3.5 TON CONCRETE WALL BUILT ON SOIL!!

IN THIS WEEKS VIDEO..
3.5 TON CONCRETE WALL BUILT ON SOIL😳 !! ITS DAY ONE AND DEMOLITION DAY ON A VERY DANGEROUS WALL WHICH IS IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE. ITS 80 MM OUT OF PLUMB WITH HARDLY ANY TIES IN AND WOULD HAVE FALLEN OVER HAD THER ENOT BEEN A GATE NEXT TO IT.
ITS A TOUGH WALL TO DEMOLISH BUT WE GET IT DOWN WITH THE HELP OF OUR MILWAUKEE SDS MAX BREAKER AND OUR TRUSTY WRECKING BAR 💪🏽.
IN THE AFTERNOON WE HAND DUG A NEW FOOTING FOR THE NEW WALL AND THANKS TO ALEXS EXCELLENT SKIP STACKING SKILLS WE MANAGED TO GET ALL THE SPOIL AND RUBBLE INTO AN 8 TON SKIP.
FINALLY YOU WILL SEE THE CONCRETE BEING BARROWED IN BY THE GREAT LADS FROM THE CONCRETE COMPANY WHICH TOOK EXACTLY 1 CUBE ......ENJOY
** PAYPAL LINK @BWSAA ** THANKS 🙏🏽
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[@rayoscroft3775]

Hope Alex gets better brilliant job Steve both of you tosay Alex wasn't is best anyway nice one 👍 😮

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Ray. Yes Al did really well 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽

[@ljd8520]

Top work Fellas. Real graft going on there. This Architect approves.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽

[@MalcDavison]

Good days graft lads.....Well done. Saludos desde España mi amigos.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽

[@Richard-gk3kq]

Good job as always.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers 🧱👍🏽

[@tonywright5475]

respect both of you good job well done

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Tony 🧱🧱👍🏽

[@garytaylor2914]

Fair play to Alex, he carried that whole wall away. Good work lads

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😍😍🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽

[@tonyalways7174]

I love your work but more than that I love your van. So smart and shiny on the outside but as soon as you open the doors it looks like Steptoe’s yard after an earthquake 😂👍🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😉😂😂🧱👍🏽

[@quadrapoint]

Nothing like a bit of hard work when your not feeling well will feel a lot better tomorrow

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽

[@davecooke914]

Great job Steve n Alex worked hard Alex wasn't well 👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks 🧱👍

[@hilaryandbrianreid9876]

Impressed by the amount of graft...especially when Alex is feeling rough, and your hip!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks 😁👍🏽🧱

[@johnboy2984]

Hi Steve &Alex. That looked like a heavy job. Good on Alex moving all that not being well. Like you said Steve time to go and get done properly by you two. That breaker looked the business too. Good job guys have a good weekend 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers pal, you too 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽

[@Mitch-Hendren]

1842 terraced house here. Built straight on clay . No footings no founds . Damp,cold, and cracks open up in summer close back up in winter . I can see why foundations became a thing !!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🫣😬🧱👍🏽

[@Ragnar8504]

I helped a friend take down a porch of unknown age last summer. A few roughly hewn lumps of granite thrown on the ground, backfilled with dirt and 50 mm of gravel, then another 50 mm of cheap concrete and a rickety structure built from random reclaimed timbers on top. There was literally nothing below grade. The house itself isn't much better, goes down one course of stone, so maybe 250 mm.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@Ragnar8504 😳😬🧱👍🏽

[@marcwalters7541]

The skip stacking champion will not be defeated 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🤙🏾🤙🏾😏🧱👍🏽

[@frankholehouse6370]

BRILLIANT VIDEO AS ALWAYS is that rake Alex was using home made looks like a drain rod handle very clever idea .

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁🧱👍🏽

[@DarranCariadCoins]

Great work guys. 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks very much 🧱👍🏽

[@Downstairsish]

It always amazes me how solid and perminet a block wall looks and yet how easy it is for you to take it down. Great video guys. .

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Very true 🧱🧱👍🏽

[@gpet23]

22:28 first and only time I’ve heard the F-Bomb on all your videos 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Mmmm You’ve not seen them All then 😆😆🧱👍🏽

[@davecleggett9371]

Al, you earned your corn today mate! You looked totally washed out leading up to lunch break, no fun at all bending and lifting when you're stuffed up with cold, feel for you mate. Hate to say it Steve, but you looked buggered before you wrecked the gate! At least it brought a smile to your day! What a cracking day's work you two - bloody good job!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Dave, full on but enjoy it at the same time 🧱👍🏽😁

[@Sean006]

Alex certainly earned a bacon butty that day.....possibly even two 👍 Well done to you both.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

He certainly did mate 🥓🥪😋🧱👍🏽

[@redzed40]

Great work Lads!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Buddy 🧱👍🏽

[@raycollington4310]

The potential for this wall to cause injury or damage is scary. Surprised this owner didn't just put in a few cheap and cheerful fence panels. Good job lads, well done and thank you.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁🧱👍🏽

[@markdauncey927]

Don't think it was likely to fall over and hurt anyone very soon judging by how hard S&A to work to get it down!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@markdauncey927 . 🥵🥵🧱👍🏽

[@philanthropist1241]

Another great presentation guys. Is that horrible crazy paving going ??

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks . It is 🤣🧱👍🏽

[@bobx2387]

Ahhhh The Two man lifting of barrows into a skip... How will new technology replace that ? The number I have lifted over the years... no wonder I ache all over. Due to my area being Victorian, It is quite common to find buildings built "off the soil" let alone dividing garden walls. Bob (Weston super Mare)

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Yea no more running up dodgy planks 😬😆👍🏽🧱

[@eddieMurphy11111]

sorry i missed the show last night maybe next time and any job keeps the wolf away from the door and i have never seen blocks with a frog on the end and never say the e word ,thanks for the video .

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆😆😆🧱👍🏽

[@christopherkingston9601]

First time I heard the term greedy boards was as a greenhorn working at a recycling centre. I had put some doors down the edge of a skip and the line manager called Nigel (nice bloke) said “ no we don’t use greedy boards here”. Later seeing how often the skip movements happened on that site made me feel a bit of a plonker. Happy days.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁🧱👍🏽

[@sgtmark8844]

Alex must have ate his spinach I hurt my back just watching him lifting them lead blocks 😊

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

He did really well as he was ill 🤒🤧🧱👍🏽

[@LifetimeinWelding]

What is it about a wave of wet concrete that is so entertaining! Perhaps is my al-simonds kicking in early.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😍😆🧱👍🏽

[@Jim_Newlands]

Just wondering if it's different with you guys down there, because if I loaded a skip with mixed rubble and soil I would be charged a fortune up here in the Highlands. Dumping charges are absolutely mental nowadays.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It’s pretty much Chuck anything in Jim 😬 for £260 🧱👍🏽

[@Jim_Newlands]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild WOW, I'd be at least double that, maybe even more!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@NewlandsBuildingServices . Jeez that’s ridiculous 🤯🧱👍🏽

[@Jim_Newlands]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild It's crazy up here. It's almost as if they are encouraging fly tipping by making dumping charges unaffordable

[@bobbybrownshoes]

It would cost a fortune to buy those blocks nowa days... Good workout for Alex although I would of used the wheel barrow... lol

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🧱👍🏽😆

[@keithr3682]

Hi guys that boy of yours is worth he weigh in gold well done al 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

He certainly is 😍🤩🤩🤩🧱👍🏽

[@orlandostead8703]

Nice wk, How deep and wide was the foundations?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

There weren’t any 🙄🧱👍🏽

[@anthonyhoult152]

Good morning Steve and Alex, Hope that you are both well. Just going to watch your videos that I have missed and sorry that I have been missing. Had a bad accident at work due to the sky hooks not working and gravity was certainly turned on 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Oh no mate hope you’re on the mend and feeling better 😳🤕🧱👍🏽

[@anthonyhoult152]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild I've got a appointment on the 10th October as been told that I have perforated cartilage in my left knee. Still painful but have to work

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It’s crap mate isn’t it 😞👍🏽🧱

[@rowlockconstruction8345]

Done well their with that. I did the same with a skip and had to go back and take about 4 Barrow loads off it 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Al is a pro mate 😆🤙🏾🧱👍🏽

[@rowlockconstruction8345]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild 🤣🤣🤣🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱

[@Stop..carry-on]

The Victorians essentially built on soil with sometimes a 4or 5 bricks in a row then built up in a pyramid shape which spread the load across the ground they were also surprisingly shallow on some buildings like terrace houses - in most cases time has proved the method works.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🧱👍🏽

[@Ragnar8504]

Sometimes did, sometimes didn't. The place where I live had an old retaining wall along the front, maybe 1 m tall. No idea how old it was, might have been original to the build (1914), although I doubt it. Solid concrete but no rebar anywhere to be seen. The wall's been leaning outwards for as long as I can remember but a few years ago it got so bad it was replaced. No more than about 150 mm of concrete below the pavement, no wonder it was leaning! The adjacent pillars on either side of the gate were brick and had to be replaced way back in the early 90s. The wall was leaning pretty significantly back then but kept moving, as shown by the massive crack opening up between the wall and the new block pillar. I'd love to know how old the wall was, I've got a hard time believing it was original. They did use some concrete when they built the house but a much taller retaining wall in the back was all brick, as were the two pillars, so why would the walls in the front be concrete? The only possible explanation I've got is thickness (i.e. looks mainly), a brick retaining wall would have had to be thicker.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🧱👍🏽

[@proud_to_be_a_ted]

​@@SteveAndAlexBuild😢jij9hg7😊6lò

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@proudtobeated ???🤔🤔

[@orlandostead8703]

What I meant was your new foundations, how deep and wide did you go.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Ah we did say in the video . 350 x 350 mm 🧱👍🏽

[@ThatLeeNoble]

I had a wall build early this year and they used postcrete for the foundation, did they bodge it? Wall is just over garage door hight.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It’s not ideal and probably cost twice as much as mixing proper stuff 😟🧱👍🏽

[@kokodin5895]

how often can you disasemble a wall and later reuse the bricks for something else? or does it never happen or is too much effort to reclaim old bricks for some other reasons

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Bricks can be re used over and over as long as they clean up ok 👌🏼 🧱👍🏽🧱🧱🧱

[@kokodin5895]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild i know they can, but i mostly see them go to the big bin and for the trash so i was wondering what usually happen and if there is some sorts of recycling for that or just a groundfill after grinding down to rocks

[@Doug....]

I know times are hard all round but that was a shared wall? so the other owner should have taken some financial ownership i would have thought. Loved the no nonsense demolition of the rickety gate 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Our customers were great and I felt a bit sorry that next door wouldn’t chip in 😒🧱👍🏽

[@planetyouranus22]

A boundary wall is often the sole responsibility of one particular householder. It will state on the property deeds which it is. Or a call to the local authority planning office would establish who’s it is.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@planetyouranus22 . 🧱👍🏽

[@Doug....]

Well thats what i always believed as well. 🤔@@planetyouranus22

[@swmurray27]

Steve, with it being a party wall, guessing the customer had cleared all that with the neighbour? Hoping you didn’t get any aggro from the neighbour, that woulda been a nightmare. Cracking job as always tho gents. 👍🏻🤜🏼🤛🏼

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

No aggro Stuart because they got a free wall as they wouldn’t contribute 😞🧱👍🏽

[@gpet23]

So it’s leaning the neighbours way and they won’t contribute? Far out that’s totally unacceptable.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@gorgen23 . But true 😔🧱👍🏽

[@howardmarshall5713]

The buildings of today will never outlast the buildings of the past. Although the materials used today are available cheaply produced, with the illusion that they are eco friendly. not designed to last more than 25 years. but to create turn over of money and boost the economy. Just imagine how things would be if we still built real stone houses again. with properly quarried stone. no more deterioration of the main structure. proper slate roofs. good for at least 50 years. house life if properly maintained. exactly why we have A listed buildings. Saved from the past. Don't get me wrong guy's I don't know much about real estate. There is nothing wrong with survival and being simple. We have come a long way to find solutions to getting life right. Steve & Alix you do a great job to make your customers happy. Well done guy's love your work ethic's and comedy. keep them coming maybe some video's of you guys restoring some older buildings.🙂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Howard 🧱👍🏽

[@anthonyhoult152]

The mortar looks like it's got coke ash in from the days of town gas

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🧱👍🏽

[@mattsan70]

On a job like this with a party wall how does it work payment wise? do they both go halves?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Usually but on this job next door wouldn’t pay up and help 😒🧱👍🏽

[@mattsan70]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild sounds about right for neighbours from hell.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😬🧱👍🏽

[@kestutisbagusauskas8323]

Good to see you resorted to using WMD. Not weapons of Mass Destruction but Worthy Milwaukee Demolition 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🟥🟥😁😍🧱👍🏽

[@davidcort2857]

That's a brickies hand out of plumb, got to be six inches, lol

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Yup 👋🏾🙄👍🏽👍🏽🧱

[@jjfarrell9349]

Good job. If they'd put a foundation under it they could have got another couple of centuries out of that wall! Was that the old coal-ash mortar, or dyed sand and cement? Puzzling about when it was built - somewhere around 1900 perhaps?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

I’m guessing 50 s or 60s as the blocks were pre cast concrete 🤔🧱👍🏽

[@michaelwaite6725]

That wall was 2 plums out of plumb riddddicckulous

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Very 😆🧱👍🏽

[@chriscurtis6843]

who the hell built that wall Fred Flintstone

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆😆🧱👍🏽

[@eddjordan2399]

they used to build 80.000 thousand ton cathedral on soil.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆🧱👍🏽

[@SD43]

My Edwardian 6 bedroom 3 storey house is build on soil😂 no concrete in site

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It’s over rated 🤣🧱👍🏽

[@mickbroadbent6750]

good going lads ,,, alex dont tell peeps to grow up if im honest sometimes the sound is quiet n steve has a quiet yet calming voice great for reading e books etc

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆👍🏽🧱

[@BLAZERSEAMS]

Oh dear - a code in de dose........ Get well soon.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🤧🤒 All good now 🧱👍🏽

[@andywest3260]

Looks like an old coke and ash footing

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

No just soil 😫👍🏽🧱

[@andywest3260]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild never said it was Isaias it looks like it 😫

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@johnsutherland6322]

What a disgrace to build a wall that high with no footing but yous will soon make a difference lads

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

👌🏽😁👍🏽🧱

[@garywheeley5108]

7lb sledge hammer that wall would be down in 5 minutes.....

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It would , but then you spend twice as long cleaning up the 10 000 tiny bits 😫

[@bascomnextion5639]

Very likely it would have just fallen over with the first few blows maybe taken some of the house wall with it.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

👍🏽🧱

[@jackharrison2785]

your video is out of focus

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

We’ve had 13 . 5 million views and this is the first complaint about the focus . 😬 The cameras we have are auto focus 🎥🧱👍🏽

[@keithstarr8213]

It always goes out of focus after six double jack d×××××s for me.

[@paulwiffin2452]

Should have gone to specsavers

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@paulwiffin2452 🤓😏

[@sosome1]

would've add few rebarbs

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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