Hello new subscriber here , that’s a big house you are building ,location is nice ,exciting to see when it’s finished. Good luck ,good health,and god bless❤️
Way to be! Love that View! Corn looks healthy! Driveway still holding, looks good! Concrete roof? I don't see any steel i-beams, so what will hold up the weight? Make sure to vent it adequately because it will trap moisture and sweat. How will you route utilities? You should post a blueprint, design, sketch of the house looking down. Hand-drawn is OK. Maybe build a stairway up to the roof and canopy for a patio, bar! & BBQ (karaoke! LOL) with the best view in PH!. I think you want a soil engineer to look at your rear slope. It is way too close to the house. I would cut it back at least 10 meters and on a low angle. Look up "sloped retaining walls". There are some composed of hollow blocks so you can plant inside the blocks to help anchor the wall. That whole slope is really bare, there is nothing holding it back. And a 2x2 trench around the entire house for a storm drain. Building on a hill is complex. How is the slab (the floor) doing inside the house? Any cracks?
Thank you! "Driveway still holding, looks good! Concrete roof? I don't see any steel i-beams, so what will hold up the weight? Make sure to vent it adequately because it will trap moisture and sweat." The road up is so-so. I wouldn't say that it looks good, it looks "decent". We will have to do some maintenance in the future for sure. Had I been able to afford it at the time, I would have done the base, with gravel+compacting, propertly. "How will you route utilities? You should post a blueprint, design, sketch of the house looking down. Hand-drawn is OK."
Pretty much all the plumbing will be restricted to the CR at phase 1 of the build, so it'll just go straight through the wall (with some pipe along the wall, in the floor, for gray water). Electricity will run in the ceiling, as I plan to hide the ceiling anyway. We have blueprints etc, I'll see what we can do!
"Maybe build a stairway up to the roof and canopy for a patio, bar! & BBQ (karaoke! LOL) with the best view in PH!." Great minds think alike (except the karaoke part, that is so not happening)! Yes, I have a plan for that. Currently thinking a welded staircase, but I haven't decided 100% yet. "I think you want a soil engineer to look at your rear slope. It is way too close to the house. I would cut it back at least 10 meters and on a low angle. Look up "sloped retaining walls". There are some composed of hollow blocks so you can plant inside the blocks to help anchor the wall. That whole slope is really bare, there is nothing holding it back." 10 m, huh? I think I need to read up on Patreon or something first, haha. But yeah, we'll do something with it. Luckily it's quite sturdy and has behaved well so far. There are geocells or something like that, I think, which I guess is similar to what you describe. We did plant some plants on the slope though, and ferns etc are keeping the soiled bound up top. "And a 2x2 trench around the entire house for a storm drain. Building on a hill is complex. How is the slab (the floor) doing inside the house? Any cracks?" I don't think I need a trench around the house, but we'll definitely build one behind the house. And I will do some work (French drain style) on the upper retaining wall, should make it more secure. The slab inside the house is still brand new, but so far so good! Thank you for watching!
Hi my friend you urgently need to make a drainage system at those retaining walls where you walk with your wife . They will be destroyed under the influence of water, I'm telling you the truth, I sent you a photo by email of how to make a drainage system
Yes, those walls scare me, too. I have never seen high walls built that way here in the USA and had them endure. Earth is a living mass and subsequently likes to move at every convenience. However, I wish you all well and that the walls do what you want them to do.
If you look carefully at the hollow block retaining walls you will see round holes where plastic tubing has been set into the walls for drainage. Weather it's sufficient remains to be seen. At first a few weeks ago I thought the same, but on closer inspection noticed the tubing.
@@autodallee4527 Yes, I too noticed the tubing holes but from what I have seen, and it hasn't been in toto, all still severely lacks engineering to prevent subsidence of the soil behind the wall. I wish them the best of luck with their wall and all, but it still worries me. If anyone has any experience either in engineering or even observing how high walls are built, here, this is not the way to do it and have the wall last/endure. But, again, it is not my wall, not my home and not my decisions...loving everybody and leaving them alone...
Thank you for the concern! There are weepholes, yeah, but it's pretty much packed clay/soul behind them. The water most likely goes through the ground, under the wall (which could cause issues long term). My plan, once we move in, is to excavate 12" on the top level, paint the wall with liquid rubber or similar, clad the soil side with water permitting textile, and backfill with G1. We've had lots of rain though, and no visible damage on the retaining wall (the slant is from before the support was added).
Looking nice guys. I love your wife’s humor and watching you two.
Thank you! She's quite funny, never on purpose though! 😆
Hello new subscriber here , that’s a big house you are building ,location is nice ,exciting to see when it’s finished. Good luck ,good health,and god bless❤️
Thank you so much!
It's not really that big though, just two rooms (35'ish sqm). We'll expand over time, or so we plan! 😁
Love your videos guys! ❤️
Thank you so much!
Way to be! Love that View! Corn looks healthy! Driveway still holding, looks good! Concrete roof? I don't see any steel i-beams, so what will hold up the weight? Make sure to vent it adequately because it will trap moisture and sweat. How will you route utilities? You should post a blueprint, design, sketch of the house looking down. Hand-drawn is OK. Maybe build a stairway up to the roof and canopy for a patio, bar! & BBQ (karaoke! LOL) with the best view in PH!. I think you want a soil engineer to look at your rear slope. It is way too close to the house. I would cut it back at least 10 meters and on a low angle. Look up "sloped retaining walls". There are some composed of hollow blocks so you can plant inside the blocks to help anchor the wall. That whole slope is really bare, there is nothing holding it back. And a 2x2 trench around the entire house for a storm drain. Building on a hill is complex. How is the slab (the floor) doing inside the house? Any cracks?
Thank you!
"Driveway still holding, looks good! Concrete roof? I don't see any steel i-beams, so what will hold up the weight? Make sure to vent it adequately because it will trap moisture and sweat."
The road up is so-so. I wouldn't say that it looks good, it looks "decent". We will have to do some maintenance in the future for sure. Had I been able to afford it at the time, I would have done the base, with gravel+compacting, propertly.
"How will you route utilities? You should post a blueprint, design, sketch of the house looking down. Hand-drawn is OK."
Pretty much all the plumbing will be restricted to the CR at phase 1 of the build, so it'll just go straight through the wall (with some pipe along the wall, in the floor, for gray water). Electricity will run in the ceiling, as I plan to hide the ceiling anyway. We have blueprints etc, I'll see what we can do!
"Maybe build a stairway up to the roof and canopy for a patio, bar! & BBQ (karaoke! LOL) with the best view in PH!."
Great minds think alike (except the karaoke part, that is so not happening)! Yes, I have a plan for that. Currently thinking a welded staircase, but I haven't decided 100% yet.
"I think you want a soil engineer to look at your rear slope. It is way too close to the house. I would cut it back at least 10 meters and on a low angle. Look up "sloped retaining walls". There are some composed of hollow blocks so you can plant inside the blocks to help anchor the wall. That whole slope is really bare, there is nothing holding it back."
10 m, huh? I think I need to read up on Patreon or something first, haha. But yeah, we'll do something with it. Luckily it's quite sturdy and has behaved well so far. There are geocells or something like that, I think, which I guess is similar to what you describe. We did plant some plants on the slope though, and ferns etc are keeping the soiled bound up top.
"And a 2x2 trench around the entire house for a storm drain. Building on a hill is complex. How is the slab (the floor) doing inside the house? Any cracks?"
I don't think I need a trench around the house, but we'll definitely build one behind the house. And I will do some work (French drain style) on the upper retaining wall, should make it more secure. The slab inside the house is still brand new, but so far so good!
Thank you for watching!
Better hope it never snows there,🤣🤣 Have a great week.
Haha, thank you!
Yeah, I think we're good as far as snow goes!
Make sure you have good brakes going up and down that driveway!
Yeah! 4wd is a must too.
Hi my friend you urgently need to make a drainage system at those retaining walls where you walk with your wife .
They will be destroyed under the influence of water, I'm telling you the truth, I sent you a photo by email of how to make a drainage system
Yes, those walls scare me, too. I have never seen high walls built that way here in the USA and had them endure. Earth is a living mass and subsequently likes to move at every convenience. However, I wish you all well and that the walls do what you want them to do.
If you look carefully at the hollow block retaining walls you will see round holes where plastic tubing has been set into the walls for drainage.
Weather it's sufficient remains to be seen.
At first a few weeks ago I thought the same, but on closer inspection noticed the tubing.
@@autodallee4527 Yes, I too noticed the tubing holes but from what I have seen, and it hasn't been in toto, all still severely lacks engineering to prevent subsidence of the soil behind the wall. I wish them the best of luck with their wall and all, but it still worries me. If anyone has any experience either in engineering or even observing how high walls are built, here, this is not the way to do it and have the wall last/endure. But, again, it is not my wall, not my home and not my decisions...loving everybody and leaving them alone...
Thank you for the concern!
There are weepholes, yeah, but it's pretty much packed clay/soul behind them. The water most likely goes through the ground, under the wall (which could cause issues long term).
My plan, once we move in, is to excavate 12" on the top level, paint the wall with liquid rubber or similar, clad the soil side with water permitting textile, and backfill with G1. We've had lots of rain though, and no visible damage on the retaining wall (the slant is from before the support was added).
Yeah, we do have weep holes. Not very good ones, and we plan to work on the wall once we move in.
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Hi there!
Yes, she's awesome! Great people in general, but I of course found the best one! 😁