Excavating for the Basement | Home Renovation & Addition Part 3
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
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The telehandler rescuing the mini-skid was like watching some momma dog rescuing her pup from whatever mess it got itself into. I'm just going to assume the telehandler barked at the mini-skid disapprovingly afterwards.
Matt Cremona, a man with no piers!
I hope his house doesn't fall into the hole.😂
Lots of piers but no peers
Great job Matt. I am always impressed but not surprised.
Peel off that cardboard on the taller ones and sell them as landscape columns. Ages ago, I saw some fellows who sold columns like that. They dyed the concrete for added interest.
Man I miss working with my Dad. Enjoy your time with him. Good times!
Just lost my Dad, who was my best mate as well, sure miss ringing him every day to have a chat and talk about stuff.
Why is it so entertaining to watch a man dig a hole? I couldn't stop smiling throughout the entire video!
I’m so jealous of Donovan getting to play with your toys! Also I’m the kid in the window watching!
my dad was a heavy equipment operator: I could watch you two do this all day. we don't have dirt like that in SoCal, however.
I'm in the Houston area. The ground texture is somewhere between pea soup and almost set concrete most of the time. Heavy, sandy clay, and most of it stinks.
Construction projects are always fun.
love the aerial shots of the current season!
As an equipment operator (retired) it's always fun to watch someone else's operations. I'm constantly giving advice and opinion to the screen! Sooo much fun to be had!!
What’s the wildest thing ya ever dug up?
@@audimaster5000 Back in the 90's I was working on an inland waterway for the local port authority - kind of a large drainage swale that drained into the local river system. Besides being extremely contaminated to at least 12' depth, it had lots of chunks of concrete mixed in. The site had been a major fill operation in the 30's and all kinds of rubble and debris was in the subsoil. At about the middle point of the channel excavation I hit a chunk of concrete that didn't seem to have any edges, and the bottom was below my boom reach. I eventually cleared around it to discover what was believed to be a footing for some kind of huge crane dating from WW2. This chunk of concrete had 2 " bar embedded in it, was 12' across its base, and was at least 8' deep. It took almost two weeks of hammering on the thing with 3 excavators fitted with impact hammers before we reduced it to a point where it could be lifted out.
Had it not been dead square in the middle of the drainage line and at high water, I would have left it there!
Remember a door to your well, because if you don’t you need to go to your well pump. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey. God bless you and your family.
WOW! I've never seen so many footer in such a small space before. Its like they had a footing every 24 inches. Crazy!!
"That ended up being a scrap piece of pipe." Sure did after you were done with it. 🤣
Matt, Waaaaay to much fun. I was watching the kids in the window. I’m sure they want to (and you should let them) come out and play in the big hole in the evening. Especially the big dirt hill you guys made! I always loved the big dirt mounds! Don’t tell Lindsay I suggested it because there will be heavy use of the “mud” room. Hampers full of Dirty clothes and Pockets filled with dirt... ohhhh yeaaah! And lost dinasoars (used to be the plastic army men for my time .... haha). Big strong metal Tonka toys ruled the day! Anything with wheels was a downhill racer. You’ve gotta give your kids the opportunity to build those memories since it’s all temporary holes and hills anyway!
Anyway, nice progress!
Eloise is supervising and inspecting all your work and reporting to her assistant engineers and her Mom!
It's a kid's world!
Great video. Looked like you had a lot of fun along with your friend. Thanks for sharing Matt. God Bless.
Excellent update. Given how long you since used an excavator, you were indeed handling it like a "smooth operator". Bobcat will be gutted to see "Excavator" leave just as "she" was enjoying a nice rest! Good luck and stay safe. 👍🏼
You Guy's doin a great job Matt, time to do it while you are young, can't wait for the next video Stay Safe !!!. Brian UK !!!.
Appreciate that you shared the footage of relearning the excavator. 👍
This is exciting to see you get into this phase of the construction.
thank you Matt
thanks for sharing your journey
Good that you are ahead of schedule, because you always find the unexpected when remodeling.
Things that slow you down.
Enjoying the series. Doing my own excavating here in Japan. Cheers.
We are just loving watching you work. Almost broke out in a sweat watching. Wow you are working hard.
I had in floor heat put in my post frame building. I really like it.
I have not seen you use your equipment this way.
He got to drive the telehandler too?!? Dang, Donovan has carte blanche on all the toys, doesn't he? ;)
Loving this series! Thank you!
Hahahaha we’re just a couple of kids playing in the sand
You both make a great team
Men and boys love their toys. Looking good Matthew.
Thanks Matt, great job
ich habe mir part 1 und 2 angeschaut, damit ich verstehe, worum es geht. Da habt Ihr Euch viel vorgenommen. die Kinder beobachten alles ganz genau. ;-) Hauptsache ,es läuft nach Plan und ohne Unfall. Alles Gute !
my back hurts just watching you dig
He'll feel it sooner or later....lol
Thanks for sharing with us Matthew, you both handled the equipment quite well. You’re doing a good job. Thanks for sharing with us. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
Thanks Fred!
Nice progress for a day. Great skills on the shovel for a guy with four hours in on the machine. Hope rain and snow don't muck up the pour! 😃 👍
So fun to watch somebody that probably plays video games advanced so quickly with their hand eye coordination into running an excavator pretty good for a day's work!
Whether you’re planting a sapling or digging a basement, it’s amazing how much dirt comes out of a hole.
Excellent description of the excavator experience for a novice. Get to feeling pretty good by the end of the day and then have to relearn the next morning. 😀 A guy still is far from expert but it feels so good!!
Great job digging.
Almost ready to install the pool!
Matt is on fire. 🏇🏇🏇
Really fun to watch!
Thank you for sharing! This is great info.
Starting to get into the fun part.
Donovan's GOOD!
Great video. I have always loved your show, but your video skills are amazing! You have come a long way since the basement college days. Cheers
Thanks!
Nice job Matt. Especially the handling of the excavator with no experience. You nailed it. Kudos to you👍👍💯
Thanks!
Like watching you master all the machines, makes me laugh 😃, great job 👏
it's astonishing how enjoyable this video is 😂
Hey Matt, nice!!!
Lake Havasu 🌞 Az
beautiful view with that drone shot at the end. Good job on this Matt!
Thanks!
Now, that's a very good way to get the bobcat out of the hole. Nice hole you made there.
Good digging Matt! lol Thanks for sharing the updates with us!💖👍😎JP
Glad to see the little inspectors are on the job. I was wondering what the vent was for, the well didn't even occur to me.
You are getting good with that machine.
All my life I’ve suffered from the same disease! I just can’t see paying someone else to do what I can do myself!! Good job!!!
You have great soil. Down here in Kentucky, were on shale and limestone. Our ground is as hard as woodpecker lips 👄
NICE job!
Drive that telehandler like you stole it! Love it!
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cremona! (Belated) :)
Can’t believe I watched it all but enjoyed!!!
Wow Matt you were getting really smooth with the excavator near the end.
Would love to see the finished product
Matt it's turning into an archaeological dig footings allover the place WOW
👍👍👍👍👍 way to go Matt
The peddle on the right Right hand floor swings the boom
Looking good so far. Put a sleeve around that waterline where it goes through the footing. Just split a larger piece of PVC, clamshell it around the waterline ands tape it back together. Then pour the footing around the sleeve. You (or someone else down the road) will be glad you did. Do the same for the powerline (even put it entirely in conduit), maybe all the way back to where it comes out of the foundation. Pipes and wires don't last forever.
My first experience with an excavator (actually a backhoe attachment for a Bobcat) had me put a hole in the sheathing of the adjacent house wall. Oh well, at least the final siding hadn't been installed.
....nice work, keep safe..
Nice man! Quite the project. I want to dig out (lower) and underpin the basement in the house I grew up in, add a walkout and bathroom as well. House is a 1918 Craftsmen with a 6'7" height basement front finish floor to bottom of joists. Should be one hell of a time.
Hi, that mini skid steer is awesome 😁.
Good for tight places
@@Off-Grid hi, true enough and the 53 year old me sees all the practical uses but boy the 5 year old in me keeps thinking about adult Tonka toys 😁.
I really enjoy the banter
There’s a lot more of that coming
@@mcremona Spoiler alert - don't look at Matt's or Donavan's Instagram
awesom
I’d want to move those water lines either so they come in through the new foundation or go around the outside of it.
It would be an absolute nightmare to have to replace them if they were beneath your new slab.
yeah, nothing you ever want to have any convenient access to should ever go under any slab. Though I wondered why that water line was so deep , but then thought about their excavation. I bet that area of the yard was filled in and was much shallower in the past.
Or install PVC pipes in slab to run utility lines thru to daylight
@@hermanschepers4739 given how deep that's going to be, its best to avoid burying anything that far down unless you absolutely have to.
Install and cap a pipe anyway. Then you are always covered for anything you need to put through later whether water for a water feature, power for low voltage lighting, gas for a grill or fire pit, etc.
Great video, keep the cameras rolling. I’m interested to see how you are going to handle the well feed and the horse water line. Take care and stay healthy good luck on your renovation and I hope Mr. Murphy is napping during your project.
Lazers!
Happy belated birthday
Awesome progress Matt!
Can we get an update on the trees you've planted?
Your children love the digging. Fun for them.
I love these construction videos without speeding up
my dad is having birthday today too! congrats
Cheers Matt. 'There I was digging a Hole' Bernard Cribbins. Circa 1960's....
Man I so wanted to get on that excavator and help. Lol awesome job.
i am so jealous of the soil you have there. everyplace i've been has either been clay or sand...and roots, so many roots. not as much fun at all!
That's the best use of the word smooshy that I've ever heard! (8:15)
seeing the mini excavator in the hole reminded me of the old kids book "mike mulligan and his steam shovel"
You could say " Happy House Renovating" for your closing.
Looks like you could use some gutter guard to keep the leaves out Matt on the house roof.
The gutters have leaf guards
A few years ago, every time I would add a few new subs RUclips would remove a couple of my subscriptions I already had. When this video was suggested to me, I realized I had not seen one of your videos in my feed for years. Sorry I missed ya, re-subbed.
It's just interesting how you folks do construction as in the UK the building regs are different and those utilities are buried covered with small stone and coloured plastic ribbon tape which identify what services are there in different colours blue ribbon for water, yellow ribbon is for gas, red ribbon for electric, white ribbon generally for landline that mandatory in the UK building regulations and they have to inspected same as the footings
Every state is different. In Maryland we just had our electric and cable lines buried and both run in plastic conduit. Water, sewer, and gas are separate and just run in their own iron pipes.
It's not straight off the beach, it's straight off the glacier. What you have there is 22 acres of glacial moraine, which is a rather pretty geological term for what the glacier chewed up and left behind.
When I rented a smaller digger a few years back, it was such a joy. First time for me, I did alright. Made me think about how defenders of video games in the eighties and nineties professed how it would teach kids hand-eye coordination.
Hey Oct 11 is my birthday too!
Happy birthday Matt's Dad
Happy belated birthday!
So impressed that the electrical line was not ripped out lol
All luck
Take measurements and pictures as you put the utilities back underground. This will help future work.
Wonderful soil there, Matthew. I hope that you plan to use it?
Wednesday 31:20 Running the excavator like you own it!
You have three generations working on this project. (Supervisors behind the glass )
Matt please take care of your back. Great progress
He'll feel it later....
Matt, don't forget to toss in a few life-size Halloween skeletons before you backfill, for the next people who dig there in the future.
😂😂
You need Andrew Camarata to help run the excavator... lol! Great video as always....
Big deal! What a bunch of old piers and assorted junk as well as a great base for your new addition. I’m so glad to see better and more videos rather than Friday wine tastings. Please keep em coming.
Best Regards
Fred Thomas
a few of those footings were short so the deep ones were the bottom parts.
I don’t know anything about the geology of where you live, but compared to the places I’ve lived in MA and CA, I am amazed at the lack of rocks. Great soil for gardening and farming?
I’ve only seen grasses grown in this area. A few miles out you’ll start to see other crops
That makes things so much easier
I know Matt's in Minnesota, and all that sand makes me think he is somewhere on the Anoka Sand Plain. The Anoka Sand plain is a rather large area North of the Twin Cities and was formed when glaciers left the state around 15,000 years ago. The rivers of glacial meltwater deposit a lot of sand!
Likely glacial out wash sediment.
@@guscarlson6306 St Croix river valley