Down in the pit, pit of despair, pit and the pendulum, Quatermass and the... Kinda car related

[Marina door handles]

I consider my self to be fairly lucky, not only has my new house got a good size two car garage but it has a pit except there is always a snag... Some bugger had filled it in....

 

Its taken a while to get around to sorting this but about a month ago I pulled my finger out and hired an 8 yard skip (stupidly thought that would be big enough) and rolled my sleeves up..

 

What you have is a layer of sand on tarpaulin on top of rubble. The sand was pretty good builders sand so I dug it all up and bagged it (might come in useful). Then started on the rubble, so much rubble, much wow!

 

It went on and on until I started to hear the tinkle of stones falling in water... Bollocks! Still I kept digging....

 

At this point I had pretty much filled the skip, so paused for a week or so. Then skip 2 arrived and I got back on it. Pleased to say last night I found the bottom and no I didnt find any bodies or any other real horrors. I did have to vac out a load of water for this I used a Numatic George,  what a bloody brilliant thing that is. I did try a so called submersible dirty water bilge pump thing by Prokleen (what a waste of amazon vouchers!) that was utter crap.

Anyway one final shot, another skip full, my back is starting to cry enough but i have achieved pit!

Its a good five and a half foot deep so plenty deep enough, should make certain jobs a lot easier.  Cant quite believe I have bothered to create a thread on making a hole in the ground but there you go......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[loserone]

I give it ten minutes before someone talks about how lethal your new* hole is

[Marina door handles]

Ha know doubt, to be fair I have parked a car over it, so cannot fall in without a lot of effort....

[High Jetter]

Is it full of water yet? Have you made a 'grave' mistake?

[Low Horatio gearbox]

The garage that came with my house also had  a filled in pit.

Filled in  due to filling with water die to semi nearby spring, allegedly. The filled in hole tho means I can get 2 cars in side by side and my bone idle lazines made  unfiilling it  a zero chance prospect. (And the garage is only  19 feet long so a fair amount of slithering /rolling on the ground would be required to enter and exit

[Dr_Slow]

Nice indoor swimming pool!

 

(I speak only out of envy…)

[cobblers]

Dig a little channel along the side, put some of that threshold drainage stuff in (like people use across garage doors) and a £20 bilge pump in to keep it drained, it'll work a treat.

We had to do that all along the back wall of my mates workshop which was built into a hillside, in winter he would have a stream running across the workshop floor. We piped it all into a water butt.

[D.E]

12 hours ago, loserone said:

I give it ten minutes before someone talks about how lethal your new* hole is

Unsuspecting drivers of Invacars and Robins may fall in!

[New POD]

23 minutes ago, D.E said:

Unsuspecting drivers of Invacars and Robins may fall in!

Or the walls might fall in, when you park an over weight skip lorry above it. Also beware fumes. 

[Marina door handles]

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Is it full of water yet? Have you made a 'grave' mistake?

Looking damp but not filling yet....  Give it time though, I suspect its slightly below the water table!

[Marina door handles]

49 minutes ago, New POD said:

Or the walls might fall in, when you park an over weight skip lorry above it. Also beware fumes. 

Fumes are always a concern, I might get a canary.... Actually the plan is to never run a car engine whilst over the pit if possible and remain vigilant.

[DSdriver]

There was a pit in the garage of the house I grew up in. We only found out how rotten the boards covering it were when my sister got her first car - an Issetta three wheeler