Untouched for over 100 years; the coach house floor is putting up a fight.

Añadido: 2026-05-23

[00:00:25]This old wall is coming out. And once we've got that taken out, it means we can lift up all the beautiful blue sets, put them to one side, and then see what we're working with because we need to dig down deep enough so that we can get some insulation down, a load of underlo heating pipes, rebar reinforcement, and then put a floor down that is hopefully super sweepable.

[00:00:52]HEAT.

[00:01:09]HEAT.

[00:01:22]I think we're doing the right thing here by uh taking this out cuz this is all really quite damp. I mean, it smells really damp and it's uh you you can just see it looks it compared to that and it's had the opportunity to dry out, but it's surrounded by vapor impermeable materials. These sets, nothing's getting through them. And this is concrete, but it's fairly vapor and permeable.

[00:01:49]This is my compressor.

[00:01:52]It's an absolute beast.

[00:02:09]These I don't know what they're still trying with.

[00:02:15]It's bloody.

[00:02:21]Oh my god.

[00:02:30]What the hell?

[00:02:44]Good lord.

[00:02:49]Thank God for that. This is not going to be easy. What the hell are they stuck together with?

[00:02:57]Never seen anything like it.

[00:03:07]Okay, I'm going to continue getting this lot lifted up and they're going to be a bit of a chew on to get up. So, it's going to take a bit of time.

[00:03:17]Originally, I didn't want to lift up the floor because it's part of the building.

[00:03:22]And a few people had the good idea of putting a clear coating over the top of it, but sadly an epoxy would end up burning if I was welding in there or grinding or using a gas axe. So, it's going to have to be something more durable. The other thing is whilst we're pratting around with this floor, it makes total sense to insulate it, put underfloor heating, and future proof it in case it ever gets used for something else in there. But for the time being, for the majority of this floor space is going to be used as a garage. And the other part is going to be the hallway with a stairwell in it.

[00:04:34]somethingual people relate.

[00:04:47]I absolutely adore these sets and I appreciate that a digger would have made much lighter work of lifting them up, but I wanted to minimize breakages as much as possible because I would like to reuse them. If possible, if I got the depth, I'm going to put them into the the downstairs hallway at this end of the room and then I'll keep them for maybe future projects. And ideally, I'd like to use them inside really. So, yeah, they're definitely not going anywhere, and I don't have got no desire to sell them at all.

[00:05:24]I need I need more space. There's all this stuff in the way. So, I'm going to have to relocate.

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[00:06:21]We are back to it again in here.

[00:06:25]So, we just got the rest of this to do to get lifted up. Yeah, they're all they're all quite heavy, actually.

[00:06:30]>> And uh you you're constantly doing doing that, so it's good to feel a little bit recharged.

[00:06:51]Unfortunately, this cast iron drain hasn't fared too well with being lifted up. It's just cracked it when I've been lifting up the the uh the sets. And I'm hoping that I can lift this piece up without breaking it. So, I could use it as a planter if possible.

[00:07:11]It should be a nice nice lump under there. Something else which is worth noting is this what the cast iron drains been set into. It's it's got to be cementious and I didn't even realize I used cement in the 1800s but it's it looks very very hard and like I can't see any bits of lime in it. Oh, maybe there's a bit of lime there actually.

[00:07:36]Unless they've made it hydraulic with something and that's I mean that's really hard.

[00:07:43]It looks like cement, too.

[00:07:48]>> Yeah, it really does.

[00:07:50]>> Interesting.

[00:07:51]>> Yeah, it's old old walls, I bet. I bet it's from when they've taken stuff down.

[00:08:03]>> Great big hole here.

[00:08:05]>> What?

[00:08:05]>> There's a great big hole here.

[00:08:10]>> That's quite deep. Heat.

[00:08:40]Heat.

[00:09:10]All >> right.

[00:09:41]That is all of these stacked up. There's loads there, isn't there?

[00:09:49]>> I'm absolutely gutted to be honest. I really did like the floor. I just need to remind myself I need to be sensible.

[00:09:56]I can't get horses and use it as a uh a stable anymore or a coach house. So, I'm hoping I'm going to find a use for them somewhere. I'm sure it won't be hard. I would have thought it would have taken a few hours, but it's taken a long time and my my hands are like I don't know how much one weighs. I weigh one. The next job is going to be clearing all this stuff up, figuring out which halves I can keep and which which halves are are no good anymore. It's a good size.

[00:10:22]It's a good size space, isn't it? It's going to make a hell of a garage. Right.

[00:10:24]So, my plan here is to get the height of a floor outside of the here. We're just getting the height of the ground outside cuz it wants to be a bit higher than that inside, doesn't it?

[00:10:40]So nothing's going to flood in and it would be better for damp if it's slightly high. It would be better for it to be a lot higher for damp, but we're going to be putting the drainage in the expanded glass balls in. So that should let anything soak away into the ground lower down.

[00:11:05]This is our little list. We got 140 of the glass and then 100 mil p 150 mil concrete. So total 390 is what we need to go down from our finished floor height. And this board here is 392 mil there. That just needs to go down from our ground level that much. So that is where we need to go to, which is good cuz that's not below the the footings, which is happy days.

[00:11:41]It's a nice one. The chaps of Eden Hotline have done a fantastic job of squeezing that on. We didn't think it would go on, but it's gone on. She's well strapped up. Nothing better than a well laden van. It's not heavy. It's just bulky.

[00:11:54]And uh then we've got another bag in here. She's squeezing nicely. Bit of that textile stuff.

[00:12:03]Yeah. Don't want to be carrying air around.

[00:12:08]>> Those need to go.

[00:12:09]>> Rich is building a house and he just happened to have three sheets of rebar left over. The perfect amount to reinforce my floor. So, it was just a case of getting them onto my van and to the building, which was easier said than done. And you'll see that Rich has got some solar panels on his house, which is hopefully a video that's going to be coming to the big screens of YouTube very soon.

[00:12:35]I love Rich's forklift truck. It's an absolute weapon, and it has some humanlike tendencies or quirks, I suppose. You have to treat it right.

[00:12:46]Rich has got it dialed in. But yeah, I think firm but fair is maybe the right way of describing how you got to got to treat it. So I think we'll have a little silly moment of appreciation for the parkling.

[00:13:02]I'm an elevator.

[00:13:10]That forklift's not too green, is it?

[00:13:15]>> That's the best thing in it.

[00:13:16]>> Right, we are ready for action. We've got our insulation. All the all the nice sets have been taken up. And I'd love to I'd love to know what these are actually made of. So that's um that's a broken one. And yeah, is it granite?

[00:13:30]>> Granite.

[00:13:31]>> They've got this sort of almost pillow like top to them how it's kind of rounded off. So it looks to me like it could almost be it could almost be formed somehow. It's got that sort of like pillow likeness to megaliths and you know the big big stones like Machu Picchu and things like that. I don't know how it's just interesting how rounded they are. I expect that they would get rounded from use but at the edges you would expect them to be rounded. So yeah, are they I'm going on a bit of a tangent here, but are they proper stone or are they some sort of crazy cementy type stuff?

[00:14:09]And then these ones have got these ones got like little bubbles in them. Look, is that is it something that's been pred?

[00:14:24]So anyhow, the thing that I've been looking at is this is the base of this is just the concrete floor of when this was a building when there was a wall here, a wall here, and they've put this wall in at some point, maybe I'm guessing the 80s or something like that to support this lintil, which I'm assuming was just a big opening for for this building. It goes across there. This is on top of this raft. You can see a crack in there, can't you?

[00:14:59]That won't be onto much solid because I know that this is only a shallow concrete slab. So, it really wants underpinning or taking out and building on top of our new proper concrete reinforced slab or something like that.

[00:15:13]I don't know. I don't know what to do with that really. It's tempting to just put the digger through it and see if you know see if the bucket would push it over. But then it's it obviously needs bit wielding back up again. It would be a bit of a pain. Um or do we put it on top of the on top of the insulation cuz that'll be better if we could insulate it from the outside. Then it's going to be much warmer. So I'm going to we're just going to have to see what it's like when we get into this into this floor.

[00:15:40]In the next video we're going to have loads going on. There's going to be a digger, a teley handler, a tractor, a big old trailer, a bucket, and most importantly, a Howard, and possibly a rich too if we get on to it. That's all to come. If you're not subscribed, it's well worth getting subscribed. Thank you very much for watching. Ciao for now, Granny.