You took the words right out of my mouth♥️ There’s nothing I don’t love about this channel. Everyone is the greatest example of humanity. Merry Christmas to all
One thing I really love about this channel is how Billy involves everybody, and encourages the different personalities to shine. It really does feel like proper teamwork.
oh, I agree Billie has a generousness about him that encourages everyone. Rare gift. This Petherick family have been gifted all three of the kids. They want to bring things back to life. Horses,old buildings & music. Laurie
Yannis is such a hard worker! He can out perform gentleman twice his size! He’s a force to be reckoned with! We all love to watch him get things done!!❤
Yanis is so amazing! He can do anything! I think it's high time you did a Q&A with Yanis! We see him working so hard every day. I would love to know a little more about him! He is such an important part of your team!😊🤩
@@ThePethericksI have a hunch the library might just outshine the kitchen!❤ A visit to the convent is on my very short bucket list. At 72, I think a short bucket list is a good idea😅
@@ThePethericks I was just watching a video from a year ago where you showed the kitchen. I was thinking no way that's the kitchen... But sure enough you were there talking about pulling the closed section out of the fireplace. Sure does look great!
We are closing (signing purchasing papers) on a summer cottage that has a library full of books and "stuff" the sellers are leaving. It was originally the doctor's house on this island, we are buying it from his daughter who is in her mid to late 70s. We can't wait to see what is there. After we go through it, anything useful will be donated to the island's museum. Anything we don't want but is still worth money will be donated to the island historical society, they run a re-sale shop to make money for the museum.
What an efficient demolisher Yannis is. Such a little tornado when it comes to ripping things out... but still care is taken to preserve the original workings of the Convent. What a wonderful team you have Billy.
Great work, what a team. 👍👏 Yanis is such an asset. Gets along with everyone and works so hard. The Kitchen looks amazing, and the organ looks as if it’s always been there a spectacular achievement. 😊
This is so exciting. One of my sisters and I have a library dream. Ib used to build little miniature libraries in boxes as a child and still cut out favorite books from magazines and make little books for my old woman dollhouse library. This project makes my heart feel young and excited! I hope someday to see it!
@@nadineswance2465 How old is the mud that grows the vegetables you eat and feeds the animals that graze on the ground. Arguably its cleaner than the mud that has all the modern waste and pesticides in it.
Not so I'm afraid, some compounds poison soil for lifetimes. We have a historic arsenic contaminated soil area, leached down to 2m deep, 4000sq m.on farmland.
Sunflowers absorb heavy metals as they grow and bloom. Harvesting them whole and disposing of them whole, can clean your garden of heavy metals over several seasons.
Billy, every time you pick up a sledgehammer, it reminds me of a story about my dad. He had a bit of a temper and, my younger brothers had to go to work for him, during summer vacation. He used his forklift to work up high and as he was working one day, he told my brother to THROW HIM the sledgehammer!! My brother said it wasn't a good idea, but dad yelled using some very "colourful" language to throw it! My brother, of course, complied. As you can imagine, the sledgehammer started rotating through the air and when my dad grabbed for it, he didn't get a grip, and it swung around and hit him in the head!! I have this vision with sound effects, 9f the hammer going swish, swish, swish BONK! My brother said that was exactly what happened!! Word to the wise for all of the viewers NEVER THROW A SLEDGEHAMMER 😂
Can I just say, Yanis is just "the best" !! He is some kind of worker, tireless, strong, and always willing and able to help in any way he can. Yanis is a true treasure. He is such a great part of team Patherick! Billy, your vision of what this beautiful antique building will be is just amazing when it gets finished. Crack On!
The library is going to be another jewel in this buildings crown. You're honestly turning this building into a tourist attraction not just a function building.
I'm SOOOOO excited!!! Starting the Library!!! Yannis is adorable! A great help and some comic relief there with his untimely "Let's Crack On"! Haha. ❤ PS. Alex is an artist at heart with his cinematography! You've created a wonderful team Billy! BRAVO!
Way to go Yannis! Did everyone see Yannis, take down entire wall of plaster board in one go ! He may be small but he is incredibly strong.....and Billy, you are epitome of leadership. You invited Yannis to go with you, to drive Nick's home, after Nick's car broke down. Billy maded everyone feel a part of the team. 😊❤❤
Super excited to see the start of the Library project! I’ve watched you purchase the Convent, clear the courtyard, fix the bell, demo the kitchen storerooms, reno the kitchen, demo and prep the corridor entry, the organ (wow) and everything else in between. Love everything about this channel. Crack on indeed!
We are absolutely excited about what the library will look like in time! One day when finished, this will be an extraordinary building of restoration and the history !!!
Billy, you should consider salvaging the ceiling light pendant shades they’re classic mid century opal one glass you can easily sell them as a job lot.
Or they might be used elsewhere as pendant lights over a work surface or reading area or??? In any case, hold on to for a while in case you find a use for them. Maybe over library reading tables? Made into lamps? As historical parts of the convent, it would be nice to salvage them for convent use.
Great vlog Billy and start to the next stage. Yannis is a great help and very enthusiastic. I’m sure that beam is just settling down and still has 250 years left in it. The more you expose the more you will find. Stay well all.
So excited to watch as the library starts! I started watching the Convent videos in order about 3 weeks ago, and after watching them all I've arrived at today, and the start of the new room! It's a mammoth project, but so satisfying to watch. 🇨🇦
I so enjoy seeing you peel back the modern layers to reveal the beautiful old ones. It's always so exiting to see what's underneath, and how it was originally intended.
Yanis is such an eager worker! He wanted to “Crack on!” while Billy wanted to keep talking! Once he got to tear things apart, he turned into a beast! We should start calling him Destructo-man! He’s like a superhero, taking down huge sections of wall three times his size! This was a fun video to watch! Great videography too!
Billy a big Thankyou to you and Gwendolyn for buying this convent and working so hard on it it must be costing a fortune so we need to get your channel to 400k to help you and Alex your filming and music is so good Thankyou this is such an enjoyable channel and the people who work for you are really good .💖🙏🕊💫🌟
Excellent episode! Amazing progress! Thank you all very much for making and sharing this 💜 beautiful video! Fabulous work all! Be well, stay safe all. 🥰💖💕👍💜
In addition to making brilliant videos your cinematographer uses great music appropriate for the moment. Brilliant! Way to go Alex! Also, as an organist I really enjoyed watching you reassemble that magnificent instrument. The little mouse may very well begin a series of its own! He's under the organ planning it now!!
What a start to an amazing project! With Yannis in the team things move fast, he’s such a hard worker. Congrats Billy on reusing all the old wood and separating the debris for using in the garden or taking to the skip. Really excited to come along in building a dream of a library! 📚🧡
Yanis always the hard worker, he's a very valuable person. Yanis needs to wear protective eyewear too. Billy you'll have those wall gone in no time and your Library done. Awesome 👍. Lots of love from Florida.
Taking the plaster board/cardboard down sure added some dimension to that room about 2-3 inches in every direction wider. WOW!!! Love the music in the back ground too. Billy I do believe that you have a new family member in Yannis, he has been great during this transformation as well. Hopefully you will find where the water leaked to and it did not cause too much damage. Let's Crack On and have a wonderful day
I hope you can add a bottom wood to the doors and cover it with metal kick plates to make the doors tall again. The doors are beautiful and would look pretty with brass kick plates if you can’t match the wood look and color. Such beautiful doors. Once you take out all the fill that has been added to the floors it shouldn’t take a lot to restore the doors to a proper height. Love this video. Yanis is such a treasure to have on your team.
Yanis is such an eager worker. Great job Alex doing the filming. You may have an uptick in the nun's activity during demolition. Looking forward to the progress.
As it comes piece by piece, she’s coming back together, not as she once was, but brought into the present times, with a complete overhaul, and outcome, with a few side notes,🎶 📚 etc, only Billie’s imagination will tell us eventually ❣️👍💋🥰😉
Dang, Yannis is a dynamo! Great work gentlemen! Uncovering elements of a 250 year old building is like an Easter egg hunt. Hopefully the beam is salvageable. So looking forward to more reveals and ultimately the beautiful library! Happy Holidays to the Pethericks and all of their extended family!!!
The library project will be just as exciting as the kitchen. I have no doubt it will be just as stunning. Yanis is such a hard worker, strong and all around good man. Once again, Alex shows his mastery of filmmaking/editing. (Hope he has a hard hat on during filming as well) Maine USA
Great transformation of that room. Team work with Yannis! Also hats off to the nuns for leaving the original elements in the rooms in the late 60's/early 70's. The dilemma for anyone who's renovating is always what to keep and what to strip out. The way the nuns did it back in the day made sure that the rooms could easily be stripped back to their former glory (as this video demonstrates).
Oh my! A waterfall feature😂 That was a surprise! I wonder how many kilos of debris have been removed from the convent since you’ve been renovating? It’s truly amazing to watch it change. ♥️
I really hope Billy puts in some sort of a secret room/man-cave that can only be unlocked with a certain book tilting combination. Loving that Alex is back too and as always Yanis is an incredibly hard worker!
Billy. I don't remember how many rooms are being torn out for the library. But how wonderful and gorgeous it would be to incorporate the wood from the doors, frames and baseboards into the creation of the shelving and the surrounds. ❤
A dump trailer out the window would save a lot of time. The chutes could go straight into the dump-trailer :) I love your videos and all your restoration. You all are awesome.
Another exciting transformation begins!! Billy you have a skill at gathering the best of the best to be part of your projects!! Cannot wait to see all the progress as we go into 2024!!
Exciting indeed! Cannot wrap my head around the fact that it's time to start another major project. Wow! It looks like mold underneath the window. Not surprising. I bet you run into it a lot. Would you please tell us how you get rid of it and prevent it in the future? (not bleach, as you probably know) Many do no realize how deadly it is (not just an allergy) so could use some education on the subject. Thanks.
OMG! my heart skipped a beat for a moment and you sent a shiver down my spine Billy…..when you looked over your left shoulder and said “let’s crack on Yannis” and then few seconds later we saw Yannis walk down the scary corridor.
Great job guys👌fabulous find of the wooden floor and Yannis is a treasure Billy. Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas so well deserved. I thoroughly enjoy all you do. Crack On !!!! 💯🤗🎄🥰🥂🎅
Working on old houses- 100- 200 years old- I was always fascinated with the materials. Many were built much as your abby- started with a hand adzed timbers cut from stands likely very near there. The "insulating cocoon" lumber was as you said , was extraordinary- fine, more tightly grained and much of it looked without warp. On your "banana" problem; don't write it off till you have seen all of it and put it all to the test of the ruler; one of the reasons the "built with greenwood" was that buildings settled and changed shape, and greenwood would settle into a "complimentary" shape- and their timbering was overbuilt. But please crack on and keep slowly peeling back the stories of the builders and keepers of this treasure. I hope you find more floors like that one- I believe you may be correct and it is chestnut. Just cleaned, yarned to kill the leaks, and oiled it would be a spectacular room with as many windows. If you are exposing the bottom, you can inject glue between the flooring and the beams which will cut sown on the squeaking.
Love watching you discover what has been done to renovate the nuns rooms years ago. Very happy you will be saving the old oak wood for future projects. Are you going to set up a carpenters shop somewhere to facilitate carpentry jobs? It would be most useful for convent or chateau especially when repurposing old wood.
This is fascinating! I love those old doors and the chestnut flooring you’ve uncovered. I hope there’s an easy fix for the beam and I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s progress.
A big thanks to Mo for introducing his friend Yannis to the Petherick family. It has changed Yannis’ life and given the convent a great worker
We are all just humans needing a connection to flourish. Everything about this channel is just kindness.
Wondered how they found him. Saw he even went down to the Moons! Love Yanis!!
Yannis cracks me up! “The Destructionator”😂 He’s a great asset to the Petherick Team!
You took the words right out of my mouth♥️ There’s nothing I don’t love about this channel. Everyone is the greatest example of humanity. Merry Christmas to all
Mo & Yanis are brothers
Billy, you sure hit the jackpot when you hired Yannis ,hoping for a long and successful relationship between you.😁
One thing I really love about this channel is how Billy involves everybody, and encourages the different personalities to shine. It really does feel like proper teamwork.
oh, I agree Billie has a generousness about him that encourages everyone. Rare gift. This Petherick family have been gifted all three of the kids. They want to bring things back to life. Horses,old buildings & music. Laurie
That’s the magic of the Petherick Universe! 😁
Yannis is such a hard worker! He can out perform gentleman twice his size! He’s a force to be reckoned with! We all love to watch him get things done!!❤
My grandfather was like Yanis, the whole town knew if you needed a strong worker call Jules. He always gave 200% all the time.
Yanis is so amazing! He can do anything! I think it's high time you did a Q&A with Yanis! We see him working so hard every day. I would love to know a little more about him! He is such an important part of your team!😊🤩
Yannis is an absolute treasure ❤
So glad to see Yannis getting to do the fun stuff, not just fetching and carrying 😊
Alex is amazing with the camera, we will miss Nick and Yanis is a outstanding person to work with
it's beautiful, but I do sometimes wonder if it gets stuck in slow-mo and he just goes with it
Billy, the kitchen is spectacular! I can only imagine how amazing the library will be ❤
it’s progressing! it’s definitely a lot nicer than i could have imagined. just a few more things and it will be finished in january!
@@ThePethericksI have a hunch the library might just outshine the kitchen!❤
A visit to the convent is on my very short bucket list. At 72, I think a short bucket list is a good idea😅
I am also 72, but I think that my bucket has a hole in it!@@merrileeheard3889
@@ThePethericks I was just watching a video from a year ago where you showed the kitchen. I was thinking no way that's the kitchen... But sure enough you were there talking about pulling the closed section out of the fireplace. Sure does look great!
@@merrileeheard3889. You need to arrange a trip for 2024. Would be wonderful to meet you
What a godsend Yannis has been. He’s definitely an important team member now 😊
He’s very careful and tidy. I note he really cleans up as he goes. Love that!
He may be small be he is Super strong!! He’s been a tremendous asset on the job…
@@sparrowkay ...and he has shown that he loves children and animals! Ahhhh!!!
🤲🏻❤ he is the best
😂 I was just gonna say that ❤
Love the constant tidying up makes for a clean construction site.
Yannis, so nice to see you stayed on at the convent. Wish all young people had your work ethic.
We are closing (signing purchasing papers) on a summer cottage that has a library full of books and "stuff" the sellers are leaving. It was originally the doctor's house on this island, we are buying it from his daughter who is in her mid to late 70s. We can't wait to see what is there. After we go through it, anything useful will be donated to the island's museum. Anything we don't want but is still worth money will be donated to the island historical society, they run a re-sale shop to make money for the museum.
Sounds so exciting! I would LOVE to be able to help you with that project! I always wanted a home with my own library!
What an efficient demolisher Yannis is. Such a little tornado when it comes to ripping things out... but still care is taken to preserve the original workings of the Convent. What a wonderful team you have Billy.
don't call adults little.
@@VB_31 I didn't call anyone little. I called the tornado little. Adults in comparison to a tornado are little.
Ahead of schedule! Looking forward to your progress and the convent's transformation during 2024!
Like Ernest told his school friends, “ My daddy breaks down walls!” Crack on!
Yanis is so darned cute! Great member of the team! YIPPEE! Another amazing project being started!
Great work, what a team. 👍👏 Yanis is such an asset. Gets along with everyone and works so hard. The Kitchen looks amazing, and the organ looks as if it’s always been there a spectacular achievement. 😊
This is so exciting. One of my sisters and I have a library dream. Ib used to build little miniature libraries in boxes as a child and still cut out favorite books from magazines and make little books for my old woman dollhouse library. This project makes my heart feel young and excited! I hope someday to see it!
I do love the original church's ceiling and how the windows ceiling looks golden. It doesn't scream super religious, just comfortable to me.
Using a sawsall will make less of a mess and easier cleanup for those walls.
You may want to check the paint on the plaster for the lead. You may not want lead in your garden, especially if you intend to grow edible crops.
That's what I was thinking. The mud between the walls may have arsenic in it..
That is 100+ year old waste mud . Shouldn’t be used where you might want to grow plants of any kind. Just my opinion
@@nadineswance2465 How old is the mud that grows the vegetables you eat and feeds the animals that graze on the ground. Arguably its cleaner than the mud that has all the modern waste and pesticides in it.
Not so I'm afraid, some compounds poison soil for lifetimes. We have a historic arsenic contaminated soil area, leached down to 2m deep, 4000sq m.on farmland.
Sunflowers absorb heavy metals as they grow and bloom.
Harvesting them whole and disposing of them whole, can clean your garden of heavy metals over several seasons.
Billy, every time you pick up a sledgehammer, it reminds me of a story about my dad. He had a bit of a temper and, my younger brothers had to go to work for him, during summer vacation. He used his forklift to work up high and as he was working one day, he told my brother to THROW HIM the sledgehammer!! My brother said it wasn't a good idea, but dad yelled using some very "colourful" language to throw it! My brother, of course, complied. As you can imagine, the sledgehammer started rotating through the air and when my dad grabbed for it, he didn't get a grip, and it swung around and hit him in the head!! I have this vision with sound effects, 9f the hammer going swish, swish, swish BONK! My brother said that was exactly what happened!!
Word to the wise for all of the viewers NEVER THROW A SLEDGEHAMMER 😂
The smaller doors could be used for cupdoors/ wardrobes/ storage areas. Love that another project has been started. Merry Christmas to everyone.
Can I just say, Yanis is just "the best" !! He is some kind of worker, tireless, strong, and always willing and able to help in any way he can. Yanis is a true treasure. He is such a great part of team Patherick!
Billy, your vision of what this beautiful antique building will be is just amazing when it gets finished. Crack On!
The library is going to be another jewel in this buildings crown. You're honestly turning this building into a tourist attraction not just a function building.
I'm SOOOOO excited!!! Starting the Library!!! Yannis is adorable! A great help and some comic relief there with his untimely "Let's Crack On"! Haha. ❤ PS. Alex is an artist at heart with his cinematography! You've created a wonderful team Billy! BRAVO!
Way to go Yannis! Did everyone see Yannis, take down entire wall of plaster board in one go ! He may be small but he is incredibly strong.....and Billy, you are epitome of leadership. You invited Yannis to go with you, to drive Nick's home, after Nick's car broke down. Billy maded everyone feel a part of the team. 😊❤❤
Hyannis is small but mighty!
The kitchen is truly amazing and beautiful it should be in one of the home beautiful magazines. It would also help fund the project further.
Billy the kitchen looks totally amazing from start to finish
Don’t forget the door jams, they’re all oak to, and as old as the doors
Billy, you just like punching holes in ceilings! Thank goodness they put down luan and protected those floors.
Super excited to see the start of the Library project! I’ve watched you purchase the Convent, clear the courtyard, fix the bell, demo the kitchen storerooms, reno the kitchen, demo and prep the corridor entry, the organ (wow) and everything else in between. Love everything about this channel. Crack on indeed!
We are absolutely excited about what the library will look like in time!
One day when finished, this will be an extraordinary building of restoration and the history !!!
Billy, you should consider salvaging the ceiling light pendant shades they’re classic mid century opal one glass you can easily sell them as a job lot.
I have been giving them to a family member who has antiques store in the uk. i’m saving them as i go!
@@ThePethericksBusiness name? Free shout out. 🎉
Or they might be used elsewhere as pendant lights over a work surface or reading area or??? In any case, hold on to for a while in case you find a use for them. Maybe over library reading tables? Made into lamps? As historical parts of the convent, it would be nice to salvage them for convent use.
Great vlog Billy and start to the next stage. Yannis is a great help and very enthusiastic. I’m sure that beam is just settling down and still has 250 years left in it. The more you expose the more you will find. Stay well all.
So looking forward to the library being constructed ✅✅✅✅✅✅
When you announced for the first time the library project, I knew I would never leave this channel :)
The kitchen is magnificent. I'd love to cook there, and I'm not a lover of cooking 😅
I am excited that the library project is getting underway. 🎉
For me, someone else can do the cooking 😊 and I will wander out of the library when the food is ready.
So excited to watch as the library starts! I started watching the Convent videos in order about 3 weeks ago, and after watching them all I've arrived at today, and the start of the new room!
It's a mammoth project, but so satisfying to watch.
🇨🇦
That was an epic viewing undertaking!
I so enjoy seeing you peel back the modern layers to reveal the beautiful old ones. It's always so exiting to see what's underneath, and how it was originally intended.
Yanis is such an eager worker! He wanted to “Crack on!” while Billy wanted to keep talking! Once he got to tear things apart, he turned into a beast! We should start calling him Destructo-man! He’s like a superhero, taking down huge sections of wall three times his size! This was a fun video to watch! Great videography too!
I look forward everyday to see what you will do next Billy.
Billy a big Thankyou to you and Gwendolyn for buying this convent and working so hard on it it must be costing a fortune so we need to get your channel to 400k to help you and Alex your filming and music is so good Thankyou this is such an enjoyable channel and the people who work for you are really good .💖🙏🕊💫🌟
Those doors are magnificent! Hope they are reusable!
Those hand hewn beams are impressive.
I can't wait to see Gewn put the decoration touches on the kitchen ❤
I can't wait to see Gwen whenever... Yummy Mummy. Looks great with that sexy accent and rich, my sort of women!
Just like the kitchen it will nodoubt be outstandingly beautiful. Way to keep it happening boys 👏👏👏👏👏
Welcome to the next yourney in the convent restauration. I love it❤
Hopefully, Santa will bring Yanis some work boots for Christmas
Wow it is never ending so ready for the change.
Excellent episode! Amazing progress! Thank you all very much for making and sharing this 💜 beautiful video! Fabulous work all! Be well, stay safe all. 🥰💖💕👍💜
All I could think as you were tearing out the walls was if these walls could talk! Well done!
What an amazing treat watching two hardworking men pull a room apart. You both work so hard, Yanis is a whirlwind when given free reign x 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
In addition to making brilliant videos your cinematographer uses great music appropriate for the moment. Brilliant! Way to go Alex! Also, as an organist I really enjoyed watching you reassemble that magnificent instrument. The little mouse may very well begin a series of its own! He's under the organ planning it now!!
Laughing laughing... Yanis, you are awesome and funny and adorable. I'm SO EXcited for the library (and everything). yay team!
What a start to an amazing project! With Yannis in the team things move fast, he’s such a hard worker. Congrats Billy on reusing all the old wood and separating the debris for using in the garden or taking to the skip. Really excited to come along in building a dream of a library! 📚🧡
Billy blessed in Holy Water LOL
Yanis always the hard worker, he's a very valuable person. Yanis needs to wear protective eyewear too. Billy you'll have those wall gone in no time and your Library done. Awesome 👍. Lots of love from Florida.
I was thinking the same thing. Luckily, they were wearing protective eyewear while demolishing the ceiling.
This is going to be a great project. Yanis is full on BEAST MODE!! Guy is a work horse!!
Can't wait to hear the organ being played 😊xx
3:25 Alex I’m transported by this music to France! Lovely music choice.
Taking the plaster board/cardboard down sure added some dimension to that room about 2-3 inches in every direction wider. WOW!!! Love the music in the back ground too. Billy I do believe that you have a new family member in Yannis, he has been great during this transformation as well. Hopefully you will find where the water leaked to and it did not cause too much damage. Let's Crack On and have a wonderful day
Yannis really a hard worker, You are fortunate to have him.
I hope you can add a bottom wood to the doors and cover it with metal kick plates to make the doors tall again. The doors are beautiful and would look pretty with brass kick plates if you can’t match the wood look and color. Such beautiful doors. Once you take out all the fill that has been added to the floors it shouldn’t take a lot to restore the doors to a proper height. Love this video. Yanis is such a treasure to have on your team.
Perhaps use the floorboards if similar wood?
And the Mighty Yanis is “getting it done”!
Yanis is such an eager worker. Great job Alex doing the filming. You may have an uptick in the nun's activity during demolition. Looking forward to the progress.
Looking forward to this next room, yannis is so cute and a good worker!
As it comes piece by piece, she’s coming back together, not as she once was, but brought into the present times, with a complete overhaul, and outcome, with a few side notes,🎶 📚 etc, only Billie’s imagination will tell us eventually ❣️👍💋🥰😉
This is quite an ambitious project and I'm looking forward to next year watching the transformation. Cheers from N.W. Florida ,USA.
Dang, Yannis is a dynamo! Great work gentlemen! Uncovering elements of a 250 year old building is like an Easter egg hunt. Hopefully the beam is salvageable. So looking forward to more reveals and ultimately the beautiful library! Happy Holidays to the Pethericks and all of their extended family!!!
The library project will be just as exciting as the kitchen.
I have no doubt it will be just as stunning.
Yanis is such a hard worker, strong and all around good man.
Once again, Alex shows his mastery of filmmaking/editing.
(Hope he has a hard hat on during filming as well)
Maine USA
Great transformation of that room. Team work with Yannis!
Also hats off to the nuns for leaving the original elements in the rooms in the late 60's/early 70's. The dilemma for anyone who's renovating is always what to keep and what to strip out. The way the nuns did it back in the day made sure that the rooms could easily be stripped back to their former glory (as this video demonstrates).
Yannis is great! He's so eager!
Looking forward to this new project... Crack on!
I'm so glad you are wearing masks to protect your priceless lungs. 🙂
Oh my! A waterfall feature😂 That was a surprise! I wonder how many kilos of debris have been removed from the convent since you’ve been renovating? It’s truly amazing to watch it change. ♥️
Billy, thank you so much for saving so much of the great wood and anything else you can. You're incredible.
Always amazed at the size of these projects. Will be great to have Simon back helping after the first of the year. This is looking like a big big job.
I really hope Billy puts in some sort of a secret room/man-cave that can only be unlocked with a certain book tilting combination. Loving that Alex is back too and as always Yanis is an incredibly hard worker!
Billy, I think back 1 year to The 12 Days of Sink Drains.
And I wasn't new to the channel then.
You are amazing, Billy.
Hi, Yanis!!!
Oohhh!!! That little yellow light! I love it! ❤ And that original floor is gorgeous! Maybe it could go in Ryan’s apartment?
Please remember to put a rag in the sink pipe where you took out the P trap. You’ll let in sewer gas.
enjoyed watching today!
Billy. I don't remember how many rooms are being torn out for the library. But how wonderful and gorgeous it would be to incorporate the wood from the doors, frames and baseboards into the creation of the shelving and the surrounds. ❤
5 rooms upstairs, one downstairs
A dump trailer out the window would save a lot of time. The chutes could go straight into the dump-trailer :) I love your videos and all your restoration. You all are awesome.
Another exciting transformation begins!! Billy you have a skill at gathering the best of the best to be part of your projects!! Cannot wait to see all the progress as we go into 2024!!
Exciting indeed! Cannot wrap my head around the fact that it's time to start another major project. Wow!
It looks like mold underneath the window. Not surprising. I bet you run into it a lot. Would you please tell us how you get rid of it and prevent it in the future? (not bleach, as you probably know) Many do no realize how deadly it is (not just an allergy) so could use some education on the subject. Thanks.
The room looks so much better without that junk plasterboard it really opens the room up
Love the music in the background! Go Yannis ! He is such an asset to your team Billy.
Billy, are you saving the beautiful wood doors? I love the metal work on them.
Yes Billy said earlier in this vlog. He is keeping them to hopefully reuse😊
Great start Billy and Yanis ❤
OMG! my heart skipped a beat for a moment and you sent a shiver down my spine Billy…..when you looked over your left shoulder and said “let’s crack on Yannis” and then few seconds later we saw Yannis walk down the scary corridor.
Great job guys👌fabulous find of the wooden floor and Yannis is a treasure Billy. Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas so well deserved. I thoroughly enjoy all you do. Crack On !!!! 💯🤗🎄🥰🥂🎅
Working on old houses- 100- 200 years old- I was always fascinated with the materials. Many were built much as your abby- started with a hand adzed timbers cut from stands likely very near there. The "insulating cocoon" lumber was as you said , was extraordinary- fine, more tightly grained and much of it looked without warp. On your "banana" problem; don't write it off till you have seen all of it and put it all to the test of the ruler; one of the reasons the "built with greenwood" was that buildings settled and changed shape, and greenwood would settle into a "complimentary" shape- and their timbering was overbuilt. But please crack on and keep slowly peeling back the stories of the builders and keepers of this treasure. I hope you find more floors like that one- I believe you may be correct and it is chestnut. Just cleaned, yarned to kill the leaks, and oiled it would be a spectacular room with as many windows. If you are exposing the bottom, you can inject glue between the flooring and the beams which will cut sown on the squeaking.
Wonderful to find such lovely floors beneath that lino. Great start on the Library.
I see that cardboard mesh and have tons of gardening ideas lol. Snow on the ground here so dreaming about the spring planting gets me through 🤭
Nice start of the demo. I’m looking forward to the “Simon & Yanis Show!”
Love watching you discover what has been done to renovate the nuns rooms years ago. Very happy you will be saving the old oak wood for future projects. Are you going to set up a carpenters shop somewhere to facilitate carpentry jobs? It would be most useful for convent or chateau especially when repurposing old wood.
This is fascinating! I love those old doors and the chestnut flooring you’ve uncovered. I hope there’s an easy fix for the beam and I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s progress.
The original floors are STUNNING!!!!