy then replacing it may me easier