Routy56 - can you just....

[Shovelhands]

Here water is ducted through the subfloor, usually into the kitchen area. BT and Fibre is external up the wall. Electric box is recessed into wall and the duct goes into the cavity and up into the box. Foundations are never to be touched.

Standard foundations in our area are 30inch wide and a foot of concrete for cavity walls and 2ft wide and a foot of concrete for internal walls. 18 inches from ground to top of foundation for frost cover

The difference is clear now. You are installing imperial footings. All the footings here are metric, so a different set of rules

 

[Routy56]

Interesting chatter on services and footings guys
Keep the information coming....
IMHO think we should be guided by what each BC Officer requires.
I usually have to work in 2 different adjoining Districts who both do things slightly differently.
Although most of the time I don't take the lead in dealing with BC - usually the builder or customer

Have often popped a piece of 110 in the bottom of the trench before a concrete pour for services but with steels at that point.

This one went under the footings through that 110 pipe as above.

What I have done a few times now is retro install new MDPE water mains after an old one has let go
And then we bring it around and up the outside of the building. In this case we use Insuduct to maintain frost protection.
In such case I am usually working with a plumber.
"The School of Leaning never takes a day off"

 

[Thomas7740]

The difference is clear now. You are installing imperial footings. All the footings here are metric, so a different set of rules

If i say it in Metric will it change things

 

[Routy56]

If i say it in Metric will it change things

A lot of the old farts that I work with use both “Gonna need a bit of 6 by 2 about 550 should do it”
Trouble I know what they mean

 

[Thomas7740]

A lot of the old farts that I work with use both “Gonna need a bit of 6 by 2 about 550 should do it”
Trouble I know what they mean

I'm the same "a 6m length of 4 inch pipe" and on farm I use a nice mixture of acres, hectares, cwt, kg, kmh, mph, litres and gallons

 

[V8Druid]

A lot of the old farts that I work with use both “Gonna need a bit of 6 by 2 about 550 should do it”
Trouble I know what they mean

whatever is closest/best fit ..... still work in thou,s though .... struggle visualising hundredths of a mil.

 

[fred]

building control defer to the water connection company as its their legal obligation to pass the install when they inspect prior to connection. Never had BC ask a question on services ever and we done a lot of builds!

As we always use block and beam we do lintel under the beams for electric/comms/sewer and they do check the lintel is correct, sometimes.

 

[Routy56]

I'm the same "a 6m length of 4 inch pipe" and on farm I use a nice mixture of acres, hectares, cwt, kg, kmh, mph, litres and gallons

So you’ll remember wheat in 2 cwt bags then

 

[Routy56]

building control defer to the water connection company as its their legal obligation to pass the install when they inspect prior to connection. Never had BC ask a question on services ever and we done a lot of builds!

As we always use block and beam we do lintel under the beams for electric/comms/sewer and they do check the lintel is correct, sometimes.

That great
Just love you sharing yer experiences
Likewise have done lintels over service ducts, but it’s alway my builder business partners that do that stuff thankfully

 

[Thomas7740]

So you’ll remember wheat in 2 cwt bags then

Not arable farmers so unfortunately not, still get some of our fertiliser is 1cwt bags tho

 

[fred]

So you’ll remember wheat in 2 cwt bags then

 

[Routy56]

An interesting day in the country yesterday.
Mark the guy who I worked for recently on his Farmhouse build has several parcel of land in the area.
"Dave, can you just put some duct in for services under the footings of the barn up the road"

Turned out that these footings were put in about 2008

So poured the coffee and got cracking. Decided to start on the Thursday, too cold first part of the week

Poked a bit of 2" right through with the back of the 9" bucket

Note to myself - "You are not a Groundworker"
Wrested two of these in before lunch.
You may noticed that I dug the trench with the 18" before trimming with the 9"
It's because some poor sod had to kneel down in the trench and get some hands on

Job done and tidied up.
Whilst on site Mark said, "Can you just tug out those self sown trees and bushes"

 

[Routy56]

.......later the same day, I rocked up for an early evening job on the way home.
Andy from the Lodge said, "Dave, when you get a moment can you dig out an old tree stump for me in the front garden?"

Can you spot the immediate problem?

How I hate working near gas mains
So an 18" test hole was dug with my nice graft.
Note the gay marking so it don't get nicked on a busy site

Andy was out at the time that I worked my magic. Shallow roots tugged out easy with no teeth on the 9"
Raked the dirt back, tracked in tight and all fluffed up ready for grass seed
But he phoned up when he got home, "Hello Dave, just wanted to say well done and thanks! When is convenient to come and settle up?"
He's popped up this afternoon after walking with his wife at the local Nature Reserve.
We will have tea and cake in the 'Rule of Six' meeting area

 

[Bri963]

So you’ll remember wheat in 2 cwt bags then

I can just remember watching my dad carrying them. I can also remember him loading sugar beet at the station and moving the wagons along with a six foot bar under the wheels. He said it wasn’t moving them that was hard, it was stopping them in the right place.

 

[Bri963]

So an 18" test hole was dug with my nice graft.
Note the gay marking so it don't get nicked on a busy site

Be a waste of time painting my spades like that, Dave. I’d have worn the paint off by nine o’ clock.

 

[Routy56]

I can just remember watching my dad carrying them. I can also remember him loading sugar beet at the station and moving the wagons along with a six foot bar under the wheels. He said it wasn’t moving them that was hard, it was stopping them in the right place.

Yep, my late father-in-law used to left them when he was a farm worker. They were 16 stone and he was 10 stone.
He said that it was easy if you lifted them properly. He was fit old bugger

 

[Routy56]

Be a waste of time painting my spades like that, Dave. I’d have worn the paint off by nine o’ clock.

As I said, "I am not a Groundworker"
Mind you my regular 'gut buster' is bare metal and shiny. Cleaned at the end of every day and evened treated to WD40.
Learnt that from Richard my groundworker mate that I went to school with

 

[Vinpetrol]

You may noticed that I dug the trench with the 18" before trimming with the 9"
It's because some poor sod had to kneel down in the trench and get some hands on

I’d of had to start with the ditcher

 

[Routy56]

Weekend workshop fun

Broken pin replaced on the dumper with 30mm bright bar.
Serious fettling and drilling done

Then prepping for front mounted towbar sourced from a Ford Orion. Gonna be used to move trailers and stuff around my yard

Rusty towbar treated to some black tish

Then Rod (Grab Lorry Driver) came round with his Vauxhall Insignia which had starting problems for some pit time, "Mechanic at work has one and said that supermarket diesel causes problems"
So we changed the diesel filter. Easy job over a pit. The old filter and housing was seriously sludged up.
Amazingly Vauxhall have done away with the water drain plug in the bottom of the filter housing.
So, drained the housing into a jug for inspection. There was about an inch of water in the bottom

 

[V8Druid]

Oh YES - mine was a big fcuk off V8
You gotta stop encouraging me - I know I'm gonna get another one

a little more encouragement