So so pleased that you're wearing decent masks.. Some friends of ours renovated and old farmhouse on Anglesey and it was only much later did they realise that they'd been seriously damaged by the old lead paint on the walls and timbers. Once it became airborne they were breathing it in and lead can do horrible things to your nervous system. Keep up the hard graft once you start rebuilding it will be a lot more rewarding I'm sure. Fascinating project with surprises at every turn. The old mill could become a real asset down the line .🎉🎉🎉
Love the fast forward of Gav taking down the lath and plaster. Very cleverly done. Such a great space to work with now. Nice use of voiceover now, too. It's a great property all round - I'm sure you'll do it justice in the end.
Most excited about the old mill-wheel pit… I can’t help it, water-mills have been an interest of mine for 60 years or more. At least you’ve got 1) alternatives like the outside when you’re fed up with the inside dust and dirt, and 2) youth on your side! Would love to come and see it for real one day. More power to you both. And thanks for the videos. Les
Avoiding official standards of health and safety is one thing, protecting yourselves from the risk of injury etc. is vital. Perhaps you could get a rubble shute down to a skip when clearing out rooms / plaster. It looks like you need a multi- tool brush cutter, hedge cutter machine to tackle overgrown areas of the land.
Am married to a farmer, who has no handyman skills or inclination to remove, have a nice house or garden. But he periodically comes out with the comment what a lovely place we live in, wish my sister would clean her place up. Our children, his other siblings have all at some stage said, doesn't he realise he's exactly like her!!!
Awwww this takes me back to when I was working on a very old farm house in Somerset … Even though I was being paid it was horrible work stripping it back to a shell. But putting it all back slowly….. was amazing The end result was stunning… and very proud day telling the customer… I think we’ve finished 😀✅
As I was watching you uncover the water wheel area the thought of getting a historical group in to see if they can refurbish it came to mind. Your house is going to be beautiful when your done upstairs
I am in awe of your energy! As soon as you are able, ring fence your land and keep unwanted stock out as they can easily damage stuff you have done. Good fences make good neighbours. You have ragwort growing (the yellow flowers) and these are poisonous to stock, so get rid of them as soon as possible as they spread like wildfire. A brushcutter head with what look like thick cable ties is brilliant for clearing the brambles and weeds. Looks like you have a small mill race there - how exciting!
Yeah we are hoping we can get to that next year although our neighbours are due to sort theirs which is help a lot as it's their dodgy fences which are letting them escape through our dodgy fences 😂
Wow, what a task you set yourselves this last week!! I’m loving the use you both made of the handraulic plaster remover (shovel) and Gav’s work with his hoe, well it’s impressive! It’s great to see the upstairs stripped out. I’m guessing you’ve already started thinking about the new layout. It’s refreshing to see another couple who get stuck in, taking the rough with the smooth but sharing the experience. As always, best of luck and I’ll await the next instalment. Well done both! W
Yeah we have had plans all drawn up so we will definitely walk you through them on the coming weeks - nothing massively different really (mainly because of budget) but just some tweaks to make it work better for us
Nicole, a tip when trying to bust things up with a mallet (or even just nailing with a hammer): place your hand at the very bottom of the handle, and then give a good swing. Let the momentum of the heavy mallet head do the work, saving your wrist and arm. Putting your hand halfway up the handle is only good for control (and less force) when tapping in a fine nail or tack.
Love your episodes. You are now part of my Sunday routine, then discuss with J on the Monday. You are both doing brilliantly. Love your voice over too!!!!
Loving this renovation, I have you guys to thank for motivating me to finally demolish and remove a fitted wardrobe that I thought I would never manage! Looking forward to the ongoing works in your farm house and the buildings.
Hi, can I suggest that you keep samples of each of the wallpapers you find in the rooms. In the future it would be nice to make up a framed collage picture using these as a memory of what was in the house when you bought it.
When you said you was away whilst Gavin was demolished the walls. My first thought is when you came back, you would say, you changed your mind can he put it back please, 🤣🤣🤣. Gavin done a great job and made it look soo easy. Well done. Love the dog watching the screen wondering who's that. You are both doing a great job and its a delight to see the progress. well done
Loved the ending! One question: how are the roofs ? Have you had a good look at em? Ground levels all ok? I’m just a computer programmer but have owned a few houses now and have concluded that water is the enemy. Roofs, guttering, drains, and ground levels are the key things to be fully on top of.
When we had our 17th century farmhouse renovated in 2013, I think nearly every internal wall and floor/ceiling had to come out. Took a large team of all trades to finish it in 6 months. I admire anyone can do most of the work themselves ❤
You guys don't play around, what a demo. It's really exciting to see how you are going to be laying the upstairs out once you start. Great teamwork and effort.👍
Goodness me the man doesn’t hang about when it comes to demolition! Never seen it done with a garden spade but, it works pretty well for shifting blown plaster from large areas! Have a great week❤️
Pro plant person here. It's best to spray bramble, or it will just return from the root. It's good to do that in spring, once growth has got well under way. Glyphosate weedkiller is absorbed by the leaves and then translocated to all parts, especially in spring when growth is strongest. As amateurs, you're theoretically unable to buy pro products, but I buy mine online and no one asks to see my certificate! The product bramble hates is Grazon Pro. It's OK to use on grassland, but it kills flowers shrubs etc. Even with that, in my experience, several applications would be needed to see off deep-rooted blackberry. Or there's digging!😂
Oh it would be great to do that but we’re trying our best not to use too many heavy chemicals if we can avoid it but we have so much bramble that I’m not sure how we will get on with the digging approach but we will give it a good go anyway! Is it best to try and dig it out in the spring too?
@@citytosmallholding Having bought a neglected plot, we felt like that. However, having lost our chief ragwort-puller to uni, and battling docks & thistles in thousands, there was nothing else we could do. Pigs weren't an option, and we wanted to keep the original varieties of grasses. Besides, if the bramble is in walls etc, you can't send a pig after it there! After a couple of years spot spraying, and then grazing, we saw a difference. Now, we use very little chemical control, and it takes a fraction of the time to keep thistle and dock down to modest numbers. Ragwort's gone. Everything else, including the wild flowers and unusual grasses, is thriving.
Why didn't my just not cut the wall in section with a saw saw and drag the wood wall in section square that way the shiplap come with the wall and no mess it like dragging a door out side
Looking forward to seeing your plans for the upstairs space....I also see a waterwheel project in a few years time. a bit of free energy perhaps? Keep up the good work You are living my dream.
brilliant vid. keep going its a long haul but well worth it, as i said before started 5 years ago with no mains electric or water.... now have mains services and watched your fab vid after spending the day building a 400cm long cocktail bar with multi coloured LEDs feel so good so dont give up see the long game and have fun cheers ian.
We've moved into a village bungalow this weekend. I have to applaud gavs death defying balancing act. I wouldn't be so brave. I've got to wait for a ladder to be delivered tomorrow so I can hang light fittings haha!
Wow! demolition man! 💪 Reminds me of one of my sons. Bit scary watching Gav stand on the bannister though 😯 Looks so different already. No stopping you guys 😃 Lots of kindling to burn 😃 Aw your dog 💕
Gav is handy with the spade , I ve done the banister manoeuvre just seems logical at the time until it broke, and lath is a pain to remove. This brings back some good and bad memories, but it will all be worth it when you turn that corner .
wow, well done you are doing fantastic. what a great lounge/kitchen the upstairs would make! one massive room! and downstairs could have the bathroom/bedrooms... just an idea. :) your spirit is amazing, I wish you a productive week, thanks so much for sharing
Good onyuh man. Old school crack on with it. I'm old enough to have witnessed Health n Safeties assist in the demise of common sense. Long time since common...
Very satisfying to watch the plaster coming off , used a similar method to strip tiles from a bathroom once . Had a great flat spade which helped me keep out of the way of flying bits of tiles and got the job done I no time at all . Long reach hedge cutter + chain saw attachment is great for clearing that sort of undergrowth ( whilst keeping away from the prickly bits ! ) Crack on guys ,doing great ! 👍
Hi Gavin, if the plaster cement render on the inside walls has come away, blown. . Leave it on as the chance's are the lime mortar on the outside is shot and it is holding the wall together. . Leave in on until you have fixed the lime mortar outside. . 🤔
Lot's of progress, well done. Gav was perfectly safe over the stairwell. He had taken the precaution of partially filling the stairwell with torn down plaster. Here in Pembrokeshire when the render or plaster has blown it's delightfully known as 'Gone cluck'. Just remember to look at the problem from your point of view rather than copying someone else's solution. Hitting the bottom of a stud will have the same effect as hitting the top of it.
Putting in the log burner was the best decision we have ever made, so that saves us during the day but we definitely feel it in the mornings when we wake up and the fire has died down! Dealing with a lot of condensation and dampness in the caravan too but overall - can't complain!
The pair of you did brilliantly clearing that bloody lot out, that took some doing...brilliant. I will say though your commentary wasn't your usual mad self (i mean that as a compliment) as you are usually so full of beans but I suspect you were knackered or it was late at night. Anyway take it easy the pair of you don't overdo it all in one go, you will regret it. best wishes 😁😁
Yeah you hit the nail on the head there, we are actually going to be reducing down the videos to one every couple of weeks as we have been struggling to balance jobs, social media and the actual Reno!
the 'hole' in the mil race is probably where the drive from the wheel went thru to the mill building. my guess is it would be an undershot wheel ( water comes in at the bottom) not very efficient but you could always use it to generate your own electricity😊
You've done a great job, in some places, the plaster only held up because of the wallpaper! Isn't that structure in the garden with the supply pipe sometimes a waterer for horses, or cattle? The cows have decided they like it better on your plot😃. Great work, but rest sometimes is necessary, otherwise you won't be able to work with pleasure. Greetings and see you👍💪🐕🦺👋
You two are doing amazing work. Can I be as bold to ask regarding finances? I've not seen anything mentioned but wondered what ballpark figure something like this costs and how it's financed? I appreciate this might be a bit forward, but as someone who would love to do similar just really interested in how you make this work. Thanks 👍
Once you have restored the farm and farm house if you have not got a tractor in mind could I recommend a Massey Ferguson a little bit cheaper and reliable and great for for country lanes in uk and wales.
It's good that you acknowledged your limitations in the demolition phase, but I thought you worked well as a team. Re Gav's lack of gloves, as long as you don't mind his rough hands ............
We are going to replace with stud walls, insulation and plaster - we needed to strip right back as there was no insulation in the walls, also no modern electrics or services, so we can build that all in, we are vaulting the ceilings, so will need to adjust for that AND then also they were all just cracked and patched so needed a good old freshen up!
A technical question for Gav. I noticed that most of the wooden slats from the original walls remained intact after you knocked off the plaster covering them. My question is Is it desirable/possible/efficient etc to keep those slats & to just affix plaster boards on top of them? Thanks
We want to put insulation in the walls as well as run all the lighting/plumbing etc in them, also extend the central walls up as we are doing vaulted ceiling so there was just no way we could keep them as we need to do some behind/above them. Also they are not flat at all so you wouldn’t be able to put boards straight on them you would need to replaster them and then put the boards on.
You may have failed miserably, as you said, but you looked good doing it! Let's face it. Someone needs to do the sweeping up. That will almost always be the vertically challenged. Always marry a tall man. They're so useful! Time for a cuppa and a couple of biscuits!
I see someone taught you a good shoveling technique, but not how to leverage the full swing of the baby-sledge. I guess Gav doesn't want you to have all the fun jobs. 🤣
That looks like hard work... Gav is a machine! Any benefit to have one of those chutes out the window to a skip below? Save some energy. Probably far too late to make suggestions like that now... sorry!
It is in places but it was more the amount of nails in it, down both sides of each strip but we have kept a lot of it though but it will be for smaller projects rather than structural as they are just too damaged from all the nails!
The walls had no insulation, no modern electrics/plumbing, they were all cracked and damaged and we are also vaulting the ceiling so there was no way of saving it unfortunately
I just find it really upsetting to see it all so smashed up! Insulation on the outside walls, yes, but those laths looked fine. We’ve been in our farmhouse for nearly 30 years and have preserved as much as possible. We rewired and plastered over. Maybe we’ll check in again when you’re putting stuff back!
So so pleased that you're wearing decent masks.. Some friends of ours renovated and old farmhouse on Anglesey and it was only much later did they realise that they'd been seriously damaged by the old lead paint on the walls and timbers. Once it became airborne they were breathing it in and lead can do horrible things to your nervous system. Keep up the hard graft once you start rebuilding it will be a lot more rewarding I'm sure. Fascinating project with surprises at every turn. The old mill could become a real asset down the line .🎉🎉🎉
Oh no that's awful!
I absolutely love your dog!
You're no slouch either, you're a beast with the shovel and bucket!!
Aaah thanks, appreciate it!
Love the fast forward of Gav taking down the lath and plaster. Very cleverly done. Such a great space to work with now. Nice use of voiceover now, too. It's a great property all round - I'm sure you'll do it justice in the end.
Thanks very much!
My Great- Great Grandfather was a Lathe Maker, I wonder how long it would have taken him to make all the ones you demolished.😢...
Gav is an absolute machine. You both make an absolutely amazing team.
Thanks Pete!
Seren is such a star. Loved the ending❤❤❤❤
She was so funny!
Love the way Gav does his demo. So many of the videos I watch seem like girl scouts doing demo in a doll house!
He is definitely not delicate
I would have asked the owner of the cows if he had any goats. Between the two, they would have that area cleaned in just a few days! 😂
As a fellow wee shorty I've learned to swing the mallet not from the wrist but from the shoulder, you'd be surprised by how much more power you have😎
Most excited about the old mill-wheel pit… I can’t help it, water-mills have been an interest of mine for 60 years or more. At least you’ve got 1) alternatives like the outside when you’re fed up with the inside dust and dirt, and 2) youth on your side! Would love to come and see it for real one day. More power to you both. And thanks for the videos. Les
We are super excited about it too! Just need to get to the bottom of how it all works!
Wow, demo is really coming along. Cute footage of your sweetie watching herself on TV.
It was so so funny, she sat there for ages!
‘Pure Lies’ laughed out loud for me !!
Great job guys 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💙💕
Avoiding official standards of health and safety is one thing, protecting yourselves from the risk of injury etc. is vital.
Perhaps you could get a rubble shute down to a skip when clearing out rooms / plaster.
It looks like you need a multi- tool brush cutter, hedge cutter machine to tackle overgrown areas of the land.
Great team work. Looking so different already. You got this
As someone else has already said…what a great space to work with😀
We need longer content 🙌 My partner and I are currently doing our first reno 😊
Amazing content and journey, btw!
Am married to a farmer, who has no handyman skills or inclination to remove, have a nice house or garden. But he periodically comes out with the comment what a lovely place we live in, wish my sister would clean her place up. Our children, his other siblings have all at some stage said, doesn't he realise he's exactly like her!!!
😂
There are none so blind as he who not see!
Seems a fitting quote doesn't it? 😂😂😂
Awwww this takes me back to when I was working on a very old farm house in Somerset …
Even though I was being paid it was horrible work stripping it back to a shell.
But putting it all back slowly….. was amazing
The end result was stunning… and very proud day telling the customer… I think we’ve finished 😀✅
Oh nice! Yeah can only imagine how good it will feel once it’s done!
As I was watching you uncover the water wheel area the thought of getting a historical group in to see if they can refurbish it came to mind. Your house is going to be beautiful when your done upstairs
It is amazing what one young man with a shovel can destroy! Good job Gav! ~ Debbi from Cincinnati
I am in awe of your energy! As soon as you are able, ring fence your land and keep unwanted stock out as they can easily damage stuff you have done. Good fences make good neighbours. You have ragwort growing (the yellow flowers) and these are poisonous to stock, so get rid of them as soon as possible as they spread like wildfire.
A brushcutter head with what look like thick cable ties is brilliant for clearing the brambles and weeds. Looks like you have a small mill race there - how exciting!
Yeah we are hoping we can get to that next year although our neighbours are due to sort theirs which is help a lot as it's their dodgy fences which are letting them escape through our dodgy fences 😂
I Love that white fireplace with the oval inside..so pretty..i Hope you keep it!
Yep we are keeping those! They are great!
Wow, what a task you set yourselves this last week!! I’m loving the use you both made of the handraulic plaster remover (shovel) and Gav’s work with his hoe, well it’s impressive! It’s great to see the upstairs stripped out. I’m guessing you’ve already started thinking about the new layout. It’s refreshing to see another couple who get stuck in, taking the rough with the smooth but sharing the experience. As always, best of luck and I’ll await the next instalment. Well done both! W
Yeah we have had plans all drawn up so we will definitely walk you through them on the coming weeks - nothing massively different really (mainly because of budget) but just some tweaks to make it work better for us
Spray the floors with water as it helps with the dust ❤
You're smashing it well done it's extremely hard work but you will make it to the very end.
Thanks!
Nicole, a tip when trying to bust things up with a mallet (or even just nailing with a hammer): place your hand at the very bottom of the handle, and then give a good swing. Let the momentum of the heavy mallet head do the work, saving your wrist and arm. Putting your hand halfway up the handle is only good for control (and less force) when tapping in a fine nail or tack.
Yeah I mean nothing about my technique was right 😂 will try your tips out next time!
PLS LONGER VIDS
Love your episodes. You are now part of my Sunday routine, then discuss with J on the Monday.
You are both doing brilliantly. Love your voice over too!!!!
That’s so nice! Thanks for following along!
Loving this renovation, I have you guys to thank for motivating me to finally demolish and remove a fitted wardrobe that I thought I would never manage! Looking forward to the ongoing works in your farm house and the buildings.
Oh amazing! Well done!
Hi, can I suggest that you keep samples of each of the wallpapers you find in the rooms. In the future it would be nice to make up a framed collage picture using these as a memory of what was in the house when you bought it.
Hi, yes that what we’ve done!
Invest in a brush cutter! It would clear that undergrowth much faster, and your would have it for future maintenance as well.
Aaah yes we have one but we couldn't safely use it on the stone or in the pit unfortunately
When you said you was away whilst Gavin was demolished the walls. My first thought is when you came back, you would say, you changed your mind can he put it back please, 🤣🤣🤣. Gavin done a great job and made it look soo easy. Well done. Love the dog watching the screen wondering who's that. You are both doing a great job and its a delight to see the progress. well done
Yeah imagine if he had got the plan wrong! hahaha!
Loved the ending!
One question: how are the roofs ? Have you had a good look at em? Ground levels all ok? I’m just a computer programmer but have owned a few houses now and have concluded that water is the enemy. Roofs, guttering, drains, and ground levels are the key things to be fully on top of.
YOU GUYS WORK TO DAMN HARD, BUT IF YOU DIDN'T THE WORK WOULD NEVER BE DONE. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEOS. ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME FOR A LUNCH BREAK.
That's opened it up a bit 😂 Gav is a machine! Love the channel.
Thanks very much!
When we had our 17th century farmhouse renovated in 2013, I think nearly every internal wall and floor/ceiling had to come out. Took a large team of all trades to finish it in 6 months. I admire anyone can do most of the work themselves ❤
Yeah it’s a massive job isn’t it!
Lots of progress there 😀
You guys don't play around, what a demo. It's really exciting to see how you are going to be laying the upstairs out once you start. Great teamwork and effort.👍
Goodness me the man doesn’t hang about when it comes to demolition! Never seen it done with a garden spade but, it works pretty well for shifting blown plaster from large areas! Have a great week❤️
Right?! I was very impressed! You too!
Pro plant person here. It's best to spray bramble, or it will just return from the root. It's good to do that in spring, once growth has got well under way. Glyphosate weedkiller is absorbed by the leaves and then translocated to all parts, especially in spring when growth is strongest. As amateurs, you're theoretically unable to buy pro products, but I buy mine online and no one asks to see my certificate! The product bramble hates is Grazon Pro. It's OK to use on grassland, but it kills flowers shrubs etc. Even with that, in my experience, several applications would be needed to see off deep-rooted blackberry.
Or there's digging!😂
Oh it would be great to do that but we’re trying our best not to use too many heavy chemicals if we can avoid it but we have so much bramble that I’m not sure how we will get on with the digging approach but we will give it a good go anyway! Is it best to try and dig it out in the spring too?
Or get a pig and some moveable electric fence, they will grub out and eat the roots
@@alangates5240 Gav would love that!
@@citytosmallholding Having bought a neglected plot, we felt like that. However, having lost our chief ragwort-puller to uni, and battling docks & thistles in thousands, there was nothing else we could do. Pigs weren't an option, and we wanted to keep the original varieties of grasses. Besides, if the bramble is in walls etc, you can't send a pig after it there!
After a couple of years spot spraying, and then grazing, we saw a difference. Now, we use very little chemical control, and it takes a fraction of the time to keep thistle and dock down to modest numbers. Ragwort's gone. Everything else, including the wild flowers and unusual grasses, is thriving.
Ahhh that is interesting - it’s just so tough to know what to do and there is just so much!!
This will give you a chance to make the rooms larger instead of a bunch of small rooms. Love watching the rentavation. Joy in Central Florida USA
Why didn't my just not cut the wall in section with a saw saw and drag the wood wall in section square that way the shiplap come with the wall and no mess it like dragging a door out side
Starting from scratch is a understatement, keep up the good work.
Awesome to see the progress!
Looking forward to seeing your plans for the upstairs space....I also see a waterwheel project in a few years time. a bit of free energy perhaps? Keep up the good work You are living my dream.
Definitely investigating it but will be a while until we dedicate some serious time to it.
Well that’s let the Light in 🤣💪🏻👍🏻
hahah yeah just a bit!
What a lovely space you creating good luck 😊😊
Thanks Kevin
Seren 😭♥️ smashing job guys. Get it? Smashing!
You are such a wordsmith! 😍
Love Gavin's technique of swinging a full bucket of rubble up onto his shoulder, who needs a kettle bell, eh?
brilliant vid. keep going its a long haul but well worth it, as i said before started 5 years ago with no mains electric or water.... now have mains services and watched your fab vid after spending the day building a 400cm long cocktail bar with multi coloured LEDs feel so good so dont give up see the long game and have fun cheers ian.
Oh wow, yeah that is the absolute dream!
We've moved into a village bungalow this weekend. I have to applaud gavs death defying balancing act. I wouldn't be so brave. I've got to wait for a ladder to be delivered tomorrow so I can hang light fittings haha!
He certainly wouldn’t have been doing it if I’d been there makes my stomach go all funny even thinking about it 😂
@citytosmallholding my heart was in my mouth watching him!
Wow! demolition man! 💪 Reminds me of one of my sons.
Bit scary watching Gav stand on the bannister though 😯
Looks so different already. No stopping you guys 😃
Lots of kindling to burn 😃
Aw your dog 💕
Gav is handy with the spade , I ve done the banister manoeuvre just seems logical at the time until it broke, and lath is a pain to remove. This brings back some good and bad memories, but it will all be worth it when you turn that corner .
Wow.
We hope so!
An old mill as well…wow…your purchase gets better and better 😀😀😀Jinxy. Meanwhile our staircase going in this week😀😀😀
Good luck!
wow, well done you are doing fantastic. what a great lounge/kitchen the upstairs would make! one massive room! and downstairs could have the bathroom/bedrooms... just an idea. :) your spirit is amazing, I wish you a productive week, thanks so much for sharing
Thanks so much! 😊
Good onyuh man. Old school crack on with it. I'm old enough to have witnessed Health n Safeties assist in the demise of common sense. Long time since common...
hahah he is definitely old school at heart!
Very satisfying to watch the plaster coming off , used a similar method to strip tiles from a bathroom once . Had a great flat spade which helped me keep out of the way of flying bits of tiles and got the job done I no time at all .
Long reach hedge cutter + chain saw attachment is great for clearing that sort of undergrowth ( whilst keeping away from the prickly bits ! )
Crack on guys ,doing great ! 👍
Room upstairs looks a lighter & brighter with some of the walls removed.
Great work 😮
Hi Gavin, if the plaster cement render on the inside walls has come away, blown. . Leave it on as the chance's are the lime mortar on the outside is shot and it is holding the wall together. . Leave in on until you have fixed the lime mortar outside. . 🤔
Ahhhh might be a bit late for that piece of advice 🤣🤣🤣
Well done you 2 , damned hard work
You are going to save all of those laths they make really good kindling.
Was thinking the same. Amazingly dry and will last you months, saved chopping kindling
@@sally-anneshotter9174I’ll third that. But I bet they have that one sorted already!
We have indeed!
It looks like the spade was made for the job, it sure worked well. Loads stripped in one go, wow. 👍
Lot's of progress, well done.
Gav was perfectly safe over the stairwell. He had taken the precaution of partially filling the stairwell with torn down plaster.
Here in Pembrokeshire when the render or plaster has blown it's delightfully known as 'Gone cluck'.
Just remember to look at the problem from your point of view rather than copying someone else's solution. Hitting the bottom of a stud will have the same effect as hitting the top of it.
Ahhh yeah that would have made a lot more sense 😂
You guys should invest on a couple of goats to help with the greenery...they are the best lawn mowers...lol
I had to laugh at the “nettle sting” comment 🤣🤣🤣
Hope you are all toasty warm in the static. Weather has been a bit nippy out our way and my wife was asking.
Putting in the log burner was the best decision we have ever made, so that saves us during the day but we definitely feel it in the mornings when we wake up and the fire has died down! Dealing with a lot of condensation and dampness in the caravan too but overall - can't complain!
I though it would have been easier if you had got a bucket shaft to tip all the rubble out of the window! You've done fantastic so far 👏 👌
We have actually ended up building a shoot - it will make an appearance next week for that very reason!
The pair of you did brilliantly clearing that bloody lot out, that took some doing...brilliant. I will say though your commentary wasn't your usual mad self (i mean that as a compliment) as you are usually so full of beans but I suspect you were knackered or it was late at night. Anyway take it easy the pair of you don't overdo it all in one go, you will regret it. best wishes 😁😁
Yeah you hit the nail on the head there, we are actually going to be reducing down the videos to one every couple of weeks as we have been struggling to balance jobs, social media and the actual Reno!
@@citytosmallholding Your health and mental wellbeing come first, best of luck.
Vertically challenged folks like us have our talents too!! You guys must have had rubber arms after that demo job
We were so knackered!
the 'hole' in the mil race is probably where the drive from the wheel went thru to the mill building. my guess is it would be an undershot wheel ( water comes in at the bottom) not very efficient but you could always use it to generate your own electricity😊
Yeah we are definitely going to look into that as an option
You've done a great job, in some places, the plaster only held up because of the wallpaper! Isn't that structure in the garden with the supply pipe sometimes a waterer for horses, or cattle? The cows have decided they like it better on your plot😃. Great work, but rest sometimes is necessary, otherwise you won't be able to work with pleasure. Greetings and see you👍💪🐕🦺👋
Yeah not quite got the balance right yet!
You two are doing amazing work. Can I be as bold to ask regarding finances? I've not seen anything mentioned but wondered what ballpark figure something like this costs and how it's financed? I appreciate this might be a bit forward, but as someone who would love to do similar just really interested in how you make this work. Thanks 👍
Thanks very much! We will definitely share info on costs as we go through the process.
Once you have restored the farm and farm house if you have not got a tractor in mind could I recommend a Massey Ferguson a little bit cheaper and reliable and great for for country lanes in uk and wales.
Ooh ok will have a look at those!
what about a chute from the window? would that be possible? save all the trips up and down the stairs?
The skip was too far from the window unfortunately but Gav has actually made a shoot, so you can see that beauty next week! 😂
It's good that you acknowledged your limitations in the demolition phase, but I thought you worked well as a team. Re Gav's lack of gloves, as long as you don't mind his rough hands ............
like blooming elephants hooves 😂
The only trouble with these videos is they aren't long enough!
Aaah I knew I would get that comment, this week was a very short one but will make up for it next week!
You have plenty of sticks for the fire 😂
Just a few 😂
What are you going to put in place of the lath & plaster?
We are going to replace with stud walls, insulation and plaster - we needed to strip right back as there was no insulation in the walls, also no modern electrics or services, so we can build that all in, we are vaulting the ceilings, so will need to adjust for that AND then also they were all just cracked and patched so needed a good old freshen up!
A technical question for Gav. I noticed that most of the wooden slats from the original walls remained intact after you knocked off the plaster covering them. My question is
Is it desirable/possible/efficient etc to keep those slats & to just affix plaster boards on top of them? Thanks
We want to put insulation in the walls as well as run all the lighting/plumbing etc in them, also extend the central walls up as we are doing vaulted ceiling so there was just no way we could keep them as we need to do some behind/above them. Also they are not flat at all so you wouldn’t be able to put boards straight on them you would need to replaster them and then put the boards on.
You may have failed miserably, as you said, but you looked good doing it! Let's face it. Someone needs to do the sweeping up. That will almost always be the vertically challenged. Always marry a tall man. They're so useful! Time for a cuppa and a couple of biscuits!
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I see someone taught you a good shoveling technique, but not how to leverage the full swing of the baby-sledge. I guess Gav doesn't want you to have all the fun jobs. 🤣
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Why are people obsessed with telling RUclipsrs to get goats 😂😂😂
Or a pair of donkeys, they can be pretty non selective as well!
Donkeys would be hilarious!
Think Gav needs a bigger hammer, love the balancing act
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I forget if you mentioned it before; but how many bathrooms will the final build have? Hopefully at least 2?
Yeah one master upstairs and then another downstairs, we wanted to put in an en suite but in the end a walk in wardrobe won the battle 😂
That looks like hard work... Gav is a machine! Any benefit to have one of those chutes out the window to a skip below? Save some energy. Probably far too late to make suggestions like that now... sorry!
Hahaha we actually have made one but just down the stairs as the skip is too far to do it from the window!
Why are you guys using the dump tube hooked onto the window to dump straight into the dumpster saves you going up and down the stairs
The skip was too far away from the window unfortunately. There’s a brick wall infront of the house which stops us having skip right under the window 😩
Is the timber wormy?, if not I'd reuse it, it'll save you a fortune
It is in places but it was more the amount of nails in it, down both sides of each strip but we have kept a lot of it though but it will be for smaller projects rather than structural as they are just too damaged from all the nails!
Well youre going to have plenty of kindling
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cant you Mcgivera a pulley system out the window once on ground then showel up work smarter not harder
I think they would fall out if we put any pressure on them!
What’s wrong with all those laths? And plaster! I can’t understand why you are taking it all out!
The walls had no insulation, no modern electrics/plumbing, they were all cracked and damaged and we are also vaulting the ceiling so there was no way of saving it unfortunately
I just find it really upsetting to see it all so smashed up! Insulation on the outside walls, yes, but those laths looked fine. We’ve been in our farmhouse for nearly 30 years and have preserved as much as possible. We rewired and plastered over. Maybe we’ll check in again when you’re putting stuff back!
See how a guy can get on ,😉 without his misses wantin to stop for a cuddle every now and again.....haha
hahah more like me adding more jobs to his list!
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Oups à cheval sur le haut de l'escalier et le mur en démolition, c'est un cascadeur. Attention un accident est vite arrivé
This is very true!
Why be in a hurry to send the cattle back. They are doing a good job of vegetation clearing.
hahaha the farmer who owns them wanted them back!
Who needs a gym?!
Exactly 😂
I think it might be time to get some goats to manage your brambles. They are very naughty and will add much entertainment too!