SETTING OUT A HOUSE FOUNDATION WITH A LASER LEVEL
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- THIS WEEK WE SHOW HOW TO TRANSFER LEVELS FROM A DATUM ONTO A NEW BUILD HOUSE FOUNDATION USING A LASER LEVEL AFTER WE CLEAR OUT ABOUT A TON OF SILT AND WATER !....... WE ARE WORKING ON A 4 BEDROOM DETACHED HOUSE . THE FOUNDATION IS 4 COURSES OF TRENCH BLOCK WITH 4 COURSES OF RED ENGINEERING BRICKS ON TOP TO BRING US UP TO DPC/SLAB LEVEL.
INSIDE THERE ARE 2 COURSES OF COMMON BRICKS WHER THE 150 MM THICK CONCRETE SLAB SITS.
THE FOOTING HAS BEEN DUG AND CONCRETED FOR ABOUT 5 WEEKS SO NEEDS A 13 TON EXCAVATOR TO DIG OUT ALL THE MUD WATER AND SILT THAT HAS BUILT UP........ ENJOY!
#BRICKLAYING #LASERLEVEL #SETTINGOUT #FOUNDATIONS #NEWBUILD
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Will you upload a video of setting out the first course off the nails mate. Show us how your squaring the build and checking diagonals ect. Class videos as per plenty of rain over here in Blackpool just got to press on thou mate
Cheers
mat ivie will do pal and yes the weather sucks but you don’t get paid for sittin in the van 😩🧱👍🏽
Just curious gents, why aren't you keeping the staff on the ground and moving the detector up and down, then taking a measurement off the staff and allow for your original datum offset?
Baldy Slapnut . Sometimes when you do it that way the bloddy join gets in the way !
Nowt wrong with your way at all . More than 1 way to skin a cat as they say 🧱👍🏽
Baldy Slapnut totally agree mate then you only need one man to work out heights after all these levels are designed for one man to do the job unlike the dumpy level
I realize Im quite off topic but does anyone know a good place to watch new series online?
@Enrique Quinn flixportal :D
Good video guys , love the sound of plunging your feet in the water 😂🙀 , that topcon laser is excellent stuff , mine is nearly 10 years old and stops working when raining hard so I’m on the lookout for one
This laser takes quite a pounding on site and is really rugged , highly recommend it 🧱👍🏽
When buying the lazer does the receiver come with it or do you buy separately?, which brand is the one you are using?
I’ve never bought one but I’m pretty sure you get the laser , tripod , receiver and staff for the one price which is around £600 and up . 🧱👍🏽
It’s a pity the site manager doesn’t get out of his office and forward plans for trades starting on site ( it’s not hard )
Totally agree, alot of hours lost pissing about
Because they are lazy power crazed w⚓s who don't give a shit. They're not managing they're reacting.
I have been out of SM for 5 years now and did consider myself old school hence why I picked up on this very basic element of thinking ahead but also consideration for the hard working guys trying to scratch a living .I think it’s gone well over the top now with little shits sneaking about taking photos and causing stress and financial issues for small companies! It should be about team work and people using their loaf but with the quantity surveyors now running the show it now goes down hill and the tradesman bricklayer ends up pumping and hand digging wet clay off the foundation even before he can set out 🙄🤔
Ronnie Biggs . Spot on my friend 🧱👍🏽
If you don't want to watch piles of mud, jump to 7:30.
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Do you get paid for clearing out the footings
If they were really bad we would get a BIT of day work but generally no and we spent a lot of time pissing about in muddy water 🙄🧱👍🏽
Esse nível...é topsssssss.....🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘🏘
MÃO NA OBRA MIRO STARSUPER . It certainly is 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Ayup guys. Wanted some advice.... here goes: I am a qualified bricky with minimal experience. Applying to a local housing firm. They are giving me the job but nervous as anything in case they realise how much of an amateur I am . You think I will be ok guys?
Menace Dejaan . Give it a go and try your best . If your not sure just ask someone even on here , plenty of RUclips vids from a few brickies around now .
It’s all about getting experience .
Best of luck pal 🧱🧱👍🏽
At 9.18 seconds my question is I see how he put the gage rod with the receiver on the nail which is dpc height but when moved the receiver down to hear the constant sound it wasn't near the nail doesn't that means it's Iver dpc height? I'm confused
The bottom of the staff is on the nail at dpc level (datum )
The laser level can be any height above the datum in this case a couple of feet so wherever you move the staff and move the receiver till you get a single tone then you are level with the datum wherever you are .
I hope that makes sense , thanks for watching and commenting 🧱👍🏽
Steve is it a stupid question but you say your 4 courses down why didnt they bring the concrete level much higher what was the reason can you explain please
Lin Cordery Its all governed by the ground levels which in turn are governed by the drain levels 🧱👍🏽
Bloody hell Steve I thaught I was back in hospital when I heard that level the short beeps are ok but the long one put the wind up me lol have a great weekend Moose and I are on our own for the weekend . Unfortunately he's permanently bewildered so he won't appreciate it 👍😁
😂😂 l know what you mean about the beeping , I always think I’ve got a run on one of my pike rods when I hear it , especially with all that water 💦😆. I hope you and moose have a good boys weekend 🧱👍🏼👍🏼
The old one tonner gets you moving with piking🎣🎣🎣
Bob Hendry . Oh yes . I miss getting on the back fishing 😔🧱👍🏽
@Ivan Walker glad to hear it mate and if you can hear the long beep when in hospital it definitely ain you lol take care 👍
Not a reflection of you guys at all but you wouldn't want your house building on those foundation would you. You guys are great though thanks for sharing
Mike Seymour Thanks very much Mike 🧱👍🏽
Wicked
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Mate, that Florida sun must be a distant memory now🤦♂️
danny wilkins . Feels like last year 🥺😫🧱🧱👍🏽
Haha 😂 well said 😎😎
Jay Puyenbroeck 😥😂🧱👍🏽
Jay Puyenbroeck 😥😂🧱👍🏽
Good vid boys, shows exactly what bricklayers have to contend with. It certainly isn’t all gravy 😢. Do they pay day work to clean out footing, or are you expected to include it in your price?
justy crusty . Most times they do it for us but when we end up on the brushes they do give us a bit of daywork 🧱👍🏽
The last site I was on like that, they let us build up to first lift and then decide to backfill with type 1 for the bloody scaffolders. had us working in mud for a week to save a couple of bob.
denis oleary Yep , super structure brickies won’t go near a plot till it’s stoned up and compacted, they even have paths to every plot so they don’t get their boots dirty ..... and they get paid more 😫🧱👍🏼
Great to have you back 😁. Hope you had a lovely holiday - seems a long while ago now 😭😭😭. Crap conditions yet again, you'll need a new broom soon 😂😂.
Hope you have a great weekend, Regards Tim
Tim Margereson morning Tim , that holiday feels like it was last year 😫! It’s pretty much always crap for us , only this time of year it gets a lot crapper 😫🧱👍🏼
Great video again boys keep them coming. Would you be interested in coming to Huyton Knowsley to do some work?
Frank Bennett . Thanks very much Frank and thanks for the work offer . We are currently snowed under ..... full time on site and most weekends plus we move house soon so a lot of fencing etc to do there .... not enough days in the week ! 😬🧱👍🏽
Nice video guys. Do you have any houses built with basements in your area?
John Wargo . Basements are very rare in the uk now .
Old Victorian era houses had cellars (1800,s ) 🧱👍🏽
Always worth a few quid to keep the machine men onside! They can save you hours of trowel down time
Jim Newlands . Yep that’s one guy you need in your side 🧱💙
Great video. You never see that cowboy stu crompton using one.
Michael Berry . We only use it on site as it belongs to the lads we work for . Your talking about £700 for one 😬🧱👍🏽
Nice video guys...Just curios not being from England what's the height of a trench block with a bed joint under it when doing footings,
Morning pal . Over here all metric coursing is incriments of 75mm so 1 brick 75mm ( inc bed )
3 brick = 1 block = 225 mm .
A trench block is 440 mm long (2 brick )
225 mm high (3 brick )
And 300 mm wide ( 2 skins @ 100 mm plus 100 mm for the cavity 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Thank you for explaining Cheers
@@goldentrowel1968 No probs 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
How many times you fell in sump when it’s full of water?😂😂😂
Joeybuilder0114 Ive been in twice up to my knees . A few months back one of the lads went into one up to his shoulders 😱😂😂🧱👍🏽
nice vlog guys looked hard graft before you could even start
mick broadbent Thanks pal , it’s like this a lot . There’s 3 footings and they’ve been dug for over a month just filling up with water and silt 😩🧱👍🏽
So guys what is the next step if the leves its not ok
Alejandro Marin . These weren’t very good . Generally we would lift the whole house if some of the concrete is high . This means the high point is now to gauge and then we need to make the bed joints bigger on all the lower parts .... hope that makes sense 🧱👍🏽
You lads certainly show it like it is fair play to you 👍👍
Jack of all trades Master of none . Yup ! No special effects in our vids 😫🧱👍🏼
Hello which video shows marking out and footing ? Can't seem too find it cheers
Thanks let's say if you didn't have a datum and doing a house extension would you just do same but laser of the house floor
And are the datum pegs always set out for you too crack on? Thanks
Thanks
Kyle Arts try the Back on site video about 3 back plus there is a garage foundation vid from last year showing us setting out .
If your working off an existing building you just have to follow what’s there .
We don’t always get a peg to work off in that case we work off one of the other foundations .
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@@SteveAndAlexBuild brill cheers just looked when you are checking your diagonals are you checking they are same each corner to make sure it's square and do you use a laser level when setting your trench block corners ? Or just do it too gauge ? Do you always do the same sort of foundation ? Also may be stupid question where do you know first too string a line across to get each corner or do you rough guess the line ? or are the concrete footings made bigger to get the foundation on?
Kyle Arts . If we are building a square or rectangular building then the diagonals will match .
The laser is used in the beginning to give us a gauge measurement on each corner then it’s just built to gauge from then .
The house is set out by the engineer....... a pin on each corner and sprayed on the ground to be dug . All the walls are set out with lines way past the outside of the building line and new pins are added called offsets . The dig is done and concreted then we can put our lines onto the off sets and plumb down . Or more commonly now the engineers re visit and put a nail into the concrete on each Corner .
The trenches have to be 150 mm wider then the wall on each side . It’s called the spread . 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Good job, nightmare in the mud and in the ground.! 👍🏻
craighughes craig . Cheers pal it certainly is , not fun 😔🧱👍🏽
Thank sir more grace and wisdom
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Well done fellas for working in that mess!
Jim Jam . Can’t believe I’ve been doing it for 9 years , 6 on my own . My friggin hips can believe it though 😩🧱👍🏽
Was just wondering what trowel u use
J H . Usually a 11” Philadelphia pattern ox , but just using a cheap spear and Jackson at the moment 🧱👍🏽
Love footings bit of brushing and shoveling does no harm breaks up the day, keep up the good work boys.
wheaten bread . We have a love hate relationship with the footings 😬 I’ve been on them for 9 years solid 🥺🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Maybe that's why I don't mind them because I am not on them solid but I prefer them over building around and avoiding scaffold but all work is good work👍
wheaten bread Very true 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Love a laser level. Boys and there toys 🤣. Good video.
All the best 👍⚒🇬🇧
Cheers pal , super simple , super accurate 👌🏽.....a bit like me and Alex 😂😂🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh yes 🤣 Alex has a good mentor and to make it even better it is his dad.
I would hav loved to work with my old man but he is a lorry driver, hey oh take care pal👍⚒🇬🇧
RJM Bricklaying & Outdoors . Me too , my dad was a van driver ☺️🧱👍🏽
How did you set out the first course to account for the 40mm low corner?
R0BERT☘ . Al. You can do is put down bigger beds each course till you have picked it up . We always aim to level up at the top of the trench block so we then know our splash course is always 300 mm 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Does that entail running a bigger bed on your low corner and pulling a line off it?
R0BERT☘ spot in pal 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Thanks for the vid lads. How do you deal with the 40mm slope on the foundation? Do you cut trench blocks.
MrFlynnytwo . We can lift the whole house 10 or 20 mm if needed but even that didn’t help in this plot so we had to cut about 14 blocks down 😩😩😩🧱👍🏽
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex I am not a Bricky (as you can tell from my questions) can you take us through the process did you start 40mm below and end up 40mm below the datum all round?
40mm on first course of trench block and then lose the discrepancy on successive courses by laying deeper mortar beds?
MrFlynnytwo . That’s pretty much it pal , you just put on bigger beds which is very easy with trench block , just a lot more mixing 😫. 🧱👍🏼
Cheers chaps 👌
You must be good friends with the groundworkers, you've normally got 2 course of trench floating about!!!
Ian Howard As one of the lads we work fir always says to the lads “if the brickies aren’t earning then we ain’t earning “ so getting us going is a priority , most of the time 😬🧱👍🏼
Sound, Steve, I wish he'd come n run our place, we're we are it's like," I need a sump hole digging,they say, Whatever!!!we waited a fortnight once because the groundworkers n contractor argued who was ordering the fxxxxxx pump!!
Ian Howard . As if this job isn’t hard enough . Some drivers complain they are pampering you when you ask for a bit to be dug off . 15 minutes with a 13 ton excavator can save you hours sometimes ! 🧱👍🏽
Do you miss these days 😂😂??✌️
Mmmm like a hole in the head 🫣🫠🧱👍🏽
Does the engineer not give u heights when he nails it
betty swollocks . No , we Don’t always get nails either 😳🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild seriously!!! All our founds are nailed before we go in to them , with the heights on them obviously
betty swollocks Ours are a bit hit n miss 🙁🧱👍🏽
Good work guys 👍👍👍
Mark Hep . Cheers pal we call it shite work 😬😂😂🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild 😂😂😂😂