Wow, I was amazed at how much water there still was in the basement at the beginning - you practically had a swimming pool in there! And then the frozen ground - man, nothing comes easy for you here. Needless to say, you did a great job getting things hunky dory. (I know ,y comments are 5 years too late, so sue me. 😀)
Maybe when the summer comes you could ask the owners if you could could do a video of the finished project,so before,during,and after,and later on when garden and drive is complete. Good work as usual Andrew.
Вот теперь поймите как у нас в России,где земля 1,5 -2 метра промерзает,а 60% территории вечная мерзлота которая никогда не оттаивает и строят на сваях и ставят охладители,чтобы летом не оттаивал грунт
Hi Andrew, in Canada when we need to dig in winter, just start a wood fire and when it's hot, add coal. Briquettes work but coal chips and dust is freaking hot and the ground will thaw fast.
That was smart to put in that extra drain .They should have put in a manhole for a pump too .Looks like the house is setting right on top of a artesian spring .
Well if there is an artesian spring and it's flowing in the winter, wow, will be freezing up at the end of his pipe to daylight, but on the plus side, you can bottle it in the summer!
Fantastic and through work! I would have thought you of all people would have moved that drop cord before you started driving over it!!! Awesome work as always.
The basement should have been heated the whole time. If frost gets under the footings, it can crack the walls. Mistake on the home owners part. You shouldn’t have ice in the basement. In Canada, if they aren’t going to heat the basement, they put straw in to protect the footings from freezing.
when i see frost it reminds me i need to buy a frost tooth for my takeuchi for winter emergency digging. but then their are alot of things i would like. another great video andrew. i will have to start servicing my equipment for the up coming season your videos are motivating me thanx.
Thank God I live in Texas! I bet having everything froze all the time gets really old fast! Makes everything you do so much harder. Thanks for taking the time do record your work... I know it doubles your work load. Good day!
sucks having to wait when theres stuff to do and money to be made. theres your reason why all the excavation guys lay off all winter, even with a ripper on the machine its too hard to dig. cheers from connecticut. thanks for the vid!
Cameron your definitely VERY skilled at your work, pretty much a Jack at all trades, thanks for sharing thoughts and talents and taking us along with you to the job sites.
Nice work! Enjoy seeing the progress here, hopefully to completion. Again, nice video! We all learn by doing and that is often the painful joy of life.
I love the way there’s so many experts willing to tell u what your doing wrong ,,,, ( where would u be without them). Love the videos , whats nice there not condensed into 4 or 5 minutes,,,, 👍🏴
stephen davies "so many experts willing to tell u what your doing wrong" True, and they also seem to not realize that a job has to be done by a certain date and time. You cannot hold up another contractor's work on the job site.
The quality of this video is comparable to: "This Old House" So how does a one man show pull that off against the so-called TV pros? It means TV is overrated BS and way to expensive.....
I have a sheet rock bucket with about 10 million holes drilled in it, I set my sump pump in that on the job site, and it keeps it from sucking up coffee cups, rags and other job site crap.
ganymedeIV4 it was funny, I typed that before the video was over, and then saw it. I should have expected he would have figured it out before the end of the video. ;-)
Remember long long time ago I hope my brother got a project Kansas in the winter time had to poor footing for a front porch used a Jackhammer break up Frozen soil. Fantastic job you're content directing TH-cam videos and everything else you're on point bro good luck and Merry Christmas Happy New Year
Really swampy that whole ground...maybe because it`s on that low level beyond the road? Seems to be the lowest spot in the neighborhood, that soon-to-be-owners should save some cash for good pumps... :-) Nice work as always, I would hit the pillars with the tractor several times, I guess... 8-)) Thx for the vid!
I was thinking you'd just break up the top layer of dirt when tying to dig the holes. Good choice aborting that job. Putting in that drainage was an excellent idea showing how much there was when you dug through the footing. Water can be such a powerful thing. But that drainage will alleviate any pressures. Thanks for sharing. Nice job.
I love the bucket with the holes in it and the sump pump. I have a window well that fills during heavy rains and I think that's exactly how I'm going to deal with it.
I recently picked up a skid steer mounted post auger. bobcat 30c this model is capable of digging through frozen ground, you can find them pretty reasonable used. Its a low speed high torque model so it works well for hard or frozen ground.
Hello Andrew, I have seen most of your videos and i really like them, i have a question that doesnt really apply to this job, but i was wondering how did you learn so much about mechanics and fixing your machines. I have learned a bunch of stuff of your vids. Want to see more of the jobs you have, and learn more about you fixing equipment. Its a pleasure to follow your channel, and hope you get more jobs and learn more from your experience. Hugs from Lima Peru.
Hi Andrew, when digging that porch you have to treat the ground for what it is, dirt solid like concrete, then treat it like concrete !! you could have got a skinny bucket on the machine so it can rip through the ground easier or fit a breaker on the machine and breaker the ground up
G'Day, I live in Brisbane, Australia, very similar to Florida, but no Spanish spoken. Our tradespeople (contractors) would freak, if they had to put up with those conditions, great video.
I work in the new home industry here in Canada. The crush rock in the basement never goes in until the basement is thawed, then once the furnace is installed the interior can get done, once they get to drywall, the basement floor is poured.
Propane Roofing torch, running off a grill-sized bottle, would enable you to melt enough ground to run pipes, etc. Ever look into a small walk-behind skid-steer? Landscapers here in PA seem to use them for moving pallets of block, and with a bucket, mulch, stone, and the like.
well done Andrew alot of contractors wouldnt have bothered about the ice they would just ignore it. Tells me you are consciencious and care about your ork and the end result to your client. I applaud that
Andy once again. Nice job. Just one FYI. About drill cement. With the hammer drill. It a back and forth. Movement. Keep bring all the dust and cement Out of the hole!!!!!!!! Been there done that. Also. A old piece of carpet to laid on. While Your working on the ground. One. More small piece. Of carpet to laid your hammer drill when your in the dirt. It just keeps the dirt out of the brushs saves. The motor on the hammer drill Also if you had a small bottle jack and a pipe wrench. You could have put the pipe wrench on the drill bit and jack the bit out if the hole. Take care keep up the good work. JUNKMANDO
I hope you take all the differences of winter builds into your costs of the build, including equipment abuse, labor up-charge and completion/warranty adjustment as well.
Nice -you always going good-one thing-temporary lighting-on a GFCI-always have enough light on your projects sir-temp lights and temp power -but both need to be safe. Keep on rolling.
You get yourself under some interesting projects It's been pretty fun watching your videos I haven't been watching for very long I cannot just Came across your channel You just do things differently than I do which is good I own some equipment No where near the level of what you have lol keep up the good work it's been great I'm sorry you get negative cruises On here Recliner quarterbacks
Nice work there bud, digging in the frozen ground must have sucked, I wonder if having a 12" bucket would have been a little bit better, more breakout force? Still probably a good idea to wait till Spring, don't want to destroy your equipment! Thanks for sharing!
You need a drum type forestry mulcher, on your skid steer, even a used one . then you'll have everything you need to do any job. Great Jobs and Great Videos.
Yeah, that would be nice, they are expensive though. I was thinking about getting a rotary mower for the skid steer next year. That should be able to handle some fairly large trees.
Seems pretty wet under the floor, foam board under the cement would have been alot warmer in the winter. Kudos for letting professionals pour the concrete.
I was a bit dubious on the size of that house, it looked really small after watching you clear the land and do the foundation work but having seen it now coming together with stud walls etc going in it looks much better proportioned. I wish people who design & build houses would run Ethernet cables as a standard fixture now because running a Cat-6a line into each room would make much more sense infrastructure wise. When my parents bough a new house it had nothing fitted, the phone company had been good enough to fit an external junction box for service by the outside front door but that was it, really useful when then walls are boarded, plastered and painted. Ended up running it all myself in the end and used the cavity space alongside soil pipe run to access all the floors basement to attic so I didn't have to knock holes in the new walls. So yeh If your building a new house, spend the few hundred extra and lay Cat6a for 10gig future proof access. You could use wireless but I prefer not to slowly microwave myself.
Everything is wireless now. Think having wireless devices around is bad for health? I remember people saying that 25 years ago about cell phones. But stopped hearing it once phones became more popular.
I think running phone, cable, and now fibre-optical cable to a house is getting to be standard practise (in developments and subdivisions), but as much as I agree with you about running Cat-6 throughout the house, I don't think that was or ever will be standard, it's a pay-extra-option that a builder would be happy to get done for you upon demand. My parents just moved into a brand-new place that was built around a basic layout, with options out the wazoo. They chose to forgo a huge honkin' dining room, and had the back corner of the building changed so that the exterior walls were brought in something like 10x10 or 10x12, but the roof still exists as it did on the blueprints, so they have an "overhang" where they had a custom deck put in that is sheltered on 2 sides and above. My Dad spec'd out some heavier circuits for his d-garage, a Christmas light circuit so he only has to flip a switch to make the Xmas lights go on (also programmable timer enabled), my step-Mom wanted a few things that differed from the basic plan. Some of the things were listed options on their plan that cost nothing extra, some were listed options that did cost extra, and some were off-the-list options that the builder was happy to arrange, but cost quite a bit extra. But, when you're past the age of 70 with a good financial situation and an uncertain future timeline, I guess it's worth it almost no matter how much they want to charge. One big $ave they made was not paying 4 grand+ for the builder to put the central air in, they got it done a year after for about 1600, and got the machine put where they wanted instead of under their Mbr window.
25 years ago, the cell system was still analogue, and most fixed-in-car-phones were 3 Watts. Back then, we had handsets, and the transceiver was away from the head, the antenna mounted on the glass. When portable hand-held phones came out, to make batteries last longer, they were either fixed at .6W (600mW), or some (like the Motorola bagphone) could be toggled between full 3W or low power 600mW. I left mine on full power, because I kept it plugged into the cig.lighter to stay charged up. But that was the concern at the time, having that kind of power that close to the head, especially the people who were on their phones 8-10-12hrs a day, holding a phone right to their head. With today's networks being completely digital, the power levels needed at the end-user's devices is pretty low, and the dangers that we were worried about all those years ago are not so much. That said, it still doesn't hurt to limit the time spent holding a mobile phone to your head, or staring at the screen for hours on end, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Some of that water in the basement came from the heaters. The two main byproducts of burning HYDROcarbons are water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO). All the water vapor will condense on the cold surfaces and run downhill. Good thing to keep in mind so you can manage it. Also concrete has a ton of water in it that needs to go somewhere.
Andrew do you think that tractors like that kubota have good performance as loaders ? i can only carry 3.5 tons and 1.8 meter wide on my truck so the obvious thing would be a skid steer, but they are expensive (like 10k for a 20 year old one) and your videos made me question their reliability.. i am not a big fan of back hoes but they are powerful loaders, cant carry one on my truck but people put plates on them and drive them to jobs ( would cost nearly 20k to get a plated one) so the option left is a kubota type tractor with the loader attachement and under 3.5 tons, what i am not sure is if they perform ok the job of a skid steer.. because the fact that you can attached hundreds of accessories to them makes it look like the best option in theory
I just looked it up. Apparently that is a bucket, unless you use it to fetch water from a well or other source -- most of them have a pouring spout too. Language is weird.
I've been following this project since you started, You did put your drain to high around the house , it should be lower than the fauting ... there will always be trouble with water in the basement
For such a small house I am amazed that they did not get it built without those three support beams in the basement. They should have used LDL floor beams and spanned the whole width of the basement so it was wide open.
I've been following this project since you started, how do you get paid for something like this that takes a long extended time to finish? Increments, or paid at the end? When I was building my log home I would always stop when Winter arrived and start up again after mud season.... it just wasn't worth all the additional work. It took three years to complete just the log work on my house. The only piece of equipment I had at the time was an International 340 tractor to haul the logs to the site. Good video.
I had a detached garage built during one winter in January. For 10 days it seemed like it snowed just about every other day. I would have to plow the driveway for the workmen. Then put down sand around the job site so that no one would fall. I wasn't able to get the floor poured until the spring. So I was chopping at the bit the whole winter waiting for spring. I would never recommend construction during the winter in a cold climate. Get the permits in the winter; build in the spring, summer, and fall.
I’ve just looked at this video on the lot, when Andrew Camarata prepares a concrete basement floor as he pumps the water out of the flooring area of a basement.
Good idea to install a sump pit to take the water level down. I like to put a flat rock under the pump so it doesn't suck up dirt. How about the fumes from those heaters how long for it to air out so you can work??
Hey Andrew, hey, would a spiral bit hole cutter would that help you make hole big enough for your tractor? Or you should invest in one to make jokes in the ground for poles or post? Thank for sharing your videos. Nice work.
Awesome job. I wonder if that concrete is ever gonna cure. Where I live, pouring concrete in sub zero is a no go. I'm sure you have some kind of add ons you put in there to make it cure in those temperatures?
Yeah, they make it with hot water, and add a thing to make it cure faster. I have never had a problem with concrete in cold weather, even below freezing.
In Europe we pour concrete on the basement floor before building walls. After we cover the concrete for isolaton from bitumen plates and melt in two layers. After this we build the walls. It should be isolation below the walls, since the basement concrete will be almost allways in the water.
What a hoot... My dog is named Sadie. Nice video. Somebody designing the building ain't thinking ahead. I think the kids is doing as told and the old folks in charge don't want to listen to em. As the kids gets older, these jobs won't happen at in a random fashion. I'm close to 80. Eaglegards...
Wow, I was amazed at how much water there still was in the basement at the beginning - you practically had a swimming pool in there! And then the frozen ground - man, nothing comes easy for you here. Needless to say, you did a great job getting things hunky dory. (I know ,y comments are 5 years too late, so sue me. 😀)
“I dont like quittin on stuff”. Andrew is epic!
Maybe when the summer comes you could ask the owners if you could could do a video of the finished project,so before,during,and after,and later on when garden and drive is complete. Good work as usual Andrew.
Yeah, well I'm sure ill be back there to do the septic as soon as it warms up. The house might be done by than.
The extra work required for cold weather stuff is crazy. Frost lines, deep utilities, giant footers, tons of gravel.
Вот теперь поймите как у нас в России,где земля 1,5 -2 метра промерзает,а 60% территории вечная мерзлота которая никогда не оттаивает и строят на сваях и ставят охладители,чтобы летом не оттаивал грунт
Those people are lucky they have you. Many guys would tell them to wait till spring . Great video !!
Well if I hadn't of done some of those steps, the house wouldn't have been able to been built.
Hi Andrew, in Canada when we need to dig in winter, just start a wood fire and when it's hot, add coal. Briquettes work but coal chips and dust is freaking hot and the ground will thaw fast.
Love how you guys improvise and actually get the darn job done - and in a good way. Fine comments from your fans.
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I need a 1600sf concrete floor done in my new 33' x 48' building, would you want to fly out to Illinois to help me pour it?
pretty good for that kubota fit in there the great old reliable kubota B7500 lot these old best still on the go :)
Andrew Camarata lamo
Ha!
Props for taking the time to thaw the ice.This is how we get older and wiser and not just older....:-)
Your no compromise attitude will continue to build your reputation. Bravo!
That was smart to put in that extra drain .They should have put in a manhole for a pump too .Looks like the house is setting right on top of a artesian spring .
Yeah, but with that next drain going out to daylight, there wont be any issues.
Well if there is an artesian spring and it's flowing in the winter, wow, will be freezing up at the end of his pipe to daylight, but on the plus side, you can bottle it in the summer!
Fantastic and through work! I would have thought you of all people would have moved that drop cord before you started driving over it!!! Awesome work as always.
The basement should have been heated the whole time. If frost gets under the footings, it can crack the walls. Mistake on the home owners part. You shouldn’t have ice in the basement. In Canada, if they aren’t going to heat the basement, they put straw in to protect the footings from freezing.
when i see frost it reminds me i need to buy a frost tooth for my takeuchi for winter emergency digging. but then their are alot of things i would like. another great video andrew. i will have to start servicing my equipment for the up coming season your videos are motivating me thanx.
Thank God I live in Texas! I bet having everything froze all the time gets really old fast! Makes everything you do so much harder. Thanks for taking the time do record your work... I know it doubles your work load. Good day!
I was thinking the same thing (I live in Australia)
Живу в России ,у нас 1,5 метра промерзвет грунт или вообще вечная мерзлота 60%
sucks having to wait when theres stuff to do and money to be made. theres your reason why all the excavation guys lay off all winter, even with a ripper on the machine its too hard to dig. cheers from connecticut. thanks for the vid!
Cameron your definitely VERY skilled at your work, pretty much a Jack at all trades, thanks for sharing thoughts and talents and taking us along with you to the job sites.
Cameron? Lol
Nice work! Enjoy seeing the progress here, hopefully to completion. Again, nice video!
We all learn by doing and that is often the painful joy of life.
I love the way there’s so many experts willing to tell u what your doing wrong ,,,, ( where would u be without them). Love the videos , whats nice there not condensed into 4 or 5 minutes,,,, 👍🏴
stephen davies
"so many experts willing to tell u what your doing wrong" True, and they also seem to not realize that a job has to be done by a certain date and time. You cannot hold up another contractor's work on the job site.
The quality of this video is comparable to: "This Old House" So how does a one man show pull that off against the so-called TV pros? It means TV is overrated BS and way to expensive.....
Andrew as usuel great work man .
I have a sheet rock bucket with about 10 million holes drilled in it, I set my sump pump in that on the job site, and it keeps it from sucking up coffee cups, rags and other job site crap.
ganymedeIV4 it was funny, I typed that before the video was over, and then saw it. I should have expected he would have figured it out before the end of the video. ;-)
Remember long long time ago I hope my brother got a project Kansas in the winter time had to poor footing for a front porch used a Jackhammer break up Frozen soil. Fantastic job you're content directing TH-cam videos and everything else you're on point bro good luck and Merry Christmas Happy New Year
In Toronto Canada area,50 years ago. They dig basements pour concrete in the summer season. Come winter put up houses over them.
Really swampy that whole ground...maybe because it`s on that low level beyond the road?
Seems to be the lowest spot in the neighborhood, that soon-to-be-owners should save some cash for good pumps...
:-)
Nice work as always, I would hit the pillars with the tractor several times, I guess...
8-))
Thx for the vid!
Looks like house is in a natural flood plain...with all that water....
I wish TH-cam would filter out what I’ve watched already. Great vid and I’m watching for the second time! Hope I don’t throw off your stats.
I never dislike your videos because all of them are awesome 💯
Rain or shine.... or snow.... this guy never quits!
I was thinking you'd just break up the top layer of dirt when tying to dig the holes. Good choice aborting that job. Putting in that drainage was an excellent idea showing how much there was when you dug through the footing. Water can be such a powerful thing. But that drainage will alleviate any pressures. Thanks for sharing. Nice job.
I love the bucket with the holes in it and the sump pump. I have a window well that fills during heavy rains and I think that's exactly how I'm going to deal with it.
I recently picked up a skid steer mounted post auger. bobcat 30c this model is capable of digging through frozen ground, you can find them pretty reasonable used. Its a low speed high torque model so it works well for hard or frozen ground.
Yeah, it actually drills threw ice?
Andrew Camarata I’ve drilled 15” holes through 12” of frost no problem. If you use the right auger it does pretty well in frost.
Hello Andrew, I have seen most of your videos and i really like them, i have a question that doesnt really apply to this job, but i was wondering how did you learn so much about mechanics and fixing your machines. I have learned a bunch of stuff of your vids. Want to see more of the jobs you have, and learn more about you fixing equipment. Its a pleasure to follow your channel, and hope you get more jobs and learn more from your experience. Hugs from Lima Peru.
very tough conditions, but bloody good and interesting to see the project progress.
Really Good Channel Andrew.
Hi Andrew, when digging that porch you have to treat the ground for what it is, dirt solid like concrete, then treat it like concrete !! you could have got a skinny bucket on the machine so it can rip through the ground easier or fit a breaker on the machine and breaker the ground up
Your a hard working guy. Keep it up !
G'Day, I live in Brisbane, Australia, very similar to Florida, but no Spanish spoken. Our tradespeople (contractors) would freak, if they had to put up with those conditions, great video.
You always do good work.
I’ll been here for a little bit but I don’t recall seeing you hand dig. Good job
You have to get a frost ripper! You will love it!
Lots of different kinds of frustrations I've dealt with over the years but doing what Andrew's doing - no way I could do that. No way.
These daily uploads I like I don't like waiting for uploads
I'll try to keep them coming often. These do take a lot of time to make though.
Your quite a knowledgeable fellow!!
WE Really like your Video channel.Thanks Andrew,sir.Cheers.
thumbs up for doing the job correctly and not screwing over the home owner
Private small construction contracting is the most challenging business in the world. but so rewarding when all goes well !
I work in the new home industry here in Canada. The crush rock in the basement never goes in until the basement is thawed, then once the furnace is installed the interior can get done, once they get to drywall, the basement floor is poured.
You know.... you didn't knock the house down either... BRAVO my man! I would have at least ripped 1 post out but only 1.
Just what I was thinking
Propane Roofing torch, running off a grill-sized bottle, would enable you to melt enough ground to run pipes, etc.
Ever look into a small walk-behind skid-steer? Landscapers here in PA seem to use them for moving pallets of block, and with a bucket, mulch, stone, and the like.
This is the place with the crazy septic system engineer lady!!!! That was crazy!!!!!
well done Andrew alot of contractors wouldnt have bothered about the ice they would just ignore it. Tells me you are consciencious and care about your ork and the end result to your client. I applaud that
Im in the same type of work and man I hate frozen ground!
Perfect job for a UK Skiploader followed by a wackerplate. Could use the kubota to load it up🤙🏻🤙🏻
"I don't like quitting on stuff" no shit Andrew! LOL
Andy once again. Nice job. Just one FYI. About drill cement. With the hammer drill. It a back and forth. Movement. Keep bring all the dust and cement Out of the hole!!!!!!!! Been there done that. Also. A old piece of carpet to laid on. While Your working on the ground. One. More small piece. Of carpet to laid your hammer drill when your in the dirt. It just keeps the dirt out of the brushs saves. The motor on the hammer drill Also if you had a small bottle jack and a pipe wrench. You could have put the pipe wrench on the drill bit and jack the bit out if the hole. Take care keep up the good work. JUNKMANDO
You guys build houses so much differently than we do here in Finland...
That ground looked like concrete when you were trying to dig in it! #AC
I hope you take all the differences of winter builds into your costs of the build, including equipment abuse, labor up-charge and completion/warranty adjustment as well.
Nice -you always going good-one thing-temporary lighting-on a GFCI-always have enough light on your projects sir-temp lights and temp power -but both need to be safe. Keep on rolling.
You get yourself under some interesting projects It's been pretty fun watching your videos I haven't been watching for very long I cannot just Came across your channel You just do things differently than I do which is good I own some equipment No where near the level of what you have lol keep up the good work it's been great I'm sorry you get negative cruises On here Recliner quarterbacks
Andrew marathon weekend! Going back and looking 2nd times on some videos.
put plastic under slab!!
In NY concrete workers set barn fires on ground to melt. One time setting new house ablaze...lol
Thank you , Andrew
Nice work there bud, digging in the frozen ground must have sucked, I wonder if having a 12" bucket would have been a little bit better, more breakout force? Still probably a good idea to wait till Spring, don't want to destroy your equipment! Thanks for sharing!
BarnStangz Ripper hook
Yeah forgot about that baby! That would work mint!
I guess I need to try getting a ripper, I feel like it would work better, but not able to dig everything.
You need a drum type forestry mulcher, on your skid steer, even a used one . then you'll have everything you need to do any job. Great Jobs and Great Videos.
Yeah, that would be nice, they are expensive though. I was thinking about getting a rotary mower for the skid steer next year. That should be able to handle some fairly large trees.
love your vids i did building for years so know exactly what your dealing with
Seems pretty wet under the floor, foam board under the cement would have been alot warmer in the winter. Kudos for letting professionals pour the concrete.
Damn. Makes you realize how awesome it is to live in Florida.
Always great videos! Keep on!
Andrew Hiii friend !!! Why you don't use a conveyor belt for this type of work ......? all the best for New year's eve !!!!
I don’t wanna abuse my machine digging these tubes but I will to get this pipe in 😎
Hard work conditions, thank you for sharing your amazing video
Great vid bro.. would your skid steer not have fitted? Think that would have done and quicker job 😄😀👍👍
I was a bit dubious on the size of that house, it looked really small after watching you clear the land and do the foundation work but having seen it now coming together with stud walls etc going in it looks much better proportioned.
I wish people who design & build houses would run Ethernet cables as a standard fixture now because running a Cat-6a line into each room would make much more sense infrastructure wise. When my parents bough a new house it had nothing fitted, the phone company had been good enough to fit an external junction box for service by the outside front door but that was it, really useful when then walls are boarded, plastered and painted. Ended up running it all myself in the end and used the cavity space alongside soil pipe run to access all the floors basement to attic so I didn't have to knock holes in the new walls.
So yeh If your building a new house, spend the few hundred extra and lay Cat6a for 10gig future proof access. You could use wireless but I prefer not to slowly microwave myself.
Everything is wireless now. Think having wireless devices around is bad for health? I remember people saying that 25 years ago about cell phones. But stopped hearing it once phones became more popular.
I think running phone, cable, and now fibre-optical cable to a house is getting to be standard practise (in developments and subdivisions), but as much as I agree with you about running Cat-6 throughout the house, I don't think that was or ever will be standard, it's a pay-extra-option that a builder would be happy to get done for you upon demand. My parents just moved into a brand-new place that was built around a basic layout, with options out the wazoo. They chose to forgo a huge honkin' dining room, and had the back corner of the building changed so that the exterior walls were brought in something like 10x10 or 10x12, but the roof still exists as it did on the blueprints, so they have an "overhang" where they had a custom deck put in that is sheltered on 2 sides and above. My Dad spec'd out some heavier circuits for his d-garage, a Christmas light circuit so he only has to flip a switch to make the Xmas lights go on (also programmable timer enabled), my step-Mom wanted a few things that differed from the basic plan. Some of the things were listed options on their plan that cost nothing extra, some were listed options that did cost extra, and some were off-the-list options that the builder was happy to arrange, but cost quite a bit extra. But, when you're past the age of 70 with a good financial situation and an uncertain future timeline, I guess it's worth it almost no matter how much they want to charge. One big $ave they made was not paying 4 grand+ for the builder to put the central air in, they got it done a year after for about 1600, and got the machine put where they wanted instead of under their Mbr window.
25 years ago, the cell system was still analogue, and most fixed-in-car-phones were 3 Watts. Back then, we had handsets, and the transceiver was away from the head, the antenna mounted on the glass. When portable hand-held phones came out, to make batteries last longer, they were either fixed at .6W (600mW), or some (like the Motorola bagphone) could be toggled between full 3W or low power 600mW. I left mine on full power, because I kept it plugged into the cig.lighter to stay charged up. But that was the concern at the time, having that kind of power that close to the head, especially the people who were on their phones 8-10-12hrs a day, holding a phone right to their head. With today's networks being completely digital, the power levels needed at the end-user's devices is pretty low, and the dangers that we were worried about all those years ago are not so much. That said, it still doesn't hurt to limit the time spent holding a mobile phone to your head, or staring at the screen for hours on end, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Stan Patterson ok. Yeah it's nice to build your house the way you want it. Interesting information about the cell phones. Thanks.
Andrew looks at the well-drilling rig. "That thing looks pretty cool".
Next time on "Camarata Property Maintenance and Well Drilling"
Some of that water in the basement came from the heaters. The two main byproducts of burning HYDROcarbons are water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO). All the water vapor will condense on the cold surfaces and run downhill. Good thing to keep in mind so you can manage it. Also concrete has a ton of water in it that needs to go somewhere.
Andrew do you think that tractors like that kubota have good performance as loaders ? i can only carry 3.5 tons and 1.8 meter wide on my truck so the obvious thing would be a skid steer, but they are expensive (like 10k for a 20 year old one) and your videos made me question their reliability.. i am not a big fan of back hoes but they are powerful loaders, cant carry one on my truck but people put plates on them and drive them to jobs ( would cost nearly 20k to get a plated one) so the option left is a kubota type tractor with the loader attachement and under 3.5 tons, what i am not sure is if they perform ok the job of a skid steer.. because the fact that you can attached hundreds of accessories to them makes it look like the best option in theory
Yes, tractors with loaders are usefull. Make sure its 4x4. HST is nice too.
That was a lot of water. Wow.
I just looked it up. Apparently that is a bucket, unless you use it to fetch water from a well or other source -- most of them have a pouring spout too. Language is weird.
I've been following this project since you started, You did put your drain to high around the house , it should be lower than the fauting ... there will always be trouble with water in the basement
Is not the water due to being when the floor was exposed to the elements?
For such a small house I am amazed that they did not get it built without those three support beams in the basement. They should have used LDL floor beams and spanned the whole width of the basement so it was wide open.
And now we can settle the Holes up or down thing. Why did you only put holes in the bottom third of the 5 gallon bucket for the sump?
I've been following this project since you started, how do you get paid for something like this that takes a long extended time to finish? Increments, or paid at the end? When I was building my log home I would always stop when Winter arrived and start up again after mud season.... it just wasn't worth all the additional work. It took three years to complete just the log work on my house. The only piece of equipment I had at the time was an International 340 tractor to haul the logs to the site. Good video.
By the hour. And kind of by the step, I'm probably done there now until the weather warms up.
I had a detached garage built during one winter in January. For 10 days it seemed like it snowed just about every other day. I would have to plow the driveway for the workmen. Then put down sand around the job site so that no one would fall. I wasn't able to get the floor poured until the spring. So I was chopping at the bit the whole winter waiting for spring. I would never recommend construction during the winter in a cold climate. Get the permits in the winter; build in the spring, summer, and fall.
My grandpa owns a construction company and he makes them pay incrementally
Andrew Camarata prepares concrete at the foundation.
That lot looks like it will be wet all the time
Look at this video on that lot, that place was dry. th-cam.com/video/5b2E4rWRU98/w-d-xo.html
I’ve just looked at this video on the lot, when Andrew Camarata prepares a concrete basement floor as he pumps the water out of the flooring area of a basement.
@@karlricker3291 after it was filled with snow. Dont think there is too much snow now that it has a house over it. :P
Where I live, you can't do any electrical work until the house is completely water tight. Windows, doors, siding , roof, and the whole nine yards.
Why is that? Corrosion of connections?
It's code. I imagine they don't want water penetration with the new wires. Corrosion, yes. They are very strict about it.
Nice drone shot at the end.
Thanks, I just got the new DJI Mavic Air, its nice.
That’s hilarious Andrew it’s too frozen 🥶 brother ! 🤦
Good idea to install a sump pit to take the water level down. I like to put a flat rock under the pump so it doesn't suck up dirt. How about the fumes from those heaters how long for it to air out so you can work??
Sadie was about to show them how it's done :')
Great job as usual!!
Hey Andrew, hey, would a spiral bit hole cutter would that help you make hole big enough for your tractor? Or you should invest in one to make jokes in the ground for poles or post?
Thank for sharing your videos.
Nice work.
Awesome job. I wonder if that concrete is ever gonna cure. Where I live, pouring concrete in sub zero is a no go. I'm sure you have some kind of add ons you put in there to make it cure in those temperatures?
Yeah, they make it with hot water, and add a thing to make it cure faster. I have never had a problem with concrete in cold weather, even below freezing.
Tough conditions. I'm building a house in eastern Washington state. Same conditions, either frozen solid or muck. I hate winter.
Muito show essa sua construção, pena não entender oq vc fala. Adoro esse tipo de construção aí de vocês.
In Europe we pour concrete on the basement floor before building walls. After we cover the concrete for isolaton from bitumen plates and melt in two layers. After this we build the walls. It should be isolation below the walls, since the basement concrete will be almost allways in the water.
I'm glad I live in Texas cus that permafrost look to be a huge pain.
You do understand what "perma" means, right?
@@RangieNZ hahaha yeah looking back I guess I’d been watching to much gold rush lol
That cant be good for Sadie’s paws, lol.
Betting that Andrew washed her paws ASAP. Those dogs live better lives than some people (as it should be!)
building a house in the winter, that really sucks. That is a young guys job. :)
What a hoot... My dog is named Sadie. Nice video. Somebody designing the building ain't thinking ahead. I think the kids is doing as told and the old folks in charge don't want to listen to em. As the kids gets older, these jobs won't happen at in a random fashion. I'm close to 80. Eaglegards...
Won’t that ground water come up through the concrete floor ,just a though
Crazy to pour a floor without Pex.