Mark Marshall builds an advanced home security system with AI cameras, automatic gates, and a prison-grade floodlight to protect his wife in a high-burglary area.
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Key Takeaways
- Advanced home security can be achieved by integrating AI cameras, automated gates, and smart intercom systems.
- Secure fencing and perimeter defenses like laser beams are critical to preventing easy intruder access.
- Remote access features such as QR codes enhance convenience and security for visitors and service providers.
- Professional installation and high-quality components like Nightaber floodlights and Ajax systems improve overall security effectiveness.
- Tracking expenses with tools like Revolut helps manage budgets efficiently during large home improvement projects.
What the video covers
- Mark Marshall builds a highly advanced security system to make his wife feel safe in their home in northwest England, a region with a high burglary rate.
- The security setup includes AI cameras, automatic 4-meter wide Charles and Ivy gates with motors, and a 2N intercom system with multiple answering points and remote access features.
- The intercom system supports QR code access for timed visitor entry, ideal for gardeners or deliveries when the owners are away.
- Mark replaces old, insecure fencing with new black Charles and Ivy composite fencing to strengthen the perimeter.
- He installs laser beams on the fence for additional security and integrates a cutting-edge Nightaber prison-grade floodlight system that syncs with the Ajax security system.
- The Ajax security system is added to provide advanced alarm and monitoring capabilities, addressing concerns about quick burglar getaways on a main road.
- Mark shares practical tips on fence installation, including post setting with postcrete and leveling.
- He discusses managing project expenses using a Revolut card with disposable virtual cards for safer online spending.
- The video features collaboration with professionals like Aaron from Synergy for gate motors and Jason from Nightaber for floodlight installation.
- Mark emphasizes the importance of waste removal during garden transformation and shares moments of camaraderie with friends helping on the project.
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Now, every time I leave the house, my wife gets worried, and I can kind of understand why. We live in the northwest of England, which has a really high burglary rate. So, to make my wife feel safe at home, I'm going to build the most advanced security system ever. Now, we're talking AI cameras, a prison-grade floodlight system, making it the ultimate secure compound. And after all that hard work, if she still doesn't feel safe, I have got the ultimate defense system, which I'm going to show you at the end of this video. Now, last year I did a video on the most advanced gates in Britain. Now, I've always wanted some big fancy gates since being a little kid. So, we got straight to work installing some huge 4 m wide Charles and Ivy gates, and I've always wanted them to be automatic. So, we got Aaron over from Synergy in Congleton and he helped me put some motors in to make these fully automatic. However, we needed an intercom system. So, we got this one from 2N, which is the most advanced on the planet. However, I had an accident when we was building my pond. The digger smashed into the gate. And this is a result of that accident. Now, he's back. Aaron has come back to fix the problem. We are going to replace it with another 2N intercom, which is the same as this one, but not broken. So, let's get it swapped out. The new intercom system is looking beautiful. I forgot how good it actually looks. This one is obviously not smashed. One thing that Aaron was just saying as he was programming it, doing this magical stuff with these buttons, you can have loads of different buttons that would trigger different things. So, you could have home and it would ring the intercom in your house, the receiver. The deliveries. You could have it where it rings both and it rings your mobile. So, if you're away from home, you can activate the gates and open the gates. And more on that, Aaron is going to join you inside. He's going to time travel because right now he's here, but he's going to clap in a second and he's going to be inside. He's going to tell you all about the features of it. Right. Uh, features of the 2N intercom. So, first feature is multiple answering points. We've got this indoor screen in the house, so nice and convenient every time somebody calls at the gate. Let's see if it works. Get Mark to give it a call. Go on, Mark. So, Aaron is inside the house and he's asked me to tap for the very first time the home button. Incoming call. Oh, it's got a little picture of me. Hello. Hello. I can hear you. Ah, I can hear you. That's so cool. No. So, he has just opened the gates from the intercom inside the house. How cool is that? Now, for feature number two, I'm going to show you because it's pretty cool. If you've got a visitor coming round and you're not at home, you can create a QR code. So, today from 6:30 and say you want to change it and you want to give someone 2 hours worth of access, you then put the name in. So, this one I'm going to call it Jack because Jack's on the camera. So, Jack an air clip give him access then save it. Now I show it and it will literally open the door. How cool is that? So no matter where we are, we could have someone come in. Say if I've got a gardener coming to do work on the garden, I can set them a QR code that will activate within a certain time zone. So then it completely locks out. That is sick. Now Aaron worried me a little bit because he said that most burglaries happen with quick easy getaways. Because I live on a main road that's slightly worrying. So, to make Tina feel safe, I'm going to add a really advanced Ajax security system and I'm going to add a party trick at the end of this video. But right now, we need to resolve the fence issue because what I'm going to be attaching to the fence, I need them to be straight. So, we're going to rip out all the old fences and we're going to install a brand new fence, black Charles and Ivy composite fencing. Then, we're going to be adding laser beams. Now, as you can see, my fences were not secure at all, which is a huge problem if we're going to try and make the house secure. Because if the fence is pulled out, it means that intruder can just walk in. So, we got to work ripping out all the old ones. And then we had another problem. Every time we tried to pull a post out, our bands were snapping. It might have been because they were a little bit old. So, I went off to Screwfix and picked up some new strong ones that hopefully will do the job. And thankfully, that new strap meant all of the old posts came out like butter. But all of that work made us extremely hungry. So, my good friend Steven had arrived from Blackstone Griddle to make us some lovely burgers. How about that? Skip's here now. And with the skip arriving, it meant we could get rid of all of that waste. That is the biggest problem when it comes to transforming a garden is the waste. It is so expensive to get rid of waste. It is unbelievable. But what wasn't expensive is our beautiful burgers that Steven had made, which gave us all a burst of energy, which meant we could install the new fence. Now, all of the concrete panels we ended up getting from Emma at Edertton's Timber. Now, I will explain how we build a fence up in a minute, but first I need my level. Oh, bobble hat. I love finding hats. Now, one of the most common questions that we get asked about my garden is, "How much have I spent and how much does the overall garden cost?" Well, I'll be honest with you. I am not very good at tracking money. Normally, I leave that down to Tina, but 12 months ago, I ordered one of these. Now, it's up to you to decide whether I ordered this because it was gold and shiny. It makes me look posh or I actually needed it. Now, I'm going to be honest. Because of my ADHD, I lose track of everything. But since ordering my Revolut card, it gives me an instant track of my spending, which means I'm never scrapping around to see where all my budget has gone. Now, as you can imagine, 99% of what I order now is online, not just me, the general population. And what's really cool about Revolut is they have a disposable virtual card, which is amazing because I hate putting my details on the internet. Now, if you would like to try one of those lovely gold shiny cards yourself, you get $40 on your first spend, but that deal is only available in selected countries. I'm going to put a QR code on the screen right about now, and all the rest of the details will be in the description below. And just like Revolut protecting me while I'm on the internet, I need to get my house protected with this new fence. Now, to install the new fence, we start off by putting the posts in, making sure they're level, adding water, and then adding postcrete. We're using a stick just to make sure all the postcrete is stirred up. And once our base plates are in, you're just repeating the process. This time, we did add some more concrete just because of how easily the old posts came out. Now, unfortunately, because of the time of day, it meant that Steven from DGS and AR had to leave, which meant me and Isaac needed to crack on and try and get as much of the fence done as possible. As you can see, it does go together pretty easy once you've got in a nice flow. Now, while me and Isaac were doing that, Jason and his team from Nightaber were installing the prison security floodlight system. Now, when it comes to lighting security, the Nightaber is the most cutting-edge technology that you can buy right now. Not only does it blast your burglar with loads of light, it also integrates with my security system, Ajax, that I'm going to be installing a little bit later on in the video. Now, not only does it do the blast of light, it also adds a really cool police light. Now, because it integrates with my Ajax system, it means that I can arm it and disarm it when required. Now, I will put all of Jason's details from Nightaber in the description below, but as you can see, I put absolutely loads of them around.
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most advanced security system ever. Now, we're talking AI cameras, a prisongrade flood light system, making it the ultimate secure compound. And after all that hard work, if she still doesn't feel safe, I have got the ultimate defense system, which I'm going to show
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you at the end of this video. Now, last year I did a video on the most advanced gates in Britain. Now, I've always wanted some big fancy gates since being a little kid. So, we got straight to work installing some huge 4 m wide
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Charles and Ivy gates, and I've always wanted them to be automatic. So, we got Aaron over from Synergy in Congulton and he helped me put some motors in to make these fully automatic. However, we needed an intercom system. So, we got
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this one from 2N, which is the most advanced on the planet. However, I had an accident when we was building my pond. The digger smashed into the gate.
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And this is a result of that accident. Now, he's back. Aaron has come back to fix the problem.
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We are going to replace it with another 2N intercom, which is the same as this one, but not broke. So, let's get it swapped out. The new intercom system is looking beautiful. I forgot how good it actually looks. This one is obviously
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not smashed. One thing that Aaron was just saying as he was programming it, doing this magical stuff with these buttons, you can have loads of different buttons that would trigger different things. So, you could have home and it
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would ring the intercom in your house, the receiver. the deliveries. You could have it where it rings both and it rings your mobile. So, if you're away from home, you can activate the gates and open the gates. And more on that, Aaron
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is going to join you inside. He's going to time travel cuz right now he's here, but he's going to clap in a second and he's going to be inside. He's going to tell you all about the features of it.
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Right. Uh features of the 2N intercom. So, first feature is multiple answering points. We've got this indoor screen in the house, so nice and convenient every time somebody calls at the gate. Let's see if it works. Get Mark to give it a
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call. Go on, Mark. So, Aaron is inside the house and he's asked me to tap for the very first time the home button.
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Incoming call. Oh, it's got a little picture of me. Hello. Hello. I can hear you.
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Ah, I can hear you. That's so cool. No. So, he has just opened the gates from the intercom inside the house. How cool is that? Now, for feature number two, I'm going to show you cuz it's pretty cool. If you've got a visitor coming
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round and you're not at home, you can create a QR code. So, today from 6:30 and say you want to change it and you want to give someone 2 hours worth of access, you then put the name in. So,
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this one I'm going to call it Jack cuz Jack's on the camera. So Jack an air clip give him access then save it. Now I show it and it will literally open the door. How cool is that? So no matter
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where we are, we could have someone come in. Say if I've got a a gardener coming to do work on the garden, I can set them a QR code that will activate within a cert certain time zone. So then it
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completely locks out. That is sick. Now Aaron worried me a little bit because he said that most burglaries happen with quick easy getaways. because I live on a main road that's slightly worrying. So, to make Tina feel safe, I'm going to add
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a really advanced Ajax security system and I'm going to add a party trick at the end of this video. But right now, we need to resolve the fence issue because what I'm going to be attaching to the fence, I need them to be straight. So,
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we're going to rip out all the old fences and we're going to install a brand new fence, black Charles and Ivy composite fencing. Then, we're going to be adding laser beams.
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Now, as you can see, my fences were not secure at all, which is a huge problem if we're going to try and make the house secure. Because if the fence is pulled out, it means that intruder can just
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walk in. So, we got to work ripping out all the old ones. And then we had another problem. Every time we tried to pull a post out, our bands were snapping. It might have been cuz they were a little bit old. So, I went off to
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Screw Fix and picked up some new strong ones that hopefully will do the job.
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And thankfully, that new strap meant all the old post come out like butter. But all of that work made us extremely hungry. So, my good friend Steven had arrived from Blackstone Griddle to make us some lovely burgers. How about that?
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Skip's here now. And with the skip arriving, it meant we could get rid of all of that waste. That is the biggest problem when comes to transforming a garden is the waste. It is so expensive to get rid of waste. It is unbelievable.
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But what wasn't expensive is our beautiful burgers that Steven had made, which give us all a burst of energy, which meant we could install the new fence. Now, all of the concrete panels we ended up getting from Emma at
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Edertton's Timber. Now, I will explain how we build a fence up in a minute, but first I need my level. Oh, bobble hat. I love finding hats. Now, one of the most common questions that we get asked about
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my garden is, "How much have I spent and how much does the overall garden cost?" Well, I'll be honest with you. I am not very good at tracking money. Normally, I leave that down to Tina, but 12 months
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ago, I ordered one of these. Now, it's up to you to decide whether I ordered this because it was gold and shiny. It makes me look posh or I actually needed it. Now, I'm going to be honest. Because
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of my ADHD, I lose track of everything. But since ordering my Revolute card, it gives me an instant track of my spending, which means I'm never scrapping around to see where all my budget has gone. Now, as you can
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imagine, 99% of what I order now is online, not just me, the general population. And what's really cool about Revolute is they have a disposable virtual card, which is amazing cuz I hate putting my details on the internet.
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Now, if you would like to try one of them lovely gold shiny cards yourself, you get $40 on your first spend, but that deal is only available in selected countries. I'm going to put a QR code on the screen right about now, and all the
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rest of details will be in the description below. And just like Revolute protecting me while I'm on the internet, I need to get my house protected with this new fence. Now, to install the new fence, we start off by
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putting the posts in, making sure they're level, adding water, and then adding postcrete. We're using a stick just to make sure all the postcrete is stirred up. And once our base plates are in, you're just repeating the process.
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This time, we did add some more concrete just because of how easy the old post come out. Now, unfortunately, because of the time of day, it meant that Steven from DGS and AR had to leave, which meant me and Isaac needed to crack on
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and try and get as much of the fence done as possible. As you can see, it does go together pretty easy once you'd got in a nice flow. Now, while me and Isaac were doing that, Jason and his
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team from Nightaber were installing the prison security flood light system. Now, when it comes to lighting security, the Nightaber is the most cuttingedge technology that you can buy right now.
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Not only does it blast your burglar with loads of light, it also integrates with my security system, Ajax, that I'm going to be installing a little bit later on in the video. Now, not only does it do the blast of light, it also adds a
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really cool police light. Now, because it integrates with my Ajax system, it means that I can arm it and disarm it when required. Now, I will put all of Jason's details from Nightaber in the description below, but as you can see, I
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put absolutely loads of them around my house, which will only help Tina feeling safe. And now that all my fence was done, it meant that we could move on to the next thing.
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What an incredible couple of days. To think that we have got over 30 bays done in less than two in less than one full day. Really, I'm absolutely shattered. So, right now I'm going to do my magic clap and I'll see
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you in three, two. We are on a new day and it's time to get all the little finishing touches done. So, we're going to trim all the tops off. We should have trimmed them before we put them in, but
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we live and learn. Now, let's talk about the security system. As you can imagine, the internet is a wash wipe of all different companies, but we want the most cuttingedge forwardinking company that we can find. That led us to Ajax. And
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after doing loads of research, that is the company that we're going to be choosing. And for our installer, we found Sha, a trusted installer that has done it for over 15 years that installs the Ajax system. That was important.
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Now, Shawn got straight to work installing the two cameras on the front post at the front of the house. I have said front a lot of times. Now, when it comes to the cameras themselves, they are pretty advanced. They have AI built
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into them. You'll also notice that Shawn is hardwiring these cameras in. And that is because my next door neighbor works in cyber security and he recommended that all of my cameras and lightsabers were hardwired into my system. So if it
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was to ever go down, I still have the raw footage. Just when you think we've ran enough cable around the garden, Sean, we haven't.
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We haven't. We've got to put one more in, which is going to be like a main data source cable that runs from a YouTube studio to the house. So, we're going to rod this round now, put one more data cable in, and then we can
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hopefully see if we can get some cameras up and running. Now, the problem is if I don't hardwire this system in, I run the risk of a cyber attack, which I obviously don't want to do.
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Oh, could be. Could be B. Yay! We made it, baby. We made it. Right.
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Right. There we go. That'll do. Now that it's through, I can tape the cable to that rodding cable that we made.
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That'll do. Do you want to start pulling it through, mate? Ready? Yeah. Oh, there we go. Proof.
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Yeah. Come in. Now, as you can imagine, nothing quite goes of plan. The cable wouldn't run through the conduit that we had made into the house. This won't fit through.
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No, there's something in that pipe. Yeah. Come on. Now, I've spent the last 12 months building my dream garden, which meant I've had a load of diggers in the back garden. Got it. Got it.
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Stay there. Which potentially means I may have crushed the pipe that I'm trying to get the cable through.
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Yeah, there you go. There we go, boy. Huge problem avoided. Let's talk about the security system and why am I spending so much time and energy and money on it. Well, that actually boils down to Tina because rightly so. She worries about
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everything. Us buying our very first home was the most nerve-wracking thing that we have ever done. Such a huge investment by two people kind of middleage was a scary thing to do. But this wasn't our first house. We actually
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lived in a rented house for about 4 years together. And this was the garden.
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Now, we tried to do what we could to make it a little bit better and safer, but as you can imagine, Tina wanted the new home to be super secure. So, Sean actually worked on the inside of the
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property as well. We're not just making the outside secure. We want to make this full house safe. So, this is a P cam.
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Little bit different to a surveillance camera where if anybody breaks it, this one will just take a few snapshots and send them straight to customer. So we're going to replace this conventional smoke alarm with Ajax's fire protect 2. So
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this is not just an ordinary smoke alarm. This is heat, smoke, and carbon monoxide too. All notifications coming straight through to app. Now one good thing about this security system is everything that we are installing all goes through to one app, which is mad
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when you think about the smoke alarm being on the same app, but it gives you a full report of every device. And not only that, I can also upgrade and update each camera when necessary. Now, that is pretty cool.
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Now, when it comes to the security of the house, we are going a little bit over the top. We're adding around 20 cameras around the property to give full coverage. Not just cameras, we're adding PIR cameras which once triggered takes
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pictures and sends it through to your app. Now Sean has been an absolute legend throughout this whole process. So if you're looking for security on your house, I do recommend him and his details will be in the description
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below. But as he's installing as he's installing the last camera, which meant that all the coverage and all the angles were completely covered.
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Now, I'm going to attempt something that I don't think has ever been done before.
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But to do that, I need to clean up my driveway because right now, the front of it is an absolute mess. And I can't install a resin driveway if the front's a mess because it would just look terrible. And I've currently got a rock
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left over from the pond build. So, we're going to move that to the front of the garden or driveway. And we're going to tidy up that little patch to give the resin something to sit into. And now that the big heavy rock was installed,
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it meant that we can build up this area to make it look nice and pretty. So we used the other spare rock that we had in the back garden and we built up a little bit of a wall and then added some datim
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edge. Now this is going to give the driveway that lovely crisp look that I require. To install them is pretty easy.
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You just install the pins, tighten them up, and job is a good. Honestly, these data edges have been an absolute lifesaver for me throughout this project. I've pretty much used them in every place that I can just to edge off
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things. So, what I've decided to do here is just add some rocks which ties into the back garden. I'll probably might even put some lights near, plant it up, and it'll look really, really nice rather than put like sleepers in which
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was my initial idea, but they just rot. You know, if you're putting a premium driveway in, you want it to look insane.
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So now that all the 20 mil clean stone is in, Paul's give it a good old whack.
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He's probably going to spend a little bit more time on the whacker just to compress it down as much as possible.
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Now with this driveway, it's going to have quite a lot of heavy machinery on it. So we're going to use a base with super strength. Let me explain. Now when it comes to the buildup of the driveway, we're going to be a bit extreme. We're
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going to add a layer of terram and then 200 mm of type 3ote. A layer of anti membrane and then 50 mm of resin base.
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Now for the base is this aggregate slightly bigger looks like washed pearl. Now Paul, you've never installed this style.
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You've been a part of cat. Hang on a minute. Who is Paul Farrell? Well, if you've never seen my videos before, he is not only a legend, he is one of the best resin installers in the UK. He is a
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resin mill certified installer. And not only is he become a friend over the years, we have done many videos together now, and I'm sure some of you watching this video absolutely love these guys.
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They're absolute legends. Please give them some love in the comments. Which was similar, but very similar. Do you remember when we had to whist at part A and part B?
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Yep. You no longer need to do that, Paul. Wow. You can just put this tub in four bags, mix it up, 3 minutes, and you're good to go. We are going to add the binding quartz in to give it that extra
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strength. We are going to add catalyst in this for just a mill to help it go off a little bit quicker. We whisk the catalyst in for 30 seconds, and then we're literally good to go. So, normally when you layer a permeable concrete
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base, how long do you have to wait? I'll say overnight just for peace of mind.
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The permable concrete. Permable concrete. Yeah. Give it Give it a couple of hours, you can go on this. Superb. Now, for me to be able to install my next security feature, we need to get the base complete. So, we add that anti- crack
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membrane and then 50 mm of this resin base. Now, as you can imagine, resin is a very skilled trade. So, if you or someone that you know is looking for a driveway to be complete, check out the Resin Mills website because they have
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people like Arie all over the UK that they recommend to install their product. Now, when it comes to installing the resin, you'll notice throughout the video I spray Aris T with a solution, and that is white spirits. It helps keep
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your TR nice and clean, and it glides along the surface of the resin. Once we were happy, he then runs over it with the power flow. And this is because of modernday cars. Obviously, you're installing a natural product, you're
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going to get lumps and bumps. So, using that power flow limits or reduces them lumps and bumps. So when you're driving in your car, your resin looks nice and flat. And once we've give it a couple of days to dry, it looked absolutely
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amazing from where it had come from. Now Tina, feeling safe in our own home is an absolute priority. She has been with me long before social media and she has stood by my side every single step of the way and I feel it's my job as a
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partner to make her feel safe in our own home. Now the driveway is fully based.
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The gates are done. The security is done. It's now time to add a product that I am super excited about. I have installed this on so many other people's gardens. I've always been a little bit jealous, but now I get to install it in
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my driveway. Extreme LED flex or lighting. What we're going to do is we're going to wrap a 200 mm perimeter right around the full driveway to give it a really kind of bespoke posh look.
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Now, I know this garage needs to go, but I haven't got the time, money, or resources to be able to do that right now. I'd love to be able to upgrade that in the future, but right now it's just
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on the list, the ever lending list that you have as a homeowner. I didn't think when buying a house I would have such a long list, but you do. Anyway, it's time for me and Isaac to crack on. Are you
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excited? Excited, mate. Can't wait. Finally, nail in the coffee, mate. Is he? Yeah. Well, hopefully not, mate. No, not in the coffee. No, not in the coffin.
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No. How cool is that? Kinetic Customs have come through yet again with the most insane blade that I have ever seen. I'm going to protect this one. Now, when it comes to in Oh no, my knife. Oh no, I've
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bruised it. Oh, so sorry. Anyway, when it comes to installing the LEDs, you really do have to take your time planning them, planning out where you want them to be.
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The reason that's important, when you turn them on at night, there's no kind of protection or there's no leeway with them. They have to be perfect because you'll just notice it. So, what we're going to do is we're going to dry fit
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them first. Make sure that we're fully happy with everything and then we can start to install them. Got about that.
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It's fault. Now, I'm going to attempt something that has never been done before. Connect my Oro lighting up to my security system, which means if we get an intruder, this driveway will light up like a Christmas tree. But for that to
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happen, we need to install them perfectly. So, we installed the trims, making sure that they're exactly 200 mm away from the fence. Then, we used the string line to make sure that line was straight, and then we could install
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them. You ready, Logan? Guess what's in it? And you can have it. And And what?
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Whenever I order or cook something, what do I get? You should be embarrassed that you've not watched my videos cuz right now, you know, you would get loads of sweets.
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unlucky. Absolutely. Oh, he must do. But it's worth buying them just for this. I know you can go shop and get, but it's not the point.
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Pull it tight. Yeah, that's it. That'll do. Now, to secure these tracks in, we normally use adhesive. But what we've found is sometimes it doesn't go off quick enough. So, when you come the next day, if you're putting resin in, you
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kind of need this to just stay exactly where you want it. So, what we're going to do is we're going to mix some epoxy up. And this sets rock hard in literal minutes.
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So, we'll just do a little bit at a time. 50/50. Disclaimer, I would not try it this way.
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It ended up being an absolute nightmare. The resin wasn't going off quick enough, and when it did go off, it wasn't strong enough. So, we actually reverted back to good old trusty CT1. Me thinking it would be quicker, it ended up being a
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lot longer. But one thing is for sure, the trims were looking beautifully and neat. Perfect for the LEDs.
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All the trims are completely in around the garden apart from one. We missed it off the order, a curvy trim because you can't bend them straight ones. You have to use the curvy one. So, we've ordered two lengths of them. Sorry, meant to do
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that. Didn't mean to do that. We left two left to m and we're going to wrap that around that curve. But for now, let's install the LEDs.
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Lee has given me a diagram of where I need to install these. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start feeding it in the track all the way down. Make sure that I'm happy with it.
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And then this part of the cable, which is obviously the wire, that's going to be fed into the the hub of love that we've created at the end of the garden where all the electrics and the data cable. Because what I want to happen is
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if the alarm was to ever go off, it would trigger these LEDs to come on automatically. So, it kind of glows the whole garden up. That's the idea.
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Anyway, we'll see at the end of the video if that works. Got to protect your knees, guys.
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Right. So, all I'm doing here, I'm feeding the LED into the track. And I'm just using my palm on my hand just to make sure it's always clipped in to the very bottom. Because what happens if you don't and there's a little bit sticking
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up. And you can see you can see in the LED when it's turned on, it looks like it's got bumps in it. You just have to spend a little bit of time. The more time you make putting it in looking
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really good, the better it will look in the end. We are just waiting on the last bit of curvy trim to go around this bit of detail. So, what we're doing in the meantime while we're waiting is we're
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cutting five squares off here for the anti-craft membrane along the edge down there. So, we're going to kind of work on that. Hopefully hopefully the delivery comes. Leaf Marco sent it uh for A.M. delivery on the Saturday and
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it's still not come. FedEx nightmare. But we're kind of getting somewhere. What we will do in the time being is we'll get all the trims around the outside. We're going to get all the anticcraft membrane in on the main drive
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and then that way soon as the trim comes, we can put all of the dove gray on the edging. And now I've never ever done this before. We're going to be edging the driveway with another resin color. Normally people put blocks in,
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but then Harry come up with the idea, why don't we why don't we do a resin border? that that's a really good idea because I don't need to put blocks in to retain anything because we've got the full fence, right? So, let's crack on.
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Disaster avoided. I'm going to have to give her credit. It was Tina's idea. Tina's idea. Hello.
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Now, what we have decided to do is we trimmed the track that we've already got and we put it either side and then we power grabbed it in and now it fits absolutely beautiful as you can see.
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Beautiful. Look, it will look better once the resin's in cuz the power grabs on all everywhere. It looks a bit bit It'll look better, I promise. Right now, it's time to get mixing and get installing some beautiful Dove gray
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resin. Let's go. Oh my god. Go up. We just managed to get it all done. But if I don't say so myself, I think it looks absolutely incredible. This is dove gray. We brought it out to have a
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little bit of a step. It wraps around the bowl and then if you look straight down there, there's a perfectly straight line. So, tomorrow we're going to be installing the platinum, which I've never actually seen platinum, so I'm
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excited to see that color. That was Tina's idea to go light on the outside, dark on the inside. How's How have you been today, love?
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I'm tired. Me, too. See you tomorrow. It's time to add the Pierre Resistance, the final coat of platinum resin. All the borders are set. So, one of the top questions that we always get asked about resin is how long can you leave it before you
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walk in it? And more importantly on a driveway, put your cars in it. Now, if you can't obviously feel this, but here it's dry, but it's not like fully fully kind of rock solid. And over here, it's a tiny bit tacky. So, ideally, you want
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to leave it around two days, maybe even three days before you put your vehicles on it. You can, however, walk on it the next day. The problem you got with walking on it the next day, like immediately if you've worked late, like
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we did yesterday, is over here, it's really tacky. So, the resin's gone off. It's You can hear it. It's gone off, but you can feel how it's a tiny bit tacky.
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And then what happens is you'll have dirt on your shoes. you walk that into the resin and it will kind of stain your resin. So, ideally, leave it a couple of days, at least a 24-hour period before you
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walk on it and then a good 2 three days to to drive at it. That's my advice anyway. I think someone's just arrived.
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The boys are here. Don't step on the thingy mate. There you are. How you doing, pal?
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Thank you, brother. Not easy since America. I know. Oh, he missed me. Bloody hell.
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There's Isaac. Hello. What's that you've got there, mate? A nice coffee. Do you know what? I'm never asking Tina to make you a coffee ever again.
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Gets his own coffee in the morning. Who does that? Who does that? Have you had a coffee yet?
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No, not yet. You had a coffee yet? You had a coffee? No. No. Not yet.
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No. No. Can we have two coffees, please? As we were setting up for the resin, Tina brought us out some lovely coffees.
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Now, you might remember in the summer when I built her her very own private island, and that is because she didn't feel like she had a space out in the garden. So, we brought in a best mate Amy and together we come up with the
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idea of building a bespoke cabin master building with a Mkinot style touch on the inside. But when it comes to decorating, I'm not going to lie, that's my weak point. So, Amy come in and she helped me decorate the whole building
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before surprising it with Tina. Now, I'm not going to lie. This is the best video that I have ever done to date. It was the most heartwarming video that I've ever done because I got to give my wife
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a slice of something that she truly truly deserves. She puts up with so much from me. So, to give her an outdoor space was amazing. But what's more important is giving her a safe house. We are fully prepared to mix. Now, what
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actually goes in to one mix of resin? Well, we have got four bags of the resin rocks. Now this is pretty cool because years ago and some companies still kind of working in the old days they have all
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different sizes of aggregate that you have to mix up in the machine for a certain amount of time to get the kind of right amount of stone mix so all the color is exactly the same. What resin mill have done is just thought hang on a
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minute why don't we mix that up before it goes to the client to save them time.
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Love that idea. So that is where resin rocks come in. Now this is called platinum. You have four bags to two buckets of part A, part B. You mix the part A into part B for one minute. And
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then after 1 minute of the stones mixing with the resin, you then add the bag of vining quartz. This gives your drive 25% more strength. So once you've mixed the whole solution for 3 minutes, it comes out of this hopper into the barrerow and
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then we can get mixing. Now, what we are adding here is essentially it's called an anti- crack membrane. So, we're overlapping it around 100 mil. And then what AR's doing, top tip. What you doing, Ari?
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Scissors. Scissors. Now, the amount of times where we see people using blades, grinders, you don't want to grind into the subbase because that could create stress marks or stress lines where the resin could crack. So, we're just using scissors um
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to make sure that we're cutting nice and straight right around. And this basically sits between your base resin and your top coat of resin. And the reason for it, say if you turn your tires, you're adding so much pressure at
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that pinch point. And what this does, it distributes that kind of stress throughout this membrane. That's why we overlap it. Cuz when you overlap it, what'll happen, we'll have to just pull this over a bit more. So you want around
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about 100 mil. And then this once this is kind of bonded in with the resin, this will just act as one big giant support frame. What we are doing as well is you'll notice as we're putting it in,
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we're wrapping it over the top of this one. The reason that's important, it might not seem like a big deal, but say for instance, this is lifted up a little bit and you tip your resin, if the resin
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sits in between there, then it sticks up out of the resin, and you do not want that to happen. So, wherever you're installing, so if you're installing this way to that way, make sure you overlap it from there to there, and it'll just
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make your life so much easier. But that is why when you're installing resin or you want a resin driveway, whether you're a customer or if you're a landscaper looking to get into this, it is super important to make sure that you
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get it right. That's why the resin mill have installers like Harry like Paul that have been doing resin for I think your dad said 20 years 15 years he's been doing resin so basically resin miller give him an
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accreditation to say look as a company we recommend this person and now Arian Paula booked up for the rest of the year and into most of next year however I'll put his details in the description below if you want to wait for someone that's
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special or if you want a really good resin installer No matter where you're in the are in the country, go to the resin mills website. There's also like an AI thing where you can take a picture of your driveway and it'll show you what
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your drive would look like with resin and then you can book a really good installer near you. Cuz Harry don't like traveling that much now, do you? What about America, Harry? Do you like America?
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Loved it, mate. Brilliant. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll drop the video here.
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Yeah, you know. Oh, he's blaming it on blaming it on the scissors. Top tip how to use scissors.
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Set me up, man. Set me up with some dodgy scissors. We are now ready for the top coat of resin. But before we do that, I want to show you something. Now, when you order a color, because this is a natural
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stone, everything comes in batches. So, what we're doing here is we got a little bit of a low spot. And you would naturally think that them colors are two different colors, but you'd be kind of right and you'd be kind of wrong because
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you've got dove gray and then you've got dove gray. But because they're two different batteries batteries, the two different batches, you can clearly see the difference between the two colors.
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So when you're ordering your resin, you need to make sure that you have enough because you can't patch it in, can you, Ari?
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No. How many times you've been very close to the line? Too many times. Yeah.
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you if for for anyone that wants to know the feeling of this, imagine having a battery powered car and it says 20%.
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And then it says that the next charging station is 18% away. That's the same feeling that you get with the uh with the resin when you don't have enough.
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We are roughly around about 50ish% of the way through. And if I don't say so myself, it's looking absolutely insane.
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I really like the color of the platinum and the dub gray. It looks amazing. We are going to have to I mean, I'm going to sort this out in the future, but now when you look back and you just see the
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garden with the the front bit, that's how I wanted it to look, but now the driveways in it makes it look beautiful.
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Let us know what you think of it in the comments so far. And if you don't already, do tap that subscribe button.
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Does really mean a lot. It's now time to add the final coat of resin at the front of the house. So, all I've done is I've just cut a nice straight line in here, kinkedked it in there, kinkedked it in there to mark the
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driveway. We want black resin between here and the road just to give it a beautiful nice clean finish. I'm going to put some anti membrane down and get installing the resin.
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It's now time to install finally the Aroco lighting. Now, we have obviously got it installed around the whole driveway. However, we need to build this power bank up. So, this is where all the electrics are going to sit in. We're
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going to play around get it all looking nice and neat. So, essentially all the power.
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to the front of all the gates, the intercom system, the security, it all lies in here. So, I need to make that look a lot lot tidier than what it is and kind of split between the two. The
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problem is if I get this wrong, I'll blow the whole LEDs and potentially blow the electrics in the house. Now, I would always recommend getting an electrician to do anything like this. I'm wiring it all to a plug. So, I've got the fuse to
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protect me and I've got the RCDs in the house to protect me, but I still don't want to get it wrong.
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Now, I'm not going to lie. It was at this stage I felt like quitting because I couldn't find the piece of paper that Lee had sent to install this system.
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toe. I dug deep in my mind of knowledge and built up all of the system from what he told me in the past and then hopefully it would all work in the end.
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I guess there's only one way to find out. We are done. We are done. Let me open this beautiful box and let me show you exactly what we have been up to.
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Look how neat that is. So, we've got three drivers. We've got three receivers going into the power bank power bank into this adapter which is connected to my security system. So when cameras get triggered, it will automatically set off
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these LEDs. That's the plan. Anyway, now we've got Sean coming tomorrow to put the final touches on the security system. But right now, everything, all the added on, all the LEDs are connected to plugs to the security system. So if
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the security was to ever trigger, all the lights shine in the house and completely flood out the garden. How cool is that? Now, there is one more thing that we need to add to make Tina feel super safe, and that is packages. I
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think we can all agree on the delivery drivers are not always as nice with your packages as you would like them to be.
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Let me explain. Now, we do have a option on our intercon system for deliveries. So, they can click it. We can it will ping to us wherever we are in the world and it will let the drivers in to be able to put the
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parcels inside. But sometimes they don't even do that. They throw it over the gate. So, I've got something that will hopefully solve all of them problems.
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Watch how cool this is. Gates open. Voice activated. It recognizes my voice and it opens them. Now, let me go and grab it. Now, this is probably one of the smartest inventions that I have seen in a long time. And it is a parcel box
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secure system. Now, I'm not sure how it works yet, but we're going to unbox it and we're going to set it up. And hopefully when the delivery drivers come, they can see this. They can put the parcels in this and that way they
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stay safe for when we're not at home, we still get our deliveries. Now, apparently these are really easy to install. So, let's figure it out.
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Oh, matches my gates. Oh, hang on. There we go. If that goes on there, then that makes sense. But then there's not a bottom one on. Probably best reading the instructions.
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Oh yeah, it's just one. Now to install it. Looks pretty simple. All I need to do is figure out how high I want this box to be. So I'm thinking about there. So I know I need to put my
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bracket around about here. I'm going to pop that through there. Put it through the gate. Now, I'm going to go and get my level.
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Oh. Oh, wow. Look at that. I'm going to do the middle one first. And the reason the reason that I'm doing the middle one first is then I can get it level then. And once I'm happy with the level, I can then tighten the other
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two up. Oh, that was close. Really need some really need a ratchet to hold that. Oh, hang on. Will that not plug into impact driver?
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Honestly, sometimes I am an absolute genius. Look at this. I now have, see, everything happens for a reason, don't it? I always say that.
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Now I can put that on there. Put this on here and go supersonic. All right, now this one. Oh no, I'm not long enough.
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Too a bit too far. I might have cracked it. Oh, well, let me see if it's tight enough. Feels strong. Feels very strong.
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That is beautiful. Right, let's open that up. So, I need to lock this in place. Now, that bottom bracket has three holes in it.
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through there. I am I'm just a DIY guy. Yeah. Next one. Cheat code. I'm bringing the owner.
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Hello. Hi. Hi, mate. It's Mark Marshall. Can you hear me? Okay. Everybody. Yeah. Any like anything any help you need, just give us a shout.
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Perfect. And then if I have to nip over or whatever, I'll shoot over. Awesome. Cheers, buddy. Cheers, mate.
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Right. need to get Ethernet. Luckily, look where all the hub is for this side of the garden. It's in that box there.
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So, I have Ethernet in there. And that's just when I when I um built all the driveway in the house, I thought I'm just going to future proof everything and put Ethernet down here. And at the time, it didn't make sense to anybody
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because like, well, why would you put Ethernet? And I've got Ethernet running all around. Ethernet cables like Cat 6 cable that is running right around the whole garden. And the reason that I did that is because you just don't know
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where technology is going to take you. So now I preempted the future and guess where we are? We're in the future. So now I just need to figure out connecting it. Right. I need an Ethernet cable which will run down here into the back
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of there. So let's go and get an Ethernet cable. Sean, let me drill through that.
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If I put that through here, there's stuff you have to do to keep your misses happy.
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Hate it when it does that. Now it's just a big wiry mess. I reckon we need a longer lead.
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That was sarcasm. Cuz that goes up there now. Three there. So if I squeeze that, plug that in there.
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Put there. We are literally making a custom cable. Pretty pretty smart. Go on, Shaunie.
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I can see flashing boy. And let's go and check to see if it's working. We got a blue light.
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Something's happening. Right. We need to download an app. I don't remember my password. Hey pal.
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Parcel box. Get in there, mate. All the gear. No idea. So, I'm now downloading the link.
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I'm hoping it's easy from there. Yeah. Hello. Sign up. Got to go through all that jazz.
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Uh, I accept terms and conditions. I agree. Oh, sent you an email. It's disappeared.
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It's literally just disappeared. It's making me sign up again. And it's not saved it.
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And now it's going to tell me I've already got got an account. An account has already been made.
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I hate technology. Success. So there is a Wi-Fi device in your location using return to homepage.
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Oh, I'm It's doing something. What's it doing? Hello. Oh my god. It's working. Look at that.
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Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Oh my god. We did a thing. We've got a box. Love. A fancy one. Look at that.
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Lost a Why have you lost a dog? Well, I found one. No, I've got a dog here. That's mine.
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What's your name? Thought he's not talking. Are you a boy? I don't know if he's British. In fact, I don't even know if he's a boy. I've not got under the chassis.
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I think that's a girl. Love, right? I think I think then Blossom. Blossom. That's a Imagine it was called Blossom.
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See you later. See you later, love. Right. Let's see if it works. Right. Press the button, Luke.
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It's working. Right. Hello. Hello. Hello. How can I out? Sorry. No trespassers. I'm going to see if it'll open the door.
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Ready? Three, two, one. That is sick. Oh, I need to show Tina. She has no clue what I'm doing about this. Let me go and get her. Come on, love. Right. What's the one thing that's been stressing you out recently?
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You got apart from me when we've been getting stuff delivered to the house. What's been super annoying you? The most annoying thing is when they either say they attempted delivery and they clearly didn't or when they don't attempt to
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knock on or ring through and they just chuck the parcel over. Right. We didn't need your life story but come with me. Right. I'm going to cover your eyes.
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Oh god. Come. This is brilliant. Love. You're going to love every Oh no. Is it Jeff? Jeff Jeff Bezos. It's all right.
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I don't trust you. I don't trust you. I'm fine. I think we're fine. Right.
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Stand here. Turn around. Stand here. Ready? Look at that. What is it? What is it?
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Robot. Press that little button there, love. It's ringing you. Yeah. Hello. What have you got from Amazon? I've got a parcel and no one.
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One minute, love. That's sick. How cool is that? Oh my god. Anyway, wait and see. See what else I've got for you.
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Oh gosh. Now, that's all levels of security complete on the garden and the house.
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So, let's show Tina. Right. Are you ready for me to show you something pretty cool? Get your phone out.
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Yeah. Swipe up. So, I've downloaded an app on your phone called Ajax. So, this now is the app for the full security of the house. So, if you click on there, we have got all the cameras set up. So, in
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total, hello. We've got over 20 cameras around the house. It's like big brother. It's like big brother. Uh but more importantly to make you feel super safe, if you click that button there, that alarms the whole house. Now we've
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got laser beams round every all the angles that you can even think of. So right now all the elements in the security is completely armed. If for instance you're at home on your own and you feel like there's an intruder and
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you've not set the alarm, you can click this button and this will trigger the alarm.
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Oh hello. Yeah, that's loud. It's very loud. And the police are on the way.
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The police are on the way. So, if you just press disarm on there, that will disarm the whole alarm.
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And now it's gone off. Oh, that's mag. You can arm individual segments in your Well, so now it says that you have triggered trigger this alarm.
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And then obviously I'm not going to have the alarms on if I'm awake sat in the house. So if I was thought I heard someone or someone's dodgy, I can just press that to say.
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But not only Yeah. But not only if you if you smash panic on that, that notifies me on my phone as well.
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Panic. So it panics me. So don't don't clicky happy on it. Yeah. Okay. Uh what is smoke cannon?
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Let me show you. But first, let me explain something. Oh my god. Oh my god. Now, ever since buying the home, we have dealt with so many problems, it's hard to even think about it. Yet, Tina has stood by my side every
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step of the way. We have celebrated every little win just to make the journey feel a little bit better.
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However, when it comes to the security of the home, that was no joke. Tina told me that I need to make her feel safe.
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So, I went above and beyond adding AI cameras, doing things that I've never done before to try and make her feel safe. And that is why I have added over five different layers of security to make that happen, pushing my skill set
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far beyond the level that I actually have. And along the way, I think I've made my house pretty special. Let me know what you think of it in the comments. But there is one thing that I haven't shown you yet. And this one is
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pretty special. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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