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Old 16-10-10, 07:31 PM   #1
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Wink I'm so so proud of my hole

I have a beautiful hole, so big and beautiful that I want the world to admire it It leads to my back passage

I'm connecting the drain pipe from our new bathroom to the existing soil pipe. The first challenge was to find the soil pipe. I thought it would be 1 - 1,5m away from the house, and about 0,75m deep. So I started digging for New Zealand, no dice. It must be further out

I eventually struck gold, nearly 3m from the house and 1.2m deep:



I was expecting a glazed yellow ceramic pipe, not a black plastic thing. Hey ho.

Bit more work to expose the pipe a bit more so I can build a manhole cover over the new join. Have left the pick and the shovel in so you can see the scale of this major feat of civil engineering:



Here's a view back towards the house. The orange thing is an old drawer from the old kitchen, I was collecting rocks to avoid having to shovel them. What you are looking at is the boulder clay left by the ice sheet that 10,000 years ago covered Shropshire:



And in this pic is the next problem:



That far scaffold upright is part sat on a paving slab that's right in the way of the pipe lay. Can I move the slab without compromising the integrity of the scaffold - it will be 75% on the adjoining slab - or do I need to get out the angle grinder? Genuine quezzie peeps, I dunno, and I don't want to get crushed.

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I know that this is small beer for some on here. But you got to remember that I have sat behind a ****ty desk for the best part of 30 years, and I have never done anything like this It's all dug by my own fair (well, rather calloused) hand, Ian gave me a bit of help when I was flagging last Friday, but nearly all of it is me.

What it has done is to give me the confidence that I can do things like this. I was petrified of a cable strike or sommat, but I found the pipe and I dug it out, now to dig back a bit to the house (I need an answer on that scaffold question please), drill through the foundation to connect wth the hole I've already dug in the floor, connect up the pipes, instal the manhole, and away we go

Simples

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Old 16-10-10, 07:36 PM   #2
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Wooo go Ed and his hole
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Old 16-10-10, 07:36 PM   #3
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Can I come and finger your hole?
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Old 16-10-10, 07:37 PM   #4
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the grounds opening up

how big your hole and can I fill it?
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Old 16-10-10, 07:51 PM   #5
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Hmm. In the second picture it seems that you have left your hole unguarded, and two men have come along and put their tools in it.
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Old 16-10-10, 07:51 PM   #6
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I'd just give the slab a whack with a bolster and cut it in two?
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Old 16-10-10, 08:14 PM   #7
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The local Police have had several complaints about your hole. They're sending someone 'round to look into it.

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The local Police have had several complaints about your hole. They're sending someone 'round to look into it.

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Me is going to take a sneaky peek, not seen such a big hole for so long ..... hope it don't rain may get a bit wet in there
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Old 16-10-10, 08:23 PM   #9
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If you're really quick you can slide the the flag out and a scaff board in - just like the tablecloth trick!

Seriously though are you going to be able to get the flag out with the weight of the scaffold on it? I'd cut it in two.

What's the soil like? Cos it doesn't look like your boarding is 45 degrees from the trench base. Should be ok short term of the clays good, but be careful of any sudden downpours.
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It's not properly marked out...

You need to put peRIMeter TAPE around your hole...
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