Build a separate attached Small Steel Structure for a sleeping room , any small tremor and all that old masonry is bound to come crashing down on top of _______ ? Sleep soundly and safely out of harms way. Cheers from Miami Beach , joey d. 🙂
You could smash up the bricks and use the pieces to strengthen your paths through the land. This could reduce how muddy they get over the rainy season and slow down erosion of people walking over them
Materials such as terracotta and brochures had been used by the indigenous people of central and South America to build productive soil. I figure that it helps to hold moisture.
@@maximinus8725 It's the classic homesteading tradeoff of work versus money. They get free paving materials but have to work to get them there. Considering they need paving material, and would have to haul the bricks away or set up a makeshift dump on their own property anyway, smashing the bricks with the bucket of the neighbor's tractor and working those into the paths probably represents a good tradeoff.
I think you should all be showing best practices for work place safety. Hardhats, eye protection and gloves. You all are documenting an amazing process and using it is an educational tool for others to do something similar. Safety first!
A few points: 1. Plastic is a horrible material for roofing, apart from the reasons you already listed (warping, hard to seal ecc), UV radiation degrades it *incredibly* fast, which makes it brittle, crack and disperse a high amount of microplastic next time it rains. Considering it isn't a large surface, it would be a fun project to build terracotta tiles yourselves, it's an easy task and they'd be more in line with the whole project, in my opinion. 2. Agree, the walls seem completely hopeless (the basement ones too, the roof of the basement is weighing on hollow bricks, there is no real support). However, if you don't want to take them down completely, you can try to fix it by building reinforced concrete columns that hold the *entire*, focus on this, weight of the house+roof, and treat the walls as a completely non-structural part of the building that is just there as filling. This would require taking down the edges of each wall and probably something in the middle (and probably a civil engineer to check this) and substitute it with the columns. All in all, it's probably cheaper to build it from the ground up and keep the basement. It would also make it cheaper to insulate the whole structure, if your plan is to live there in the winter. Taking it from another comment, those bricks could be ground to pebbles and reused as fixing for muddy roads or trails, without having to throw them out. 3. Don't take out roofing beams from underneath them, take them from the side (like you did with the ladder, not exactly the proper tool but w/e). I'd suggest hard hats too, ricocheting stuff is risky as hell, but I recognize that security is often overlooked in this kind of projects.
Yes, the upper story is better as rubble for tracks and other ground work. You could keep the first floor and have an external wooden structural frame supporting a wood frame first floor room and roof.
One of the things I love most about this project, is that it is creating a local community, while drawing wisdom from the global community. Projects like this bring me hope for the future. Thank you for making these weekly updates, it is incredibly fun and inspiring to follow along.
Those bricks are so thin and brittle that you wouldn't be able to successfully reclaim and reuse them, I'd recommend crushing them up to a course powder to be used as grog that is added to clay to strengthen it for the making of pottery.
Hello, Lucas, an architect from Rotterdam, couple of tips, i think the pitch is not steep enough, remember that thin roofs need to be steeper, 10 degrees at minimal, 17,6% of inclination, also you can try to use UV resistant epoxy resin to coat all the roof, it will help with the seams and save that plastic at least for a bit. another option is really seal it like a standard roof and try to build a green roof? don't know, just wondering. another thing, don't try and save those bricks, a good option is to use them as fill for areas that are susceptible to erosion, the old walls can be used as big boulders underground that are able to keep the dirt in place. the bottom part and the floor of the structure are fine, just the walls that have no support pillars, and the "beams" are built directly on the bricks. it would be fine if they were normal bricks, but since they are hollow the structure eventually will fail. the best thing is to build proper pillars with concrete and metal rebar structure and connecting beams that create the edges of the box and will give support to the entire structure. then you can close it however you want it. even with earthbags a technique that would look awesome over there with the granite structure underneath. plus it's really durable, properly made walls that last 100 years that are super thermic efficient, and use little to almost no concrete. Just an idea. great initiative, I hope to visit when I have some free time to help. All the best!
I was thinking something similar - the bricks could be crushed and mixed with mud, concrete and straw to make mud walls. But your way (earthbags) sounds better. Great way to build when there are lots of people to help. They can re-use waste brick from the building and soil from the land - no need to import many materials. Just wood for the interior frame.
The leaking roof is an ongoing experiment/research to find if recycled plastic tiles are a good solution for roofing. So the point is not really just have a working roof (since regular tiles are a very obvious solution) but rather experiment with new solutions. It's not going well, but that's what happens with research, fail, analyse, improve, repeat.
Grinded brick and concert can be used for FILLer in a drain off system, instead of buying new. we used old bricks as the base for under our Green house.
Could even make it to create paving solution in areas where water settles around the kamp, did a similar thing with building rubble at my parents place, it helps stabilise the ground and provide some structure in the sandy dirt we have.
I think using a part of the broken bricks to enrich the soil would be a good way to recycle them. Terra preta, this super fertile soil found in the amazon, also contains ceramic shards, and a relatively recent research project found that these pot shards have a big positive effect on plant growth, likely due to long-term nutrient release and water retention. (just for reference, the symposium abstract is called: "Plant productivity enhancement in a simulated Amazonian Dark Earth (Terra Preta Nova)")
Hey, great mission and nice work, but in this episode you were really lucky that no one got hurt! I was cringing through the video when you were climbing on the old roof and watching those beams fall within a meter of your head. Please be careful!
8:30 The roof beams seems to have been way better built than the walls my guess is they're the only think keeping the building together at this point be very careful when you remove them.
This was my thought as well, that part of the roof looked really well put together still. The brick (that they want to save) crumbles under the slightest provocation, but those roof timbers (which they think are rotten and need to go) took a tumble from the roof and maintained their shape and didn't break. smh.
The videos really progressed since the beginning of the season. I wrote that i miss the narrative, arch or just a bit of story. Now i can definitely see that. It improved a lot! Very nice to see that you to react to constructive criticism.
My suggestion. Knock down the walls on the upper level and then extend the lower area out across the concrete base next to the building. A wooden cabin with a granite cold store for food preserves. Then build a full wooden cabin upstairs that covers the whole footprint of the base. This would provide larger accommodation and living space, the roof could be done using something transparent for lots of natural light and one heck of a night time view of the stars.
Amazing work on the video and the project, been following Project Kamp since day one and can only congratulate you guys on what you have achieved so far! Looking forward to upcoming videos and hope to see you on the land one day! Till then keep on rocking!
Those walls are way too dangerous to use. I get why you might not want to listen to TH-cam comments so get a proper surveyor to come and look at them. If you do get rid of them you could hire a crusher to turn the bricks/cement into gravel to re use as a path material.
A few things about the ruin. Those walls on the top part are not safe. There is major bowing in it which can be seen from your overhead camera shots. Major bowing like that will cause structural issues down the line. you need to take out the the brick work carefully and safely. What you can reuse that brick in is then part of pathways to help reuse them as sidewalks. You can also use some of it for irrigation systems too if you have enough. I can't wait to see how this progresses.
@@anderskallstrom1635 even if that was the case, they already stated that the building wasn't made up to code. So I wouldn't trust that. Plus the bricks used in this are very prone to breaking due to how thin they are. They're very heavy too. If a storm was to happen that caused a wall to fall over and they were inside they would get seriously hurt. It's better to be safe than sorry.
I completely agree about the curving in the side wall. don't see how this can be safely saved and would honestly be better off and cheaper to just start again.
@@CawmeKrazee I don't think these bricks were ever meant for building structural walls. It seems modern Portuguese buildings are usually concrete post and beam structures so the concrete is the structural part and the bricks are just infill. I see some attempts at building concrete beams in this structure but they're just that, attempts.
My thought exactly. As I watched, I thought maybe the earth next to the wall had moved yhe granite base over time and the orange tile bricks were added with no diligence.
"Episode 249: We moved the recycled roof to the dryest part of the sahara and built a house around it, it's still leaking. Let us know in the comments if you have any ideas"
First off, I am thoroughly enjoying watching your process… I binged all your videos! Love the new cinematography - Felix really brings a visually poetic touch to the video representation of your community. You are doing so much to inspire sustainable living practices to everyday living, awesome! As yet another architect chiming in…. I had a few comments/ideas about the plastic roof.. many that have already been mentioned I agree -so I’m not going to repeat. But here are a few ideas to consider that I hadn’t seen mentioned…. 1. Albedo: The color of the roof tile would be best if it were a lighter tone, with a higher albedo that can actually reflect the light radiation away. Darker colors with a lower albedo, like asphalt warm the environment, which is not desirable. Think of how the giant white glacier blankets work to keep the ice cool, or huge big box stores which are almost always white for the same reason. Even better, I loved the comment about the use of extensive green roofing. 2. Material properties: it would be interesting to utilize the inherent properties of the plastic to its advantage. Is there a different profile that might help mitigate the curling? This characteristic reminds me of wood shingle siding - perhaps a smaller unit dimension with a thicker profile would be helpful? Is there a better profile geometry that might perform better? I would recommend identifying parallels between the plastic performance vs. traditional materials to guide the development of each unit. Then use the dimensional units of traditional units to inform the new plastic units. Also side note: re: plastic… Thom Moran, Assistant Professor from Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan ran an amazing project a few years back, “Post Rock” - not sure if his work was informed by yours or if he’s part of your precious plastic universe, but there are a lot of similar sensibilities between you too.
I really liked the structure of this video. Dave introducing and narrating. Introducing your volunteers and allowing the viewers to get to know them. A nice overall fun tone to the video while still being informative. 👍
For the plastic roof: very interesting that you're seeing results already! There's a reason roof tiles are shaped like they are: the curved shape helps the tiles interlock, increases strength by an order of magnitude, prevents leaks and guides water away. If you take the tiles down and heat them up in a curved form, they should improve massively. As they interlock, they only need one attachment point, which should take care of the screw issue. Aside from all that, annealing the plastic should take care of the warping: heat the plates slowly to 140°c and let them cool.
If you make corrugated sheets, they have a lot of internal stability and strength. Also guides the water and helps waterproof the seams. Also when fastening with screws through the crest of the corrugation will help with leaks
Thanks for sharing all that you guys do. Dave has motivated me to try recycling plastic and sharing what I learn here on TH-cam. I do wish there were more that would try this. Not a lot of content on recycled plastic haha.
This is getting better and better! The new season, full of new people and with a renewed videography style is so sweet! Loved this episode, the presentation of the crew, the different narrative of how things are evolving at different pace. Lovely, I would love to visit you guys to give a little hand ✌️ Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with the world
I think there's no way to safe the walls. They've been poorly built from the start and they don't have any structural integrity anymore. The basement looks OK, which is great. Also I think it's going to be tough to fix the plastic roof. I think the easiest is to cover it with a water and UV proof tarp.
From a safety point of view, I would take the ruin back down to what is structuraly sound so get rid of any walls that are damaged. You'll only create more work for yourself by trying to work around & save what you have rather than rebuild. No point trying to polish a turd as they say ;)
Hello Guys, This is Ashan Fernando from Sri Lanka , Nice to see the same roofing tile(Old clay ones) over there as like we do have hear. Possibly because we were a Portuguese colony . enjoying your videos .
Yo Tim! Awesome to see someone from South Africa. Love from Boksburg man and to everyone else at project kamp keep up the great work you guys are an inspiration
The plastic roof has a minimal fall so with the warped plastic tiles, rainwater will probably pond and exploit the joints. No amount of sealant will fix that. Yes the laps for the plastic tiles are no where near enough but plastic like that will never make a good roof. Even with a steeper roof pitch I'd recommend at least a 50% lap but the thermal expansion on the plastic is far too great on sections that size. No amount of sealant will fix the problem with this roof as designed. Bottom line, the design for the plastic lean-to roof is pretty poor and you will spend more time trying to fix this than if you take it down and start again. If you rebuild, it will be an excellent 2nd location for solar panels. What is your battery set up? The 'Ruin' The external walls are only one brick thick so unless you cross brace them there will be a tendency for them to buckle. Ironically the roof timbers you took down and the internal wall actually offered quite good cross bracing but now there is none where the walls are highest and need it most. Too late to put it back but if you experience any high winds, stay away from this building. If you want to live in this building, it might be best now to demolish it down to the floor slab. Strengthen the ground floor area and rebuild in lightweight blocks and consider a cavity to give better stability and insulation. You will be lucky if you salvage any of those hollow clay bricks. They might just be useful for hardcore or type 1 road base. I don't know how you stand with Portuguese building regulations or planning. If there is so much rain, do you plan to harvest it? Love what you are doing but the way you are doing some things scares the shit out of me. It doesn't look like there is a hospital nearby. At the very least, invest in steel toe capped boots when doing demo and some gloves will save you 1000 splinters. Get yourself a couple of scaffold towers. Now. Good luck.
I agree, plastic roof is too flat and there is no way to fix leaking for that angle. You have to stack that plastic as wooden shingles are stacked, both materials has similar issues only one changes from humidity and other from temperature. FYI - wooden shingles are stacked on 3 layers to stop leaks. Think about your safety, everything is good until first serious accident happen, of course if you are trying to make "jackass movie" then everything is different. You should open donation account for safety equipment. (If that is already done, share link, I am ready to donate for safety)
@@ToomanyFrancis I didn't think it was all that strange. The rickety wall was the only thing holding them up. A whole new roof design is needed, but not before they figure out that load bearing wall that can't bear weight anymore.
It looks like the base of the ruin is still good, just need to strengthen the brick side like you stated. I think you should scrap the top all together, and built a wooden structure like they build in America. You could even extend the top part over that concrete floor. As for the leaky roof, why not use the roof tiles from the ruins. Like a good wine, your videos are getting better.
Balloon framing is pretty unusual in Europe, and tbh I wouldn't trust such a house in a place so prone to forest fires (considering they had two in the last twenty years)
Safety first. I would rebuild the walls from the ground up with stronger bricks and would not reuse the old bricks for building. Maybe you can use the bricks for smaller things elsewhere on the campingground.
Congratulations on the all this work the project, the process, everything really gives a sense that an alternative is possible. Although it would be interesting to know more about your previous background, hence you demonstrate specialized skills in different areas. Thank you so much for this project.
I would remove the plastic roof as it gets too hot there and will keep warping. Replace the roof using the old roof tiles from the ruined building. For the building, I would not feel safe with those old hollow brick walls. Better to knock them all down to the granite foundation, crush up the bricks with sledge hammers and maybe use them as landfill under some future project. You might also need an engineer to come out to inspect the site, an architect to make rebuild plans, and some city building permits depending on the build codes there.
You got my sub because I find it interesting. You keep my sub because you don't do those stupid thumbnails with your face pretending to be shocked. Thank you for that.
Looking at that old building you can see that it has been added to several times. The whole thing doesn't look very sound or safe, especially as a result of fire damage and a lack of internal walls. Id take the whole thing all the way down. The bricks can easily be reused for other projects as others have mentioned here. Then you are starting with a blank canvas and could even make use of that concrete pad to the side to give you more space.
Small tip for the yellow tarp, if you put a wooden beam upright in the middle, all water will fall of to the side. Added bonus is you have more space for the tall guys👍🏻
I think I would replace the terracotta bricks with a wooden structure over the granite basement. Wood is almost the most eco friendly building material you can get, and if it is looked after, it will still be there in 300 years.
I always enjoy your videos. Substantial enough to maintain interest, but not blasted at me like a steam hammer. I don’t really understand how the editing works but you’re accomplishing it.
You should try using the plastic sheets to make "barrel tiles" that are U shaped and overlap, plastic is flexible and can be shaped and heat-pressed into a lot of shapes like that. Anything people have done with clay you could do with the recycled plastic.
That was my thought as well. With the advantage that it mirrors the local tile design. Old tiles in hot countries are made that way for a purpose after all.
I found your project 3 days ago and watched everything just to comment on this recent video and say your Kamp is amazing! Also, thanks for listening to the community. Your videos are perfect now.
The plastic can work perfectly for the roofing if you reduce the size of your tiles and increase the overlap to 30% aprox. Smaller size will greatly reduce the effect of the warping negating the large buckling. Think how shingles work and copy that. I have used recycled corriboard for making shingle for a long time and had roofs last 10+ years with out leaking or any issues.
An idea for the broken bricks and concrete/mortar: I've been using old bricks and cement to infill cavities in stone walls I'm building. I just smash them into rubble with a sledge and pour the gavel into spaces of the wall as I build it with larger stone
For the wall, just take it down before it falls down, you can crush the bricks and mortar and use it as fill in a french drain to dry out an area that you don't want to be wet. For the roof, add another layer of sheets, but offset them so that the joins never meet - with a bit of flexible sealant (sika flex?) at the joins on both layers should sort it out.
Maybe use the plastic sheets as a plasterboard/drywall substitute once you have a building ready? Possibly have less movement in them if less temperature fluctuations? I think they look really nice, so I'm sure they'll look good wherever you put them. Great video, thanks!
For the problem with the recycled plastic roof, I would cut the sheets into manageable size and then heat bend them in a small mold (maybe using a solar fresnel lens concentrator?) - once they are bent (similar to bamboo tiles) - simply lay them similar to a chinese bamboo tile roof.
Ruins: Great to see some progress on the building... definitely look forward to how you sort out the brick wall (which should come down)... perhaps you can reuse the broken bricks as filler, essentially using them to make new bricks by sourcing clay on the property & building a kiln on site. Plastic Roof: these are my observations (some of these were mentioned by the other commenters): 1. flat plastic sheets are rarely used since they warp too easily & cause gaps where water to seep through; Ideally you can make them corrugated so that the curves will reduce warping & serve as interlocks between panels; 2. overlap is not enough... I feel that you need at least 7.5 to 10cm of overlap between tiles with each row of tiles above offset by half (so that the top tile will be sitting over the joint of the bottom tiles); 3. ultimately, you should take down the plastic panels (use them elsewhere on site) and simply reuse your roof tiles from the ruins; that'll keep your area dry much like it has done for your pizza oven. Cheers & looking forward to see your next update!
Just a thought: For the plastic roof, add a bit of pitch and overlap the sheets like shingles? Blowing rain may push water up under the sheets but normal rain should follow the slope and fall off the end.
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 Post you social media links.. ke proud that a South African like me is there helping out. I am in Welkom in the Free State and we learning to everything to replicate it here, we just got land. We will start soon.
Building your own timber mill would be a great use of the site... Maybe repurposing an old industrial saw to run on bio-diesel or using an old farmers saw bench that works from a tractors PTO. With green timber made from local trees you could make some amazing timber framed buildings that could be clad with recycled glass, tin, plastic etc. I said it at the beginning, over a year ago, you need to start collecting materials... see what is out there and let that shape what you do. Maybe you could find a demolition company working locally or go into a town/city and get stuff from a big building project or factory closing. Those old clay bricks and broken concrete would crush quite nicely to make paths or as aggregate in a cement floor mix. I imagine you could design and make some very impressive brackets, fittings and joiners from your recycled plastic... things that would hold different sheets or different materials tightly together, make pieces of glass into new artistic windows, wedges and spacers to hold green timbers together while they dry and shrink.
Please consider safety a little bit more when doing deconstruction projects like this :( When you guys knocked down the brick wall, I was absolutely shocked that the weight didn't make the floor collapse. Also i feel like we saw 1 or 2 close calls with wood from the roof moving unexpectedly during the teardown. I love your guys' work though :) keep it up
Not only do you look like a younger version of my husband, but you are also insane like him lol! When you guys took down the wooden beams and that center wall, standing upstairs in that crumbling ruin, I was screaming at my screen that y’all need to get out of that thing like now 🤣 if it were mine, I would crush the bricks and use them leading to the creek if you have to walk through mud to access the water. Plus, it would prevent erosion if that is an issue, especially with treading back and forth. I live near swamps in Louisiana, and we have a houseboat in the swamp. In the mid-1900s, people put scraps of broken bricks and granite slabs in the mud because it bogs down bad along the edges where we walk. It’s sad to see an old building come down, but when it is as dangerous as that one, you have no choice. But the use of the crushed bricks would pay some homage to it. But as you continue to take it down, please don’t die. And for the love of God stop going upstairs and jumping on the floor 🤣🤣😩
#1 reuse the roofing tiles over the eating area. #2 use the wooden roof beams,rafters etc. to frame out in front of shop to give support to the saggy tarp work area.#3 the old original granite area would make a nice root cellar. it needs proper ventilation to allow hot air to rise out of pipe and lower pipe to pull cool air inward. #4 the other lower room could be a second type root cellar or storage for canned goods etc.
I wasn't aware of Project Kamp. I watched the first 32 episodes yesterday and am now up to date. I believe that taking down the structure would be the more prudent thing to do. The building that was the kitchen could be saved as it won't nearly have as much stress placed on it. In the front opening of the kitchen, I'd build a steel structure in the large opening with a wooden door. Opposite the orange color of the brick on the color/colour wheel is blue and I think it would look great printed that. Looking forward to seeing what else you do. I would love to be there and help you out. I have a welding and metal fabrication history and I am pretty good with gardening as well.
6:00 I know it's too late now but what you should do when you take the tiles of a roof and want to reuse them is to build a slide with something soft at the bottom you slide the tiles down and not destory the tiles or ny people below.
Oh! and for the palstic roof you could make it overlap, and that would resolve alot of the problem youre having with leaking issues! You can look into slate rooves, and how they overlap the slate, to inspire a better design with the plastic! I reccomend search for "Toits en ardoises" in youtube and youll probably find a few tutorials in french! Hope this helps!
i can already envision this place looking comfy affff!! you guys give me hope to go to my 10000Sqft plot just 10km away in the middle of nowhere and build it with my own hands..!! lol
you can always crush the bricks if they are as brittle as they seem and use it as make-shift gravel for pathways, fillers underneath structures, or other similar applications. Your biggest problem would be the concrete or "granite" as you call it, though I think a good heavy duty sledge hammer should be able to do the trick. just make sure you dont crush them into dust because that would defeat the purpose of using them as gravel alternative. Really glad I found your channel today, and I kinda wanna travel to where you are just to lend a hand. Seems like a dream life. keep up the great work!
Have a look at the next video were we work on the walls and windows! th-cam.com/video/3AG4XSKIXB0/w-d-xo.html
You could make a path way with the broken bricks using sand and cement to keep them all nice and stable
Build a separate attached Small Steel Structure for a sleeping room , any small tremor and all that old masonry is bound to come crashing down on top of _______ ? Sleep soundly and safely out of harms way. Cheers from Miami Beach , joey d. 🙂
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You could smash up the bricks and use the pieces to strengthen your paths through the land. This could reduce how muddy they get over the rainy season and slow down erosion of people walking over them
this représents a huge amont of work!!!
Here to recommend safety boots 🥾 and eye protection 🥽!
Materials such as terracotta and brochures had been used by the indigenous people of central and South America to build productive soil. I figure that it helps to hold moisture.
@@maximinus8725 It's the classic homesteading tradeoff of work versus money. They get free paving materials but have to work to get them there. Considering they need paving material, and would have to haul the bricks away or set up a makeshift dump on their own property anyway, smashing the bricks with the bucket of the neighbor's tractor and working those into the paths probably represents a good tradeoff.
Save the bricks yo grind n add to other construction material...?🤷🏽♀️ break into pieces n make like moisaics people make w porcelain plates...?
South Africans are always willing to help. LEKKER BRU!
I think you should all be showing best practices for work place safety. Hardhats, eye protection and gloves. You all are documenting an amazing process and using it is an educational tool for others to do something similar. Safety first!
A few points:
1. Plastic is a horrible material for roofing, apart from the reasons you already listed (warping, hard to seal ecc), UV radiation degrades it *incredibly* fast, which makes it brittle, crack and disperse a high amount of microplastic next time it rains.
Considering it isn't a large surface, it would be a fun project to build terracotta tiles yourselves, it's an easy task and they'd be more in line with the whole project, in my opinion.
2. Agree, the walls seem completely hopeless (the basement ones too, the roof of the basement is weighing on hollow bricks, there is no real support).
However, if you don't want to take them down completely, you can try to fix it by building reinforced concrete columns that hold the *entire*, focus on this, weight of the house+roof, and treat the walls as a completely non-structural part of the building that is just there as filling.
This would require taking down the edges of each wall and probably something in the middle (and probably a civil engineer to check this) and substitute it with the columns.
All in all, it's probably cheaper to build it from the ground up and keep the basement. It would also make it cheaper to insulate the whole structure, if your plan is to live there in the winter.
Taking it from another comment, those bricks could be ground to pebbles and reused as fixing for muddy roads or trails, without having to throw them out.
3. Don't take out roofing beams from underneath them, take them from the side (like you did with the ladder, not exactly the proper tool but w/e). I'd suggest hard hats too, ricocheting stuff is risky as hell, but I recognize that security is often overlooked in this kind of projects.
Yes, the upper story is better as rubble for tracks and other ground work. You could keep the first floor and have an external wooden structural frame supporting a wood frame first floor room and roof.
If the plastic gets too hot i can also start to smell really badly
@@s4credl that must suck for the people around u
That typo really got me murdered huh…
Take the terracotta roof from the ruin, wash the tiles and replace the plastic roof with them. Use the plastic roof tiles as a shower floor and walls.
One of the things I love most about this project, is that it is creating a local community, while drawing wisdom from the global community. Projects like this bring me hope for the future. Thank you for making these weekly updates, it is incredibly fun and inspiring to follow along.
Hope for the future is in our hands. There are always things we can do ourselves to promote change.
Projects like this can, and will, save this planet.
Good on you Tim from South Africa, I live in Tasmania and also come from South Africa!
Those bricks are so thin and brittle that you wouldn't be able to successfully reclaim and reuse them, I'd recommend crushing them up to a course powder to be used as grog that is added to clay to strengthen it for the making of pottery.
They could also be crushed less and used as a road material, just spreading it out where vehicles will ride.
Crush all the damaged bricks and use the clay to make roof tiles for the eating area.
exactly what i thought of
@@Vidz0022 yes, the crushed brick powder can be used as grog to make roof tiles as well...good thinking!
Grog in swedish is slang for a ”drink” with strong alcohol, I was first thinking: are you recomending him to drink brick? 🤣
Hey guys, gloves will make your life so much more easy and also faster! Greetings from Spain
Nice to see a fellow South African representing. Lekker job Tim
Hello, Lucas, an architect from Rotterdam, couple of tips, i think the pitch is not steep enough, remember that thin roofs need to be steeper, 10 degrees at minimal, 17,6% of inclination, also you can try to use UV resistant epoxy resin to coat all the roof, it will help with the seams and save that plastic at least for a bit. another option is really seal it like a standard roof and try to build a green roof? don't know, just wondering. another thing, don't try and save those bricks, a good option is to use them as fill for areas that are susceptible to erosion, the old walls can be used as big boulders underground that are able to keep the dirt in place. the bottom part and the floor of the structure are fine, just the walls that have no support pillars, and the "beams" are built directly on the bricks. it would be fine if they were normal bricks, but since they are hollow the structure eventually will fail. the best thing is to build proper pillars with concrete and metal rebar structure and connecting beams that create the edges of the box and will give support to the entire structure. then you can close it however you want it. even with earthbags a technique that would look awesome over there with the granite structure underneath. plus it's really durable, properly made walls that last 100 years that are super thermic efficient, and use little to almost no concrete. Just an idea. great initiative, I hope to visit when I have some free time to help. All the best!
I was thinking something similar - the bricks could be crushed and mixed with mud, concrete and straw to make mud walls. But your way (earthbags) sounds better. Great way to build when there are lots of people to help. They can re-use waste brick from the building and soil from the land - no need to import many materials. Just wood for the interior frame.
i was thinking amoungst a similair path. and we dutchies know our water and architecture ;)
Oh I love the earth bag idea ! Dirt is still free ☺️ and I think the granite foundation is strong enough to support all the material ? Very 🤓 smart.
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@@MowgliMachete kijk das et betere deel van et land. 015 hiero buurman :D
I like Tim's Nokia hat. I have a few of those.
Why not using the tiles that you got from the ruin for the leaking roof? Great videos! It's amazing to always see new people joining
The leaking roof is an ongoing experiment/research to find if recycled plastic tiles are a good solution for roofing. So the point is not really just have a working roof (since regular tiles are a very obvious solution) but rather experiment with new solutions. It's not going well, but that's what happens with research, fail, analyse, improve, repeat.
@@fimdomeio9447 None of the people involved in this project have a fucking clue what they're doing.
Geniet jou kuier daar Ruaan!
You could grind down the bricks to use in planting and other stuff. Or as rougher layer for a filtering system.
Grinded brick and concert can be used for FILLer in a drain off system, instead of buying new. we used old bricks as the base for under our Green house.
where I come from they used to break these bricks into smaller pieces to help "pave" the pathways to avoide puddleing or as substitute to gravel
using a cement mixer with a couple of small rocks inside could work as an easy way to break them down into small pieces
Could even make it to create paving solution in areas where water settles around the kamp, did a similar thing with building rubble at my parents place, it helps stabilise the ground and provide some structure in the sandy dirt we have.
I think using a part of the broken bricks to enrich the soil would be a good way to recycle them. Terra preta, this super fertile soil found in the amazon, also contains ceramic shards, and a relatively recent research project found that these pot shards have a big positive effect on plant growth, likely due to long-term nutrient release and water retention. (just for reference, the symposium abstract is called: "Plant productivity enhancement in a simulated Amazonian Dark Earth (Terra Preta Nova)")
Hey, great mission and nice work, but in this episode you were really lucky that no one got hurt! I was cringing through the video when you were climbing on the old roof and watching those beams fall within a meter of your head. Please be careful!
They should invest in some hard hats
You should see them playing with the chainsaws :)
8:30 The roof beams seems to have been way better built than the walls my guess is they're the only think keeping the building together at this point be very careful when you remove them.
The beams look like nice oak beams. I hope they reuse it.
@@bobweiram6321 Doesn't look like it they just chucked them off the roof. These people have no concept of what's worth saving.
@@DaDunge I doubt tossing those to the ground means they won't find a place for them.
@@xavery7842 I don't know they burn a lot of useful material.
This was my thought as well, that part of the roof looked really well put together still. The brick (that they want to save) crumbles under the slightest provocation, but those roof timbers (which they think are rotten and need to go) took a tumble from the roof and maintained their shape and didn't break. smh.
Much love from Cape Town!!!
The videos really progressed since the beginning of the season. I wrote that i miss the narrative, arch or just a bit of story. Now i can definitely see that. It improved a lot!
Very nice to see that you to react to constructive criticism.
As a Portuguese living outside of Portugal, i love the nostalgia of the buildings and the fields. Great job!
My suggestion.
Knock down the walls on the upper level and then extend the lower area out across the concrete base next to the building.
A wooden cabin with a granite cold store for food preserves.
Then build a full wooden cabin upstairs that covers the whole footprint of the base.
This would provide larger accommodation and living space, the roof could be done using something transparent for lots of natural light and one heck of a night time view of the stars.
Amazing work on the video and the project, been following Project Kamp since day one and can only congratulate you guys on what you have achieved so far! Looking forward to upcoming videos and hope to see you on the land one day! Till then keep on rocking!
Was good seeing Tim, another South African, in your videos, such a small world. I'm from Cape Town South Africa myself.
Production value keeps going up. This is the best vid yet. Well done team!
I agree! This video was amazing and just as good if not better than any previous videos. Really enjoying watching- keep up the great work!
Those walls are way too dangerous to use. I get why you might not want to listen to TH-cam comments so get a proper surveyor to come and look at them. If you do get rid of them you could hire a crusher to turn the bricks/cement into gravel to re use as a path material.
Dave is magnificent!!!!And Julie is a machine.
A few things about the ruin. Those walls on the top part are not safe. There is major bowing in it which can be seen from your overhead camera shots. Major bowing like that will cause structural issues down the line. you need to take out the the brick work carefully and safely.
What you can reuse that brick in is then part of pathways to help reuse them as sidewalks. You can also use some of it for irrigation systems too if you have enough.
I can't wait to see how this progresses.
Can’t it be that the walls were built with a slight curve. Maybe just following the contour of the old building/ basement.
@@anderskallstrom1635 even if that was the case, they already stated that the building wasn't made up to code. So I wouldn't trust that. Plus the bricks used in this are very prone to breaking due to how thin they are. They're very heavy too. If a storm was to happen that caused a wall to fall over and they were inside they would get seriously hurt. It's better to be safe than sorry.
I completely agree about the curving in the side wall. don't see how this can be safely saved and would honestly be better off and cheaper to just start again.
@@CawmeKrazee I don't think these bricks were ever meant for building structural walls. It seems modern Portuguese buildings are usually concrete post and beam structures so the concrete is the structural part and the bricks are just infill. I see some attempts at building concrete beams in this structure but they're just that, attempts.
My thought exactly. As I watched, I thought maybe the earth next to the wall had moved yhe granite base over time and the orange tile bricks were added with no diligence.
"Episode 249: We moved the recycled roof to the dryest part of the sahara and built a house around it, it's still leaking. Let us know in the comments if you have any ideas"
Hi Tim, I was born in Mozambique, só I"m portuguese, raised in South África ( Ermelo). Welcome to my beautiful 🇵🇹!
Awesome addition to the team!
Really enjoy the more theatrical elements in the video, makes watching al lot more fun. Keep it up! super interesting to follow your process
First off, I am thoroughly enjoying watching your process… I binged all your videos! Love the new cinematography - Felix really brings a visually poetic touch to the video representation of your community. You are doing so much to inspire sustainable living practices to everyday living, awesome!
As yet another architect chiming in…. I had a few comments/ideas about the plastic roof.. many that have already been mentioned I agree -so I’m not going to repeat. But here are a few ideas to consider that I hadn’t seen mentioned….
1. Albedo: The color of the roof tile would be best if it were a lighter tone, with a higher albedo that can actually reflect the light radiation away. Darker colors with a lower albedo, like asphalt warm the environment, which is not desirable. Think of how the giant white glacier blankets work to keep the ice cool, or huge big box stores which are almost always white for the same reason. Even better, I loved the comment about the use of extensive green roofing.
2. Material properties: it would be interesting to utilize the inherent properties of the plastic to its advantage. Is there a different profile that might help mitigate the curling? This characteristic reminds me of wood shingle siding - perhaps a smaller unit dimension with a thicker profile would be helpful? Is there a better profile geometry that might perform better? I would recommend identifying parallels between the plastic performance vs. traditional materials to guide the development of each unit. Then use the dimensional units of traditional units to inform the new plastic units.
Also side note: re: plastic… Thom Moran, Assistant Professor from Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan ran an amazing project a few years back, “Post Rock” - not sure if his work was informed by yours or if he’s part of your precious plastic universe, but there are a lot of similar sensibilities between you too.
Hello fellow South African friend
I really liked the structure of this video. Dave introducing and narrating. Introducing your volunteers and allowing the viewers to get to know them. A nice overall fun tone to the video while still being informative. 👍
This video was so enjoyable. Music is on point. Comments, actions and nature shots are very well balanced. New and improved videomaking is wonderful!
For the plastic roof: very interesting that you're seeing results already! There's a reason roof tiles are shaped like they are: the curved shape helps the tiles interlock, increases strength by an order of magnitude, prevents leaks and guides water away. If you take the tiles down and heat them up in a curved form, they should improve massively. As they interlock, they only need one attachment point, which should take care of the screw issue.
Aside from all that, annealing the plastic should take care of the warping: heat the plates slowly to 140°c and let them cool.
If you make corrugated sheets, they have a lot of internal stability and strength. Also guides the water and helps waterproof the seams. Also when fastening with screws through the crest of the corrugation will help with leaks
Plastic exposed to rain and UV was a Bad Idea. période.
@@karlramberg yep, that was my first thought. There’s a reason people have been using corrugated sheets as roofing material for almost 200 years.
Thanks for sharing all that you guys do. Dave has motivated me to try recycling plastic and sharing what I learn here on TH-cam. I do wish there were more that would try this. Not a lot of content on recycled plastic haha.
I am one of those people.
This is getting better and better! The new season, full of new people and with a renewed videography style is so sweet! Loved this episode, the presentation of the crew, the different narrative of how things are evolving at different pace. Lovely, I would love to visit you guys to give a little hand ✌️
Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with the world
I think there's no way to safe the walls. They've been poorly built from the start and they don't have any structural integrity anymore.
The basement looks OK, which is great.
Also I think it's going to be tough to fix the plastic roof. I think the easiest is to cover it with a water and UV proof tarp.
Enjoyed watching you guys take off the roof. Less talking more progress. 💛with love.
From a safety point of view, I would take the ruin back down to what is structuraly sound so get rid of any walls that are damaged. You'll only create more work for yourself by trying to work around & save what you have rather than rebuild. No point trying to polish a turd as they say ;)
Hello Guys, This is Ashan Fernando from Sri Lanka , Nice to see the same roofing tile(Old clay ones) over there as like we do have hear. Possibly because we were a Portuguese colony . enjoying your videos .
Shout out to RSA! Let's go Tim!
Gotta give a hats off to the editors man, almost looks like a movie!
I started watching near the completion of this project, it is amazing this is where you all started.
Yo Tim! Awesome to see someone from South Africa. Love from Boksburg man and to everyone else at project kamp keep up the great work you guys are an inspiration
Knox Greenburg.. In the flesh, I love it! You guys are so awesome
The plastic roof has a minimal fall so with the warped plastic tiles, rainwater will probably pond and exploit the joints. No amount of sealant will fix that.
Yes the laps for the plastic tiles are no where near enough but plastic like that will never make a good roof. Even with a steeper roof pitch I'd recommend at least a 50% lap but the thermal expansion on the plastic is far too great on sections that size. No amount of sealant will fix the problem with this roof as designed.
Bottom line, the design for the plastic lean-to roof is pretty poor and you will spend more time trying to fix this than if you take it down and start again. If you rebuild, it will be an excellent 2nd location for solar panels. What is your battery set up?
The 'Ruin'
The external walls are only one brick thick so unless you cross brace them there will be a tendency for them to buckle. Ironically the roof timbers you took down and the internal wall actually offered quite good cross bracing but now there is none where the walls are highest and need it most. Too late to put it back but if you experience any high winds, stay away from this building.
If you want to live in this building, it might be best now to demolish it down to the floor slab. Strengthen the ground floor area and rebuild in lightweight blocks and consider a cavity to give better stability and insulation. You will be lucky if you salvage any of those hollow clay bricks. They might just be useful for hardcore or type 1 road base. I don't know how you stand with Portuguese building regulations or planning.
If there is so much rain, do you plan to harvest it?
Love what you are doing but the way you are doing some things scares the shit out of me. It doesn't look like there is a hospital nearby. At the very least, invest in steel toe capped boots when doing demo and some gloves will save you 1000 splinters. Get yourself a couple of scaffold towers. Now.
Good luck.
I agree, plastic roof is too flat and there is no way to fix leaking for that angle.
You have to stack that plastic as wooden shingles are stacked, both materials has similar issues only one changes from humidity and other from temperature.
FYI - wooden shingles are stacked on 3 layers to stop leaks.
Think about your safety, everything is good until first serious accident happen, of course if you are trying to make "jackass movie" then everything is different.
You should open donation account for safety equipment. (If that is already done, share link, I am ready to donate for safety)
Plastic rules was a Bad Idea to begin with.
exposed to Sun and rain, what did they expect???!
I thought it was strange that they were taking down the roof beams. The roof was the only structurally sound aspect of the entire building.
@@ToomanyFrancis I didn't think it was all that strange. The rickety wall was the only thing holding them up. A whole new roof design is needed, but not before they figure out that load bearing wall that can't bear weight anymore.
I'm on this channel for three weeks now and it is amazing what you did in just one and a half year. Animals Crossing real life
I love this content. VIDEO EDITOR IS GREAT ! IT`S REALLY NICE THAT HE IS ASKING QUESTIONS TOO AND TALK TO PEOPLE ! :)
It looks like the base of the ruin is still good, just need to strengthen the brick side like you stated. I think you should scrap the top all together, and built a wooden structure like they build in America. You could even extend the top part over that concrete floor.
As for the leaky roof, why not use the roof tiles from the ruins.
Like a good wine, your videos are getting better.
Balloon framing is pretty unusual in Europe, and tbh I wouldn't trust such a house in a place so prone to forest fires (considering they had two in the last twenty years)
You want to build with wood in a forest fire zone?
@@lorissupportguides if I can remember correctly, it's not in a forest, all mimosas growing there is foreign and is going to be removed anyway.
@@Lumeo592 It's common in Scandinavia but certainly not in the south. I'd stick to local methods and materials.
Safety first. I would rebuild the walls from the ground up with stronger bricks and would not reuse the old bricks for building. Maybe you can use the bricks for smaller things elsewhere on the campingground.
That camera drop at the start was so smooth 🔥👌🏻
Always enjoy your videos and seeing you and your teams work. You are a man of vision. I have nothing but respect for you.
South African helper helping you take off the roof. 😊👍
Congratulations on the all this work the project, the process, everything really gives a sense that an alternative is possible. Although it would be interesting to know more about your previous background, hence you demonstrate specialized skills in different areas. Thank you so much for this project.
I would remove the plastic roof as it gets too hot there and will keep warping. Replace the roof using the old roof tiles from the ruined building. For the building, I would not feel safe with those old hollow brick walls. Better to knock them all down to the granite foundation, crush up the bricks with sledge hammers and maybe use them as landfill under some future project.
You might also need an engineer to come out to inspect the site, an architect to make rebuild plans, and some city building permits depending on the build codes there.
Nice to see someone from home in your video
Hi Ruan and Team great video and exciting project.
Regards from South Africa
The video quality has been getting a lot better. Good work!
You got my sub because I find it interesting. You keep my sub because you don't do those stupid thumbnails with your face pretending to be shocked. Thank you for that.
Cool video cutting and Music. Excited how the ruins will turn. Keep om rockin'! 👍🏾😎
Looking at that old building you can see that it has been added to several times. The whole thing doesn't look very sound or safe, especially as a result of fire damage and a lack of internal walls. Id take the whole thing all the way down. The bricks can easily be reused for other projects as others have mentioned here. Then you are starting with a blank canvas and could even make use of that concrete pad to the side to give you more space.
Small tip for the yellow tarp, if you put a wooden beam upright in the middle, all water will fall of to the side. Added bonus is you have more space for the tall guys👍🏻
How tall are u? 🤔
I think I would replace the terracotta bricks with a wooden structure over the granite basement. Wood is almost the most eco friendly building material you can get, and if it is looked after, it will still be there in 300 years.
I always enjoy your videos. Substantial enough to maintain interest, but not blasted at me like a steam hammer. I don’t really understand how the editing works but you’re accomplishing it.
You should try using the plastic sheets to make "barrel tiles" that are U shaped and overlap, plastic is flexible and can be shaped and heat-pressed into a lot of shapes like that. Anything people have done with clay you could do with the recycled plastic.
That was my thought as well. With the advantage that it mirrors the local tile design. Old tiles in hot countries are made that way for a purpose after all.
those red stones insulate very well. it would be my first choice for an interior wall.
Great video! Love the mix of meeting people, projects and updates. Well done team!
If ghosttownliving and project camp linked that would be crazy!
Those terracotta bricks are not meant to be load bearing. Only as infill within a proper structure, such as steel.
Love that smooth camera work at the beginning 👌
I found your project 3 days ago and watched everything just to comment on this recent video and say your Kamp is amazing!
Also, thanks for listening to the community. Your videos are perfect now.
Terima kasih atas penjelasan yang keren tentang atap plastik, "...always moving like a life." :-)) Cool.
The plastic can work perfectly for the roofing if you reduce the size of your tiles and increase the overlap to 30% aprox. Smaller size will greatly reduce the effect of the warping negating the large buckling. Think how shingles work and copy that. I have used recycled corriboard for making shingle for a long time and had roofs last 10+ years with out leaking or any issues.
An idea for the broken bricks and concrete/mortar: I've been using old bricks and cement to infill cavities in stone walls I'm building. I just smash them into rubble with a sledge and pour the gavel into spaces of the wall as I build it with larger stone
For the wall, just take it down before it falls down, you can crush the bricks and mortar and use it as fill in a french drain to dry out an area that you don't want to be wet.
For the roof, add another layer of sheets, but offset them so that the joins never meet - with a bit of flexible sealant (sika flex?) at the joins on both layers should sort it out.
For the tarp a simple solution is setting a pole slightly higher then the two post anchors giving it a triangular center pitch.
Maybe use the plastic sheets as a plasterboard/drywall substitute once you have a building ready? Possibly have less movement in them if less temperature fluctuations? I think they look really nice, so I'm sure they'll look good wherever you put them.
Great video, thanks!
For the problem with the recycled plastic roof, I would cut the sheets into manageable size and then heat bend them in a small mold (maybe using a solar fresnel lens concentrator?) - once they are bent (similar to bamboo tiles) - simply lay them similar to a chinese bamboo tile roof.
The timber looks good for re use, the bricks smash them up and use as hardcore for sun flooring or soak aways
Amazing update !I would recommend using gloves when working with tiles, bricks and wood, it's just so easier when you have gloves !
Keep it up !
Ruins: Great to see some progress on the building... definitely look forward to how you sort out the brick wall (which should come down)... perhaps you can reuse the broken bricks as filler, essentially using them to make new bricks by sourcing clay on the property & building a kiln on site.
Plastic Roof: these are my observations (some of these were mentioned by the other commenters):
1. flat plastic sheets are rarely used since they warp too easily & cause gaps where water to seep through; Ideally you can make them corrugated so that the curves will reduce warping & serve as interlocks between panels;
2. overlap is not enough... I feel that you need at least 7.5 to 10cm of overlap between tiles with each row of tiles above offset by half (so that the top tile will be sitting over the joint of the bottom tiles);
3. ultimately, you should take down the plastic panels (use them elsewhere on site) and simply reuse your roof tiles from the ruins; that'll keep your area dry much like it has done for your pizza oven.
Cheers & looking forward to see your next update!
Just a thought: For the plastic roof, add a bit of pitch and overlap the sheets like shingles? Blowing rain may push water up under the sheets but normal rain should follow the slope and fall off the end.
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 Post you social media links.. ke proud that a South African like me is there helping out. I am in Welkom in the Free State and we learning to everything to replicate it here, we just got land. We will start soon.
Building your own timber mill would be a great use of the site... Maybe repurposing an old industrial saw to run on bio-diesel or using an old farmers saw bench that works from a tractors PTO. With green timber made from local trees you could make some amazing timber framed buildings that could be clad with recycled glass, tin, plastic etc. I said it at the beginning, over a year ago, you need to start collecting materials... see what is out there and let that shape what you do. Maybe you could find a demolition company working locally or go into a town/city and get stuff from a big building project or factory closing. Those old clay bricks and broken concrete would crush quite nicely to make paths or as aggregate in a cement floor mix. I imagine you could design and make some very impressive brackets, fittings and joiners from your recycled plastic... things that would hold different sheets or different materials tightly together, make pieces of glass into new artistic windows, wedges and spacers to hold green timbers together while they dry and shrink.
Please consider safety a little bit more when doing deconstruction projects like this :( When you guys knocked down the brick wall, I was absolutely shocked that the weight didn't make the floor collapse. Also i feel like we saw 1 or 2 close calls with wood from the roof moving unexpectedly during the teardown. I love your guys' work though :) keep it up
Not only do you look like a younger version of my husband, but you are also insane like him lol! When you guys took down the wooden beams and that center wall, standing upstairs in that crumbling ruin, I was screaming at my screen that y’all need to get out of that thing like now 🤣 if it were mine, I would crush the bricks and use them leading to the creek if you have to walk through mud to access the water. Plus, it would prevent erosion if that is an issue, especially with treading back and forth. I live near swamps in Louisiana, and we have a houseboat in the swamp. In the mid-1900s, people put scraps of broken bricks and granite slabs in the mud because it bogs down bad along the edges where we walk. It’s sad to see an old building come down, but when it is as dangerous as that one, you have no choice. But the use of the crushed bricks would pay some homage to it. But as you continue to take it down, please don’t die. And for the love of God stop going upstairs and jumping on the floor 🤣🤣😩
The camera guy is brilliant, the camera makes you Gods!
you guys should look into cob! its a material made out of usually clay, sand and straw. its pretty cool
#1 reuse the roofing tiles over the eating area. #2 use the wooden roof beams,rafters etc. to frame out in front of shop to give support to the saggy tarp work area.#3 the old original granite area would make a nice root cellar. it needs proper ventilation to allow hot air to rise out of pipe and lower pipe to pull cool air inward. #4 the other lower room could be a second type root cellar or storage for canned goods etc.
I think the video became better. (Compared to the first videos of this season) Also nice to see Dave back. Keep it up guys.
I wasn't aware of Project Kamp. I watched the first 32 episodes yesterday and am now up to date. I believe that taking down the structure would be the more prudent thing to do. The building that was the kitchen could be saved as it won't nearly have as much stress placed on it. In the front opening of the kitchen, I'd build a steel structure in the large opening with a wooden door. Opposite the orange color of the brick on the color/colour wheel is blue and I think it would look great printed that. Looking forward to seeing what else you do. I would love to be there and help you out. I have a welding and metal fabrication history and I am pretty good with gardening as well.
Your original music is soooooo cool.love ❤ love
hell yes dave is back ! love it !!
6:00 I know it's too late now but what you should do when you take the tiles of a roof and want to reuse them is to build a slide with something soft at the bottom you slide the tiles down and not destory the tiles or ny people below.
its good to let them know as the other building also has a bad roof aera
@@zacwicht3189 Didn't the hire some people to remove that a few episodes back?
Oh! and for the palstic roof you could make it overlap, and that would resolve alot of the problem youre having with leaking issues!
You can look into slate rooves, and how they overlap the slate, to inspire a better design with the plastic! I reccomend search for "Toits en ardoises" in youtube and youll probably find a few tutorials in french!
Hope this helps!
i can already envision this place looking comfy affff!! you guys give me hope to go to my 10000Sqft plot just 10km away in the middle of nowhere and build it with my own hands..!! lol
as soon as i saw your mate hitting the roof with the ladder I subscribed haha - Good luck boys!
you can always crush the bricks if they are as brittle as they seem and use it as make-shift gravel for pathways, fillers underneath structures, or other similar applications.
Your biggest problem would be the concrete or "granite" as you call it, though I think a good heavy duty sledge hammer should be able to do the trick.
just make sure you dont crush them into dust because that would defeat the purpose of using them as gravel alternative.
Really glad I found your channel today, and I kinda wanna travel to where you are just to lend a hand.
Seems like a dream life.
keep up the great work!