Grand Designs 2024 - Building Underground House

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  • Опубликовано: 13 фев 2024
  • Grand Designs 2024 - Building Underground House
    Bel and John are building a radical underground house on 25 spectacular acres at Whittlesea, in Victoria's Plenty Valley - so named for its fertile farmland and magnificent views. But the area has also acquired a more terrifying reputation. In 2009, 120 people died nearby at Kinglake in what's now known as the Black Saturday bushfires, and as a result Bel and John want a home that's fire proof! With John away at work for much of the build, it's up to Bel to project manage the difficult and complex build. But a number of unexpected challenges make the process harder than anticipated, and with their underground sanctuary looking more like an airport terminal than a stylish home, the pressure reaches breaking point!
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Комментарии • 76

  • @maryanderson7668
    @maryanderson7668 День назад

    This is going to amazing beautiful.

  • @user-vc4mm2ml8t
    @user-vc4mm2ml8t Месяц назад +8

    Aaaaah it is good to be rich

  • @peterkompter2417
    @peterkompter2417 Месяц назад +17

    theres a simple fix for trucks going up the original road, every trucker should know, BACK UP

    • @jasonwojnicz
      @jasonwojnicz День назад

      I was thinking the exact same thing. The clutch would be overheating constantly, but you'd get that up there without all the added cost.

    • @scoobydoo5447
      @scoobydoo5447 13 часов назад

      70 loads of concrete plus all the semis pulling steel, equipment, etc. backing up a steep hill is not practical at all.

  • @markrainford1219
    @markrainford1219 Месяц назад +9

    By UK prices, that was NOT an expensive build. That view is priceless.

    • @steph0xGx
      @steph0xGx 2 дня назад +1

      Our dystopia shouldn't be the golden standards 😂

    • @markrainford1219
      @markrainford1219 День назад +1

      @@steph0xGx So true.

  • @andreewert1925
    @andreewert1925 Месяц назад +8

    add Gravel on the roof in between the Patches of Grass///..more Bush Fire Proection..

    • @heartobefelt
      @heartobefelt Месяц назад

      The plants they used on the roof are bushfire resistant , Australia has about 40 plants that do not burn under a flame. Emu Bush is the main one visible on that roof , google up "bushfire resistant australian plants" you will find the list.

  • @kateh4030
    @kateh4030 Месяц назад +25

    Somewhat misleading upload - the thumbnail is of a different building and this is several years old , 2022, not 2024. Still, an interesting house.

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 Месяц назад +3

      Yes! I thought we were going to see THAT building, with the stone work and the green detail.

    • @jimmytwizzle7836
      @jimmytwizzle7836 Месяц назад +6

      Click bait like so much crap on RUclips these days. It’s all about earning money and not integrity or honesty. Thumbs down for the lie.

    • @kimhorton6109
      @kimhorton6109 Месяц назад +1

      Very thoughtful and interesting couple. They look like they’d make great friends. Nice to have a virtually unlimited budget for a home. This building method has to be safer in areas like this with such hazards. Here in the states it would be great in tornado alley. The benefit to the heating cooling has to be huge. The solar install is a little obtrusive but necessary. Congrats on having the wherewithal to pull it off.

    • @jakemelinko
      @jakemelinko 23 дня назад

      Thanks for the heads up, I won't participate

  • @jasonwojnicz
    @jasonwojnicz День назад

    I wonder if the soil on the high part of the roof is too well drained, and that's why the plant life is having a difficult time establishing? Maybe a heartier clay could be added to the soil to better hold moisture? Interesting idea, though. I'd love to see this type of home being built more often. Especially here in the US in Tornado Alley, roll down (metal or carbon fiber) shutters to protect the glass windows and garage doors. You'd be able to withstand an EF5 if the house were sunk deep enough.

  • @cyclingnut2122
    @cyclingnut2122 Месяц назад +3

    That house is amazing

  • @deborahplumley8698
    @deborahplumley8698 Месяц назад +3

    Beautiful

  • @rhodiamann9057
    @rhodiamann9057 Месяц назад +4

    I live in Kenya where most buildings use quarried cut stones. All this new technology is amazing!

  • @zedbou5040
    @zedbou5040 Месяц назад +3

    Very nice indeed, but not an underground house at all. The earth has been brought up to it and over the top.

  • @anthonystevens403
    @anthonystevens403 2 месяца назад +4

    very nice very beautiful work guys

  • @mowattlavern62
    @mowattlavern62 Месяц назад +1

    Beautiful building

  • @Bonserak23
    @Bonserak23 Месяц назад +7

    She one of Those clients.........lol

  • @andreewert1925
    @andreewert1925 Месяц назад +4

    Btw, Broken glass can be used to do terrazo type concrete pavers or slabs...some great Videos on that.

  • @spurtikus1
    @spurtikus1 Месяц назад +4

    Could have hired 2 Front loading dumpers and moved the concrete back and forth for about an extra 2k in dumper driver hire and drivers. Spending 25k to buy rocks was a bit odd.

  • @davidmaclennan5925
    @davidmaclennan5925 Месяц назад +4

    I could have my dream home for 10% of the cost of the foundation alone…. Makes me cringe

  • @kevinwilson2456
    @kevinwilson2456 Месяц назад +3

    on a ridge, you have to take into consideration the Aeolian effect.

  • @davidbinnie9513
    @davidbinnie9513 Месяц назад +3

    More dollars than sense in this crazy world 1.3 million and it's a small house mostly buried under the ground no amount of talk will make it sound reasonable and it's finish yet.

  • @olivermarshall80
    @olivermarshall80 Месяц назад +2

    Nice house, the cost need tweaking. Too much concrete I think!

  • @user-ur2cc9xz6z
    @user-ur2cc9xz6z Месяц назад +4

    120 tons of concrete and 3 parking's??

  • @kevinwilson2456
    @kevinwilson2456 Месяц назад +3

    of the main plastics in use PVC is the most deadly. When exposed to heat you have chlorine gas...?

  • @samijamal3383
    @samijamal3383 13 дней назад

    Val is amazing

  • @normbograham
    @normbograham 14 дней назад

    The concrete beams seem overkill. I built on concrete roofs, 40 years ago. Back then, there was concrete (a few inches), over which, you had a 2 inch solid insulation, then a rubber membrane, then rock. Size of the rock, did alter, based on the region. but some rock was bigger then a softball. There were also walking mats, that could be put on.

  • @jacobfoster9185
    @jacobfoster9185 Месяц назад +4

    Don't see anything resembling a house tour until 39:00 minutes in...and then only barely.

  • @mauricepowers3804
    @mauricepowers3804 Месяц назад +3

    The Sprint the split screen at the end is very difficult to watch so I turned it off

  • @jobond3317
    @jobond3317 Месяц назад +8

    This house is not an environmental home. Concrete pvc a high cost to the environment

  • @twnor
    @twnor 21 день назад

    Like it, been thing about doing this.

  • @anitapeura3517
    @anitapeura3517 Месяц назад +3

    So much PVC and concrete - won't go down well at the local organic caf. Not the building style of the future. Much better bushfire-resistant house designs to choose from. What were the architects thinking? Would have been good to get their viewpoint/justification.

    • @desertedenblooms
      @desertedenblooms 21 день назад

      At the beginning these two said they hoped this type of building would catch on , lol who has a million dollars to build a home the average person can barly afford a bedroom very unrealistic. Earthships is where they are at and can be built very cheaply or expensively...and are truly organic..these is unrealistic to build this way and not very oranic.

  • @TheOriginalDeckBoy
    @TheOriginalDeckBoy 5 дней назад

    This is exactly what Im building

  • @gerardahearn-ps1cx
    @gerardahearn-ps1cx Месяц назад +1

    Go money bag's go!

  • @gerardahearn-ps1cx
    @gerardahearn-ps1cx Месяц назад +2

    Wow! Look at your money bag's go.

  • @johnmatsacos4692
    @johnmatsacos4692 Месяц назад +1

    Id have to go the bogan version with shipping containers

  • @teresastanisawska3474
    @teresastanisawska3474 21 день назад

    Piękny dom

  • @dougcouch4032
    @dougcouch4032 25 дней назад

    They should have purchased a mixer truck and batched the concrete at the site, hauling the materials dry.

  • @gowithbazza
    @gowithbazza Месяц назад +2

    Parsley underground housing isn't really experimental is it because I've been building buildings in England parsley under the ground for many centuries and I can assure you they work extremely well

  • @Norfolk250
    @Norfolk250 2 месяца назад +4

    There are some quite nice butts in this build!! Hubba hubba.

  • @ryefry
    @ryefry 7 дней назад

    I would have thought they would get windows from someone that designs them for high rise buildings.

  • @lyonscultivars
    @lyonscultivars 28 дней назад +1

    Missleasing thumbnail and title.

  • @susie9893
    @susie9893 3 дня назад

    Glad I read thru the comments at 15 mins in - saved myself from wasting further time. I usually like this show but not when the owners are so....🤔..... unrealistic

  • @charlottewalsh1030
    @charlottewalsh1030 Месяц назад

    Luv,luv,luv…. Perfect ! Maybe,,.,? Arched sails, with big hedge to stifle wind,?,pre fab concrete panels?

  • @holgermessner851
    @holgermessner851 Месяц назад +2

    Watching this, and had in my life always to turn a dollar always twice, watching the video - that’s what you call: The sky is the limit?! For that money, you could have built 10 regular Earthhouses.

  • @jacquelinejeffs4079
    @jacquelinejeffs4079 Месяц назад +1

    Well belle, if you want your house built, this is what you’re gonna have to do, sweetheart

  • @pemonline3395
    @pemonline3395 День назад

    It would have been cheaper to hire a project manager.

  • @christianest-pierre4002
    @christianest-pierre4002 10 дней назад

    At 3min it shows the damage from the -- In 2009, 120 people died nearby at Kinglake in what's now known as the Black Saturday bushfires. -- I'm no expert but I find it strange that a bushfire would disintegrate house to white hashes, to the ground and nothing left while the trees are still standing. --So youtube... are you going to delete this comment too???

  • @catherinemoore9534
    @catherinemoore9534 Месяц назад +3

    Concrete.... AWFUL material ecologically. 🙄

  • @TheExodusV
    @TheExodusV Месяц назад

    Of course it looks nothing like the thumbnail 😢

  • @sugarhill9283
    @sugarhill9283 2 дня назад

    shes using the crutch on the wrong side.. is it some kind of bs??

  • @matty506
    @matty506 Месяц назад +1

    It's funny when people with no building experience start building

  • @jacobfoster9185
    @jacobfoster9185 Месяц назад +2

    WHY are they even married !?

    • @scoobydoo5447
      @scoobydoo5447 13 часов назад

      I I’m thinking the same thing.

  • @martinelongum2439
    @martinelongum2439 26 дней назад

    To many squaremeters for two in my opinion … for what ?
    Haw far are the horses ?

  • @TheExodusV
    @TheExodusV Месяц назад +1

    I wish they wood cry more about the wind 😞

  • @scoobydoo5447
    @scoobydoo5447 13 часов назад

    I feel sorry for the husband. His wife has an attitude about her.

  • @deirdresiegel7707
    @deirdresiegel7707 Месяц назад +4

    🤓 yet… another episode of whinging home builders and brainless contractors 🤓

  • @kevincorbin6273
    @kevincorbin6273 Месяц назад +1

    Not a fan of this one

  • @rthaughey
    @rthaughey 28 дней назад

    Hijacking clickbait.

  • @andrewgartlan5003
    @andrewgartlan5003 Месяц назад +1

    We are self funded retirees now selling out of the private rental market due to increasing government charges making providing this service to the community unsustainable. We helped many young couples save for their first homes over decades.
    The private rental market was never intended to provide social housing. There are more holiday houses than private rental properties vacant in Victoria.
    Be aware, we will give you what you ask, but be careful what you asks for.
    Wake up Next-Gen- Australia.
    Too late for us ….

  • @markluma98
    @markluma98 Месяц назад +2

    How about being real smart and not causing a fire in your neighborhood by burning your bbq stoves in the open ??

  • @davidmaclennan5925
    @davidmaclennan5925 Месяц назад +1

    Ummm, Australians really are copier’s of design? Nothing original whatsoever, Taste and class mixed with a culture is not something that you won’t stumble upon on a daily basis. There’s nothing that is remotely achievable by any average Australian? Why not do a program based on something that is actually an achievable goal/ home?
    I have been homeless for over a year, I would give anything to have 10 square meters of my own
    I couldn’t afford to pay for the deposit on the excavator yet alone any permission from the local shire….
    Get real, show people some promise of what is realistically achievable?

  • @chaliceotiyo7313
    @chaliceotiyo7313 Месяц назад

    Why his and her room!!!do they have conjugal visits??
    The Bible says man and woman shall marry and become one

    • @newolde1
      @newolde1 Месяц назад +2

      Omg, you zealots

    • @shantalynn
      @shantalynn 21 день назад +2

      That's nobody else's business but theirs.