The updates are appreciated! I enjoy the comparisons between European and North American building techniques and regulations. Always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you! I watch a lot of RUclips videos to learn more about building and there is much more content coming from the US. Those glued plumbing connections must be annoying when you find out you made a mistake.
I do! Patience is my only problem. As soon as the building is up there will be a ton of work to be completed. Building the wood office space, doing the electrics, adding toilets and building the road!
Keep the updated coming! I'm from Portugal and currently deep remodeling a house and although the structures are very different, there are several details that you've pointed out that I will be paying attention to and/or implementing over here! Quite excited to learn more about insulation next week!
@@MaxMakerChannelIt depends but most of our construction is very poor and badly (or not at all) insulated so we have a huge need to also heat the houses as well during most part of the year. I would say that our needs are mostly related with heating and keeping the heat inside instead of keeping warmth out. Nowadays, we use a mix of ETICS insulation (10cm seems to be the new "standard" but I think the law requires less than that) and rockwool (5cm) inside of the interior walls (when they are built using drywall). Unfortunately, there's a lot of poor practices when building like total disregard to thermal bridges (which will lead to condensation). In the current house I will be looking into a mix of 10cm ETICS, probably around 4cm EPS + 15cm rockwool on the ceiling and maybe 10cm (depending on space) on drywall walls.
I love your videos! Especially the rubbish train and the flood defences, but these are great too. I can barely build a paper airplane but I learn so much, not just about building but also about Germany.
thanks for the update, looking great so far. Looks like your neighbours are starting to work as well now, I can see a bit of flattening and tracks from vehicles on the other lots in your zoomed out shot at the end.
That's really helpful, thanks, since I'm planning to build my house myself in Germany. Did you take Angebote for every single action on the construction site way before starting the job? I mean did you know the cost and time spending for example for machines or concrete pouring?
Oh that is nice! The only work that I outsourced is the concrete. I got one quote for that. And you need a electrician. I made a spreadsheet with estimated costs. I looked up prices for all the building materials and just added them up. Stuff like plywood, cables, sockets, the heatpump and tiling. Then I added 15%. Oh, the tiling will probably be outsourced, but not the waterproofing.
Interesting to see how things are done where you are. In my work I most commonly see storage crates for water, they are sort of like big plastic milk crates that are weight bearing, they can be connected together and pipes attached if needed. They're porous so allow for infiltration, or you can get solid ones that are used only for storage.
Love your green waste pipes! 😁 All our UK ones are brown, but otherwise identical specification. I assume because they wanted them to look like the old clay waste pipes they replaced.
We used to only have brown or orange PVC pipes. But they changed it to a more durable Polypropylene type called KG 2000 and that one is green now. Apparently its more robust and lasts 100 years.
Awesome! I didn't expect another episode so soon. It's also really nice to see a big construction project happening here in Germany for once. It's providing a lot of inspiration and assistance for my upcoming construction project.
Try and hide a time capsule somewhere before you finish! Link to your RUclips or something; your great great grandkids might benefit from the subscriber bump if you keep your channel in the family haha
I really like the rain tunnels, they're basically a giant version of what we in the US refer to as french drains. My city has a similar thing to prevent floods, where most of a peticular creek that used to flood regularly and is near some very expensive properties has most of its regular flow still above ground, but has capture tunnels underneath it. During times of drought, they pump the water back up to the creek to maintain the flow, and there's an emergency drain that dumps the captured water to the big river if need be (for example, they did this during the last major hurricane we had).
I've been a fan from the start and I honestly get so happy when you post a new video. If you don't want the pond to "collapse" then make sure to get some plants because the roots will keep the soil from sliding. Plus it looks really nice 😋 I would suggest Iris flowers. And yeah we have the same kinda piping in DK and it's really nice to work with. Best of wishes from Denmark
Thank you! Here’s another free motivational comment haha. Would love to see or hear from the electrical contractors when they arrive to start their work. I’m biased towards electrical but find all of the trades work interesting! 🎉
Another great video. With you being the first one there, do you have concerns about what may happen to your building when the next plot over starts excavating for their build? Or is there zero chance of shifting / settling with the boundary lines?
No concerns. We need to keep a distance of at least 5m towards the edges of the property. So the neighbours building will be at least 10m away. He could reduce it to 7m if he was building a fireproof wall.
The more you compact the better. Years ago I did some concrete work, mostly unskilled labor. We did a house in which the owner prepped the house and large shop. The holes were all dug and we installed and laid the foundation and then he back filled and we came back and laid the slab. Having stepped on the ground inside the foundation it was soft and uncompensated (no insulation, no liner and just rebar that he laid). The main crew guy called our boss and told him as he had not arrived yet. The boss called the owner and explained this and the owner said to go ahead. The boss then called the concrete company to hold the first batch. He then drove nearly an hour to where the guy was working to get him to sign off on the job. (legal liability) Then we got started a couple hours late and finished. 10 or so years later I happened to go to this guy's house as he was selling something that I wanted yet did not end up buying. (I turned my friend on to it and he bought it) I was talking to him and he showed me his stupid mistake. His shop floor was so badly cracked at the door entrance and every where he had set heavy or drove heavy stuff. The inside of his house had settled as well and had hollow sounds. He said that it took him 6 months to get it built so it rained a lot on it with introduced water under the slab and that settled. He did say that his insurance paid out on it. How he did that I have no clue. Yet he did say that he was going to build a new place in cash after this place was paid for which was in a few more years. I am guessing a 15 year loan! I like to compact a lot........
Thanks for the story! Thats one thing I want to avoid for sure. I am hopeful that we have so much rebar that the slab will be strong on its own. Its 20cm thick. So almost 8 Inches. The geotechnical engineer said that the sand that we got is the best material around and that its easy to get it compacted enough. But I still don’t know if its compacted enough or not.
Geo textile yes but no gravel. The very first tunnel segment will have a bottom that catches any sediments. Thats a new innovation by the manufacturer. It will have two maintenance access shafts to clean it every 3 years.
7:20 these soakaways look nice. I have a 300 Liter version in my garden (Graf Sicker-Tunnel) and on the other side a 900 Liter Iglu (perhaps also Rewatec). And I looked both yours and mine up and they have an impressivly load class of SLW 60(t) despite looking so flimsily. The large version has the advantage that you can climb inside and clean it if you want. With that space you have: first send the rain water to a tank(s) (for gardening or grey water) and then to the soakaway. Another method I saw over here: stacked beer crates buried How much is a cbm of conrete nowadays ? Cheers from Berlin
I looked up both of those suppliers but ultimately Intewa gave me the best customer support and a little discount. Their modules are also the largest ones available. And as you said they can support a full size truck. Concrete ist about 160€/m3.
Really cool project, looking forward to the next Episode. Even tho i would prefer longer Episodes, i can understand that from the perspective of a Creator the short Episodes make sense. Greetings from Bavaria.
I think the next one will have to be longer because there will be much more happening. I fear that to detailed videos will cause less people to watch. But I don’t know.
The black drain things are what we use for the leech fields for our septic system. The one thing that we are going to do for our new place is install a massive system as the plan is to install one black and one gray water system with 1000 gallon tanks. My sister's place needs a way to remove water and this is what she needs to install. Yet her house is on the lower end towards the street and its higher towards the rear of her land. So they will have to dig deep to divert the water away from her house. Just sad that they built it on the low end rather than at the top end.
Ah yeah. Similar to this situation. I plan on doing the landscaping around the building as ditches that redirect the water from the hill around the house.
About 6 months. There was a long back and forth with the steel building company to find out what I could afford and what not. It was difficult to find out which features were expensive. And also which features were needed due to regulation. After that I went at it step by step. It helped a lot doing most of the planning myself. So I didn’t have to wait a lot for anybody. If you outsource plumbing, rain retention and so on there are suddenly 10 people involved who don’t answer their phones. And you still need to check their work anyway. Because a plumber would build what is best, but what is best for him.
If you grease the rubber seals on those green pipes, it should make the seals last longer. It may not be necessary, but I wouldn't want to risk the contents of those pipes leaking 😅
Love this project, too much sand for my taste but it looks great so far. As germans we all know what huge mountain of work it is to get building permits, building anything to code and creating a whole workplace that in itself comes with alot of rules, directing a profitable company and at the end the Finanzamt is waiting for its fair share :)
Is there a reason why you don't store any of the rainwater for applications that don't require fresh water? Like flushing the toilets or watering plants. Love these progress-videos btw.
We could do that but unfortunately its not economical. Fresh water is so cheap that the pump alone would need to last for 20 years to make it worthwhile. Together with a tank it would be 40 years. However the manufacturer INTEWA actually installed a filter system at their headquarters to turn rain water into clean drinking water.
Yes! I really hope I can create a beautiful landscape. Since we have a lot of sunlight in front of the workshop that should be a good opportunity to have plants growing there. But I don´t know which ones exactly. I like that really tall grass a lot. The type that is as high as a person. And I think wildflowers on the large areas would be easy to maintain. Maybe in combination with some nicely trimmed lawn to give contrast. I am open for any ideas!
@@MaxMakerChannel A few fruit trees and bushes(shrubs) on the edge to block noise. If it was mine i would plant a Sequoia redwood. At the end of the day anything that is not asphalt or concrete, just green.
Yes! 200 for the property, 140 for the concrete, 240 for the building, 20 for heating, 20 for electrical, 40 for office and showers. 30 for bureaucracy, 100 for solar So 790 in total.
Thank you for the offer! That is nice! I am in Lübeck and I would love to extend my crew during the summer. They have a minijob and only work 7h a week. So anyone that would like to help should be local. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense. of course with payment and insurance. I don’t know if I could even except free labour.
5:50 "Like you do in America" ... I'm not American, I'm not IN America, don't fucking call me American, ever. Good way to ruin a good experience so far
@@MaxMakerChannel Yet it is the stuff that is hidden that matters most. An ill-built foundation won't mean diddly-splat, no matter how well built the rest of the building is. So that is effort well spent.
I love these updates. Seeing everything progress is so fascinating. And doing it all with friends and rental machines must be fun.
Thanks for watching! This is a lot of fun!
The updates are appreciated!
I enjoy the comparisons between European and North American building techniques and regulations.
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you! I watch a lot of RUclips videos to learn more about building and there is much more content coming from the US. Those glued plumbing connections must be annoying when you find out you made a mistake.
my favourite series currently on youtube, i cant wait for more!
Nice! Thanks!
Looks great Max. You seem to have high standards. I can’t wait to see the finished building.
I do! Patience is my only problem. As soon as the building is up there will be a ton of work to be completed. Building the wood office space, doing the electrics, adding toilets and building the road!
Again great video! That green compacter definitely needs googly eyes on it.
Keep the updated coming! I'm from Portugal and currently deep remodeling a house and although the structures are very different, there are several details that you've pointed out that I will be paying attention to and/or implementing over here! Quite excited to learn more about insulation next week!
Oh nice. What insulation are you using in Portugal? I imagine you want to keep the warmth out?
@@MaxMakerChannelIt depends but most of our construction is very poor and badly (or not at all) insulated so we have a huge need to also heat the houses as well during most part of the year. I would say that our needs are mostly related with heating and keeping the heat inside instead of keeping warmth out.
Nowadays, we use a mix of ETICS insulation (10cm seems to be the new "standard" but I think the law requires less than that) and rockwool (5cm) inside of the interior walls (when they are built using drywall). Unfortunately, there's a lot of poor practices when building like total disregard to thermal bridges (which will lead to condensation). In the current house I will be looking into a mix of 10cm ETICS, probably around 4cm EPS + 15cm rockwool on the ceiling and maybe 10cm (depending on space) on drywall walls.
Brilliant Max! That looks very satisfying work and you are becoming an expert digger driver
There will be a lot of excavator work in the future. I need to build a base for the crane and next winter I need to build the roads.
Please keep doing these videos, they are my current favourite RUclips content! 😅
Thanks for watching!
I love your videos! Especially the rubbish train and the flood defences, but these are great too. I can barely build a paper airplane but I learn so much, not just about building but also about Germany.
I can’t wait for the next video! Loving this series all the way from England 🏴. Wishing best of luck in this project!
Thank you!
I’ve been subscribed for a while, but it’s awesome to see you taking on a project of this size! I can’t wait to see how you get on!
Thanks for sticking around!
I am enjoying this shop built! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
These pipes look really nice. Can't wait for the next episode!!!
They indeed do look cool. I am going to look in to the red ones as they look like great options!
don't forget to bury a time capsule :)
Thats so American…,
@@MaxMakerChannel auch Deutsche verbuddeln Grundsteine ;)
@@MaxMakerChannel We also used to do these. Or leave something for the spirits. But that is gone today.
thanks for the update, looking great so far.
Looks like your neighbours are starting to work as well now, I can see a bit of flattening and tracks from vehicles on the other lots in your zoomed out shot at the end.
Yes. They flattened one property, but thats it. I am curious when they actually begin.
These are great updates, I look forward to each one! Keep it up!
Thank you! The algorithm doesn’t seem to like it.
That's really helpful, thanks, since I'm planning to build my house myself in Germany. Did you take Angebote for every single action on the construction site way before starting the job? I mean did you know the cost and time spending for example for machines or concrete pouring?
Oh that is nice! The only work that I outsourced is the concrete. I got one quote for that. And you need a electrician.
I made a spreadsheet with estimated costs. I looked up prices for all the building materials and just added them up. Stuff like plywood, cables, sockets, the heatpump and tiling. Then I added 15%. Oh, the tiling will probably be outsourced, but not the waterproofing.
So excited to continue seeing the progress! Thanks for sharing and keeping us in the loop! This project is awesome
Thank you!
Loving this series, keep 'em coming!
Great Video! We are looking forward to see more of you and your ideas :)
This series is great
Love seeing you do it all yourself! And explaining all the processes and why you choose this and that :)
your attitude towards this project is just admirable. thanks for letting us in on some of the stuff you're doing. wonderful work!
Thank you!
Interesting to see how things are done where you are. In my work I most commonly see storage crates for water, they are sort of like big plastic milk crates that are weight bearing, they can be connected together and pipes attached if needed. They're porous so allow for infiltration, or you can get solid ones that are used only for storage.
We have those crates too, but they are more expensive. I think they make more sense when you need to save space.
Love your green waste pipes! 😁 All our UK ones are brown, but otherwise identical specification. I assume because they wanted them to look like the old clay waste pipes they replaced.
We used to only have brown or orange PVC pipes. But they changed it to a more durable Polypropylene type called KG 2000 and that one is green now. Apparently its more robust and lasts 100 years.
@@MaxMakerChannel Whoever made that decision must be a fan of a certain Italiano plumber.
Awesome! I didn't expect another episode so soon. It's also really nice to see a big construction project happening here in Germany for once. It's providing a lot of inspiration and assistance for my upcoming construction project.
I was surprised myself. I edited everything in one day. Normally that takes longer. What are you building?
love what you are doing!
Try and hide a time capsule somewhere before you finish! Link to your RUclips or something; your great great grandkids might benefit from the subscriber bump if you keep your channel in the family haha
Great video. I love how you highlight excellent products and solutions that go into building a workshop like yours.
Enjoyed it!
Nice progress! Very interesting water modules, looking forward to updates.
Love it. Great series ❤
Can't wait for the next one!
I really like the rain tunnels, they're basically a giant version of what we in the US refer to as french drains. My city has a similar thing to prevent floods, where most of a peticular creek that used to flood regularly and is near some very expensive properties has most of its regular flow still above ground, but has capture tunnels underneath it. During times of drought, they pump the water back up to the creek to maintain the flow, and there's an emergency drain that dumps the captured water to the big river if need be (for example, they did this during the last major hurricane we had).
Very interesting! There is so much going on underground. I think this is similar to a french drain just with different materials.
I'm loving this series! Can't wait for more videos!
Love it!
nice video, very informative
I've been a fan from the start and I honestly get so happy when you post a new video. If you don't want the pond to "collapse" then make sure to get some plants because the roots will keep the soil from sliding. Plus it looks really nice 😋 I would suggest Iris flowers. And yeah we have the same kinda piping in DK and it's really nice to work with. Best of wishes from Denmark
Thanks for watching! The pond will be filled in later and we build a cavity on the inside.
First up! Awesome updates. THANKS for the intewa tip: I have a very similar problem right now and this helped me trimendiously!!
Glad it helped! Intewa also has customer service to help you out!
Thank you! Here’s another free motivational comment haha. Would love to see or hear from the electrical contractors when they arrive to start their work. I’m biased towards electrical but find all of the trades work interesting! 🎉
Another great video.
With you being the first one there, do you have concerns about what may happen to your building when the next plot over starts excavating for their build? Or is there zero chance of shifting / settling with the boundary lines?
No concerns. We need to keep a distance of at least 5m towards the edges of the property. So the neighbours building will be at least 10m away. He could reduce it to 7m if he was building a fireproof wall.
The more you compact the better. Years ago I did some concrete work, mostly unskilled labor. We did a house in which the owner prepped the house and large shop. The holes were all dug and we installed and laid the foundation and then he back filled and we came back and laid the slab. Having stepped on the ground inside the foundation it was soft and uncompensated (no insulation, no liner and just rebar that he laid). The main crew guy called our boss and told him as he had not arrived yet. The boss called the owner and explained this and the owner said to go ahead. The boss then called the concrete company to hold the first batch. He then drove nearly an hour to where the guy was working to get him to sign off on the job. (legal liability) Then we got started a couple hours late and finished.
10 or so years later I happened to go to this guy's house as he was selling something that I wanted yet did not end up buying. (I turned my friend on to it and he bought it) I was talking to him and he showed me his stupid mistake. His shop floor was so badly cracked at the door entrance and every where he had set heavy or drove heavy stuff. The inside of his house had settled as well and had hollow sounds. He said that it took him 6 months to get it built so it rained a lot on it with introduced water under the slab and that settled. He did say that his insurance paid out on it. How he did that I have no clue. Yet he did say that he was going to build a new place in cash after this place was paid for which was in a few more years. I am guessing a 15 year loan!
I like to compact a lot........
Thanks for the story! Thats one thing I want to avoid for sure. I am hopeful that we have so much rebar that the slab will be strong on its own. Its 20cm thick. So almost 8 Inches. The geotechnical engineer said that the sand that we got is the best material around and that its easy to get it compacted enough. But I still don’t know if its compacted enough or not.
very nice video!
Love these :) Cant wait for ep4
Thanks for watching!
Will you put a layer of geotextile and maybe a little gravel under your water storage tunnel to stop sand from migrating into it from below?
Geo textile yes but no gravel. The very first tunnel segment will have a bottom that catches any sediments. Thats a new innovation by the manufacturer. It will have two maintenance access shafts to clean it every 3 years.
7:20 these soakaways look nice. I have a 300 Liter version in my garden (Graf Sicker-Tunnel) and on the other side a 900 Liter Iglu (perhaps also Rewatec). And I looked both yours and mine up and they have an impressivly load class of SLW 60(t) despite looking so flimsily. The large version has the advantage that you can climb inside and clean it if you want.
With that space you have: first send the rain water to a tank(s) (for gardening or grey water) and then to the soakaway.
Another method I saw over here: stacked beer crates buried
How much is a cbm of conrete nowadays ?
Cheers from Berlin
I looked up both of those suppliers but ultimately Intewa gave me the best customer support and a little discount. Their modules are also the largest ones available. And as you said they can support a full size truck. Concrete ist about 160€/m3.
Really cool project, looking forward to the next Episode.
Even tho i would prefer longer Episodes, i can understand that from the perspective of a Creator the short Episodes make sense.
Greetings from Bavaria.
I think the next one will have to be longer because there will be much more happening. I fear that to detailed videos will cause less people to watch. But I don’t know.
Hui somehow currently my favorite yt creator content, love the colinfurze tunnel build vibe :P
Grüße nach Lübeck!
Thank you! We have a lot in common except for the amount of clicks.
Working the compactor on both days of the weekend… IN GERMANY. 🤣🤣🤣 ;)
Liebe Grüße👋🏻
The black drain things are what we use for the leech fields for our septic system. The one thing that we are going to do for our new place is install a massive system as the plan is to install one black and one gray water system with 1000 gallon tanks.
My sister's place needs a way to remove water and this is what she needs to install. Yet her house is on the lower end towards the street and its higher towards the rear of her land. So they will have to dig deep to divert the water away from her house. Just sad that they built it on the low end rather than at the top end.
Ah yeah. Similar to this situation. I plan on doing the landscaping around the building as ditches that redirect the water from the hill around the house.
4:21 you put the compactor above the ground so that no one steals it ?
Yep!
Very cool! How long did it take you to plan every detail of this build?
About 6 months. There was a long back and forth with the steel building company to find out what I could afford and what not. It was difficult to find out which features were expensive. And also which features were needed due to regulation. After that I went at it step by step. It helped a lot doing most of the planning myself. So I didn’t have to wait a lot for anybody. If you outsource plumbing, rain retention and so on there are suddenly 10 people involved who don’t answer their phones. And you still need to check their work anyway. Because a plumber would build what is best, but what is best for him.
If you grease the rubber seals on those green pipes, it should make the seals last longer. It may not be necessary, but I wouldn't want to risk the contents of those pipes leaking 😅
Thank you for the tip!
Love this project, too much sand for my taste but it looks great so far. As germans we all know what huge mountain of work it is to get building permits, building anything to code and creating a whole workplace that in itself comes with alot of rules, directing a profitable company and at the end the Finanzamt is waiting for its fair share :)
Is there a reason why you don't store any of the rainwater for applications that don't require fresh water? Like flushing the toilets or watering plants.
Love these progress-videos btw.
We could do that but unfortunately its not economical. Fresh water is so cheap that the pump alone would need to last for 20 years to make it worthwhile. Together with a tank it would be 40 years. However the manufacturer INTEWA actually installed a filter system at their headquarters to turn rain water into clean drinking water.
Have you thought of plants to surround the shop?
Yes! I really hope I can create a beautiful landscape. Since we have a lot of sunlight in front of the workshop that should be a good opportunity to have plants growing there. But I don´t know which ones exactly. I like that really tall grass a lot. The type that is as high as a person. And I think wildflowers on the large areas would be easy to maintain. Maybe in combination with some nicely trimmed lawn to give contrast. I am open for any ideas!
@@MaxMakerChannel A few fruit trees and bushes(shrubs) on the edge to block noise. If it was mine i would plant a Sequoia redwood.
At the end of the day anything that is not asphalt or concrete, just green.
I keep watching these videos and going "man i wish we had _____ over here, why do we not have those over here!?!"
Those glued in place pipes right? Must be difficult to get the angles right.
❤
Can you add some rough prices and how much you are expecting to cost in total?
Yes! 200 for the property, 140 for the concrete, 240 for the building, 20 for heating, 20 for electrical, 40 for office and showers. 30 for bureaucracy, 100 for solar So 790 in total.
@@MaxMakerChannel whoa, was expecting half of that... thanks
Nice Video. But would be a great quality improvement if you could upload them in 60 fps.
Next time!
I think you would benefit from a 4 foot aluminium rake 😂
Where are you from in Germany? Would like to come one day and help you out where I can.
Thank you for the offer! That is nice! I am in Lübeck and I would love to extend my crew during the summer. They have a minijob and only work 7h a week. So anyone that would like to help should be local. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense. of course with payment and insurance. I don’t know if I could even except free labour.
Yay for microplastics instead of gravel
Very very macroplastic. On the plus side those tunnels can use up a lot of low grade post-consumer recycled plastic.
One stack of tunnel replaces 45 tons of gravel. Thats 3 truck loads including the trucks Diesel.
Do you have a discord server
No sorry.
Do all the workers wish not to appear in your videos, or is that all thanks to a law in Deutschland?
If I was them I wouldn’t like to be put on RUclips either so I am not asking them. Germans are very sensitive when it comes to privacy.
5:50 "Like you do in America" ... I'm not American, I'm not IN America, don't fucking call me American, ever.
Good way to ruin a good experience so far
Man digs a hole and fills it in ,lol,
Great work all
That was my thought at some point. We put so much effort into the foundation only to burry it again.
@@MaxMakerChannel Yet it is the stuff that is hidden that matters most. An ill-built foundation won't mean diddly-splat, no matter how well built the rest of the building is. So that is effort well spent.