Transcript of Building a House from Scratch: Site Prep & Foundation Challenges | DIY Construction Vlog Ep.2

hi guys welcome back lovely summer's day here in the UK just taken delivery of the digger I'm gonna move truck out away get all this all this stuff all cleared up we're gonna start chomping away some of this background here and we're gonna go this out with a mark out for where the where the house you can we go to the footprint the outlay dude setting out and then hopefully dig down for some foundations but before that the truck with the trailer on it it's got a flat battery so I need to hit start jump it and get out the way before I can do anything so let's go [Music] let's get out guys [Music] [Music] you never know when you're gonna mean it's getting sound away [Music] that move living running RIT so about you can charge up and let's go [Music] let's especially about the flat on the gun put some charge get the other camera and we'll get started on this mess it all cleaned up and finally make a start on this job this is white house looks like [Music] okay so another day begins sunny day

today but it's cold this morning so looks like snow brighten up but after that let's gilma it get some more done so they're looking to dig as much of that out as possible as father sons of money as far back as about it while editing this I realized I haven't explained to you why I'm digging this Bank out coming out purely because is it's sitting exactly where one of the external walls is gonna be on the house can't be having that so that's the reason what's coming out and I wanted to make it nice and neat and have it straight going all the way down the garden okay and that's that so let's get on with it so here we're gonna go for that just set it up and let's get going [Music] I stopped done once that through got a little bit over here let me show you where do yet but this is in the way all this dead the trees and all the stuff I had lain down here we're stuff it was Randhir so yeah I don't have to move that before I just call me the digger in there so the pain it's gotta be a quick way getting really

[Music] all right here we go my rudimentary bow the arrow naming this the inferno bow so shall we release goes [Music] what let's the others guys that was not school as a potemkin of the heat I think I'll call that a disappointment bug I did not expect hats rapping don't play with petrol hope it's gonna go anyway speak before that rain I had yesterday how did him work I'll leave it there even a Petron there well me that went back not how I expected it to go at all but yeah be careful don't profile off your petrol that was dangerous so I'm gonna leave it there let it dry out for a few days [Music] say probably wondering what I'm doing this for well down here do hard corner here because we're we're sat here see what's been dug out of there this was all graded all the way up this there was over a hundred mom no was 200 tons worth of dirt in here we had to get big 16-ton trucks at the pickup with grab loaders that could grab 16 tons worth of sand at a time then go out but because its source and age to get stuck in it so

they brought in at cut loads of hard core put it down now make like a little road so they come in they grab the earth and they'll go off and come back grab it but they couldn't reach all the way over to reach all the way over to this here because it's so white going from over here to here that I have to do that bit by digger because they just can't get over there and I didn't want them to bring another load of hardcore him because it was costing us money so that's why I put this here they should come in they'll be able to take all this and then I'm piling all the hard copy because yeah up to about here we won't need any of that because that's gonna be all garden this is gonna be patio the house is gonna be sitting pretty much over here so to try to save a bit money I'm gonna leave for the hard standing here so that we can just bring in a bit of scalpings or mot sub granular sub-base put down the patio goes on top of that so you hell of a lot of forward thinking here because you have to think this far

in advance right this is not even a house there's not even any foot in there and I'm already thinking about where the patios going so you save a little bit of money so low at time so that's gonna be put there but I'm gonna get the grub loader in he's gonna come and take this and then and we're good to go hopefully it's Friday now it's time for you back on Monday now it'll be gone and start setting out where the building's gonna be going get some food in this dugout so that's the plan that's how it's looking for the moment now I'll probably leave it at that for for this week and I'm just gonna finish trailing that up and doing that I'll drag all this out yeah that fire didn't really work that was a fail I'm guessing the woods is too wet this is too wet to be rain song I to leave it a little bit longer before we can get the info no ball on that and get that got rid of cuz on it no on a big doubt yes that's the that's the first week I'm probably gonna do these weekly I'm gonna split the days together I'm not gonna

keep saying oh another day another day this is there's reason to so you're probably see me wearing different clothes every time that's the size of it so I've enjoyed it and I'll see you next week