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Building walls in my lift shaft

29/06/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 458 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

It feels great putting things back into my excavations instead of always taking things out. This week I put walls

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Tackling the drainage issue in my lift shaft

21/06/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1046 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

Digging is finished in my lift shaft, so now I need to figure out what to do about the groundwater

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Floods, arches and freebies

15/06/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 786 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

A mixed bag this week – dealing with floods, arches and freebies. Each bring with them their own negatives. But

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A small problem with heavy rain

07/06/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 762 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

We had some heavy rain recently. Not as bad as some, mind you – but enough to flood a man’s underground

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Liftshaft part 5 – where’s all that water coming from?

31/05/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 797 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

In this video I weigh all the dirt coming out of the liftshaft – and ponder, “where’s all that water

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Near-death incident in the lift shaft

25/05/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1226 Views 4 Comments Make-n-Do

The headline is not clickbait – I nearly died. But you will have to watch to find out what happened.

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Chiseling a hole in the floor of my upstairs shed

17/05/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1084 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

This week I chisel out the concrete at the top of what will be a shaft between my upstairs and

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Secret lift shaft – part 2

10/05/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1455 Views 4 Comments Make-n-Do

I’ve changed direction again this week – digging down from the top of the lift shaft. That means I have

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Adding a ‘secret’ extension to my basement project

03/05/202503/05/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1139 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

In an unusual turn of events (sarcasm), I’ve gone off on a tangent on the basement project. While I had

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Laying more bricks in basement excavation

26/04/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1174 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

All work and no play makes Brian a dull(er) boy. So, this week, as well as laying more rock wall

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Bricking the walls in the basement pit

19/04/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1119 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

It’s always a significant turning point when things start going back in to a project. This week, I begin bricking

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Fitting my basement sump pump

12/04/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 966 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

We had a lot of rain recently. The resulting flood in my basement diggings was prompt enough for me to

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Moving giant slab outdoors

05/04/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1328 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

The giant slab I cut last week gets moved outdoors in this video. It wasn’t easy, of course. But, with

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Cutting huge slab from basement floor

29/03/202529/03/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1020 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Here’s a biggie for ya – the largest slab I’ve cut from the floor in my shed basement. Manhandling this

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Flooring the courtyard

22/03/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1115 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Most of the action in this video happened on a sad Saint Patrick’s day. Sad, because I found out it

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Three steps and I’m outside

15/03/202515/03/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1127 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

I had a great weekend away last week, with extended family, for a significant milestone – so the week got

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1 step, 2 step, tricky under there

08/03/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1424 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

In this video, I install the second step to get me out of the hole I dug in my basement.

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Starting the stairs to my basement pit

01/03/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 954 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

This week, I turned around and started upwards – the stairs to get me out of this hole I dug myself

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Pouring concrete floor in basement hole

22/02/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1241 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

It’s a satisfying thing when you can start to put stuff back into a hole after so much digging out.

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Dropping a big slab in my basement hole

15/02/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1216 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

My basement pit-digging project takes a significant step forward in this video. The big slab I cut through earlier finally

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