God bless you!!! (They) cannot ever replace you with anyone else and complete this project with your knowledge, time and dedication. I admire you immensely!🤗
Thanks for the kind words. I try the best I can. I still have a lot to learn but we're trying to do it right! My background and growing up working with my dad really helps. I just wish sometimes I was physically stronger. Tiny hands make some things hard. You can buy an electric rivet gun but I'd probably never use it again.
Sitting pondering is a good thing sometimes. The final solution bending the extra material over to rivet, saves 50% of the riveting. I think JC would approve of the location of his portrait, and the work your doing on the house. Great video 2x👍
My husband once sat in a lawn chair and staired at an awkward place in our house where a stair needed to go in. I like to think of it as rehearsing the build in your mind. Once you get started it's harder to correct mistakes in judgement. I was really pleased how this arch turned out. The portraits around the house are wonderful. It is great to have the faces of the people who lived here looking down over us as we work. It makes it very personal.
These vents are not something I would ever want to do again. Maybe if the weather had been cooler I'd feel differently. I'm just so tired of moving them all over the place. We are trying to get on the roofer's schedule to get them installed so we can move on to something more fun.
The sound of the rain in the background really is very therapeutic. I just hope it’s the same effect for your tangible interaction with it. The window’s open, so it must not be cold. Hopefully in a cool, refreshing way and not a drenching humid way. Talk about a feat. What a dramatic transformation. And what elbow grease to get there!! You weren’t kidding. Still waiting to exhale on this roof project. Your sister really is The Most! “Sounds like a trick!” (Been a while since I’ve had super long ads, a 15 minute one this time!!)
Sadly, it was still, hot and stifling. We have a little cooler weather now that we've finished, of course. Jo speaks from experience when she say "sound like a trick" - she's been the little sister for a very long time. Sorry about the long ad, thanks for sitting through it, I hope RUclips rewards us for your pain.
I love watching the progress you and volunteers have made. Keep moving forward! The house is looking better each time I check in. But, like any homeowner knows, there will always be something that needs doing! Very impressed with all you have accomplished thus far. Janie, you, your sister, and your husband are amazing!
Thanks for watching. We have made a lot of progress but there is still a very long way to go. Thank goodness for our volunteers and family who give so freely of their time and talents.
Faced with your dilemma of getting the bottom piece attached to the top piece, my brain automatically would jump to 'duct tape'! Which is one reason I'd never do restoration. You've got such enormous knowledge and adaptability!! I can peel wallpaper tho... 😏
Hey - we actually have some wallpaper that need peeling!!! There's something for everyone here. In hindsight, duct tape may have been useful to hold the pieces tight together while putting the rivets in. Such a handy invention.
Sometimes progress is slow, but it's still progress. I will be so happy to have this behind me and move on to something else. It's been brutal with the heat. I think I'll pop a bottle of champagne when these get installed.
why not take a large sheet of plywood, set it at the angle of the roof, temporarily attach it to the plywood and then work on attaching the bottom piece. It will be much more stable. I also like the idea of temporarily tape them together.
I considered that first, I think it was discussed at the beginning. The plywood would still be a flat plane so in the end it doesn't matter. The curve of the roof would have been great to have.
Will that actually perform as a vent for hot air in that curved attic 3rd floor area? I don't recall seeing an opening in the rafters area for the old one.
I think it was explained in an earlier video. The cost estimates were very high to get these repaired so we elected to save the money and do it ourselves. Overall, we saved about $7,000 which will be put toward the cost of our electrical upgrades. We had an auto body shop and a welding shop donate some of their time to assist. We had three large vents and this smaller one to repair.
Sometimes, taking a break and rethinking things is the way to go. We have a running joke. Everything is a half-hour project. 🤣 Almost never is. I'm one of the people who enjoy the mid-week videos. Have a great week. 🤗❤️🤍💙
My husband rolls his eyes at me all the time because I am so overly optimistic about how fast things can be done. I'm never right. I thought we'd get the shutters primed and sanded in about three days and I think we are approaching about 200 hours of work on them, probably more if I sat and added it all up. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
It’s just that we don’t remember the amount of jobs we do complete in half an hour. Sadly, most of these are probably just our daily household chores, rather than big jobs on a house restoration or renovation 😊
God bless you!!! (They) cannot ever replace you with anyone else and complete this project with your knowledge, time and dedication.
I admire you immensely!🤗
Thanks for the kind words. I try the best I can. I still have a lot to learn but we're trying to do it right! My background and growing up working with my dad really helps. I just wish sometimes I was physically stronger. Tiny hands make some things hard. You can buy an electric rivet gun but I'd probably never use it again.
Sitting pondering is a good thing sometimes. The final solution bending the extra material over to rivet, saves 50% of the riveting. I think JC would approve of the location of his portrait, and the work your doing on the house. Great video 2x👍
My husband once sat in a lawn chair and staired at an awkward place in our house where a stair needed to go in. I like to think of it as rehearsing the build in your mind. Once you get started it's harder to correct mistakes in judgement. I was really pleased how this arch turned out. The portraits around the house are wonderful. It is great to have the faces of the people who lived here looking down over us as we work. It makes it very personal.
I’m exhausted just sitting here watching you 😅. What a job, but if anyone can do it it’s you. Thank you for everything you do.
These vents are not something I would ever want to do again. Maybe if the weather had been cooler I'd feel differently. I'm just so tired of moving them all over the place. We are trying to get on the roofer's schedule to get them installed so we can move on to something more fun.
The sound of the rain in the background really is very therapeutic. I just hope it’s the same effect for your tangible interaction with it. The window’s open, so it must not be cold. Hopefully in a cool, refreshing way and not a drenching humid way.
Talk about a feat. What a dramatic transformation. And what elbow grease to get there!! You weren’t kidding. Still waiting to exhale on this roof project.
Your sister really is The Most! “Sounds like a trick!”
(Been a while since I’ve had super long ads, a 15 minute one this time!!)
Sadly, it was still, hot and stifling. We have a little cooler weather now that we've finished, of course. Jo speaks from experience when she say "sound like a trick" - she's been the little sister for a very long time. Sorry about the long ad, thanks for sitting through it, I hope RUclips rewards us for your pain.
@@ManWhoLovesTheMary Oh, I didn't take it as a complaining. I appreciate you taking the time to let it play.
What "Eyebrow Grease"!
I love watching the progress you and volunteers have made. Keep moving forward! The house is looking better each time I check in. But, like any homeowner knows, there will always be something that needs doing! Very impressed with all you have accomplished thus far. Janie, you, your sister, and your husband are amazing!
Thanks for watching. We have made a lot of progress but there is still a very long way to go. Thank goodness for our volunteers and family who give so freely of their time and talents.
Faced with your dilemma of getting the bottom piece attached to the top piece, my brain automatically would jump to 'duct tape'! Which is one reason I'd never do restoration. You've got such enormous knowledge and adaptability!! I can peel wallpaper tho... 😏
Hey - we actually have some wallpaper that need peeling!!! There's something for everyone here. In hindsight, duct tape may have been useful to hold the pieces tight together while putting the rivets in. Such a handy invention.
You certainly have perseverance in your DNA.
I salute you.
Progress! Thanks all ❤
Sometimes progress is slow, but it's still progress. I will be so happy to have this behind me and move on to something else. It's been brutal with the heat. I think I'll pop a bottle of champagne when these get installed.
Rock star!
Or crazy, old woman.... it's a fine line.
Again, you amaze me.
Thanks. It may not pretty but it gets done.🙂
why not take a large sheet of plywood, set it at the angle of the roof, temporarily attach it to the plywood and then work on attaching the bottom piece. It will be much more stable. I also like the idea of temporarily tape them together.
I considered that first, I think it was discussed at the beginning. The plywood would still be a flat plane so in the end it doesn't matter. The curve of the roof would have been great to have.
I use Duct tape all the time, and clamps; never seen one if those crimper tools before, though.
Where would we be without duct tape!
Interesting
It is quite the brain teaser to figure all this stuff out.
Will that actually perform as a vent for hot air in that curved attic 3rd floor area? I don't recall seeing an opening in the rafters area for the old one.
No. It is just decorative.
My mind drifts to does no roofer in your area know how to do any metal work? I'm confused why your doing it
I think it was explained in an earlier video. The cost estimates were very high to get these repaired so we elected to save the money and do it ourselves. Overall, we saved about $7,000 which will be put toward the cost of our electrical upgrades. We had an auto body shop and a welding shop donate some of their time to assist. We had three large vents and this smaller one to repair.
Sometimes, taking a break and rethinking things is the way to go. We have a running joke. Everything is a half-hour project. 🤣 Almost never is. I'm one of the people who enjoy the mid-week videos. Have a great week. 🤗❤️🤍💙
My husband rolls his eyes at me all the time because I am so overly optimistic about how fast things can be done. I'm never right. I thought we'd get the shutters primed and sanded in about three days and I think we are approaching about 200 hours of work on them, probably more if I sat and added it all up. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
It’s just that we don’t remember the amount of jobs we do complete in half an hour. Sadly, most of these are probably just our daily household chores, rather than big jobs on a house restoration or renovation 😊
@@virginiacharlotte7007 This house is a great excuse not to do my household chores. For some reason, this is much more fun.