Underground Bunker Build Ep49

[@poppalee]

I got COVID.... so I binged all the bunker episodes. It was awesome. I am all caught up. You have the same crafting ethos and style as my granddad. Even the pauses while double check your work and prepare fro the next step. Keep on going!

[@That1ufo]

If you drill and fill like you do for the ladder all the way around every 150mm you could widen it 100m. Mark out and do every 3rd hole and give time to cure obviously.

[@dimitar4y]

6:04 The greatest respect mankind can show to its intellect and to the nature they exploit, is to never throw anything away, and make good use of it until it's nothing but dust, and use that then also.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@dimitar4y wow - I love that!

[@crazygeorgelincoln]

Hey lex . Weather in London has been rather pleasant, no Victorian smog lol. Sciatica didn't appear in the video I hope it was absent for you also. I reckon that fence will become a trusty companion for as long as it's able. Will the wood be concrete at some point in the future. Looking forward to some technical concrete kung fu.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

The sciatica is just a background annoyance now thankfully. The floor of the shaft will be gravel in its finished state since it will be the lowest point in the bunker and will house the pumps etc. The side tunnel entrance will branch off about 500mm above this.

[@crazygeorgelincoln]

@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild was wondering about the walls of the shaft.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@crazygeorgelincoln I will probably concrete them later on - when the shaft is complete.

[@jagboy69]

Lex you have come along way since last october! Going straight down is hard work! Your clay is perfectly miserable stuff and the never ending water is always a challenge. I know you want to hit 7meters down, but I was curious if you are going to expand out sideways once you reach the bottom? Next question I have is are you planning on having to pump water forever? Hopefully you have seen some of the water proofing membranes I've experimented with that bonds to the back of concrete. The all white stuff is very cheap from china, but I had no luck with them dealing with me. Today I have 2 rolls of the p20 which will go down right before I pour concrete. For now, I've been excavating a section for the largest sump you have ever seen. I'm using 15" dual wall black pipe and the plan is for it to die in the hole as I won't be able to access it. It's only job is to hover the water level in 12" of gravel below my floor which will be 12" thick concrete. It took a lot of buoyancy calculations to come up with that one. Yikes! Keep digging buddy! Oh, how wide is your bunker shaft?

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@jagboy69 yes I most definitely plan on going sideways once I have the shaft finished. Regarding the water, I will continue trying to stop it getting in but otherwise I will just pump it out. Been thinking of maybe going deeper and having the bottom part of the shaft as water storage. I am hoping that water won't be making it into the side tunnel.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@jagboy69 I hope your membrane system works out. 12" of concrete should be very strong! My bunker shaft is roughly a square yard.

[@jagboy69]

@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild So the shaft alone will be roughly 9yards of material. That's not too bad. I've been using little giant 11gal farm totes. I can easily load over 100lbs in each bucket. I lost count how many I've filled up. Too many!! My hole is around 47yards, all dug by hand and hauled away in a pickup.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@jagboy69 47 yards is a lot. I calculate my main room will need about 90 yards removed which seems ridiculous at my current pace LOL

[@jagboy69]

@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild You can do it. This work my seem tiring, but it's actually good for your health. I see you living a long time! I recently turned 50 and wanted a challenge. Oh I got it that's for sure! lol

[@SubterraneanRalph]

It's slow work hey. I got a bit done this afternoon but no video.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@SubterraneanRalph slow and steady wins the race 😀 looking forward to seeing your progress mate

[@dimitar4y]

Take it off the wall? Easy. Pick it up to put in a bucket? Really messy and annoying, but also doable. Then you have to drag the heavy bucket, hard, and then you gotta wonder where you get rid of it, Impossible. Not exactly what you imagine when you think about digging yourself a bunker, but...

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@dimitar4y I can accommodate about another 20 cubic metres of clay on my section . . . Then it becomes a problem that I am working on a solution for :-)

[@dimitar4y]

@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild It makes you have a newfound appreciation for negative space though. You take all this free space around you for granted, and once you have to DIG IT OUT to get it, and then see it all piled up somewhere.. You start to realize.

[@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild]

@@dimitar4y it makes me appreciate how hard miners work that's for sure!

[@poppalee]

We had an basement egress window put in. We didn't find out until after that the fill from 3'x'3x6' hole was our problem... We turned it into a 2ft high 8'x8' raised garden bed. Almost nothing grows in it because it's losey dirt but it looks better than a pile in my drive.