I have been following you guys since I saw a news article a few ago! I just love how you saw the accidental mix up as an adventure and just rolled with it! So cool to see the progress, your finished home is going to be amazing! - sent from the USA!
Firstly,,, I admire your taking on such a task,,in such a...climatic place as the west of Scotland... "Love In a Cold Climate" indeed. The structural integrity of the window surrounds interested me...glad to see to got The Roof Done... a priority. With inside walls, and all that collapsing lath work,, I wondered if you were going to reline it with plasterboard/Gib board I think Americans call it "drywall"?, but I can see with all the lovely new framing where you are going. Midwinter for you now..as I send this from midsummer NZ :-) As the Mainland cheese ad says "Good Things Take Time"---keep going.
You two are absolutely lovely. If there were more people like you, the world would be a much better place. Blown away by all that you've accomplished. Hope your Go fund me exceeds your wildest expectations. You deserve every penny.
Please post more updates! Love your accidental property renovation project! After knowing that you guys still continued the renovation became an inspiration to everyone to always look at the positive side of everything that will suddenly come along the way 😊
I found you on Facebook. We have done some remodeling in our youth, but your undertaking is more than daunting! Looking forward to watching your progress.
Found your story this morning, started with the blog and from there found my way here! Such a treasure of an adventure and journey, thanks so much for sharing it.
You two are amazing! I've been watching your progress for almost 2 years now. So impressed with all you have accomplished thus far. I look forward to the day I can come as a guest to Jameswood Villa.
You must be the only girlfriend in the world to have been cool with this and go with it 🤣 what a brilliant story, just came across it today and excited to see how it progresses! Good luck
..thank you so much for the update - for those of us W/0 insta - bravo on all y'all's hard work and awesome restoration & updating/upgrading...eagerly awaiting to see what's next ..take care ☮️&🌱's
Today I am happy bucos you showed your whole house and i follow you And I pray to God that your whole house is ready soon. Thanks for this video ❤️ sir 🇳🇵
Just came across your journey on the 'Tradesman Banter' page on Facebook and spent the whole early morning reading your blog and following your Insta! Looks an incredible project and an adventurous lifestyle! One my girlfriend Sarah and myself are hoping to embark upon ourselves in the next few years! We're looking to find a derelict Welsh chapel among the Welsh mountains and villages to renovate into a dream character home. We're both young (31 & 32) and skint too so looking to take on a lot of the project ourselves! I'm an electrician with some other trade experience and Sarah works for a bank in customer service so she will be good with all the planning and finances (project manager!) Though I'll get her on the tools too! 😂 You two remind me very much of ourselves! I totally get Cal with the bureaucracy, I'm the same 'Fuck you I won't do as you tell me!' 😂 Where as Sarah is more like yourself. Looking forward to following your journey building your dream house and hopefully we can share ours in the next couple of years! 😊 Oh and well done for getting this far with the current cost of timber, bet you needed a mortgage for that first fix framework alone! 😂 Best wishes, Matt (Surrey)
Your diligence is off the charts...well done all of you. It's such a heartwarming and uplifting story.....and something we all need to hear in these sad times I hope you both have many years of happiness and love in your new home 🏚🏠🏡 💪👏
You guys must be so proud of yourselves! Every few months I check on your progress ever since I read a news article about your project. Sheer determination, being young, resourceful and with such a positive outlook on life (and no kids yet to take care of 😊) is making all this possible. When do you estimate you guys could be finished? All the best!!
Missed opportunity to you should do a weekly video on what you have done and how as people will be interested and this will add allot more user 😃 great inspirational story that could show others not to be scared 😊
Amazing effort, woah! Loved the Guardian article, too. My partner and I are moving to A&B from Inverness. We are yet to find a place to live but find Dunoon to be so sweet! Hope to bump into you on a hill, in the sea or at Screwfix 😅 Keep up the epic work meantime! -Lana and Evan
Love to follow what you are doing from the Netherlands. Like to see a blueprint from before and now! : -) Because whe you are filming I can't recognize it hahahaha So much nice work done already! Regards.
I follow you from the beginning on instagram, I did not know that you had opened a youtube channel, now I follow you here and with the bell you will have me in notice
thanks for the update been wondering how goes it for you guy's... I don't have instagram either only youtube and FB. Facebook is usually how I find you guy's
So we just read this article on Stuff local and world wide newspaper 📰 on line. Are you going to have weekly you tube channel updates for the renovation.
Do you guys have other jobs that you work at ? I cant imagine the cost of renovations of this size ! Your doing it right though, environmentally and not taking short cuts. Wishing you all the best and many blessings !
We work full time in the house, and Cal takes on carpentry contracts, I make a small amount of earnings from Instagram collaborations and my blog, and work part time managing in hospitality. We also get some help from gofundme! We've spent 60k including 2.5 years of living costs and renovations
i did, too, cuz lots of the early pics showed a lone building. i haven't seen/watched/followed everything, but i believe that's the first time i've seen the block.
We are on the edge of a small marina town. We get a sense of remoteness because our house backs on to open fields and hills, so although we have neighbours, it often feels like we're out in the middle of nowhere! Best of both worlds!
Yeah, I only saw the minor update of them having a kitchen countertop installed. I do not see any video of an entire tour after the thing was completed.
used to follow you on instagram but i got hacked and.......but im back now and wondering, what point are you at ? are you actually residing in the home now, and are you completed, or do you still have a way to go. think you guys are amazing !
Once this is done and you sell the other two units you will have made a really big profit. Especially with people valuing less urbanised areas thanks to covid. I think you could make more profit off of this build by making DIY videos during the build. You should generate a lot more passive income through that with adsense on your RUclips channel over time. Things like how to restore the stone and mortar, will be something that will remain relevant to others in the UK and large parts of Europe, and with good SEO / naming, keywords and description on said video, you will continue to be found for decades to come. Another thing I wish to point out for your build, that will increase the overall longevity of the building is to make a really good drainage system and to prevent the walls from sucking up moisture. My recommendation is to ultimately lead it out and away from the house and its foundation, but set things up so you could collect a bunch of water to water the garden during the height of summer top by simply lowering a cheap electric pump into the tank with the garden hose attached. For the walls, you should look into cutting into them and putting an insulating later underneath them, to prevent moisture from being sucked up into the wall if you haven't already. Likewise, for heat retention, put a wind indicator like a flag down for a while to see your most common wind direction, and put an extra layer of insulation like a plaster board wall on that side of the building, or something like a shed for firewood storage or a glass house or something to break the wind. Unless that's a unit you're selling ofc. The buyer can do that themselves if they want better insulation lol. No point in building something they might remove and change. Depending on the weather conditions, if there's a lot of wind blowing through your street, you might want to consider getting one of those smaller windturbines you see on boats to augment the solar pannels that I assume youll be adding. The power they both generate will earn back your energy costs by saving on them and there might well be a chance that you can actually make money from the extra energy you provide to the power net depending on how things are in the UK. Especially with the rapidly rising energy prices. Long term, you could save an increasingly large amount of money this way. So go as energy self sufficient as you can whilst you can before those prices rise too. Another cool thing, depending on the size of the yard would be to plant a fruit trea or vegetables that you eat the most. Cause the food prices are ascending too. If you want an apple tree for example, if you buy a sapling now, you have a decent young tree in a few years time. So yeah, best of luck and try think smart and thrifty. Look at your most common expenses, and highest expenses and look for ways to save and cut down on them in the long run like that energy bill through smart planning of your home and yard.
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Hope to see more uploads and updates.
You also have the hearts of lions! Thrilled you have managed to buy the rest of the property too. Sending everything good your way. 🥳💝👏
Thanks so much
They have a go fund me page fgs. I cannot imagine why anybody would want to pay for somebody else’s renovation. !! Even worse is actually asking!
@@phoenix-xu9xj because some people out there have a better heart than you
I have been following you guys since I saw a news article a few ago! I just love how you saw the accidental mix up as an adventure and just rolled with it! So cool to see the progress, your finished home is going to be amazing! - sent from the USA!
Firstly,,, I admire your taking on such a task,,in such a...climatic place as the west of Scotland... "Love In a Cold Climate" indeed. The structural integrity of the window surrounds interested me...glad to see to got The Roof Done... a priority.
With inside walls, and all that collapsing lath work,, I wondered if you were going to reline it with plasterboard/Gib board I think Americans call it "drywall"?, but I can see with all the lovely new framing where you are going. Midwinter for you now..as I send this from midsummer NZ :-) As the Mainland cheese ad says "Good Things Take Time"---keep going.
This house is a diamond in the rough. It's going be fantastic. More updates on RUclips please if you can spare the time and energy.
Definitely lion's hearts beating. What a challenge it was and still is. Wonderful work
You two are absolutely lovely. If there were more people like you, the world would be a much better place. Blown away by all that you've accomplished. Hope your Go fund me exceeds your wildest expectations. You deserve every penny.
Please post more updates! Love your accidental property renovation project! After knowing that you guys still continued the renovation became an inspiration to everyone to always look at the positive side of everything that will suddenly come along the way 😊
I found you on Facebook. We have done some remodeling in our youth, but your undertaking is more than daunting! Looking forward to watching your progress.
Seeing pictures of the original views of when you bought the home it now looks amazing.
Found your story this morning, started with the blog and from there found my way here! Such a treasure of an adventure and journey, thanks so much for sharing it.
You are doing an amazing job- the back of the house looks wonderful without the concrete.
Ur doing a grand job good luck with the build watching u at the moment on TV
I wish you could do regular videos this is amazing
Congratulations on your progress! I was absent for a while doing our own building, and am stunned by the changes!! From RSA, we still cheer for you.
Just gone onto Google maps to see the progress and it's really come a long way. Looking good definitely an Inspiration to others
You two are amazing! I've been watching your progress for almost 2 years now. So impressed with all you have accomplished thus far. I look forward to the day I can come as a guest to Jameswood Villa.
You must be the only girlfriend in the world to have been cool with this and go with it 🤣 what a brilliant story, just came across it today and excited to see how it progresses! Good luck
so brave!!! you are superstars in my book. Well done!
Today, February 8, 2022, I just read an article on the internet, and I went to RUclips to look for the videos. I found it very interesting.
Oh my god, I've seen how you fixed the house every time I went to Morrisons and I didn't know you had a RUclips channel about it!
I found this From a Did You Know ? Video today. You guys have done an amazing job so far! I can’t wait to see what else you’ve gotten done this year.
I just stumbled across your story. An update video would be fun. Hang in there, I'm looking forward to the rest of the story.
Can’t wait for an Update. I am soooo enjoying your journey.
I am so happy and excited for you both.
I wish you many Blessings and Success.
🖖🏾
..thank you so much for the update - for those of us W/0 insta - bravo on all y'all's hard work and awesome restoration & updating/upgrading...eagerly awaiting to see what's next ..take care
☮️&🌱's
Both of you proved this, one should never dare.... 👍👍👍🙌🙌
You are really amazing. I hope to see more videos of you
Greetings for your beautiful smile and kind soul
Thank you so much!
Incredible project, guys! Just amazing. Good luck with all the works.
Thank you for posting on RUclips. Best wishes for your future.
An ongoing tale of simply outstanding achievements!!
Qué lindo cómo progresaron!!! Por más éxitos! Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷 👏
Today I am happy bucos you showed your whole house and i follow you And I pray to God that your whole house is ready soon. Thanks for this video ❤️ sir 🇳🇵
Great video Claire and Cal!! You’ve made such great progress! 🥰🥰😘🎉🎉
The iconic toilet makes an appearance 😂😂
Cheeses. You’ve worked so hard for so long and it still looks like there is so much work to be done. Bravo for making it this far!
Just came across your journey on the 'Tradesman Banter' page on Facebook and spent the whole early morning reading your blog and following your Insta!
Looks an incredible project and an adventurous lifestyle!
One my girlfriend Sarah and myself are hoping to embark upon ourselves in the next few years!
We're looking to find a derelict Welsh chapel among the Welsh mountains and villages to renovate into a dream character home. We're both young (31 & 32) and skint too so looking to take on a lot of the project ourselves! I'm an electrician with some other trade experience and Sarah works for a bank in customer service so she will be good with all the planning and finances (project manager!) Though I'll get her on the tools too! 😂 You two remind me very much of ourselves! I totally get Cal with the bureaucracy, I'm the same 'Fuck you I won't do as you tell me!' 😂 Where as Sarah is more like yourself.
Looking forward to following your journey building your dream house and hopefully we can share ours in the next couple of years! 😊
Oh and well done for getting this far with the current cost of timber, bet you needed a mortgage for that first fix framework alone! 😂
Best wishes, Matt (Surrey)
So much hard work and it’s lovely to know my names on one of the beams!
So much work accomplished already! Thank you for the grand tour!🤩 it’s going to be great!
So much passion you both share for this lovely home. Thank you for the updated. Love to see more! Sent from Kettering, Ohio.
Hi! One of my subscribers recommend I check you out. I'm gonna binge watch everything now. I just bought a wreck as well and trying to save it 🏰🏰🏰
Good luck guys!
Once this is done it will be a stunning place. Looking forward to seeing your finished house. ❤
Your diligence is off the charts...well done all of you. It's such a heartwarming and uplifting story.....and something we all need to hear in these sad times
I hope you both have many years of happiness and love in your new home 🏚🏠🏡 💪👏
What an inspirational story, just subscribed to follow your journey. Look forward to seeing the end result!
This is amazing!! I am beyond impressed by what you've done and what you're still planning! Good luck and all the best for the rest of your way!! :)
Thank you for the tour!! You have made such great progress!!
You guys must be so proud of yourselves! Every few months I check on your progress ever since I read a news article about your project. Sheer determination, being young, resourceful and with such a positive outlook on life (and no kids yet to take care of 😊) is making all this possible. When do you estimate you guys could be finished? All the best!!
You both are very very hard working......🙏🙏
More blogs and RUclips updates please!
Missed opportunity to you should do a weekly video on what you have done and how as people will be interested and this will add allot more user 😃 great inspirational story that could show others not to be scared 😊
Amazing effort, woah! Loved the Guardian article, too. My partner and I are moving to A&B from Inverness. We are yet to find a place to live but find Dunoon to be so sweet! Hope to bump into you on a hill, in the sea or at Screwfix 😅 Keep up the epic work meantime! -Lana and Evan
Great work both off you, looking good 😊
Thank you 😁
It's really emerging now! Phenomenal work!!!!
I am your new subscriber from united states. Best wishes to both you!!!
Awesome.cant wait to see you guys move in.
Glad you guys got to buy the entire building it will make all the difference :D :D :D
This is awesome, I'm so impressed! Good luck with it xxx
Great job so far! I think a hot tub would be an awesome addition to the largest bathroom and would add value to the house.
Amazing
Been a fan since i found you! Can't wait for the house tour soon! Sending love from Philippines! Hope you notice me too! 😍
amazing what you have accomplished so far !! Been exciting to see you progress I wish you nothing but the best !!
Thank you!
Anymore updates on the Renovation??
Love to follow what you are doing from the Netherlands. Like to see a blueprint from before and now! : -) Because whe you are filming I can't recognize it hahahaha So much nice work done already!
Regards.
Good place. Good haus. Good luck for your job.
Great job 👍🏻
Lots of love from India
I pray that God bless you both always. ❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Kudos guys...
Love from India 🇮🇳♥
I follow you from the beginning on instagram, I did not know that you had opened a youtube channel, now I follow you here and with the bell you will have me in notice
How are you guys doing now? Any update? 😊
Great job editing and all 🙂
Thank you! I accidentally lost the edits first time around, so I had to edit this twice 😭😅 glad you enjoyed it!
Going well! Love the project well done :)
Thanks for the update! been wondering what has happened! :)
The easiest way to see how we're getting in is following us on Instagram! @whathavewedunoon we update very week
@@whathavewedunoon I see but then I don't use Instagram:)
Boa sorte!!!!!!
Not on insta, would love another youtube update vid! :)
thanks for the update been wondering how goes it for you guy's... I don't have instagram either only youtube and FB. Facebook is usually how I find you guy's
So we just read this article on Stuff local and world wide newspaper 📰 on line. Are you going to have weekly you tube channel updates for the renovation.
Awesome job 😎
Any update 👀
Love you a lot guys ❤️
Love all this. It's going to be beautiful! Could you tell me how many square feet (or what measurement you use) that the whole house is?
Do you guys have other jobs that you work at ? I cant imagine the cost of renovations of this size ! Your doing it right though, environmentally and not taking short cuts. Wishing you all the best and many blessings !
We work full time in the house, and Cal takes on carpentry contracts, I make a small amount of earnings from Instagram collaborations and my blog, and work part time managing in hospitality. We also get some help from gofundme! We've spent 60k including 2.5 years of living costs and renovations
@@whathavewedunoon you two are amazing ! Thank you for answering my question ! ❤
lifestories brought me here.
I'm hoping these guys are OK? No updates in a year? 💝🙏
Update the youtube comunity!!!!!
Why did I not realize the house is in a neighborhood. I always thought it was in the middle of no where 😅
i did, too, cuz lots of the early pics showed a lone building.
i haven't seen/watched/followed everything,
but i believe that's the first time i've seen the block.
We are on the edge of a small marina town. We get a sense of remoteness because our house backs on to open fields and hills, so although we have neighbours, it often feels like we're out in the middle of nowhere! Best of both worlds!
Where are you guys? Any new videos?!!! You are missed
Yeah, I only saw the minor update of them having a kitchen countertop installed. I do not see any video of an entire tour after the thing was completed.
used to follow you on instagram but i got hacked and.......but im back now and wondering, what point are you at ? are you actually residing in the home now, and are you completed, or do you still have a way to go. think you guys are amazing !
Look at all the 2x8s!
I thought there were more videos on here. I had watched a while back when it was just beginning. Did I miss something?
Once this is done and you sell the other two units you will have made a really big profit. Especially with people valuing less urbanised areas thanks to covid.
I think you could make more profit off of this build by making DIY videos during the build. You should generate a lot more passive income through that with adsense on your RUclips channel over time.
Things like how to restore the stone and mortar, will be something that will remain relevant to others in the UK and large parts of Europe, and with good SEO / naming, keywords and description on said video, you will continue to be found for decades to come.
Another thing I wish to point out for your build, that will increase the overall longevity of the building is to make a really good drainage system and to prevent the walls from sucking up moisture.
My recommendation is to ultimately lead it out and away from the house and its foundation, but set things up so you could collect a bunch of water to water the garden during the height of summer top by simply lowering a cheap electric pump into the tank with the garden hose attached.
For the walls, you should look into cutting into them and putting an insulating later underneath them, to prevent moisture from being sucked up into the wall if you haven't already.
Likewise, for heat retention, put a wind indicator like a flag down for a while to see your most common wind direction, and put an extra layer of insulation like a plaster board wall on that side of the building, or something like a shed for firewood storage or a glass house or something to break the wind.
Unless that's a unit you're selling ofc. The buyer can do that themselves if they want better insulation lol. No point in building something they might remove and change.
Depending on the weather conditions, if there's a lot of wind blowing through your street, you might want to consider getting one of those smaller windturbines you see on boats to augment the solar pannels that I assume youll be adding.
The power they both generate will earn back your energy costs by saving on them and there might well be a chance that you can actually make money from the extra energy you provide to the power net depending on how things are in the UK. Especially with the rapidly rising energy prices.
Long term, you could save an increasingly large amount of money this way. So go as energy self sufficient as you can whilst you can before those prices rise too.
Another cool thing, depending on the size of the yard would be to plant a fruit trea or vegetables that you eat the most. Cause the food prices are ascending too.
If you want an apple tree for example, if you buy a sapling now, you have a decent young tree in a few years time.
So yeah, best of luck and try think smart and thrifty. Look at your most common expenses, and highest expenses and look for ways to save and cut down on them in the long run like that energy bill through smart planning of your home and yard.
Please do a up date video
Que pasó? Hace semaanas que no he visto videos nuevos, y la pagina de Facebook se muestra como no disponible.😕 están bien chicos?
I feel so very lazy after watching your vids 🤣🤣👌
I want ti see more videos
How's it going now??
Have you finished the house?
I think you are neighbours with my auntie and.uncle x
I wonder what happened to you guys. Any updates?
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