The biggest mistake you can make is by using regular "All use cement" with limestone works. It creates chemical reaction and gradually destroys the stone. Instead you should use special "Limestone cement mix" of the same mineral content. I know it from Malta, where all building are made of stone, and I was supervising to restore 600 years old UNESCO house.
A stone mason in Virginia told us the same thing about our house (1780 stone and brick colonial). You can't repoint the stone work unless you use the lime mix, he said. Along with the advice (ignored by a previous owner) never paint stone, lime wash it instead.
It's refreshing to see a couple calmly working together and more so that Louis is patient and willingly to explain or teach Millie how to do things (brick laying, concrete, circular saw, etc.).
The windows are absolutely stunning guys, you definitely nailed the vision of enhancing the stone and not detracting from it. Love your couple banter too, so cute and funny 😂
@@joost7153 I follow Jenna Phipps . She and Nicky are doing wood house reno in Vancouver area. They too do as much they can by themselves. Milly once mentioned they follow them too 😊
The amount of respect you both have for each other shines through in every video I have watched the windows look amazing looking forward to watching the Q&A one NEXT has been busy catching up😊
Wowzers! Just repeating as it perfectly describes this transformation. I wasn't expecting the exterior colour to match the stone, and it's such a good combination!
Always great when the homes getting closer to watertight and insulated. great update 2x 👍 I look out to the north sea and had the windows in my flat changed first week of January a few years ago. We have a turret with wall to ceiling windows and that was left open over night in January 🥶 (it worked out a bit cheaper as the company dont get much work in the winter)
We had the "out of stock" trouble when we retiled the faux mansard AND retiled the pool. But the choices we had turned out to look great, so yeah, happy accidents! Louie is incredible, he knows so much and works so hard! Beautiful progress ❤
Re: throwing the brick in the cement mixer while cleaning it. That reminded me off a coffee pot cleaning hack I learned long ago. Those clear glass pots that you brew coffee into? When it is clean, fill about 1/4 the way with ice then add salt and shake/spin it in a circle movement. The salt sticks to the ice and works as a scrubber! It cleans it so well and gets rid of those old stains! I went home and was floored! Afterwards, every time I went to family or friends house and saw their pot had some stains, I showed them. It was pretty cool! 😂 I am easily amused. Sorry! 😂😂
Yes my thinking exactly… and a bit less of the concrete in the black plastic bucket would be more back-friendly and it would not spill all over the place while being carried upstairs…
Fantastic! YOU HAVE THE BEST MUSIC! I follow 70+ vloggers and yours is so lovely. Hard work, great progress and fun. ❤🎉 With almost all the other vloggers I turn of the sound because of the terrible loud and bad music. 😵💫
I love the window color! For the stone in the kitchen, can you do a limewash treatment on the wall that allows the stone to show through a bit, but disguises the cement blocks and tones it down a bit? It might be nice to keep even just the one wall that way as a feature wall.
You are such a good team love watching you both and I love the windows. That’s a good trick with the brick in the mixer. You are both so good at this. See you next time👋🏻
Milly and Louis, you are doing an amazing job. Really nice to see younger people roll up their sleeves and it must feel so rewarding when you step back and see what you have accomplished. ❤ I am not trying to be mean but, Milly, are your eyebrows your own? 🤗❤️
Love watching your journey... Louis seems to be so overpowering when it comes to Milly having a go at doing anything practical...great house great journey
Love the colour of the windows blending with the stone, want to see how that looks from the street because I bet it's really elegant - but I guess that the scaffolding is in the way too much at the moment.
I absolutely love and appreciate you both buying a property that needs tremendous TLC, hard work, and a lot of renovations! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼👊🏼 Molly, please stop saying you’re sorry, we love seeing anything you guys do and I would love to see some pictures of your other properties and projects that you’ve done!! The house is so beautiful and has tremendous character, I love the idea of buying run down, un cared for homes and rejuvenating them back into livable homes!1 Molly do you really think the house may be haunted with bum touching ghosts?🤣😂 Keep up the great work, and thank you for taking time to video, it’s amazing watching your property or mansion, become a beautiful home!
Beautiful windows! And what a transformation! I know it was incredibly expensive, but it’s an investment that will pay dividends in the long run. The renovation is going great! 🇺🇸
Ooooo windows look lush! I've done a fair bit of DIY in the past, and Milly reminds me of me, wants to do all the tasks, but just isn't strong enough for certain things, even so, they can usually be done, just takes longer etc.
Great video Milly how can you look so gorgeous while working Louis your a lucky man . Outstanding work on the house you two are amazing and should be so proud of your accomplishments .Sending good vibes from California
Morning guys, those new windows look absolutely fantastic, I have just replaced the large window in my main bedroom, so have now replaced all the windows in the house, all double glazed, so I know how you feel, as for your brick laying you get top marks, bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia,
Before puting concrete in You have to make surface wet. Otherways it’s not gonna stick and be like separete block there! Also all rocks what U throw in must be wet.
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The biggest mistake you can make is by using regular "All use cement" with limestone works. It creates chemical reaction and gradually destroys the stone. Instead you should use special "Limestone cement mix" of the same mineral content. I know it from Malta, where all building are made of stone, and I was supervising to restore 600 years old UNESCO house.
You’re correct there, a lime mix should of been used.
A stone mason in Virginia told us the same thing about our house (1780 stone and brick colonial). You can't repoint the stone work unless you use the lime mix, he said. Along with the advice (ignored by a previous owner) never paint stone, lime wash it instead.
Wow that’s important I hope they’ve seen your post about the mix!
Really hope they read this!!
@BelgraveVilla
It's refreshing to see a couple calmly working together and more so that Louis is patient and willingly to explain or teach Millie how to do things (brick laying, concrete, circular saw, etc.).
You two are the most charming couple! 😊 I always find myself smiling while watching! ❤
That’s so kind 🥹 thank you ❤️
The colour of the windows is perfect!! Can’t wait to see the whole facade of the house with the new windows.
The windows are absolutely stunning guys, you definitely nailed the vision of enhancing the stone and not detracting from it. Love your couple banter too, so cute and funny 😂
Great progress and bless you Milly, I love it when Louis is more patient with you, I bet you’re learning lots, well done both ❤
WOW, the windows look fabulous, you two are doing such a brilliant job , congratulations 👏🏻🥂🇦🇺
The colour of the windows is perfect and I love the golden hardware!
The windows are lovely, well done.
Awesome! Lovely windows ( and fab bit of sneaky smoothing Milly 🥰)
Love the honey coloured stone! The stone and new frames really compliment each other!
I’m obsessed watching your makeover. You have so much respect in keeping everything as original, and doing an awesome job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Such an inspirational couple, really enjoying following your house renovation journey 👌💓
Day 2 of installation, nope day 4. Love it and had a chuckle, thanks Milly 😊
I watch 6 reno, rebuild, first build, homestead shows and you two have one of the bigger more involved jobs to work on!! So impressive!!! ❤from 🇺🇸
What other renos are you watching? I have to itch to watch more
@@joost7153I've been loving Jenna Phipps, or another historical one is @Hythacg
@@joost7153 I follow Jenna Phipps . She and Nicky are doing wood house reno in Vancouver area. They too do as much they can by themselves. Milly once mentioned they follow them too 😊
Me too pleaseee I love Reno!!
@@joost7153 VANWIVES, TylerandTodd are my top two. Life Uncontained, DIYDifferent are good too
The amount of respect you both have for each other shines through in every video I have watched the windows look amazing looking forward to watching the Q&A one NEXT has been busy catching up😊
You are a Jack of all trades, Louis! You both are doing a great job! Your villa is looking sweet!👍😊❤️
The window color looks perfectly with the stone. You two are doing a fantastic job. I look forward each week to your videos.
Your hard work you've done for month's is bearing fruit. How rewarding for you both.
Love your Thomas Barrow joke. Just been rewatching Downton to bid Granny farewell.
I'm glad you ended up with just 1 color hardware. Consistency is a good thing!
Agreed! We were glad the decision was made for us in the end 😊
So glad you went with gold it's more like original!
Gobsmacked, kids! You are doing a remarkable job. That young man is a keeper, you are both very hard workers.
Hair games on point. Following this awesome project brings me so much happiness so thank you
Wowzers!
Just repeating as it perfectly describes this transformation. I wasn't expecting the exterior colour to match the stone, and it's such a good combination!
You got that exterior window colour spot on 👍
Gorgeous windows! Not only the color, but the style as well.
Great couple building skills! Everything looks amazing 👏 ❤
Your windows look amazing ❤
Omg. The window colour choice was the right one. They look perfect outside 😍😍😍🔥👏🏾 you guys are doing an amazing job!
The windows look fantastic and are the perfect colour against the stone work !!!
Windows look great. I so admire how hard you both work!
New windows look amazing! Especially the outside with the stone repair. At least, I think it’s stone.
Progress is great.. love the way you work together.. Louis is a ginger genius!
Always great when the homes getting closer to watertight and insulated. great update 2x 👍
I look out to the north sea and had the windows in my flat changed first week of January a few years ago. We have a turret with wall to ceiling windows and that was left open over night in January 🥶 (it worked out a bit cheaper as the company dont get much work in the winter)
We had the "out of stock" trouble when we retiled the faux mansard AND retiled the pool. But the choices we had turned out to look great, so yeah, happy accidents!
Louie is incredible, he knows so much and works so hard! Beautiful progress ❤
Absolutely Beautiful. Well done in your choices for colors, etc. 🎉
Wow hats of to you two for taking on a project like that your doing great keep it up
Gosh I look forward every week to your vlog. I absolutely love watching your progress. It’s the best vlog
Great job,windows are the perfect colour to match the stonework..
Re: throwing the brick in the cement mixer while cleaning it. That reminded me off a coffee pot cleaning hack I learned long ago. Those clear glass pots that you brew coffee into? When it is clean, fill about 1/4 the way with ice then add salt and shake/spin it in a circle movement. The salt sticks to the ice and works as a scrubber! It cleans it so well and gets rid of those old stains! I went home and was floored! Afterwards, every time I went to family or friends house and saw their pot had some stains, I showed them. It was pretty cool! 😂 I am easily amused. Sorry! 😂😂
Jack of all trades, master of none........often times better, than master of one!!! 😊
I'm just amazed at the work ya'll are doing! We're doing our own reno, but nothing like the level you're doing. Beautiful work :)
Absolutely loving watching your renovation journey. The windows look lovely.
Love the banter between you two. Great vid guys, keep up the great work. Nice big sleepy yawn 🥱 towards the end 😅
You are supposed to stagger course your brick with the existing brick. Plus, I’m pretty sure that some rebar in that slab pour is required.
Love the windows and the gold hardware! Everything is looking amazing. ❤
Stunning windows and stonework ❤
Those windows look amazing! 👏🏻👏🏽👏🏾❤️🇬🇧🙏🏼
Great job guys. The window colour looks fab! Good choice.
I would leave exposed stone where you can, especially around doors, it’s gorgeous.
The windows look so good! So satisfying to see a big project like this done after all the work y’all have been doing!
Great progress, a bit more air in the barrow tyre would make life so much easier...
Yes my thinking exactly… and a bit less of the concrete in the black plastic bucket would be more back-friendly and it would not spill all over the place while being carried upstairs…
I love seeing this coming together and all the sweat equity that you both are putting into the restoration of your home❤
The endless patience, if the was me and my hubby he would be yelling at me for doing stuff wrong.
Fantastic! YOU HAVE THE BEST MUSIC! I follow 70+ vloggers and yours is so lovely. Hard work, great progress and fun. ❤🎉
With almost all the other vloggers I turn of the sound because of the terrible loud and bad music. 😵💫
For two young people you are very hard workers.. N you are a joy to watch reclaim this beautiful house. IRELAND
Gosh 🙌 Your families must be so darn proud of what your both achieving 🏡
They're working so hard and I'm very proud of them! ☺️
I love the window color! For the stone in the kitchen, can you do a limewash treatment on the wall that allows the stone to show through a bit, but disguises the cement blocks and tones it down a bit? It might be nice to keep even just the one wall that way as a feature wall.
You's are doing a great Job
You are such a good team love watching you both and I love the windows. That’s a good trick with the brick in the mixer. You are both so good at this. See you next time👋🏻
The windows look amazing! So worth the effort and expense. Milly you crack me up lol
Absolutely Love the videos! - you two are doing an amazing job!! .. looking forward to the next one!
You have gorgeous windows, they really are beautiful. I also love your attitude to reuse the old windows for a greenhouse.
The windows look great from inside and out. Keep it going 😊
Milly and Louis, you are doing an amazing job. Really nice to see younger people roll up their sleeves and it must feel so rewarding when you step back and see what you have accomplished. ❤
I am not trying to be mean but, Milly, are your eyebrows your own? 🤗❤️
Thank you so much! ☺️ haha yes they are 😄❤️
Stunning windows and stone work. Fabulous work.
The windows are truly lovely, you guys are doing an amazing job!
Louis has a delightful accent!
Love watching your journey... Louis seems to be so overpowering when it comes to Milly having a go at doing anything practical...great house great journey
Love the colour of the windows against the stone. You’re doing a grand job!
Love the colour of the windows blending with the stone, want to see how that looks from the street because I bet it's really elegant - but I guess that the scaffolding is in the way too much at the moment.
The windows look amazing! I love the colour-matching idea, cannot wait to see what it looks like from afar once the scaffolding is down.
The windows look fabulous ❤️
Well down you two for another great video 🥳🙏🏼
I absolutely love and appreciate you both buying a property that needs tremendous TLC, hard work, and a lot of renovations! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼👊🏼
Molly, please stop saying you’re sorry, we love seeing anything you guys do and I would love to see some pictures of your other properties and projects that you’ve done!!
The house is so beautiful and has tremendous character, I love the idea of buying run down, un cared for homes and rejuvenating them back into livable homes!1
Molly do you really think the house may be haunted with bum touching ghosts?🤣😂
Keep up the great work, and thank you for taking time to video, it’s amazing watching your property or mansion, become a beautiful home!
You guys are amazing! I love your project.
New windows look great. 😊
The windows look amazing!
Woah, can't believe the size of those windows!
The house is looking so good now. You both really know what you doing, fantastic!
Love watching you such a hard working couple love your relationship so sweet as well ❤
I loooove your weekly videos guys! Beautiful couple, hard working, love the teamwork 🩷🩷 the windows look so good!! 😱
What a transformation, and yes the colour of the frames is spot on.
Beautiful windows! And what a transformation! I know it was incredibly expensive, but it’s an investment that will pay dividends in the long run. The renovation is going great! 🇺🇸
Love your enthusiasm and energy. My husband and I would have been arguing every step of the way 😂
they look absolutely beautiful, love the colour.
Beautiful windows and lots of fun watching you mix and pour the concrete.❤
wow great progress guys, and milly you are looking fitt🔥🔥 with all this manual labour😁
WOW. The windows are stunning against the stone. Congratulations on you colour choice
Looks stunning done good job on the outer stonework
That color is beautiful.
The windows are stunning!
So beautiful.
Thomas Barrow from Downton Abbey.. loved that show.. thank goodness you didn't kill the little bug.. now good karma will returned doubled.
Ooooo windows look lush! I've done a fair bit of DIY in the past, and Milly reminds me of me, wants to do all the tasks, but just isn't strong enough for certain things, even so, they can usually be done, just takes longer etc.
Hey! Thanks for answering my question about how Louie knew so much stuff!! Watching from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Great video Milly how can you look so gorgeous while working Louis your a lucky man . Outstanding work on the house you two are amazing and should be so proud of your accomplishments .Sending good vibes from California
Morning guys, those new windows look absolutely fantastic, I have just replaced the large window in my main bedroom, so have now replaced all the windows in the house, all double glazed, so I know how you feel, as for your brick laying you get top marks, bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia,
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like them! It makes such a difference doesn’t it? 😊
since day one your accent and voice has reminded me of Lady Mary.
Beautiful job!
lol, I got it… had to think for a minute… Thomas Barrow…. Clever!,,,,!!!🤗
Before puting concrete in You have to make surface wet. Otherways it’s not gonna stick and be like separete block there! Also all rocks what U throw in must be wet.
Nice work, hope you kept all those old windows to make a glasshouse/garden room?