How we Built a GIANT 30ft indoor Halfpipe for £5,000 Including Housing

[Music] all right boys today you join me from the inside of our indoor skate ramp now I put up a post on my Community page the other day asking if you guys wanted a video on how we built this ramp the housing around it how much it all cost the breakdown and how you could do something like that for yourself so that's what we're doing in today's video so all that being said let's get straight into it all right so starting off with the ramp I think that's the main attraction here this was built by A1 skate ramps the company whose logo is put here I will disclose that we did get a bit of a discount on the ramp I'm going to include all the prices that you would have to pay for someone that doesn't do content creation for a living because that we got a discount but it wasn't too massive so it's still going to be fairly affordable for you guys as well and the best part about it is the housing was bought full price all the way around so that's going to be completely affordable for you guys too now starting off with the dimensions this thing here is 2 1/2 ft which bar mind is slightly under what you would find at most skate parks which makes it perfect for training on right this thing from left to right is about 25 26 ft and we got an 8T extension right here now this sort of thing would definitely run up the cost a bit to have this extension cuz obviously the most expensive part of building a ramp is the wood now the whole thing north to south east to west bear in mind we've got super long copings as well so you can hold the grinder on this thing for a long time you can get really good training sessions in on this ramp I honestly couldn't ask for it to be better the only other thing that I would do if I was going to redo the whole thing from scratch is I would stick the coping out a little bit further just so it's easier to hit a blunt on but other than that this thing is absolute perfection and because we did such a long flat bottom you can also put a small ledge small rail in the bottom hit it from the side hit it from the corner practice your flat ground [Music] pla do some tricks in my opinion this is the best of all worlds because you can hit the flat you can hit the extension hit the ramp you can learn so much here so what was the cost how much is something like this going to set you back so if you were to go and buy something of this size bear in mind the majority of people aren't going to want anything anywhere near this long or this tall so you probably end up spending a considerable amount less than we did but this would cost you about £5,000 for the whole ramp we ended up paying about 3,200 for it so we did get a good deal on it and that's mainly because obviously we make YouTube videos shorts and all that and we let him put his logo in there so that's where the discount came from so now you're always going to be seeing that at least for the foreseeable future now bear in mind that this cost doesn't include any like treatment to make the thing waterproof cuz we assumed we were going to have this indoors it was originally meant to go in one of my friend's shops but that fell through I won't go into that in detail but yeah so we had to paint this with a weatherproof paint it took two tins and that was £200 to paint the whole things and we and one of the boys we got to do it because obviously me and my business partner bought the ramp so the boys were happy to put in the manual labor to help us out so the cost so far is 3,400 including the ramp the paint and everything but you could honestly get it for about half the price maybe like 2,000 2,500 for the ramp if you just one shrunk it down to about 2/3 of the width which bear in mind would still be a perfectly skateable ramp or or you could just remove some of the flat bottom and you could honestly probably cut the cost down massively to like £1,500 if you wanted to economize on the size of the ramp which most people would want to do me and my friends just like to hit a nice grind which you can still do on a smaller side like this but say we cut off this extension and just had it like this way so you hold this side of the ramp and the extension that would probably cost you about half the price cuz this is at least half the material including the extension and then if you shrank the flat bottom honestly 1, 15002 Grand you probably get this ramp for but the main thing that people want to know about I think is the housing and how we got it round which be in mind you would save a lot of money on as well if you were having a smaller ramp but I'm going to talk about our experience and what we did because this thing is massive now let's jump outside and start from [Music] [Applause] there [Music] for God's sake right in the mud anyway as you can see this thing is a ginormous gazebo and this cost us the whole thing like the whole gazebo like material the Windows Doors everything and all the poles to build it cost us £ 1,090 which for something like this like you could live in this Beast it's made for weddings giant events outside and it's stormproof weatherproof rainproof and even apparently fireproof but I wouldn't really want to test that one very much but like I said this thing is massive but it wasn't quite big enough because the size of our ramp is just as massive and the extension is 8T tall so we had to find a way to make this higher than what it would be normally when it sat down it was about 2 ft Too Short just sitting on the ground so what we had to do is we had to get some extra coping rails so the ones that we actually used for the ramp in there we got some of those and we concreted them into the ground now this is to assure that it doesn't blow away in the wind it says it wouldn't anyway but we aren't taking any chances with something so expensive so what we did is we got the poles they come in 20t poles and what we did is we bought five of them and cut them down so they're about 6 to 7 ft each these and they're 4T in the ground and about 2 ft up and then what we did is we slot the normal poles from the gazebo in inside them to extend the height and they've been bolted in in multiple places so they don't move at all and the bottom bit is dug right into the ground a trench has been dug concrete's been poured in so these things are not going anywhere so if you want to take extra precaution make sure that you concrete your housing into the ground because otherwise you might be at risk especially in the UK of losing it to a weather storm so we definitely had to go the extra mile to capitalize on that and the poles the poles cost us I think they were like we got five of them we got five of the poles and they were about 80 each so it cost us just under 400 for all the poles to go around so in total adding up the cost of the ramp and the paint That's 3,400 and then the cost of the Gazebo that's 11 so that's 4500 the poles are then 400 so that's 4,900 in total so we've made this happen for just under £5,000 now there were a few other odd bits and buls that we needed to build it like bolts sand discs things to like actually cut the poles in half a lot of our friends actually had some of the tools already so we managed to save a bit of money on that so if you've got friends and you want to build something like this if they're going to come and use it but you're the one paying for it you make sure they help you you would have had to pay quite a lot if you were to go for like someone professional to come in from like a company and do that for you it would have probably cost you just as much as like the polls and stuff like that so we manag to save money on that I highly recommend doing that if you've got friends that can help you and they're intending to use the ramp like obviously if you've just got people that are coming in they're never going to use the ramp pay them pay them obviously but if they're going to use the ramp that's payment enough so the great thing about this one as well is the doors can pretty much go anywhere they just have these Zips that you've got one two here so you can zip this thing up you can reel them up so say in the summer it gets super hot and maybe you don't want all the walls up you can literally just unzip these roll them up you've got a nice breeze coming through and then if we step inside not to mention by the way we've got nice windows so if it's raining outside and you're coming in for a nice session you've got the rain hit in the window it's super cozy super nice honestly I couldn't ask for better scenario and then like I said just a second ago you can take these little pings out here and roll these up to there and then you've just got the wind coming through the breeze the sunlight you can have this just as like a shade cover in the summer or you can have the windows down and cruise through the city in style when it's raining oh and one thing I forgot to mention is the cost of the concrete that we put into the ramp we ended up using 24 bags of postcrete postcrete is basically just like premixed concrete bags that is specifically made for holding posts into the ground like lamp posts stuff like that and I think that cost us about it was like £8 a bag so I'll put the was it 8 * 24 let's do that let's do maths right there quick maths I'll do it on my head but then I might be wrong and you guys will call me out so actually no you won't cuz you're idiots so 8 * 24 just joking only most of you are idiots 192 so round it up to 200 that makes the whole cost 5100 so for £ 5,100 you get a ginormous ramp with a big boy extension but if you were to make this without the discount we got for being content creators you would be looking at paying around 7,000 maybe like 6500 but that's only if you want something of this size now as I said before this is ginormous if you made the ramp smaller you can get a smaller gazebo but do not go any bigger on the ramp cuz this gazebo is the biggest you can possibly buy at least in the UK they don't sell anything bigger and we even had to extend the height on it as I told you just a minute ago so definitely don't go bigger on the ramp but if you were to go smaller you could get a smaller gazebo you could probably get something like this for half the price and if you were to try build something out of wood around it it would cost you so much money but get yourself a weatherproof a stormproof gazebo build your ramp put the Gazebo on top of it and boom you've got an indoor skate ramp and you are no longer subject to the horrible UK weather and it costs you less than the deposit of a house and trust me it's way more fun [Music] [Music] [Music] sh per