Slab Hunting - Reflooring the Ruins

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    We went on the hunt for the missing pieces of the floor for the inside of the first building.

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  • @nadajaklic3069
    @nadajaklic3069 5 месяцев назад +27

    "...plywood, we have this in the city..." Brilliant, lol.

  • @LeannaRuthJensen
    @LeannaRuthJensen 5 месяцев назад +12

    I grew up in western USA calling those Doodle Bugs. The official classification name is rather cool, Armadillidiidae

  • @RemusKingOfRome
    @RemusKingOfRome 5 месяцев назад +7

    Good Job, we all wanted you to find some ancient keltic / welsh artifact .. but hey, a level floor will be more useful. :D

  • @valeriegmz
    @valeriegmz 5 месяцев назад +12

    Loved how much effort you put into the advert! Shows your creativity and sense of adventure

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks 😄

  • @jilliedillie
    @jilliedillie 5 месяцев назад +9

    Great job fitting those slates. Another vote for rolly pollies.

  • @NSYresearch
    @NSYresearch 5 месяцев назад +11

    You guys have come along way since your first video... much more relaxed lol

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Haha yes, it takes some getting used to.

  • @randomviking8676
    @randomviking8676 5 месяцев назад +8

    Well done on the floor repair. 👍 That poor cherub! LOL Love that shed and some great finds in there. Have a great week ahead!

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you 🙂

  • @ASI-l2w
    @ASI-l2w 5 месяцев назад +6

    Nice one. Maybe leave a time capsule next time? Thanks for posting. Look forward to the next one, now that the better weather seems to be on its way. 👍🏻

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Yes I saw a comment in a previous video about a time capsule and I do like that idea. There will be other chances to put one in somewhere.

  • @markg1490
    @markg1490 5 месяцев назад +2

    Sir as a person who loves to metal detect, I love the little coin spill you put in to confuse the future finder. 😅

  • @bendy6626
    @bendy6626 5 месяцев назад +7

    Overtime, the floor will look like it was all laid at the same time 🙂. But if future archeologists find those coins they are going to be totally baffled how the 20th/21st century preceded the floor construction!

  • @ThomasBarone
    @ThomasBarone 2 месяца назад

    I've install every kind of floor you can imagine over the last 44 years, you did a very good job!

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  2 месяца назад

      Thank you, it's holding up pretty well so far!

  • @vivid5072
    @vivid5072 5 месяцев назад +13

    5:29 no we call them Rollie-pollies! Lol (only some ppl say “pill bugs” it’s about 50/50)

    • @pictishwolf7
      @pictishwolf7 5 месяцев назад +2

      I was going to correct your spelling because I've always seen it as "roly poly", but when I double checked, I found out that lots of people call them all kinds of different things and people do spell it the way you did. 👍

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      I wasn't familiar with either term. Looking online I think they're a different species to what we call 'woodlice' in the UK, but they definitely look similar

    • @rattenstark
      @rattenstark 5 месяцев назад +1

      The German word is very boring. It's "Kellerassel" (both singular and plural).

  • @aliciazazirski9898
    @aliciazazirski9898 5 месяцев назад +6

    Now I'm curious where your wife is from, how you 2 met, and how you decided that Wales would be your home (as opposed to the US). Need the whole story.

  • @ellieboa
    @ellieboa 5 месяцев назад +3

    The floor looks great! And your assistant is adorable!

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you!! 😊

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 5 месяцев назад +3

    Anytime you clean the shed it’s like Christmas right?? Well, sort of lol…
    Good job on the floor🤗❤️🐝

  • @DEmma1972
    @DEmma1972 5 месяцев назад +3

    the re-patched floor looks in keeping with what is there. Give it a year to find its level and repack and you would never know there was a hole

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +2

      That's my hope!

  • @kathymurphy7026
    @kathymurphy7026 5 месяцев назад +6

    Very nice job on the floor!

  • @nospin1394
    @nospin1394 5 месяцев назад +3

    Nicely done, fun episode to watch.

  • @WilliamNast-v1g
    @WilliamNast-v1g 5 месяцев назад +2

    VERY ENJOYABLE, THAT WORKED OUT EXTREMELY WELL, AND GREETINGS FROM THE STATES. CHEERS!

  • @jessiep2931
    @jessiep2931 5 месяцев назад +2

    Great video and the floor looks perfect!

  • @Vistasabia
    @Vistasabia 5 месяцев назад +2

    Nice job dude! It fits in with the rest 👌💯💯💯

  • @gleff3345
    @gleff3345 5 месяцев назад +2

    Can't believe you've come so far. Well done.

  • @julieannmatthews3639
    @julieannmatthews3639 5 месяцев назад +1

    Well done that boy and supervisor.

  • @kennysr.1054
    @kennysr.1054 5 месяцев назад +2

    As always an enjoyable video !

  • @LordGertz
    @LordGertz 5 месяцев назад +4

    Pill bug, Roly poly, land shrimp, wood lice, wood louse, potato bug, doodle bug, slater, carpenter....a rose by any other name....

  • @tanyacurtis2884
    @tanyacurtis2884 5 месяцев назад +1

    Well done. That looks lovely.

  • @ruthstory2277
    @ruthstory2277 5 месяцев назад +1

    Looks great....well done!!

  • @whatanitemare
    @whatanitemare Месяц назад

    Yes. Pill bugs in Canada too... or rolly-pollys.

  • @pennyneal2456
    @pennyneal2456 5 месяцев назад +1

    Very well done in my personal opinion. 🥰🇨🇦🥳

  • @kathymarshall220
    @kathymarshall220 5 месяцев назад

    Absolutely love the idea of some very confused future archaeologists discovering those coins 😂
    Great job on the floor, it looks fab!😊

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! 😁

  • @CharlieRogers50
    @CharlieRogers50 5 месяцев назад +4

    Pill bugs, wood lice, or as we more adorably call them in the Midwestern US, roly polies (pronounced ROLL-ee POLL-ee)

    • @zuur303
      @zuur303 5 месяцев назад +2

      In Dutch we call them pissebedden - roughly bedwetters. I have no idea why.

    • @catherinefromchristchurchn6508
      @catherinefromchristchurchn6508 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@zuur303possibly because if you felt one crawling on you in your bed . . .

  • @lilashelton535
    @lilashelton535 Месяц назад

    It came out pretty good.

  • @ellieboa
    @ellieboa 5 месяцев назад

    Best ad read!

  • @andyc972
    @andyc972 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ingenious use of slab slide, do you intend to leave the shed with an earth floor now ?
    I can imagine that siren would bring back some bad memories for some people, we have one locally that is used as a flood warning and it's quite foreboding when it sounds !

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +2

      I'm going to refloor the shed with a basic floor, probably reclaimed concrete slabs or something, but maybe just some hardcore. and also do some other repairs to it as it's seen better days. yes the siren is quite a haunting sound, even for someone with no memories of it!

    • @Kyharra
      @Kyharra 5 месяцев назад

      We use them where I live whenever there's a fire 😅

  • @jonboi96
    @jonboi96 5 месяцев назад +1

    love it, keep it up man!

  • @daveffs1935
    @daveffs1935 5 месяцев назад

    Poor old Doris is running for the shelter in the garden now

  • @outlawflyer7868
    @outlawflyer7868 5 месяцев назад

    Tear out that root in the shed. Level the floor, put a 2x4 at the opening, add a mesh screen, poor concrete, and bobs your uncle! Great job on floor.

  • @ShortbusMooner
    @ShortbusMooner 5 месяцев назад +1

    Good job! 😁👍

  • @laceytrowbridge319
    @laceytrowbridge319 Месяц назад

    Thanks!

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  8 дней назад

      Thank you very much :)

  • @diamondback2085
    @diamondback2085 5 месяцев назад +3

    Taking a break from politics and social strife for some nice calming do it yourselfer vids. Deatressing on a sunday. Mothers dat in the US. Not sure if its international or not. Anyway happy mothers day if it applies

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Belated happy mothers day!

  • @suzannepolder3929
    @suzannepolder3929 5 месяцев назад +1

    I give you an “A” mark for your patio floor.

  • @kennethbolton951
    @kennethbolton951 29 дней назад

    That air raid siren is worth about $400+

  • @Yutani_Crayven
    @Yutani_Crayven 5 месяцев назад

    09:57 I'm thinking if you had flipped over the piece at the bottom in the middle there, then it might make for more but smaller leftover spaces instead of that one large space to be filled with mud. Is there a particular reason why you put it in that orientation? Do you prefer one large unfilled space over smaller ones, is the bottom side of the sheet more uneven, or did it just not fit in any other rotation?

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад

      My original plan was to use some smaller pieces of stone to fit the gaps, so I wasn't concerned about the spaces, but I decided it would look more like the rest of the floor with a mud gap instead

  • @KCGiD
    @KCGiD 5 месяцев назад +2

    Greetings from Croatia😂

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +1

      Greetings!

  • @DavidS5118
    @DavidS5118 5 месяцев назад +1

    The wife is right... Pill Bugs or Roly Polies.

  • @tomswindler64
    @tomswindler64 5 месяцев назад

    Nice,😎😎😎👍👍👍

  • @fintan3563
    @fintan3563 Месяц назад

    I thought the Mrs. was American! How did you meet?

  • @jankotomic5843
    @jankotomic5843 5 месяцев назад

    You can still use Kuna

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад

      Oh really, dammit, I thought there was an expired time period when you had to exchange them

  • @jtaulen
    @jtaulen 5 месяцев назад

    Did she say "well its a different country", or "welsh is a different country" ? :P

  • @My_Op
    @My_Op 5 месяцев назад

    Bye bye! it has been months since I've watched one of your vidz, you were searching for a lost case of stairs. What are the plans now, are you restoring the ruin?

    • @afontirs
      @afontirs  5 месяцев назад +3

      I am restoring bits of it yes, into a garden feature. I made a video about my plans. but I'm still digging for more as I found another wall.

    • @My_Op
      @My_Op 5 месяцев назад

      @@afontirs I love that, I think you should apply to work one season for Project Kamp, they are actively looking for a stone ruin worker/restorer.

  • @lmdyment
    @lmdyment 5 месяцев назад

    We call the damp bugs. Obviously no correct name as it depends on where you are from. Bugs 🪳🐛 🐞

  • @otakelblanchemanor0659
    @otakelblanchemanor0659 5 месяцев назад +1

    Well done! Looks great!!