Simon
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 08:16 PM |
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Digging footings :D
Folks,
Hoping to start digging the footings for the garage/porch extension in the next month.
There is gas/water/electric and probably phone lines down there.
Have any of you got any hints and tips.
Obviously will have to cut through driveway with an angle grinder  then start digging at the garage wall nearest to the gas pipe in the existing
garage to locate and work outwards. I know roughly where the water pipe is.
May hire a mini digger/driver
Have around 14m run to dig 
Cheers all
ATB
Simon
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ali f27
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 08:30 PM |
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hi do you know anybody in the construction industry who can run a cat over the site if you have to ask whats a cat get sombody to dig the footings
make sure they have ins
Cheers Ali
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ashg
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 08:59 PM |
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yep its cheaper to pay a man and digger to come in for one day rather than hire a digger all weekend do all the work yourself.
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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perksy
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 09:29 PM |
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The services won't be dug as deep as you think they'll be, so tred careful
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AvonJas
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 09:41 PM |
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Our gas supply was less than 1' deep ,digger caught it when we did our drive . Use a shovel near the services to find them
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MP3C
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| posted on 21/3/14 at 10:18 PM |
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If you know where roughly they are then use a spade when you get near them like everybody has suggested. Once found just carry on as normal. Cutting
through the concrete shouldn't pose a problem unless it has been laid incorrectly but usually it is about 150mm of concrete and 150mm of
hardcore so you should be fine with a normal stihl saw and a good old hammer
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strikerbird
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| posted on 22/3/14 at 07:27 AM |
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I'd pay someone else to do it. My old mans dug miles of footing over the years and he still managed to burst a water pipe at our house, and he
did that with a spade because he new he was close
Water pipe repairs are simple, electric and gas are a bit more serious.
I have my own mini digger for small jobs, but still get my dad to drive it, it takes half the time with someone who knows what they are doing.
Good luck with the build.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 22/3/14 at 08:26 AM |
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Problem is cats are blind to the plastic most services come in now. The other day the gas guys told me they ran out of lead marker pipe so they went
back to using just plastic.... so the genny won't work.
Test dig to said service and then join up holes. Enjoy I have the joy of fixing services that others have damaged on a weekly call out. Diggers go
through the stuff no problem ...... I even did it in my own drive to test what i was told a thousand times.
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designer
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| posted on 22/3/14 at 08:33 AM |
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Pay someone else to do it.
Takes away all the risk of damage to services.
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Simon
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| posted on 22/3/14 at 08:42 AM |
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I got in touch with the gas people as I'd heard they had maps and was told no, start where the gas pipe comes out of the ground and work
away.
Have put a post on mybuilder.com for a quote and will go that way if cheap enough
Cheers
ATB
Simon
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steve m
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| posted on 22/3/14 at 09:19 AM |
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Some of the services do not know were there own supply pipes are
as my house built in 1976 plus the other 5 on my side of the street are the only ones in our area who do not have water meters fitted, as the water
board can not find the outside supply box/taps
we have had numerous vehicles and personel turn up to establish were our connections are, and still they don't know
so don't rely on anything you have been told, as I doubt the pipe work will be were they think it is
steve
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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