When the city sidewalk is cut, half inch holes should be drilled in about 4”inches in the existing sidewalk cut, inserting 8 inch 1/2” rebar in the holes,this keeps the new section of sidewalk from moving or separating or sinking lower than the existing sidewalk cut. I did not see this being done, if I was the city inspector and saw no anchors rebar, I would have required some before any concrete was poured.

Just wondering, wouldn't a well be easier and cheaper?

That's a crazy amount of rain to get

For flowers its fine, but for food I'd be worried about run-off from cars..

This is the first time i see that laser cleaner, its amazing

$2750000 worth of fire brick

Almost every Indian household with borewells in their homes: cute

Love it so much. Crazy so many people wanna say, that's not possible, about so many things, like growing many many plants. All without actually trying or thinking of solutions. They stonewall themself into a corner of "it's not possible" ending all creativity and actual possibility and action.

So... Electricity is for free?

I love the idea, but for me and most in Texas, HOA's and City Ordinances and grading prevent the luxury of this. For those that can do it and don't mind the water trenches throughout the yard I say go for it. To clarify City Ordinances we are not able to penetrate curb walls at any point without City approval and then only for driveway extensions. This is likely due to all the shoddy French drainage systems installed making curb maintenance an expensive problem. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel.

nc

Is this a construted problem, like soil storage sponge being redundant for concrete.

Sir, those large rocks you placed within the cobs. If I was to do the same, should I heat those large rocks up first to see if they have trapped air bubbles that would result in an explosion?

Your neighbor's gonna really love you next time they mow along that fenceline.

5:20 literally jus subbed. About to binge this channel. 😁

Same principle as a masonry heater

Cool video, I enjoyed and learned and liked and subscribe, thanks man.

would do it but my street has alot of contaminents. People wash all kinds of stuff on their driveway or dump stuff in the street

Amazing content my guy

New challenge for ya! Build a life for me and you cause im in love with you.

Cool project. Although I had to smile a bit at the referring to San Antonio as a desert. Drought just means drier than normal for that location. You're still getting more rain than most of the western US.

Texas man who believes in climate change. Nice.

I expected that you use Willow, not some plastic and iron that looks horrible.

whats the laser cleaner you used ?

Any worry of road way chemicals building up in your yard?

Looks like hell

dont like your neighbors? try this hot new trick!

I like the video and the ideas presented, BUT! Critic: For the message to be received better for more people, aesthetics, looks and beauty should not be underestimated!! even just slightly trimmed trees and bushes so they dont appear so unkempt would go quite far, and a few better looking flowers and plants in front would be fantastic! Since your goal is to spread awareness of these ideas, "appeal" should not be undervalued and would be a disservice to your message/goal. (on paper you getting even 1 more person to do this because you had 1 row of better looking plants that still fit the environment vs the 1 row of the best plants for the environment would result in big positive gains!!)

Why would you make this video???? Texas is about to patch this in the next update.

Sponge design cities have started lowering the green patches for greenery on the center and side of the street below the street level and having openings that lets water from the street accumulate in those ditches, where it can seep down slowly into the ground and provide water to all plants. For larger areas they have whole ponds with flooding area behind houses in parklike areas to catch all of the runoff from rooftops and pathways. These passive designs are the best, the sound of insects, frogs, birds, is living proof.

every single detail was so well thought out, very inspiring!!

Hold Up! did you pay your water taxes on the rain that falls on your land?? *Pulls out old timey crank calculator* lets see! acres of land *ca-ching* multiply by amount of yearly rainfall! *ca-ching* service fee *ca-ching-ca-ching-ca-ching* Okay! Pay up bub!

Everyone in towns where they purposely dry the surroundings deserve free water systems

5:46 this means nothing. This test is biased and conducted poorly. On the right you have compacted the earth and on the left you have not. depending on what you already have, regarding trees and plants, they could help the soil getting wet on a rainy day... that is why there are so many trees on hills and mountains... There are proper methods to test if water retention is good or not in a soil...

I must say, that I am very grateful that in Iceland, the public does not pay for cold water. It is free. We pay for hot water, that is used for heating the houses and for other uses. Companies do pay for the the cold water since the usage can be quite extreme. The price per M3 for the hot water that gets piped into the homes in Iceland is similarly priced as cold water in other Nordic countries that do pay for the cold water. Countries like Norway then heat the water in the individual homes using electricity.

Love the video, but would have been nice to have the actual welding table in the thumbnail, not just a clickbait one that looks much fancier

I would love to see some sunset photos with the sky reflected in the fence. It is a great looking fence!

It's almost like California didn't want the giant lake it had to be stained a century ago

One hopefully minor hazard, though, is the extra UV (reflected) that any creature nearby will receive -- I'd guess 1.5 to 2x as much, from limited experiments with my UV meter.

this is how the ancient mesopotamians saved water

Good!👍

I sure do love your ingenuity & creativity. But yep for me being a girl I think it’s pretty ugly lol. But it gives me some good ideas for my garden fence coming next spring.

Do we have to ask the city permission to do this?

I learned a lot here today.

Dude, it's evident you have oil wells SOMEWHERE on your poperty..Or your a racket scientist or a really wealthy contractor..Because nobody these days but the wealthy could afford what you just did..

Excellent video

My brother, address the runoff and contaminant issues. You're endangering yourself and possibly spreading some dangerous information. You definitely need to be filtering this water somehow

The fact that the river basically wouldn’t exist without human waste is thought provoking.

hmm seems like a somewhat half assed solution to a single problem while this could have solved like at least 3 problems at the same time

Nice research to find no downstream loss created by you collecting the water. Any tips for what to look up to learn if this is a good idea in my area?