I really appreciate you sharing this whole process. Informative and entertaining. Thank you.

Another way to pull rebar stakes is to use a chain. Get a chain that the link will fit over the rebar. Put it over the rebar. Then when you pull the chain will turn and grab the rebar pulling it out. Works great just a suggestion. God bless

Very enjoyable set of films I learnt a lot about American builders and buildings I am from UK

I just wanted to say its nice to see you talk to all employees like people been on some sites where they treat them like shit just nice to see

Even though I am retired it was a great series of videos.

Awesome basement building series, love the details. Thanks for the vid!

Loved the video. I also absolutely love the shots driving down the road sitting on top of the equipment on the trailer. That is just so perfect. Can see everything. Thanks.

Just subscribed! I love the step by step detailed content. This will be my instruction manual when I build my ICF house. I've watched every ICF video on KZfaq. You had some new tricks that I haven't seen anywhere else. Thanks for the detail!

over here what they made us do in anything below ground after putting on your membrane, we then had to use a plastic sheeting material, which we placed up against the membrane directly. the plastic sheeting was pretty much made to look like your egg carton, so it had pockets in it. idea being that it kept the back fill off of the membrane which used to extend any guarantee on the membrane by an additional 10 to 20 years as it wouldnt be exposed to any direct force from anything other than the plastic sheet which wasnt pointed or had sharp bits to damage it. The egg box design also meant that if any water came from above or ground level it would run down the cavity provided by the egg box design rather than it be left to fate if it would work its way down between the membrane and wall if the membrane broke down in any way with it being damaged. Was a pain in the arse in a way using it as you could only back fill in levels the size of the board, then you had to place another board and tape them together before backfilling higher again but the powers that be seemed to absolutely love it for its effectiveness.

Who ever thought dirt could be so interesting lol, great job!

As someone looking to have a house built, this is a great introduction to the process of constructing a basement.

Good job Mike..nice productive day!👍

Thanks for sharing. I must say you are a very good boss. You teach while you direct in a very positive way. Good on you.

As long as the tree doesn't talk back, everything is OK. Good video! Thanks for the info!

Appreciate you taking the time to explain the details and how the system works. Like learning new things. Cheers Mike

Thanks about all the info you share on basement construction. keep on trucking.

Loved the basement building series that you just finished today. As a soon to be buyer of a log cabin this gave me a full understanding of what it takes to build a basement foundation for the cabin. Very well explained Mr. Simon. Love you You Tub Site. From New Jersey, planning on building in PA or Catskills in NY, wish we were closer to contact with you.

That foundation waterproofing looks a lot like roofing ice guard we use up here in the great white north!!! LOL Great job as usual sir.

Just the series I have been looking for. We just purchased some land and need to do some road work and have been eyeballing form-a-drain with ICF’s. Definitely added to the favorites, thanx for sharing!!!

my dad built houses in evansville back in fiftys remember him talking about that clay they called it hardpan i seen it float a new floor after a downpour like camera shots on top going down road been up and down those roads many times but not at that height good evening all from mo

Love the vid Michael, as always! 👍🙂 It brings back memories when I used to do work that I liked to do! Your channel is growing like crazy, congrats 😃👍

Really enjoyed the videos. I've done a few ICF homes and was watching mainly to see if I want to try the Nudura forms on my next one. Looks like they work pretty well. Just wish the ends fit together instead of just butting up. I spend my whole day on the phone like you. Got Bluetooth hearing aids at Costco and now everything is hands free. Works great. No more shoulder holding

Excellent video and great earthmoving shots and work. Good job too. Liked your loading video and floating pics (although you were driving on the wrong side of the road!!) but nice channel. Cheers from Aust!

Wonderful, thanks for ur videos. I'm learning alot just by watching u. Keep it up 👍👌👍👌

Dude what a great series of videos .. Well done ... Love riding along with the Mack !!

Sure enjoying watching this. Brings back great memories of when I did the same work on my house in the '80s, except I did it the old school way with plywood and snap ties.

I used to be in the concrete business. Had to pull stakes that way a time or two. Work smarter not harder. Great pro-tip!

Great job! Now I understand a lot more about basements. Thanks!

WOW I enjoyed the videos 1st one of this type I have ever seen. I watch a lot of car videos because well I own a couple. I will leave the building of a house to the experts . Great detail I think the best part is you seem to enjoy your work. Thanks for making them

Loved the sires of videos I found it interesting to see how a basement is made

You’re 💯 on that gravel truck.

Sat here on the west coast of England, bit bored, with all the virus stuff going on. Thanks for doing these video's, different job to mine, really interesting, keep up the good work.

Interesting videos, I like the systems you use for your walls. I appreciate the explanations each step of the install/pour and tear down. Things have changed so much since I was a gofer pushing a wheelbarrow 50 years ago. Take care!

Favorite quotes of the video. "Mr Tree meet Mr John Deere" "Do you think my 3ft hole is big enough for a 4in pipe"😂😂😂 oh then awesome video of the truck exhaust. Yet another awesome episode Mr Dirt Perfect!!!

Truck sounds awesome ,love the turbo sounds

awesome! Thanks for putting this video out. very informative and well put together.

Looking good. I guess since you asked nicely I’ll let you build our next house. 😊

FYI - as a subscriber I wanted to suggest: your audio could be better, it's loud then quiet - loud - quiet. Industry standard for audio when editing is -12db MAX - music and/or narration and heavy machinery. With respect - good video, keep up the good work :)

Excellent video series. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome mate, my wife and I are backfilling our core filled beser(cinder block) block wall (2metres high) under our house by hand, one bucket at a time. 8 tonne in 4 to go. We bitumenised our wall, then 200micron plastic, then core flute to stop the gravel penetrating the plastic. A big job but very satisfying. By the way don't be alarmed but did you notice your Mack truck steering wheel is on the wrong side of the cab?🤣

For the stakes try a pioneer stake puller. In the tent rental industry the stakes we use make yours look like kids pencils.

Please make video about waterproofing that brick shelf from Nudura. I did it myself and I hate decision about installing brick shelf. I placed 2 layers of Nudura membrane but still I am not 100% sure if that will withstand...

Really good video Mike!! Congrats on all the new subscribers too!

Damn I like the sound of your truck! Another great video

Good teacher good commodity.

I recall my dad having to do a ditch between two buildings one evening. They were coming to move his trackhoe early the next day. He dug the ditch and shut down for the day, leaving the machine over the finished ditch. He came in an hour early next day and got the machine off the ditch before anyone could see how he did it. I was the only other one there, and he didn’t put so much as a dirt clod in the ditch as he moved off it. Everyone wanted to know how he did it. He just grinned and said the machine had a flight lever and he was the only pilot for miles. I never told what he did, but I still remember what he did way back then. Thanks for the videos. They trigger a lot of fond memories for me.

Maybe in a couple of years you'll make it to NE Tennessee. I could use someone like you when I get ready to build my home.

Awesome video! Keep up the good work 👍🏻🇺🇸👷🏻‍♂️

nice job .hope you do video of the roller change.wish we had dirt as perfect haha as you to dig in

Hit the thumbs up people learnt a lot from this one like Randy & Luke pulling stakes out "smooth like butter" hahaha and Mike talking to tree roots Chris/letsdig has got to watch this one even though he talks to them also hahaha and how to dig a massive trench for a tiny pipe LOL! and secretly deep down Mike loves camping LMAO! Thanks Guys for a great series look forward to the next one.

Those gum trees are probably the most aggravating tree out there to take you out and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that talked to the trees as I take them out

Great views and great videos. Got some land I want to build a 4 family on. Trying to save money framing ICF, but definitely can't run equipment past a bobcat. Elect hook up alone is crazy expensive

nice work on the drain you made it look easy we should send some of the operators around here to see you to get some lessons lol we had 1 basement 14 inches out of level on 1 corner on the digging we ended up putting bulkheads in the footer to get it back level And no it was not because of the ground as it was all the same

23:45 love the jakebrake.

not in the business but satisfying to watch. Loved the piano at the end!

Thanks for the video Mike. You need to lube those tracks on the 120 , noise buggers. Lol 👍👍🇨🇦🐕❤️

Awesome guys enjoyed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍺

Mike you must be doing something right as you are piling on the Subs 12,000 already that makes 2,000 this last week keep up the great work.

Awesome video thanks for sharing

You really do awesome work

Awesome Job!!

I like them walls I helped my brother build a house all the walls were ICF or how ever you say it that was a cool house it went all the way to rafters and was stucco finished on the outside cool house to help do

Really enjoying these videos and all the knowledge. Would love to hire you in TN for my basement

Ju No; when i push trees i find it help full to dig in front of the tree, It seems to give the root ball a place to go. Similar idea to a feller notches the tree,

I had to drill all the anchors for my bracing. I"m on solid rock :)

I like that form rack you built. Do you own the store also? Believe me truck drivers WILL drive into the ditch if there wasn't dirt there, they are like cattle. Would form pins work to hold the braces up? Just hit them with a hammer and pull them out? When it is hot like that I saw on a large project they set up one of those portable canopies so guy could get out of the sun.

Thought I was watching Jpaydirt there at the end! Great video.

Great video sure can learn alot from you thanks for that

Nice work Mike! Have a great weekend Work safe Doug@ the "ranch"

If you've ever talked to tree roots, you might be an excavator operator! Lol. I do the same thing when they tick me off.

thought the series was great. very interesting.

Mike are you doing product placement now way you're holding that Pepsi can LOL

I was 18 got a job as a lobor for a basement company pulling Simon forms ,you got it easy lol

Wish you was here in central texas

I guess we all have our telephone voices, with most folk trying to sound a bit posher than they usually do, but you Mike, sound like some sort of gangster when talking on the phone. 'Hey Luigi. Gimme some concrete. I gotta bury something. Know whata I mean?' 😎

Hi, i have a nudura basement in Northern Ontario Canada, in Iroquois Falls. I have brought up the water proofing paper up to ground level. I used blue skin product which is the same as nudura product. I have siding on my house but, where the siding end at the bottom the blue skin will peel after time. What i have done is buy 3x5 sheets of cement floor sheeting used for tile flooring or shower. cut it the size i needed and screwed it to the core to hide the blue skin. Then parged it with thin coat cement. Turned out good and looks like a cement foundation. just thought i would share. If anybody has anything to share on finishing the bottom in a different way, please let me know. Your floor was a different to mine. I noticed you kept the footing framing in place. It didnt come out, what is that type of framing? Mine was wood framing and then removed. I had to have drainage pipe in the middle of my floor like an H style which then had a exit all 4 sides of footing. So piping installed through the footing and then connected to outside weeping drainage pipe which is all around the parimeter of the footing. I never had an issue since fall 2008 and loved that my drywall went on directly to the wall......saved time and money. If i have to rebuild again, im definetly going with nudura again. if you have instructions to pass on please do. thx your videos are helpful for my futur build.

I think talking to inanimate objects is pretty normal, along with swearing at them when they don't do what we want them too.

Do you have a straight pipe on the Mack? It sounds good! You can tell a Mack miles off!

that would be so nice with a 10 wide garage door in there-lol. why no drain pipe the whole way around the footer? i like ur walls, but u or i would never allow not to have a french drain around them walls-now just my preference -ok. and no drain in the floor either? or will that come later!?

Thank you for the basement construction videos, they were very instructional. Not a criticism, but curious as to why you didn't trowel/finish the top of the concrete better?

"Wonder if my bucket is wide enough for a 4 inch pipe" 😂

Enjoyed the series... have seen ICF put in a couple of times.... I like your system best. And the results... on the money. Give those kids a Walkie Talkey, a couple of flashlights and the family dog... then head straight home! They’ll brave the dark, have a night to remember and you’ll have to explain that the batteries went dead on the radio at 9PM! Now for the daily question... just noticed the pink hose reel... did you get that at Bed Bath & Build It?

Great vid ☺️

First thx for all your narration in this series of videos, I've learned a lot and appreciate it. Now couple of questions: What is the purpose of that black fabric/material under the stone of the driveway? When doing a multiple story ICF build do you pour it all at once or do the basement and then the first floor at a later date? If you do the basement and first floor at different times how long do you have to wait between pours and is there a maximum amount of time you can wait before pours? For example, you need to wait 30 days but no longer than 60 days? Is there a maximum wall length before you have to put in some sort of bracing like a short T-wall? Thx again

Seems like modifying a t-post puller would be much quicker pulling out those anchor pins than excavator.

Why wouldnt you put a brick ledge at the bottom of the wall base? Not only you can waterproof all the way down over the base but you can also control any water getting into the brick ledge draining into the trench below?

That method of water proofing much better that the old brush & bucket of tar

You ever put any salted peanuts in that Pepsi ? Living the Mayberry Life !

Whats it going for install per square foot, id like to look into it, havemt seen it here in NC that I know of, sure someone's doing it.

Need to see house finish

Dumb question. Even though the endurance isn’t exactly for waterproofing doesn’t it make more sense to install it horizontally and overlap it starting at the bottom going up so it does something for waterproofing

How come you did not use dimple mat or anything to protect the peel and stick, just curious

Hello there Henry Wilson here. I like the Mack truck. Is it a Mack engine.

I honestly had no idea you could put an excavator bucket on backwards.

+1. .. Waterproofing (resisting) ICF exterior walls. .. No black asphalt emissive coatings here. .. What to do?

What’s the hook you are using on the excavator is it made for that it works well I’ve never seen one anyway great videos still have a good one

Do you ever cover the seams of the waterproofing as they butt up beside each other?

That was a real nice tree to take out. Too bad it couldn't be saved.

Wondering why you guys don't use a water base primer that dries sticky on the foam before laying the Mudura? Love the videos. Learned lots of each one. Thanks

Have you thought about running your waterproofing over top of the brick ledge so you won't get leaks there?