Finishing our DRAINAGE SYSTEM: will our solution fix the problem? 

That kitty cat is so nice to leave you traces to let you know your work is approved

the cat footprints in the concrete are like the inspector's signature on the work permit

Catspector has now signed off your work Iliya. Great job.

To see you working with drainage problems is dreadful. Having had such problems with floods and drying out procedures has made me so nervous about house ownership.The way you face up to these difficulties and put in the work hard to resolve them shows your remarkable strength of character and unfailing resolve. I salute you.❤

"this was a gift I gave myself...". 😂 Lol

‘Must work in the shadow’. Vampirism confirmed.✅

I enjoy everyone’s comments. Ilia, it amazes me how many vignettes you have around your homestead. I’ve followed you since the beginning and there are still nooks and crannies I don’t recognize!!

Little by little, your property is settling into its new life as your home with each additional completed project. Seeing your work on the garden and orchard, I have no doubt that in time, that courtyard will be truly beautiful. And for now, being functional and flat is good enough. 😊

Свій будинок це робота і турботи все життя - удачі вам !

I just luv the way you give yourself GIFTS 😅😂 Luv watching you guys. From South Africa🇿🇦

Always something when you have property. I'm glad you were able to get it resolved. Always enjoy watching your videos

concrete isn't complete without kitty paw prints. my cat stepped on my neighbors wet concrete and left prints behind. Fortunately they loved him so they found it humorous.

You are a hard worker.. I will say all that junk lying around would make me crazy.

Maybe plant a small bush to hide the pink pipe coming from inside out to the other pipe connections. You are a very good engineer, Illiya, and a very determined worker. Rock on, sir!🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊🐈‍⬛🇺🇦🇺🇲

To get the cable through the pipe you can tie a plastic bag to a string line and tape a vacuum cleaner hose to the other end of the pipe and it sucks the bag and string through the pipe. Then you can tie the wire to the string and pull it through , been doing it this way for years with no problems 👍Merry Christmas and happy new year, cheers 🍻🍻

You two are some of the HARDEST working people I know. Do you both have other full time jobs? Many blessings to you and your family in the new year. I really like your videos. ❤

Oh the joy of living in the "Low Countries" - water gets into every thing. Well done. I like your definition of "temporary" - it aligns well with my own thoughts on the word's true meaning.

Interesting bottle. Good luck with the drainage system.

@DeHoeveOldBelgianFarm be grateful puddie only walked on the concrete, I had a cat who deemed it in his best interests to dig a hole in a freshly laid slab and deposit a number 2 job then bury it - Grrrr. Get a gutter on the lean to connected to the building . Loads of water would be running off it and exacerbating the water issue in the cellar. Happy Xmas and looking forward to what 2024 will bring with your page. Cheers from Australia.

I see Anneke left her "stamp of approval"!

@0:07 the most Beautiful Helper Cat - no, water in the basement AGAIN cannot be any fun.

You work very hard to make everything look nice. Hoping the drainage system works for as long as you need it to. 👍👍👍

Always fun to find treasures while digging!!! You have been faithfully working hard long days and weeks to build yourselves a wonderful home!! God bless you this holiday season and always!!!❤❤❤

С Наступающим Новым годом ! Мир Вашему дому, здоровья и благополучия ! До новых встреч - в 2024 году !

Joy to see you again and I hope you good luck. When I was teenager I helped my father do same in Australia.

Keep up the good work. Hope you had a great Christmas. Happy New year to all of you.

Catspector double checking the beton (concrete). 😉 You have passed inspection!

Hope you had a lovely break with your family and very best wishes for the coming year.

Nothing lasts as long as temporary, it all looks great. You’ll be happy when you are working inside, instead of the backbreaking outdoor stuff.

Well done again on your hard work xxx

Happy New Year from your fan in Oklahoma. Sending my best wishes for your family in 2024. Looking forward to whatever you share with us. I love it all.

Wow! You've learned a lot since you bought the place. So much hard work!

Happy New Year.

I hope your Christmas was merry, even if the drainage system was not. Illia, you may be cursing in private, but on camera you show us such a good nature and positive attitude, and that is what we need to see. Wonderful work by wonder-working people. Many blessings for the new year!

You’re going to have an amazing home when finished. May the new year bring many happy days and God’s blessings.

Great Job! Hopefully that will be the end of the basement flooding. Hope your family has a wonderful New Year!

Cement over is better than stones and ground, which stuck up again.

I've been watching since the very beginning and you have progressed so much! Illia, you are one of the hardest working men, so don't beat yourself up if you make some mistakes. It happens! I hope you had a fantastic Christmas! I can't wait to see what the New Year will bring! Keep up the great job! Marina, Illia and kids, i wish you a wonderful New Year! Much love from Greece!

that's the down side of clay soil, if it's saturated it seals everything. Succes

If anyone can fix it, that is Illia. Wishing you a Happy New Year.

Do not be so hard on yourself Illia. It is not a shame that you forgot...rather it would have been a shame if you forgot and did not realize it! Catspecter is doing his job! 🐈🐾

Stop beating yourself up. You got the building closed in and finished, that is something to be proud of. Don't say your not smart kiddo, we all forget to tie off things on projects from time to time. You got it done, the world didn't collapse. GOOD JOB BUCKO!!!! 👍💯🥳

You have plenty of brick. Use that even if temporary to build a wall around it. And fill it with sand or small rocks.

Well done finished another temporary job. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Learning by doing - the same way we all learn. You are a hard worker Illia, you will figure it out. Loved the speedy cow rerun.

I just love watching you both tackle a myriad of projects, and succeed. I also love your humanness in fixing unfinished things. We all face this when we build and/or renovate with many projects on the go at once. Thank you for sharing your journey

You are working so hard..and then such a mess ! I think we all must build our houses like the houses in Venice, on multi point basements. 😂

Great respect and admiration for the hardworking MAN. Best wishes for the coming year.

... a Happy New Yeare with family...🍇🎊✨🥂🐟🏡

I been watching you for a while and wondered why you don't use a impact driver to put all your screws in. It you save your wrist.

"Temporary solution... for ages" it's so true. 😄

I suggest that you are going to have to install a sump pit with an automatic pump below the level of your basement slab. You will have to cut out a square of concrete and dig down maybe 3 or 4 feet. Line the pit with an open brick pattern so the ground water can seep through into the pit. Ultimately, you may need to install a french drain around the entire perimeter of the basement that drains into this pit. Second, you have to find a low spot far away from the basement where you can pump the rainwater. Dig a small pond in the wildflower meadow. I suspect that the old rainwater cistern/system is leaking back into the basement.

Water in the basement was God’s way of reminding you to finish the drainage system. Next project. There’s always a silver lining in every cloud. I’ve been watching you folks since day one here and you are doing a phenomenal job. Do not beat yourself up.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year. Love the videos. 😊😊

Don’t forget to reasonably accurately mark on the site plan where you nave laid the pipes. In several years you or someone else needing to work in that area may benefit from knowing how to avoid the pipes. The pipes don’t appear to be too much under the current ground level and even a shallow dig in the future might burst/break the pipe and you have a lot of repair work to do again.

Good luck with drainage. “Hou’oli makahiki hou (Hawaiian). All the best for coming year.

That was great Illia great job enjoyed it thank you for sharing and your time really got that done.

Great job Illia, you're work ethic is amazing. Alot of hard work😊 hope you all had an amazing Xmas x

Have a great new year😊

I see a Draining system in my future. John in Bethel, Missouri. USA

All the best in the new year, Happy New Year from downunder

Boa noite ,gente maravilhosas ❣️

To put the string into the pipe you could use the vacuum cleaner and plastic bag on the end of the string, you switch on the vacuum cleaner and the air do its job.

You are working so hard, thank you so much for your videos and I wish you all a successful and healthy new year! We've had a lot of rain in north-west Germany. Here in my area almost directly on the coast, the drainage systems are coping well, the basements (luckily I haven't rented one and my flat is in the mezzanine!) had to be pumped empty once and no more, but a few kilometres inland the situation is precarious. I went to visit family at Christmas and I've never seen so many flooded reservoirs and overflowing ditches and streets. In my home region just under 70 kilometres to the south-east, all the fire brigades were called out over Christmas and hundreds of volunteers were deployed to reinforce dams, pump out cellars, secure roads, remove fallen trees ... fortunately, the situation is stabilising, at least nature is hopefully happy and can recover from almost five years auf drought.

Congratulations on finishing that.

nice job your getting there.

Suggestion: Protect that plastic sleeve from UV and spray paint it.

Hope you all had a fentastic and nice Christmas and up to the New Year. Thank you for all the video's of your hard work and the progres of the family residance.

Bravo pour tout ce que vous faites et pour vos vidéos. Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année. Caresses à Anneke. 👏👏😃❤️😺🇨🇵

just make a stonebench above. you will need lots and lots of points to store boxes on the way. just for pausing for the future: take that concretcircle in two halves, so it will be much better to handle

The amount of rain over the last couple of months has just been horrendous, I'm also struggling with water in my basement because not all the drainage is finished yet, so it's good you got it solved. Keep us up if your basement is getting less wet now. The flexible pipe for the power lead to the pump does not only look a bit ugly as you mentioned, but there is a more important problem. It forms an open connection between your drainage well and the bake house, so smells and possibly hazardous gasses can come in the bake house this way. I would suggest to remove the part of the pipe above ground level and put an end cap on with a small hole for your cable, and then fit a piece of electrical conduit on the wall to protect the cable. For this you maybe have to remove the plug from the cable to get it trough the small hole and conduit, but you can fit a new plug afterwards. That way it will look a lot nicer and you don't get foul smells indoors.

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉

Attention to detail is everything!

"Temporary. Good enough for now!"

French drain and sump pump

Je kunt een plant poten voor de lelijke buis Ilja ,of maak een houten afwerking.

and some day, you'll get back to the restoration and construction of your home. I can't say that I've particularly enjoyed the direction the channel has followed for the last 10 months but, this will pass and you'll resume the work on the house. I'm really interested in seeing you build the kitchen and some of the bathrooms in the old house. Happy New Year, I wish you a prosperous and happy 2024.

What a bummer, but at least this didn't happen after you were finished.

Нет ничего более постоянного, чем временное) так и есть.

👍 nice job

When that happens perhaps should have concrete all around the basement of your house instead of dirt basement walls need protection as a old house

Happy Christmas to you and your family 💖💖💖💖 and a happy new year

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greetings from Ukraine

почему бы не сделать теплицу/оранжерею там где уже столбы и стропила?

Hi guys, I have watched your channel for a very long time, maybe from the beginning? I absolutely love your hard work, your dedication to detail, your intelligence of plants . I have lived to a great age of 67. I have had the chance to see many things and I consider myself still youthful! There is though some things that I have learned. When tackling a project the size that you have, one needs to always have a master plan even if it is far reaching. I know you have one but is it orderly? It seems to me that you are working too hard for temporary solutions and spending time and money that you wish not to do! Your drainage problem should be first and foremost on your agenda. Every time you change something in your yard the drainage will change. Start by removing ALL your concrete around all buildings. Then look at all the solutions offered by your neighbors to start. Investigate all new methods. Drainage should be first and foremost. I live in Oregon and soils are very different all around the globe. As I understand it, your soil is what I would call spongy ( please correct me if I am wrong). With spongy soil a direct flow of water may never be found as it can change daily. Find your solution for your property first please. Do the project as a "whole" property not in little segments. My apologies if I am way off base. I send nothing but goodness to you!

feliz Navidad. gran trabajo

Temporary solutions that work tend to become permanent.

Do you guys still work full time as well as fix your farm? Australia 🇦🇺

Stop giving yourself gifts😊

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'I didn't finish the drainage system" ........ 🤦‍♂ The guilty look on his face! 🤣

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This poor guy works so so hard but they never seem to get ahead. Some work here and some work there and more work over there. Remember the hemp block insulation? It ate up most of the room that they were trying to insulate, so much work for ???

I would not be standing in that water with electrical pump running!!!!!?😴

Ну, по ходу с я-коньем поборолись. Уже Марина якает больше 🙂Давайте поработаем над словарем. Слово put. Одно из любимых слов Ильи. Ну, что оно значит и чем заменим?

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Why not place the top part of pipe in pvc and cock it to the house the way it look better

Илья, выкини эту тачку и купи двухколесную, я понимаю что с одним колесом она юрче и пролазливее, но нагрузка на плечи раза в два выше. Защитите от солнца ту трубу которая у вас выходит из стены, это полиэтилен и навряд ли в нём есть стабилизаторы, а значит со временем он рассыпется от солнца.

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