Marina door handles Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 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...... LightBulbFun, cobblers, Dan_ZTT and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 I give it ten minutes before someone talks about how lethal your new* hole is Matty and GingerNuttz 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina door handles Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 Ha know doubt, to be fair I have parked a car over it, so cannot fall in without a lot of effort.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Is it full of water yet? Have you made a 'grave' mistake? myglaren and Low Horatio gearbox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Horatio gearbox Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Slow Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Nice indoor swimming pool! (I speak only out of envy…) myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 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. tooSavvy and Marina door handles 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 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! myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 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. chadders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina door handles Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina door handles Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 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. myglaren and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 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 Low Horatio gearbox, Marina door handles, myglaren and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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