Secret Garage UPDATE #8 THE BIG QUESTIONS
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the host discusses the progress of his construction project, which includes a tunnel and a garage. He explains that while the weather has delayed some work, he's been busy with a side project in the barn and is preparing for Maker Central, an upcoming event. The host addresses several questions from viewers, including how to obtain samples of 'Colin fur tunnel dirt' available only at Maker Central, the reasoning behind low-placed sockets in the tunnel, and the use of black flex for electrical wiring. He also talks about plans for preserving a rock face within the construction, the potential use of a sump pump for water management, and the process of obtaining planning permission for his projects. The video includes a mention of a sponsor, AirUp, a water bottle that enhances the taste of water. The host shares his approach to project development, often building first and seeking permission later, a method he doesn't recommend but admits to employing. The video concludes with a teaser for a future update on the small project that has grown significantly and an invitation to meet at Maker Central.
Takeaways
- 🚧 The construction project is underway with aluminum tracking in place for a digger and a muckaway service ready to collect dirt.
- 🌧️ Weather delays have led to a shift in focus to a side project in the barn, which has unexpectedly grown in size.
- 🎉 Maker Central is an upcoming event where attendees can obtain samples of 'Colin fur tunnel dirt' if they use the provided ticket link.
- 🔌 The tunnel's low-lying sockets were a practical choice for convenience during construction, but future plans may alter their positioning.
- 🛠️ Colin has used black Flex for the ring main, which is not entirely correct in terms of specifications, but it's a temporary solution.
- 🏗️ The garage floor, currently 3/4 plywood, may be replaced with a more robust material if cars are to be driven on it.
- 💡 Ideas for preserving the rock face window include using glass and resin, but concerns about bubbles and heat are being considered.
- 💧 The suggestion of installing a sump pump has been acknowledged, and plans for its placement are being discussed.
- 🚗 The DeLorean model will be on display at Maker Central, and there's an idea to have multiple 1/10 scale DeLoreans made by various contributors.
- 🏡 The legality and permission process for the construction projects are discussed, highlighting the importance of planning permissions and council approvals.
- 🎨 The use of anti-corrosive paints and wax is being considered for the steel structures to prevent rust and maintain an aesthetic appeal.
Q & A
What is the current status of the construction project in the video?
-The construction project is ready for the next phase, with the aluminum tracking down and prepared for Tom to bring in his digger. A muckaway service is also scheduled to collect some dirt.
Why has there been a delay in the construction of more structures?
-The delay has been due to terrible weather conditions, which led the host to work on a side project in the barn instead.
What has happened to the side project in the barn?
-The side project in the barn has grown significantly and is almost finished, although it is not yet complete.
What is the issue with shipping rock and soil samples?
-The host is unable to ship rock and soil samples due to potential restrictions by postal and shipping companies, both domestically and internationally.
How can attendees of Maker Central obtain a sample of 'Colin fur tunnel dirt'?
-Attendees of Maker Central can obtain a sample of 'Colin fur tunnel dirt' by using the ticket link provided in the video description to indicate their interest, which will help the host determine the number of samples to prepare.
Why are the sockets in the tunnel placed about 150mm off the ground?
-The low placement of the sockets is to facilitate easy access while working inside the tunnel, allowing the host to operate machinery without having to move through the tunnel covered in sticky clay.
What is the current electrical setup in the tunnel and garage area?
-The current electrical setup uses black flex for the ring main, which is not ideal and is of a lower millimetric specification than recommended. The host plans to replace it with a more suitable 2.5mm black flex in the future.
What are the plans for the floor in the garage area?
-The current 3/4 plywood floor may be replaced with a 12mm floor topped with a 6mm checker plate if the garage is to support the weight of a car. There is also a possibility of using stainless steel checker plate to match the DeLorean.
How does the host plan to preserve the rock face window?
-The host is considering various methods, including using glass with resin backing, double-glazed units with ventilation, and potentially a heat lamp to prevent condensation.
What is the purpose of the sump pump in the new construction?
-The sump pump is intended to manage water in case of flooding. It will be placed in a deeper chamber and connected to a vent to pump water out of the underground space.
How did the host obtain permission for the construction projects?
-For the bunker, planning permission was obtained just before construction began. For the tunnel, it was built without permission and only addressed after the council became aware through a YouTube video. For the garage, the host decided to start construction without permission, which later led to a planning application that was approved with concerns addressed, such as tree roots and drainage.
Outlines
🏗️ Project Update and Weather Delays
The video begins with an update on the construction progress, which has been stalled due to poor weather. The aluminum tracking is set up, awaiting the arrival of a digger. A muckaway service is scheduled to collect dirt. The presenter has been working on a side project in the barn, which has expanded significantly. There's an upcoming event, Maker Central, which is keeping the presenter busy. The audience's questions are addressed, including a request for assistance in shipping rock samples, which the presenter is unable to do due to various restrictions.
📦 Shipping Issues and Maker Central Dirt Samples
The presenter is looking for advice on shipping rock samples and seeks help from those who work in postal or shipping services. They have jars and labels ready but are unsure about the logistics of shipping. The only place to obtain the rock samples will be at Maker Central, with a ticket link provided for those interested. The presenter discusses the low positioning of sockets in the tunnel for convenience during work and the plans for organizing cables and tools in the space.
🔌 Electrical Setup and Future Plans
The presenter talks about the electrical setup in the tunnel, using black flex which is not the correct choice in terms of safety standards. They explain that the current setup is temporary and that there are plans to have a dedicated electrical supply for the entire area, including the garage and the bunker. The presenter also discusses the use of a sump pump to prevent future flooding issues and the installation of ventilation systems for the car storage area.
🚗 Garage Floor and Car Access
The presenter addresses questions about the garage floor's suitability for supporting a car's weight and the method of car entry and exit. They mention potential solutions like using a thicker plywood or checker plate for reinforcement. The presenter also discusses the possibility of using a stainless steel checker plate to match the DeLorean car. There's a mention of a rock face window, and the presenter asks for suggestions on how to preserve it without causing condensation issues.
🌳 Tree Roots, Drainage, and Planning Permissions
The presenter discusses the process of obtaining planning permissions in the UK and the concerns raised by the council, particularly regarding tree roots and drainage. They explain that the garage construction has been approved recently, and the focus was on maintaining trees and proper drainage. The presenter also talks about the involvement of a structural engineer to ensure the construction's safety and shares various technical drawings related to the project.
🎥 Video Production and Engaging with the Audience
The presenter talks about the production of the video, including the inclusion of clips from various films for the audience to identify. They express gratitude for the positive reception of the model featured in the previous video and its effectiveness in helping viewers visualize the project. The presenter also mentions a small project that has expanded into a larger endeavor and hints at its completion in the coming weeks.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Maker Central
💡Hydraulic Pump
💡Black Flex Cable
💡AirUp Bottle
💡3/4 Plywood Floor
💡Rock Face Window
💡Sump Pump
💡1/10 Scale DeLorean
💡Planning Permission
💡Rust Converter Spray
💡Structural Engineer
Highlights
Colin discusses the progress of his construction project, mentioning the readiness of the aluminum tracking and the upcoming muckaway service.
Due to bad weather, Colin has been working on a side project in the barn, which has grown significantly.
Maker Central is coming up, and Colin has a lot going on before returning to the main construction site.
Colin addresses the challenge of shipping rock and soil samples, suggesting that they might only be available at Maker Central.
A ticket link is provided in the video description for those interested in obtaining Colin's dirt samples at Maker Central.
Colin explains the reasoning behind the low placement of sockets in the tunnel for convenience during construction work.
The use of black flex for the ring main is acknowledged by Colin, who admits it's not the most correct choice but justifies it within the context of the project.
Colin talks about the potential for a car to be driven on the 3/4 plywood floor and the possibility of reinforcing it if needed.
Concerns about the rock face window are discussed, with Colin considering different methods to preserve it without causing condensation issues.
The idea of using a sump pump is considered to prevent future flooding, with plans to integrate it into the car ramp area.
Colin thanks those who have offered to create 1/10 scale DeLoreans, suggesting a collective effort to have many models made.
The process of obtaining planning permission for the garage construction is detailed, including the concerns raised by the council and how they were addressed.
Colin shares his approach to dealing with planning permissions, emphasizing the risks of not obtaining them in advance.
The involvement of a structural engineer is highlighted to ensure the safety and proper construction of the project.
Colin provides an update on the small side project that has grown in scale and hints at its completion in the coming weeks.
The use of the AirUp water bottle is sponsored, with Colin discussing its benefits for making water consumption more enjoyable.
A call to action for viewers to comment on the video with their suggestions for the price of the dirt samples and their favorite moments.
Transcripts
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right Colin what's been going
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[Applause]
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on now I know this is not the video that
you want you want to see more out you
want to see more things constructed and
unfortunately that's not happened yet
but we are ready for it the aluminium
tracking is down on the top ready for
Tom to come and park his Digger across
there is a muckaway service which is
going to come and collect some of the
dirt for me very nice thank you very
much so everything is all ready for the
next part now I've not been down here
doing it of course because the weather
has been terrible I've gone off and I've
done a little side project off in the
barn however that small project has
grown to be absolutely usive it's not
quite finished yet but it's not far off
I've also got makeer Central coming up
this month so there's a lot going on
before we actually come back here but
things have happened which I can now
talk about which is also very good
you've got a lot of questions I've wrote
a lot of things down for me to answer so
well I better answer them then
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I okay first question I actually need
your assistance in everyone is asking
that they want to have some rock samples
but it appears I can't Ship Rock and
soil samples I certainly can't ship them
abroad I might not even be able to ship
them in the UK so I need your assistance
if you work for a postal or a shipping
company and you know where around this
please let me know because I've got
myself a load of jars I've had labels
printed up I've been hacking away at the
rockface and Colin fur tunnel dirt does
exist now if you want to get your hands
on one of these the only place you'll be
able to get it is at maker Central which
is n 18 for 19 Birmingham now I don't
know how many of these to make there is
a ticket Link in the description if you
are going and you do want some Colin
first dirt samples please use that link
and then I'll know how many jars to fill
up CU it's quite time consuming and if
only 50 people are going to want them I
don't want to fill up 200 and if only
you know if I fill 200 up and 400 of you
want them then I'll need to know I I
don't want anyone to come turn up want
them and they're not there and also I
don't want to spend hours doing
something that no one's interested in so
please use the link in the description
and I'll know roughly how many people
want them and then that is the only
place at the moment you will be able to
get Colin fur tunnel dirt but we're
working on
it getting ofed into something he just
didn't think he's going to be an
American Colin why are the sockets so
low okay now all the sockets throughout
the tunnel are about 150 M 6 in off the
ground which is quite low but there was
a reason for that while we was working
in there is that we actually plugged the
hydraulic pump which is the thing that
powered all the pen and all the winch
and everything that used to run on an
extension lead into the nearest socket
to where I was working run back to the
pump and back to the winch so I could
turn it on and off without having to get
out the hole walk across the tunnel
switch it off and then walk back again
because often I'd be covered in like
sticky clay I didn't want to spread that
throughout the tunnel so we had that
quite low down we didn't want cables
lashing up the wall so that's why they
were quite low in there now these ones
in here although they have continued
with the lowless these aren't actually
staying at this height no now if we have
a look under here there is a
massive excess of cable basically
there's going to be a workbench across
the whole length of this end bit there's
a company called boxo that make these
wonderful drawers and stuff that you put
your tools in they're going to come and
K it all out thank you very much so
obviously these need to go above those
workbench High you know there's no point
having them down here they'll be on
cupboard so that's no good so these ones
aren't staying but the other ones are
cuz I quite like them at that he if I'm
honest with you now another question
you've got is about the cable Colin have
you used black Flex for your ring made
yes I have and I know this is not
correct and it's 1 5 mil as well which
is even more incorrect should be 2 and a
half mil but just think guys bigger
picture this is not necessarily all
going to stay like this all these cables
are quite easily accessible you just
pull all these little sideboards out as
you saw when I dealt with the flood over
there so it can all be dealt with but
think of this bigger picture when this
whole thing is all finished not just the
garage but the tunnel right down to the
bunker it's going to have its own
electrical supply brought into it cuz at
the moment I've got a fuse board at the
shed entrance there's another fuse board
at the bunker entrance just up there
there I'm going to put a fresh one in
because my actual electric Main and
electric box come into the house is not
far up above that so I'm going to drop a
whole new cable in and then it can have
one fuse board to serve everything and
at that point various sprits of these
can be changed some of it I might leave
cuz let's face it nothing much is going
to be plugged into half of it a Hoover
at best this was perfectly enough for
that so but there's probably going to
want to be a kettle or something down
here a't there especially in the bunker
so we'll need something a bit more meaty
for that but I will keep it black though
I'll probably do 2 and 1/2 mil black cuz
I don't want to see gray cable coming up
the side into these boxes do they that
won't do no it might take a bit longer
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the questions
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Colin col if you're driving a car on
this is a 3/4 plywood floor really fit
for purpose well there's sort of two
answers to this question the first part
is that this bit might not ever have a
car on it at all the car left of course
is over there it will come down it will
get turn around on its turn table it
will go back up again it might never
drive off that now of course if you do
want to drive it off to bring it to the
side because of course this room is
perfectly big enough to have two cars in
it so you could fit two in here then
obviously it would need to support the
weight of a car now if I do end up doing
that what I might end up doing is taking
this FL floor up cuz this's his 18 mil
thick ply swap it for 12 and then put a
layer of 6 mil plate Checker plate over
the top of it and that will be solid
enough to hold the cut now there's also
o a garage floor company that's
interested in doing something I don't
know yet what I'm going to do because I
want to see what the final room looks
like obviously a dark floor a dark room
might all be a bit dark I might want to
do stainless steel Checker plate to
match the DeLorean who knows but there
are the options now this floor probably
is going to get ripped up because
there's that much damp and moisture
coming out even with the doo midify
running all the time it's still got a
bit muggy in here and it's got a bit
moldy in patches there was some carpet
down here which was never one of my
questions Colin why did you put carpet
on it was only an old carpet just to
kind of protect the floor from we did
the next bit but it kind of got a bit of
damp and it made the mold worse but once
the room is done and it is all complete
and we won't get the condensation
problem because everything will be
covered in concrete it won't matter then
the face of a five dice there they are
and
then so this rock face Window how
exactly are we going to do that okay we
need to discuss this cuz there are any
theories on how we are going to preserve
this as a rock vase now the most common
one seems to be put up some glass and
fill the back up with it with resin and
let it go off but of course I can see a
few issues with this you've got to get
rid of all the bubbles and also when
resin goes off it does emit a tremendous
amount of heat so is that going to crack
the glass if you use a bit of perspect
is that going to kind of mist it and
frost it up so Bubbles and heat is an
issue with the resin of course we could
have like a double glazed units sat in
front of it is it going to want
ventilation behind it and at the top so
does it have lowlevel ventilation coming
in to kind of vent past it and then high
level ventilation going up to Atmosphere
at the top I don't know is that going to
have any issues on the room with
bringing moisture in because obviously I
know from all this being exposed how
much moisture comes out of this rock vas
tries to get in the room so I don't
really want that to happen I don't want
there to be any connection between the
rock face and the room I'd like it to be
sealed off but of course there in lies
the problem with the condensation
potentially now I've not even uh kind of
discussed this with the structural
engineer yet because obviously if you're
going to leave a chucking chuffing gret
hole out the side of the wall then we've
got to have some sort of strength system
above it but I mean I'm sure we can deal
with that is if anything it'll just have
to be a little bit smaller but you know
we want it to be massive don't we want
to come around and of course it wants to
be lit up as well so it's going to have
to have a light behind it to light it up
now do we use that light
as part of the anti- condensation so is
that like like a heat lamp which keeps
the area around it is it a heat lamp so
the area behind the glass is kind of
kept warmer which stops IT
condensating cuz if it goes all the way
around if there's lamps underneath
lighting up that would help so there you
go that's kind of after I mentioned it
there was a lot of comments on this and
they are the top Solutions but if
anybody body else has any other
suggestions as how we can preserve this
rock face cuz the other one of course
was to just rebuild it like make an Al
Cove and rebuild it and then have
something in front of it but you're
never going to be able to rebuild that
cuz this is you can't cut it off as soon
as you crumble it away it never you
can't put it back what it is or else
it's just going to be a stone brick wall
anyway we've got a little time to think
about that because that's right over
there there's a lot of work going to
happen before we get to this problem but
I know you guys like thinking of these
things now if you want to see this model
I am taking it to make a central so you
can see firsthand how big everything's
going to
be can you fly Bobby it's not why don't
you fit a sum pump now it's not a bad
idea cuz obviously when all this flooded
and I have to lift it all up and it was
all water creeping underneath it that
was the comment I read the most you
should have a low point and a sun point
and somebody also pointed out I could
probably put moisture sensors like
underneath the floorboards if they
happens again I get an early warning
rather than me just lifting a bit up and
going oh there's a load of water or me
looking in here and going that's wet
that shouldn't be wet but if we look at
the model we can see where we could
potentially put one of these Sun Pumps
righty ho the next bit we dig is going
to be deeper because it has to take the
car ramp bit which comes down and sinks
into the floor so of course having a
deeper bit of floor is not a bad place
for a sump bump but ideally it would
want to sit in a little deeper chamber
than that because obviously there are
float switches and stuff on them so it's
probably not going to be triggered until
it's like 6 in deep this whole bit with
6 in of water in it is already a
catastrophe so we'll probably put a
little box somewhere underneath
underneath the car probably where it can
sit and then the pipe cuz obviously it
needs to pump it somewhere will go out
of a vent which is also going to sit
under there because obviously having
cars in an underground room fumes and
whatnot they'll all sync to the ground
they need to be able to be drawn out so
there's going to be a lowlevel vent
right underneath the car which will go
out to atmosphere there's a high level
vent up here which has already been put
in probably a fan in front of the
lowlevel one which is activated when the
car lift is activated so every time the
car comes down the fan will run for x
amount of time suck all the fumes out
and push it all out and then we can
probably have the exit pipe to a sump
pump going up there as well beautiful
it's kind of already in the
making yeah also thank you to everyone
that emailed about getting the one in 10
scale DeLorean I've had many offers if I
haven't got back to you I will do in
time there was quite a lot of you some
people are offering to 3D print them
some people that know of models various
other things there's even channels that
do model making so I think what we could
do would be good fun is to get everyone
that's offered one in some sort to do it
and then we'll have loads of them and
we'll just have a pile of one in 10
scale DeLorean everywhere that would be
awesome hey Christmas tree now I noticed
there was still a few comments asking
Colin you got solid roof how do you get
the car in and out where's the car come
down just remember guys
the car doesn't come down here on the
model I am stood here and the car comes
down over there there is more to be dug
out yep now the one thing I like about
you guys is you don't miss
anything dear and you notice stuff now
when I was putting this rebar in I was
at pains to say it couldn't touch any of
the steel work because you want it to be
completely isolated from any
electrolytic corrosion but of course
some of you pointed out and you've got
this mesh around here which you stabbed