Maintaining and Reusing Materials

As we begin our building project, one of the key decisions was to maintain as much of the old materials as possible. This approach not only helps reduce waste but also preserves the character and history of the building. The old tiles on the roof were a particular point of interest, with two-thirds of them being saved due to their beauty and historical significance. To ensure that we could match these tiles in the future, we made arrangements for the roofer to save as many of them as possible during the demolition process.

Onsite Parking Challenges

One of the biggest challenges we face on this project is finding sufficient parking space for our team's vans and equipment. With so much activity taking place on site, it can be difficult to find a convenient location for the vehicles. To mitigate this issue, we have had to get creative with our parking arrangements, which has required some significant planning and coordination.

Barn Tour and Progress Update

I'd like to give you a tour of the barn and show you the progress that's been made so far. As you can see, there's been a lot of activity on site in recent days, with many important meetings taking place to discuss various aspects of the project. One of the first tasks we tackled was the damp proofing process, which involves applying a specialized membrane to prevent moisture ingress into the building.

Blackjack Damp Proofing

The damp proofing process is an essential part of ensuring that our building remains dry and structurally sound. To achieve this, we've been using a specialized product called Black Jack, which is applied to the walls and underlayments to create a barrier against moisture. As you can see in the image, this process has created a clear void between the wall and the damp proof membrane, which will help prevent any water damage or decay.

Challenges with Retaining Walls

One of the most significant challenges we face on this project is dealing with the retaining walls that hold back the hillside. These walls are crucial in preventing soil erosion and maintaining the structural integrity of the building, but they also present a unique challenge due to their complex design and construction. By applying the damp proof membrane to these walls, we're taking steps to prevent moisture ingress and ensure that the building remains stable and secure.

Steel Work and Structural Elements

With the damp proofing complete, our next priority is to finalize the steel work and structural elements for the building. This involves working out the precise locations of the beams, columns, and other supporting structures, which requires careful planning and coordination with our team. We're also making decisions about the front façade of the building, which presents a unique challenge due to the irregular design and layout of the old barn.

The Spirit Levels Challenge

One of the most significant challenges we face on this project is dealing with the spirit levels that were used in the original construction of the barn. These levels are no longer available, which means we need to rely on other methods to ensure accuracy and precision in our work. This has proven to be a challenge, but one that we're determined to overcome through careful planning and attention to detail.

Time-Lapse Camera Update

I'm excited to announce that we've set up a time-lapse camera to capture the progress of this project over time. This will allow us to create a unique visual record of our journey, which I hope will be engaging for our viewers. We'll be monitoring the camera regularly and sharing updates on social media, so be sure to follow along for the latest developments.

Final Thoughts

As we continue with this building project, I want to emphasize the importance of careful planning, attention to detail, and a commitment to preserving the character and history of the old barn. By working together as a team and overcoming the challenges that come our way, we can create something truly special. If you enjoy following along on this journey, please consider subscribing to my channel for more content and updates. And don't forget to leave your comments below with any suggestions or ideas you might have – I'd love to hear from you!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh boy we've had quite a lot of wood delivered yeah and the Lorry that bought this in was huge so that was a little bit emotional but that means lots of stuff is about to happen hey guys and welcome to petrop ped and welcome to episode two of my dream garage build much to discuss in this episode and things really kick off this week lots of very scary things going to happen like the roof being taken off now it's a pretty good Vantage Point up here to see the building site but first up I just wanted to say a massive thank you to the hugely positive reaction to the first episode honestly I I get used to putting videos up and there's always there's always a bunch of negative stuff in the comments but that video was one of the few examples where almost everything was positive so a massive thank you to that a huge amount of Interest I really didn't expect people to be so interested but there's loads to discuss and I wanted to pick up on a few points from the first video a few questions people had asked that I'm sure we'll answer as we go through the build um but also this video I'm probably going to film over a few days maybe a week or two to capture big things I'm not going to do a video every week but when big things happen I want to try and bring you on board and explain the thinking and explain the process because by the sounds of it many of you are doing similar things but the first thing is I had an excellent suggestion from a few of you I had half thought about doing it but I wasn't sure how but then there were a few suggestions that I should do a time lapse of the build so I did a bit of research got onto Amazon and bought myself a time-lapse camera and here it is now you can do time-lapse with lots of things you can use GoPro actually but this is a camera I found on Amazon it's made for uh building sites actually it's completely weatherproof and I've set it up here on the corner of the house it has a really nice view unfortunately I wish i' thought about it before because I would have loved to have had time lapse of the scaffolding going up and the tiles coming off the roof but nothing major structurally has happened and this week the roof comes off which should be a really interesting process so I've set it up there it's basically set to record a still image every 5 minutes um and it's only recording between 8 to 5: during the week Monday to Friday so it's just recording when the guys are on site and then the output of that is uh a video file that I can show you right at the end of the build it's running on four uh AA batteries and the battery life depends on how often you get the camera to take a Ste but setup as it is the battery life is about 120 days so that should be should be ample the only challenge with time lapse of course is it's not until the end of the project you find out whether or not what you've done is any good because um it only arrived today today building starts again tomorrow I haven't had chance to run a trial but I'm hoping all the settings I've done are okay one of the things you'll spot on site we've had lots and lots of materials delivered now we got loads of Timber on site that's some plaster board all of that is basically roof um we've even got our own onsite thunderbox excellent so since the last video I think in the last video all I'd had done is the tiles removed um and then we could kind of see the Interior Space the really exciting thing that's happened since then is we've marked out the downstairs so let me just spin the camera around and we've now got a course of bricks running where all of the various stud walls are going to be inside and we've removed uh the Big Shed that was in the corner so you get a much better feel for the size of the space and I think that's my challenge at the moment you get Architects drawings done up and even though I've got um I actually got a an a level in engineering drawing so I can look at plans and get my head around them but it's still quite difficult to work out exactly what things are going to look like now let me uh address a couple of the suggestions so far so in this third Bay this is going to be the entrance into the building and we're going to have a little kitchenet and then the staircase is basically going to go up there up to the second floor we're going to have a wine rack and so on so many people said put the kitchenet upstairs have three bays in the garage and I just wanted to kind of cover that off really um I totally get that because uh you're all car car guys so you're wanting as much garage space as possible um the two challenges I've got is this Bay here we would still need to have stairs to go upstairs and that would mean it would be quite small and I'm not quite sure where they would go and look nice and also although I've got a couple of cars a lot of people said put lifts in as well the challenge with the lift unless the thought we did have is if you didn't do the mezzanine in this Bay and you could have a pillar lift in here to stack two cars I'm not a mechanic um I don't ever have reason to put a car on a lift if a car needs that much work I take it to a garage and get them to do it so I I get that some of you may well put three bays in or put some lift in for us for our requirements a double garage is perfect and we really want that little kitchenet area um we do have restrictions in terms of planning this can't be a habitable building so we can't put a full-blown kitchen and make it into an Airbnb that simply isn't possible I've got the kitchen downstairs it's not really a kitchen it's a sink and a place to put a kettle so that when I'm working from here I can pop downstairs and make myself a brew and then the main thing that will be some storage in a wine Celler and stuff so that's what that building's for let me spin the camera around again and we can see that now we've got double courses of bricks so you can kind of see the area so that would be I'm going to call it the kitchen area and then at the back here this is going to be a garden tool store where I can keep things like you know all of my various gardening equipment um maybe things like roof box I am a bit concerned about some of the bigger items I've got like a roof box and my bike box but you can see that quite nicely and then over here we've got uh an area this is going to be a lockable bike store again uh a couple of ebikes and then I might have some kind of bike back across that far endend wall and hang the bikes on their front wheel and it may well be that I have some bikes mounted on the walls my nicer ones so that that's uh that's nice to kind of see uh the layout that's for sure next thing I wanted to just not address but chat through quite a few comments about the character of the building especially these walls a few people have suggested either are you keeping the walls to keep the character if you're not what kind of damp treatment are you going to put on them now I'll show this in detail when we're doing it but um we don't want to keep these walls we need to put some damp proofing damp treatment on them so they probably wouldn't look too much like that anyway this Barn has been here a very long time and there's not a huge amount of water Ingress that we can see through them but we've had a chat with building control with the architect and we're going we're going belt and braces we're going to do a two-phase damp proofing on the walls they're going to get a sprayable damp proof treatment and then a membrane sheet that goes over them as well and I'll try and get that on camera and then they will be covered up by uh plaster board so that I can just have white clean walls in here and I know there's an element that will um be hiding some of the character of The Barn downstairs but upstairs when these major beams here when they get removed we are keeping those and trying to reuse as much of that as possible and we're going to try and have as much um exposed Beam work as possible in the barn and and for for us it's really really important to keep as much of the original character of this building as we can because it's it's so cool and so beautiful although it's beautiful in a kind of rugged rustic way we want it to be beautiful in an architectural way with all of that character as well so so that that's it so I will do a bit more when we actually doing The Damp proofing I'll I'll try and get that on camera maybe talk to the guys that are doing the work for us but yeah we had a really a good meeting with building control on site last week and talk through what we were going to do with the two treatments we are doing we could do one or the other and we've decided to do both just to make doubly sure that we don't get any damp problems because while the walls are exposed this is our opportunity to sort those future damp problems out by doing it right the first time it may well cost a few few extra pounds a few more hundreds of pounds but it will be well worth doing that's for sure so next big job and it's a job we didn't necessarily think we were going to have to do when we did the drawings basically what we're doing here is a building inside a building the mezzanine will be supported on a steel framework the roof will be supported by that steel framework and effectively the walls will hang off it so we'll we'll have the outside of the barn but we're really building a building in a building and we did think originally we could do that without having to remove the roof um but there's a couple of reasons why we're needing to do that first up um just in terms of access of building the steel frame it makes it easier if the roof's not there but also the the roof joists and the sizes of those joists isn't the size that we need to fulfill modern day um kind of insulation requirements so it's just an easier process to take the roof off and put another one on so yes um and we've been joined by the pups so yeah so this roof is removed uh this week or we start anyway so we'll take the roof off and then um this is the new roof just here so we are going to try and maintain or keep as much of the old materials as we can you can see here we've taken off all of the old tiles cuz they're beautiful old tiles and I think we've managed talking to the roofers I think they managed to save about 2/3 of the original tiles um and then we've got matching tiles when we when we have to reinstate the roof and put the tiles back on uh but yeah we'll we'll um we'll certainly uh miss that roof that's coming off this week now it's 2 days later but one of the big challenges with this building project is onsite parking we got lots and lots of Vans but so much has happened just yesterday and it's all to do with the damp proofing so let me wander you into the barn and show you the progress that has taken place I was lots of the guys on site we just been having lots of important meetings trying to dis decide some stuff but I want to show you a couple of things I won't keep the the boys are over there look they're over there they're looking for their Equity fees um so first up this is the first bit of damping this is Steve who's painting this stuff on this is called Black Jack and it looks disgusting looks like tar basically so that's the first stage of The Damp proofing and we can kind of see it on here um but then on top of that and we can see these frames this is a damp proof membrane on these frames so that straight away you can kind of see and there is a void between uh the wall and the membrane so that you know this I've been away a day and massive things are happening we can kind of see and we've got the um damp proofing all the way along that wall and then this wall there because of the way the landfalls so cuz it's noisy in here let me walk you around the back cuz I think you might be able to see I've still got all of my Timber you'll be able to see uh the the challenge we got with with the damp proofing and why it's so important cuz if we walk around the back if you hadn't tuned into the first episode you might not quite realize it but I'm now up onto the top of the garden if I do this so you look down onto the site and you can see that the the ground level to the side of the building is really really high so that left hand wall and the back wall are basically retaining walls holding back all of this hill so that's why that damp proofing is so important because if we look at the levels at the back of the building you can kind of see that's pretty much um there's only about a foot or so until the bottom of the roof and that's why damp proofing is so so important getting some love from the petrol pup just there so there we go um a really interesting one so Blackjack first on the walls and then that membrane should help us um well hopefully completely prevent any moisture Ingress or damp Ingress into the building but it happened so fast I was away yesterday excuse me I was away yesterday in Paris for a day and came back and Trace was like there's a lot of work been done already so yeah so that that should be done today so that's all the damp proofing in place and then the guys at the moment what they're doing is taking the drawings and just working out where all the various structural elements the steel work where that's going to go we got some decisions to be made about the front of the faas of the building the biggest challenge they've got because we're effectively building a building in a building is I don't think when they built that Barn Spirit levels existed there's not a straight line a level line or a 990 de angle in that building it's a nightmare I feel really sorry for them you know you can kind of see the the way that the old building was done is um is uh challenging to say the least but there you go there's the latest update to my dream garage build exciting times I'm really hoping that the time-lapse camera set up is working I'm going to check that a bit later but yeah very very exciting now I'm going to do the most important thing whenever you've got building taking place I'm going to make the board always a brew but put in the comments below any any suggestions or comments or things you might like me to try and include in the build but I hope you enjoyed that as much as I do honestly this build process is so so exciting uh but if you enjoy that give me a thumbs up comments below always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to peted for plenty more content to come and I shall see you on the next video you take care guys drive safe heoh boy we've had quite a lot of wood delivered yeah and the Lorry that bought this in was huge so that was a little bit emotional but that means lots of stuff is about to happen hey guys and welcome to petrop ped and welcome to episode two of my dream garage build much to discuss in this episode and things really kick off this week lots of very scary things going to happen like the roof being taken off now it's a pretty good Vantage Point up here to see the building site but first up I just wanted to say a massive thank you to the hugely positive reaction to the first episode honestly I I get used to putting videos up and there's always there's always a bunch of negative stuff in the comments but that video was one of the few examples where almost everything was positive so a massive thank you to that a huge amount of Interest I really didn't expect people to be so interested but there's loads to discuss and I wanted to pick up on a few points from the first video a few questions people had asked that I'm sure we'll answer as we go through the build um but also this video I'm probably going to film over a few days maybe a week or two to capture big things I'm not going to do a video every week but when big things happen I want to try and bring you on board and explain the thinking and explain the process because by the sounds of it many of you are doing similar things but the first thing is I had an excellent suggestion from a few of you I had half thought about doing it but I wasn't sure how but then there were a few suggestions that I should do a time lapse of the build so I did a bit of research got onto Amazon and bought myself a time-lapse camera and here it is now you can do time-lapse with lots of things you can use GoPro actually but this is a camera I found on Amazon it's made for uh building sites actually it's completely weatherproof and I've set it up here on the corner of the house it has a really nice view unfortunately I wish i' thought about it before because I would have loved to have had time lapse of the scaffolding going up and the tiles coming off the roof but nothing major structurally has happened and this week the roof comes off which should be a really interesting process so I've set it up there it's basically set to record a still image every 5 minutes um and it's only recording between 8 to 5: during the week Monday to Friday so it's just recording when the guys are on site and then the output of that is uh a video file that I can show you right at the end of the build it's running on four uh AA batteries and the battery life depends on how often you get the camera to take a Ste but setup as it is the battery life is about 120 days so that should be should be ample the only challenge with time lapse of course is it's not until the end of the project you find out whether or not what you've done is any good because um it only arrived today today building starts again tomorrow I haven't had chance to run a trial but I'm hoping all the settings I've done are okay one of the things you'll spot on site we've had lots and lots of materials delivered now we got loads of Timber on site that's some plaster board all of that is basically roof um we've even got our own onsite thunderbox excellent so since the last video I think in the last video all I'd had done is the tiles removed um and then we could kind of see the Interior Space the really exciting thing that's happened since then is we've marked out the downstairs so let me just spin the camera around and we've now got a course of bricks running where all of the various stud walls are going to be inside and we've removed uh the Big Shed that was in the corner so you get a much better feel for the size of the space and I think that's my challenge at the moment you get Architects drawings done up and even though I've got um I actually got a an a level in engineering drawing so I can look at plans and get my head around them but it's still quite difficult to work out exactly what things are going to look like now let me uh address a couple of the suggestions so far so in this third Bay this is going to be the entrance into the building and we're going to have a little kitchenet and then the staircase is basically going to go up there up to the second floor we're going to have a wine rack and so on so many people said put the kitchenet upstairs have three bays in the garage and I just wanted to kind of cover that off really um I totally get that because uh you're all car car guys so you're wanting as much garage space as possible um the two challenges I've got is this Bay here we would still need to have stairs to go upstairs and that would mean it would be quite small and I'm not quite sure where they would go and look nice and also although I've got a couple of cars a lot of people said put lifts in as well the challenge with the lift unless the thought we did have is if you didn't do the mezzanine in this Bay and you could have a pillar lift in here to stack two cars I'm not a mechanic um I don't ever have reason to put a car on a lift if a car needs that much work I take it to a garage and get them to do it so I I get that some of you may well put three bays in or put some lift in for us for our requirements a double garage is perfect and we really want that little kitchenet area um we do have restrictions in terms of planning this can't be a habitable building so we can't put a full-blown kitchen and make it into an Airbnb that simply isn't possible I've got the kitchen downstairs it's not really a kitchen it's a sink and a place to put a kettle so that when I'm working from here I can pop downstairs and make myself a brew and then the main thing that will be some storage in a wine Celler and stuff so that's what that building's for let me spin the camera around again and we can see that now we've got double courses of bricks so you can kind of see the area so that would be I'm going to call it the kitchen area and then at the back here this is going to be a garden tool store where I can keep things like you know all of my various gardening equipment um maybe things like roof box I am a bit concerned about some of the bigger items I've got like a roof box and my bike box but you can see that quite nicely and then over here we've got uh an area this is going to be a lockable bike store again uh a couple of ebikes and then I might have some kind of bike back across that far endend wall and hang the bikes on their front wheel and it may well be that I have some bikes mounted on the walls my nicer ones so that that's uh that's nice to kind of see uh the layout that's for sure next thing I wanted to just not address but chat through quite a few comments about the character of the building especially these walls a few people have suggested either are you keeping the walls to keep the character if you're not what kind of damp treatment are you going to put on them now I'll show this in detail when we're doing it but um we don't want to keep these walls we need to put some damp proofing damp treatment on them so they probably wouldn't look too much like that anyway this Barn has been here a very long time and there's not a huge amount of water Ingress that we can see through them but we've had a chat with building control with the architect and we're going we're going belt and braces we're going to do a two-phase damp proofing on the walls they're going to get a sprayable damp proof treatment and then a membrane sheet that goes over them as well and I'll try and get that on camera and then they will be covered up by uh plaster board so that I can just have white clean walls in here and I know there's an element that will um be hiding some of the character of The Barn downstairs but upstairs when these major beams here when they get removed we are keeping those and trying to reuse as much of that as possible and we're going to try and have as much um exposed Beam work as possible in the barn and and for for us it's really really important to keep as much of the original character of this building as we can because it's it's so cool and so beautiful although it's beautiful in a kind of rugged rustic way we want it to be beautiful in an architectural way with all of that character as well so so that that's it so I will do a bit more when we actually doing The Damp proofing I'll I'll try and get that on camera maybe talk to the guys that are doing the work for us but yeah we had a really a good meeting with building control on site last week and talk through what we were going to do with the two treatments we are doing we could do one or the other and we've decided to do both just to make doubly sure that we don't get any damp problems because while the walls are exposed this is our opportunity to sort those future damp problems out by doing it right the first time it may well cost a few few extra pounds a few more hundreds of pounds but it will be well worth doing that's for sure so next big job and it's a job we didn't necessarily think we were going to have to do when we did the drawings basically what we're doing here is a building inside a building the mezzanine will be supported on a steel framework the roof will be supported by that steel framework and effectively the walls will hang off it so we'll we'll have the outside of the barn but we're really building a building in a building and we did think originally we could do that without having to remove the roof um but there's a couple of reasons why we're needing to do that first up um just in terms of access of building the steel frame it makes it easier if the roof's not there but also the the roof joists and the sizes of those joists isn't the size that we need to fulfill modern day um kind of insulation requirements so it's just an easier process to take the roof off and put another one on so yes um and we've been joined by the pups so yeah so this roof is removed uh this week or we start anyway so we'll take the roof off and then um this is the new roof just here so we are going to try and maintain or keep as much of the old materials as we can you can see here we've taken off all of the old tiles cuz they're beautiful old tiles and I think we've managed talking to the roofers I think they managed to save about 2/3 of the original tiles um and then we've got matching tiles when we when we have to reinstate the roof and put the tiles back on uh but yeah we'll we'll um we'll certainly uh miss that roof that's coming off this week now it's 2 days later but one of the big challenges with this building project is onsite parking we got lots and lots of Vans but so much has happened just yesterday and it's all to do with the damp proofing so let me wander you into the barn and show you the progress that has taken place I was lots of the guys on site we just been having lots of important meetings trying to dis decide some stuff but I want to show you a couple of things I won't keep the the boys are over there look they're over there they're looking for their Equity fees um so first up this is the first bit of damping this is Steve who's painting this stuff on this is called Black Jack and it looks disgusting looks like tar basically so that's the first stage of The Damp proofing and we can kind of see it on here um but then on top of that and we can see these frames this is a damp proof membrane on these frames so that straight away you can kind of see and there is a void between uh the wall and the membrane so that you know this I've been away a day and massive things are happening we can kind of see and we've got the um damp proofing all the way along that wall and then this wall there because of the way the landfalls so cuz it's noisy in here let me walk you around the back cuz I think you might be able to see I've still got all of my Timber you'll be able to see uh the the challenge we got with with the damp proofing and why it's so important cuz if we walk around the back if you hadn't tuned into the first episode you might not quite realize it but I'm now up onto the top of the garden if I do this so you look down onto the site and you can see that the the ground level to the side of the building is really really high so that left hand wall and the back wall are basically retaining walls holding back all of this hill so that's why that damp proofing is so important because if we look at the levels at the back of the building you can kind of see that's pretty much um there's only about a foot or so until the bottom of the roof and that's why damp proofing is so so important getting some love from the petrol pup just there so there we go um a really interesting one so Blackjack first on the walls and then that membrane should help us um well hopefully completely prevent any moisture Ingress or damp Ingress into the building but it happened so fast I was away yesterday excuse me I was away yesterday in Paris for a day and came back and Trace was like there's a lot of work been done already so yeah so that that should be done today so that's all the damp proofing in place and then the guys at the moment what they're doing is taking the drawings and just working out where all the various structural elements the steel work where that's going to go we got some decisions to be made about the front of the faas of the building the biggest challenge they've got because we're effectively building a building in a building is I don't think when they built that Barn Spirit levels existed there's not a straight line a level line or a 990 de angle in that building it's a nightmare I feel really sorry for them you know you can kind of see the the way that the old building was done is um is uh challenging to say the least but there you go there's the latest update to my dream garage build exciting times I'm really hoping that the time-lapse camera set up is working I'm going to check that a bit later but yeah very very exciting now I'm going to do the most important thing whenever you've got building taking place I'm going to make the board always a brew but put in the comments below any any suggestions or comments or things you might like me to try and include in the build but I hope you enjoyed that as much as I do honestly this build process is so so exciting uh but if you enjoy that give me a thumbs up comments below always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to peted for plenty more content to come and I shall see you on the next video you take care guys drive safe he\n"