Saving Big with DIY Foundation Excavation and First Concrete Pour | Max Maker Dream Workshop Ep. 2 

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More to come!

I hope people actually watch it!

@@MaxMakerChannel I certainly will be :)

@XxMicroNinjaxX thanks!

I live close to Hamburg which is a huge container harbour. So there are a lot of suppliers. It was €3000 including delivery. I saw rusty old ones on ebay for 900€.

Thank you!

Haha. Its a industrial estate. So in practice you can make noise 24/7. There are some limits but they are worded in such a technical way that even I cannot tell how loud is too loud. The sound engineer calculated my expected noise emissions and determined I would be far below any thresholds.

Yes its in Germany. Germans don’t like to be filmed.

Ah yeah, I was expecting the same! We call that a load bearing layer out of crushed and compacted rock. We did that in the driveway video last year. That is done to replace the top soil with something that doesn’t get muddy. A engineer told me that the sand acts a bit like a fluid and is incompressible. So It won’t change shape if it gets wet or dries up. Thats why we could just use the sand as a load bearing layer.

Ich suche zur Zeit noch einen weiteren Studenten als Miniojob in Lübeck!

@@MaxMakerChannel ich mache in einem Monat mein Abitur und habe zwischen Abitur und Studium 2 Monate Zeit (Juli-Oktober), da könnte ich gerne mal vorbeikommen.

@eduardphotography2751 Du sehr gerne. Kommst du denn aus der Gegend? Geht aber nur mit ordentlicher Anmeldung und Bezahlung.

@@MaxMakerChannel Ich komme nicht aus der Gegend, ich komme aus Heidelberg, ich hätte aber kein Problem damit mir ein kleines Zimmer für einen Monat anzumieten. Ich kann mich gerne auch ordentlich anmelden.

They ensure minimum spacing between the rebar and the forms.

Das ist kein Geheimnis. Kann man eh nicht geheim halten. Die Bagger hatten extreme Werbung drauf die ablenkt.

Thats one of my biggest achievements! I beat the German bureaucracy! : ) There are about 25 properties in this area and everyone was able to start applying for the permit on the same day. So far nobody else got it. Its also nice and peaceful out there. No people, no noise. You can just work and Its never cramped.

@@MaxMakerChannel For now!

The concrete and steel is the expensive part. Just what you saw so far was about 12000€.

Thank you! I dont have a lot of physical energy due to long covid. So I plan ahead a lot.

Next there will probably be the video about my RC lawnmower that I built over the winter.

They ensure the steel is encapsulated with concrete by at least 3cm. If the steel is to close to the forms it rusts.

@@MaxMakerChannelThanks, first time seeing those.

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I agree. I told the rental company what I wanted to do and they recommended this size saying its two numbers up from a mini excavator. However it felt exactly like a mini excavator. The shipping cost for the excavator alone was 500€! I could drive the loader on site myself. The second excavator was even smaller but below 2tons. That way you can tow it yourself and save those 500€. Anyway the smaller tools were better for learning I guess.

I looked at the economics. If I make the roof 100% solar it would only be worth it if I can sell the electricity directly through public EV chargers. Because selling the power to the government only pays peanuts. It would be wiser to invest that money in stocks. But 100% solar would probably be enough to supply the heat pump in the winter. In summer we would only use 5% of the yield ourselves. I am still waiting for the prices to come down a bit. I don´t have a supplier yet.

@@MaxMakerChannel I would heavily recommend you spend your money on the inverter, I recommend Fronius and since you are in Germany I assume you will want that to haha. As for panels I wouldn't worry as much as they are all pretty similar and even the cheaper ones have good warranty and for the extra money for a high end panel like a Qcell or Sunpower is not worth it you would be better off in my opinion spending the money and getting more panels I recommend Jinko they are chinese and cheap but I have 15Kw of them on my house and have installed megawatts of them in my career. Also I would favour a sting inverter "The fronius Symo" Over Micro inverters people sing their praises, they are very cool tech but I spent countless days replacing dead micro inverters and the customer support for both Solar Edge and Enphase is abysmal. Micro inverter death MAY be due to the heat in my area as I install in Australia but still, just had to many issues. Plus if you dont have trees or shading issues its not worth it. If you have a few small shading issues like HVAC on the roof for example you are better off getting some Panel optimisers for just those panels. Also I don't recommend solar storage at this stage unless your local government is giving rebates as they are so expensive and they chemical life of the battery is normally shorter than the time required for the investment to pay itself off.

Thanks! I am glad you enjoy the videos! I will definitely create a nice garden outside. Since we have sandy soil there is a new opportunity to grow things that wouldn’t work in my garden at home. We will probably plant wildflowers and grass. I heard some water feature would also help.

I did that! We have 4 110mm sewage pipes that go through the foundation and exit 80cm below the ground. We can use them for outdoor lights and sockets or water pipes.

Thanks! Thats a great explanation!

They used plywood and nails : )

From Globaltainer in Hamburg.

I managed it myself. I think others let there architect do all the paperwork. I only let my architect do those things that only he could do. After handing in the paperwork I also checked in with them every week and when they required paperwork I completed that on the same day.

They are spacers to keep the rebar away from the surface of the concrete.

No

Hey! Everyone gets payed! At the moment I have 4 students working for me and I am looking for two more. They should be located in Lübeck. There is also a „full time“ job available. 3days a week at 19€/h.

The container was 3000€ with shipping.

Sure! It looks like this: 200k for the property, 120k for the foundation, 30k for the heat pump and radial heating, 250k for the steel building, 30k for interior framing, 20k for electrics, 20k for machinery, 30k for toilets, showers and kitchen. That is 700k € in total.

They are plastic spacers to keep the rebar inside the concrete. Encased rebar doesn’t corrode.

@@MaxMakerChannel Thanks for replying!

To understand that you have to know that the Germans are very big on data protection. So if I asked my crew they probably wouldn’t mind, but I bet they wouldn’t be keen. The excavator had a giant advertisement on it and that was a bit distracting. Anyway unlike in the US because stuff is public doesn’t mean you can film it here. Everyone here is a bit sensitive. So I try my best not to step on any toes.

@@MaxMakerChannel Thanks for the information! It must be a ton of work in editing. It's funny you say about being distracting - I find the blurring more distracting as it jumps out so much and then makes me wonder what and why it's blurred lol

@@robdavy4468 Yeah, I wish I could have just made the excavtor orange, but my editing software is not that great. Adding blurs is quite easy. You just have to skip ahead a few frames and reposition it when the person moves. Once the workshop is up Ill get a new mac for that. My current one is 8 years old and quite slow nowadays.

Thanks you for watching!

They already work for me. But only part time. With new crew I mean new in excavation.

@@MaxMakerChannel did you get to know some of your new neighbours already that will accompany you? Or are the other properties even sold?

@hans8902 Yes I know two tradesman and a roofer. I gave them some tips for the building permit. I am sure they are all sold. Or at least reserved.

About 800,000€.

@@MaxMakerChannel Thanks so much for sharing! It's very helpful getting an idea of what something like this costs. Its a dream to build a industrial shop like this. Good luck!

@ned_mograph5957 Its uncommon to talk about prices in Germany but anyone can estimate it anyway.

So far I thought I would add those hanging LED lights that look like UFOs. A sponsor would be great for that. Being able to dimm them would also be nice. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

@@MaxMakerChannel yeah I have suggestions put in a few hundred meters of WS2812B addressable LED strips and code some animations for when parts are finished etc.

@@aleksjenner677 haha. That would be cool, but I think a maintenance nightmare.

@@aleksjenner677 Ooooohh the possibilities! Celebrate holidays (Christmas? Green & red all the way!), birthdays, Oktoberfest, or even have dace parties with music, especially Sythwave or Vaporwave. Collaborate with Anders Enger Jensen!

Sorry hatte das falsche Datum eingestellt und dann manuell gemacht.

I was a bit nervous to lose our reference. That would have been messy. Feel free to visit!

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@@MaxMakerChannelthanks max!

@@MaxMakerChanneli think there was an issue with my browser it wasnt showing up in your videos :)

I live close to Hamburg which is a huge container harbour. So there are a lot of suppliers. It was €3000 including delivery. I saw rusty old ones on ebay for 900€. 20foot is a standard size. The 10foot ones cost more, because they are not common.

I am grateful for their help! But they also get payed. Why not ask a builder if you can lend a hand? Might be a nice way to get experience. I would love to drive a harvester some day.

That is nice!

Thanks for watching!

Yeah me too. The sandwhich panels will sit right on top of the purple Jackodur. So its one continuous layer of insulation but there is some steel flashing between them and that flashing should get some compressible foam gasket. Anyway you will see that soon! The Workshop will be erected starting on the 21st of May.

@@MaxMakerChannelThanks for the information. I had written out several things before I come up with what I wrote. I am super glad that you were thinking of what I was thinking. I can not wait to see the upcoming videos!

@@kameljoe21 Thanks for watching! I do this for my audience after all!

This machine has 5 stickers on it!

Glad you like it!

Macht viel Spaß! Für den Innenausbau suche ich übrigens noch weitere Helfer als Minijob. Aktuell sind wir zu viert.