Back To The (Retaining) Wall
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Continuing our stone home's retaining wall and thinking about our schedule of works.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:24 - After The Winter and Priorities
04:41 - Slow Work
06:52 - Clean Joints
Music:
Peter Lainson - Over The Sea
Floor Model - Which One's Pink?
I am so enjoying your videos. Your extremely hard work and great care will last you forever. Thanks also for considering the dear little nesting birds….you have a big heart. My greatest respect to you and your wife.
I gotta say I really like this series of videos, and the style you've gone for, It's not at all a very typical style for home renovation videos imo. Also nice music choice for this wall video.
Glad you like them!
Pink Floyd music style goes well with your video.
I'm a retired AV/Theater Tech/Manager from a University in St. Louis, MO, USA.
I'm trying my best to promote your channel. You are by far one of the best for production in video, music, script, etc. Especially for a single person production, I'm very impressed.
Thank you. Promotion is appreciated! It is a sizeable amount of work, but I enjoy it.
I was about to say the music is very Pink Floyd like - when I saw the title 😊 Great episode.
You have it all in hand and you appear to have the right idea to let the walls breathe. Would love to know what the humidity readings are now and if you are already feeling any sort of health benefits. Keep up the great work pal.
It would have been a great opportunity to fix the chimney when the roof was being retiled.
PPS we were without sparrows where I live for a number of years, they returned two years ago I had forgotten just what cheerful neighbors they are.
I would get a pallet load of NHL 3.5 lime and sand in bags in a colour that compliments the stone and repoint with that in an ongoing basis. Regarding ordinary portland cement that most likely wouldn't have been available when this place was built.
PS you could build a sparrow apartment block into the old window aperture.
Great idea!
You have already archived a lot. Living in an old building is a continuous, steady process. Your stepwise approach is, in my opinion, the right way to tackle the emerging challenges. There are no quick and easy solutions.
Thanks for sharing, nice work and being thoughtful for nesting sparrows. 🙂
It is very kind of you to consider the nesting birds, allowing time for the eggs to hatch and the fledglings to take wing.
Pointing! 😍
Clearing out the old cement looks satisfying.
Good on yer for not disturbing the nesting birds. Sparrows, once common, seemed to undergo a decline here in the UK but the numbers are rising again, or perhaps it's normal for the different areas I've lived in.
The walls don't look strong enough to retain the side of the house 🤔
Thanks for the update
I always enjoy your video diaries. Love your style and your ‘Zen approach to stone house maintenance’. Presumably you are going to get a scaffolding contractor in, to enable your priority job, once the wee birdies have spread their wings?
👍👍👍. Thank you
I would use a tanking mix for pointing, then tank render the wall up to ground level plus six inches. I assume you are planning a french drain on that flank wall . do not use pea shingle it is the mistake approved by all bodies. Worms find their way between the stones carrying with them mud over a period of years this blocks the gaps between the pebbles and destroys it's drainage value. back fill with mixed sand and aggregate fines this will remain clean and continue to drain for centuries. I must say those roofing gable end caps really don't suit the property at all still once you have the stone work and pointing sorted you should not need them.Evict the sparrows before they start laying eggs or they will be breeding until the autumn. you might think about injecting the loose slate footings with silicon it will bind it together and provide a water proof barrier.
Ha!.....you sound like someone who LOVES telling people what they should do.....!!!
....I'm wondering if you ever just stop......and listen.........!?!?
@@andymccabe6712 you sound like some one that drinks too much but I wont let it worry me.
I notice on the outside of the gable wall that the cracks up to the perlins are also internal also! If it were me I would be putting straps (metal) across all levels internally! Just to be safe?
Thanks for the update, what will you do about the 2 vertical cracks from the missing blocks up by the roof?? 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
May put in ties. Fill, repoint. Will decide after a closer look. 👍🏻
Will you be repointing with cement or lime? cause on youtube usually cement is like the bad stuff, that should never touch old houses. But my personal instinct would be to prevent water from entering by using concrete and bitumen.
Apparently it really depends on the type of stone the house is built from. With granite, cement is perfectly appropriate, or so I've been taught. With any softer materials, cement is best avoided because it's so hard any movement in the wall will cause the stone or brick to crack while lime mortar would have some give to it.
I'd be tempted to lime render below grade, tank with bitumen, XPS insulation and dimpled membrane before you backfill.
Uh, the music reminds me of Pink Floyd...