When I bought my house 10 years ago it had been empty for 2 years and the bank didn't maintain it. My neighbors were coming over thanking me for fixing it up. Lol
I was thinking just the same thing! I LOVE the care taken with everything especially the beautiful carpentry. Attention to detail. Also love his wry humour. Extraordinary young man.
I could totally picture someone sitting on the parch enjoying a cup of coffee and watching neighbors walk by... you do wonderful work. Thanks for what you do for your tenants.
Yes the type of quality care he put in this house means a lot. I would be highly upset if the wrong set of ppl rent this property from him n destroy it. I hope he gets responsible people in there that care
I enjoyed the video and felt like I did learn a few things to. I think if ever I had a need to build railings on the outside of a house I would know how to do it now and make it look halfway decent. Also the no music was a nice change, not that I don't like the videos with music, but this was just more relaxing for some reason lol Nothing like the sounds of saws and drills lol
Driving down a country road is so awesome and calming to see a white, old farmhouse; clean, sunlit and somehow comforting. I say white. Such beautiful work!! Love seeing her come together. ❤️
I completely agree. The absence of the filler music was one of the first things I noticed. I much prefer the ambient sound of the construction process. Even when the video and audio speeds up, it's better than some obscure background tunes. I hope he keeps producing videos this way.
I'll have to do the rails on my mom's porch like this when I rebuild it. Yours look a lot better and are definitely a lot easier than what she currently has.
I love the smell of aluminum oxide dust in the morning, it smells like victory. Great job as always. Congratulations on the new sponsorship, we will pay them a visit.
Paint the porch floor same colour as what you paint the concrete foundation perhaps dark grey ? The paint will eventually wear on the floor but by the time that happens you may be ready to fix it. Great job looks good.
The thing schools never teach is the difference between the two KISS rules. Everyone knows "Keep it simple, Stupid". Too many courses seem to teach the second KISS Rule. It is everyone's misfortune when designers and engineers believe in "Keep it stupid, Simple".
We watch each and every one of your episodes. what Brand wood treatment preservative are you using on the bottom portion of your exterior wood? I built my own 3500 sq ft house back when I was in my forties. We did every bit of the work ourselves except drilling the 31 bell bottom piers for the foundation. We did the all the concrete slab, framing, stucco, spanish clay tile roof, plumbing, electrical, and cabinets from scratch. We even made all our own trim moulding with a Craftman planer moulder. I'll be 70 in a few days and I am trying to slow down a bit. I blame This Old House and New Yankee Workshop for making do all that.
I really like this format! I've been watching you for a long time and I enjoy you breaking down your process! I find it very helpful and insightful. Would love to see more like this 🤩
I am in the process of redoing ONE room in my apartment... I have always been in awe of how much energy you're putting into this... now even more so. I've been obnoxious about how Americans build their houses but I must say remodeling a house on the level you're doing on a house built like the one I live in is... well not impossible but certainly an order of magnitude harder on a body and the wallet. So I appreciate the building style more now. It may not be as... sturdy? as I'm used to but it's for sure a whole lot more flexible.
A friend is remodeling his apartment currently. For the bathroom, he had to use an impact drill and drill the tiles off, as well as parts of walls and the floor to expose the pipes as he needs access to them. The amount of dust was unreal. Luckily he's in shape, so his body held up, but it was taxing on the body nonetheless. So in times like these, I envy the Americans for their style of building.
First time commenter, here from the U.K., where my partner and I have been long admirers of your videos. I’m a terrible DIY’er, but we really enjoy your humour & how you constantly position the camera for the enjoyment of the viewer. You are a very accomplished worker and wish you many years success. Thank you
The railing completely change the look of the house and my opinion of it. Great job. Just enough teaching so I could do it, but not so much that I get bored. Keep up the good work.
Congrats on almost 400k subscribers! Quite a jump from when I started watching at the beginning of $12,000 home. You have a lot of good ideas with working with what you've got.
I like the simplicity of the railings. It is also helpful when you explain how to dress it up if you want. The paint colours are totally up to you. You house your choice. Be well from Canada❤️
The new porch railing and banisters are very nice! If you are going to rent the place out, paint it, and will provide a more protective cover over the wood, 😊👍💕💕💕
The handrails look really clean and sharp, great job. Painting would of course improve durability. The front of the house looks so much more solid - neighbours must be pleased 😃
I think you did a great job on the balance of the railings. It looks very good. Sometimes when you overdo the trim out it never looks good. You definitely struck the right balance. Try to save those bushes. Trim them back a bit and fertilize. i think you should consider a trim color to set off some of the trim. A nice forest green over white might look good. I really like the slanted steps, sort of enchanting. Keep up the good work. I learn from each of your videos.
I loved the Norm Abram moment when you talked about the sawblade's thickness turning the wood into sawdust. Every weekend warrior needs those kinds of finish carpenter tips. Measure, mark the cut...? leave the pencil mark or not to make the wood fit perfectly and tight. You know, that sort of thing. We all need those tips. Great video.
This is the first time i've commented. I think all you do helps the neighbor. I used to do a lot of remodeling and sometimes things you just got to figure it out for yourself. People don't realize how hard a remodel is! I have 2 rental properties and I'm thinking about selling them. and also the house I live in. I own 3 acres from where i live its 6 miles down the road. And its a secluded property, One I look forward to building for myself and my daughter. I'm divorced and I've taken care of my daughter since she was 2. I can't wait to build a stick built cabin. All kinds of deer, bear, and grouse. I'll have a chicken house and a big garden to feed my dad and mom. But I enjoy your videos, keep em coming!
1:42 Cutting out the metal cladding strip, where the half column was, made a great sound - it would make a great sample on which to build music tracks. Took my mind away from the renovation, lol.
I think you should paint the basement portion a navy blue and then stain the wood. The natural tone of the wood; along with the navy and white would look so good!
I liked the way you framed the rails. Clean looking and functional. I bet in the long run those rails will shrink less or become loose. Like the rails on my townhouse!
You are SO DARN COOL :) Thank you for seeing the beauty in simplicity and structure. Adding your own special details here and there (like the custom porch rail, the new ceilings everywhere they were needed, the completely new master bathroom, etc.) will absolutely take this house from "just an ordinary rental" to something WAY nicer than is typical! I'm delighted by the creativity and effort you've put into this project and cannot wait to see more~ Take care!
I'm not so sure about that. He uses a fair amount of ad hoc and non-traditional means and methods. Not sure how far that would fly with a national chain that sells to contractors that are compelled to do things correctly.
I think there is a reason you very rarely see HD or Lowes sponsor RUclipsrs. For one thing, it's not really needed for them since HD and Lowes are a lot of people's only options. Additionally, a lot of RUclipsrs, including this one, don't do everything exactly as it "should" be and I don't think they would want to deal with any issues that come from that.
If lowes sponsored this guy, it would mean he is an idiot, because every video I've seen that is sponsored by lowes was done by idiots that don't know what they are talking about.
It's gettin' there, it's gettin' there. Be fun to see your final color for porch and trim. We painted an old house we owned. It looked plain. There was a store, I forget which one, that had fake imported shutters, but made of real wood, for about $3 each. I bought those and painted them our trim color. Easy to put up. It really dressed up that litte house.
Great series! You go over and above what most landlords would do. Its fine if you repeat yourself! I can't wait for your plan on the lopsided broken steps!
Nice to see quality building on these hand rails. Our old house I leaned on the rail one night and it collapsed sending me ass over tea kettle into a rose bush. My dad looked the next day and the rail was built with nothing but small nails. No screws or anything except what was holding it to the posts. I just happened to be the first unlucky sap to lean on it.
“I’m gonna get off topic here.” My favorite part of these videos. I really enjoyed how you showed drilling everything the first time and then sped up the rest, but showed most everything else. You cut out anything that repeated like the other section of the railing.
I am one of those people who appreciates learning some stuff--bought a fixer two years ago that we've been slowly renovating ourselves and your videos are quite helpful. Even if I don't do all of the things you do, its good to know how I might do those things, or how they might interact with other projects we're working on, so thank you!
Nice!! That old porch is completely transformed just by what little you did so far H.H. It's all coming together nicely, but being a long time viewer of your videos, I'm sure you're gonna rip the whole place down and rebuild it all. Haha. Thanks PolicyGenius, this channel is so worth the sponsorship! Looking forward to the next episode.
I appreciate the "teaching" and planning topics. Even if you repeat yourself when explaining something, its interesting to see a concept applied to a slightly different scenario.
Really appreciated seeing your process for the hand rails. Looks great! One suggestion for the balusters would've been to create a roundover profile on the corners, although I can appreciate keeping it simple. Curious to know how long treating the ends with that stuff will last. I've had to repair all three of my patio post bottoms from rot (same style you took out - rotted only on the front sides from rain). To make it more bulletproof, I cut out the sections containing the rot, patched with treated lumber and coated the bottom end grain with epoxy before installing. Probably overkill but I don't want to have to do it again. :)
haha "90210" as the zip in Policy Genius promo. Great video as usual - watching you is just kind of relaxing. Glad to see these coming out more regularly again.
Great video. It is nice to stay on one topic and learn something. Also the lack of music and just work sounds makes the video more relaxing to watch somehow. It reminds me of the earlier 12k house videos.
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Much better. The neighborhood must be delighted with your improvements.
@Matthew Williford She's overwhelmed with excitement over his good work!
When I bought my house 10 years ago it had been empty for 2 years and the bank didn't maintain it. My neighbors were coming over thanking me for fixing it up. Lol
I was thinking just the same thing! I LOVE the care taken with everything especially the beautiful carpentry. Attention to detail. Also love his wry humour. Extraordinary young man.
He basically owns the neighborhood! Lol
@@chadjohnson9101 Lucky neighbourhood!!
"forgive that door, it doesnt know any better." lol
.., a common saying (: best :) LOL
only up for 15 min, and already at 1200 views. You have come a long way since i started watching you 4 years ago.
This old house is coming back to life.
I could totally picture someone sitting on the parch enjoying a cup of coffee and watching neighbors walk by... you do wonderful work. Thanks for what you do for your tenants.
Yes the type of quality care he put in this house means a lot. I would be highly upset if the wrong set of ppl rent this property from him n destroy it. I hope he gets responsible people in there that care
Hello there beautiful friend ♥️
Hows are you over there love ♥️
Awww I heard a little munchkin! ♥️ she must’ve been helping her daddy
Lol I believe that was a cat🤣
That porch railing turned out really nice. And I enjoy your comments.
Hello there beautiful friend ♥️
Hows the weather from over there ♥️,
You should have your own TV show as this is not just entertaining but also a learning experience for all of us...
Yes, a 21st Century Bob Villa.
I only just realised how out of level the front step and porch are
I think its mostly the steps!
@@SkaterzAle yeah your right but I only noticed how bad on this episode I guess because if was so front porch heavy
Me too
That's typical with old concrete porches. They settles over time with shifting of the ground.
I would epoxy that crack in the porch floor and use a deck coating on it. I did that on my own porch and it looks great and holds up well.
I was thinking that, too!
That's a pretty good trip hazard, too. Needs to be corrected.
Lovely new hand rails.
I enjoyed the video and felt like I did learn a few things to. I think if ever I had a need to build railings on the outside of a house I would know how to do it now and make it look halfway decent. Also the no music was a nice change, not that I don't like the videos with music, but this was just more relaxing for some reason lol Nothing like the sounds of saws and drills lol
Honestly I really preferred the sounds of just you working over the music just gave it a really nice one on one feel
I do enjoy it that you complete one task at a time now with your videos. Seeing the finish look of the task is sooooo satisfying!
Driving down a country road is so awesome and calming to see a white, old farmhouse; clean, sunlit and somehow comforting. I say white. Such beautiful work!! Love seeing her come together. ❤️
Loved the format of this video. Also, I love the audio that is nothing but the sound of the work sped up.
Agreed. I don't need music, I just like to watch the work progress.
I completely agree. The absence of the filler music was one of the first things I noticed. I much prefer the ambient sound of the construction process. Even when the video and audio speeds up, it's better than some obscure background tunes. I hope he keeps producing videos this way.
I'll have to do the rails on my mom's porch like this when I rebuild it. Yours look a lot better and are definitely a lot easier than what she currently has.
The front porch is turning out really great! It is making a BIG difference.
Congratulations on the new sponsor, policy genius is great
that porch looks professionally finished and adds character to the house. A simple design adds so much.
good job! i LOL'd at the comment (0:49} "nice classic look vs that rental property handyman look" -- keep up the good work
its coming together!! cant wait for the drywall to go up
I love the smell of aluminum oxide dust in the morning, it smells like victory.
Great job as always.
Congratulations on the new sponsorship, we will pay them a visit.
I agree with what you said... I like that you stuck to one particular topic and that you showed us more learning. Great decision !
Paint the porch floor same colour as what you paint the concrete foundation perhaps dark grey ?
The paint will eventually wear on the floor but by the time that happens you may be ready to fix it.
Great job looks good.
"Form follows Function" is what we were taught in design school.
The thing schools never teach is the difference between the two KISS rules. Everyone knows "Keep it simple, Stupid". Too many courses seem to teach the second KISS Rule. It is everyone's misfortune when designers and engineers believe in "Keep it stupid, Simple".
Very nice handrails. Some people forget that building codes apply even if the item being built isn’t required by code.
I really enjoyed this episode. It was nice to learn how to make my own balusters. I like the simplicity of the porch look. Thanks for what you do.
I love the simplicity of that railing. It really dresses the house. It'll look good white or stained.
We watch each and every one of your episodes. what Brand wood treatment preservative are you using on the bottom portion of your exterior wood? I built my own 3500 sq ft house back when I was in my forties. We did every bit of the work ourselves except drilling the 31 bell bottom piers for the foundation. We did the all the concrete slab, framing, stucco, spanish clay tile roof, plumbing, electrical, and cabinets from scratch. We even made all our own trim moulding with a Craftman planer moulder. I'll be 70 in a few days and I am trying to slow down a bit. I blame This Old House and New Yankee Workshop for making do all that.
Today's project really added to the front facade. It's coming along.
Looks so much better. Just watching this one video has taught me how to upscale my own builder grade porch railings. Thanks!!
Did I hear a toddler right there? :) 5:30
I believe they were passing by on the street.
I know I thought it was so cute!
I really like this format! I've been watching you for a long time and I enjoy you breaking down your process! I find it very helpful and insightful. Would love to see more like this 🤩
I am in the process of redoing ONE room in my apartment... I have always been in awe of how much energy you're putting into this... now even more so. I've been obnoxious about how Americans build their houses but I must say remodeling a house on the level you're doing on a house built like the one I live in is... well not impossible but certainly an order of magnitude harder on a body and the wallet.
So I appreciate the building style more now. It may not be as... sturdy? as I'm used to but it's for sure a whole lot more flexible.
A friend is remodeling his apartment currently. For the bathroom, he had to use an impact drill and drill the tiles off, as well as parts of walls and the floor to expose the pipes as he needs access to them. The amount of dust was unreal. Luckily he's in shape, so his body held up, but it was taxing on the body nonetheless. So in times like these, I envy the Americans for their style of building.
Do the post/door-trim in peppercorn paint and do the rails in white. It will make it pop, from one DIY guy to another.
First time commenter, here from the U.K., where my partner and I have been long admirers of your videos. I’m a terrible DIY’er, but we really enjoy your humour & how you constantly position the camera for the enjoyment of the viewer. You are a very accomplished worker and wish you many years success. Thank you
The railing completely change the look of the house and my opinion of it. Great job. Just enough teaching so I could do it, but not so much that I get bored. Keep up the good work.
The cadet blue that it had on the trim was quite attractive. A red trim would be nice too.
Hello there beautiful friend ♥️
Hows are you over there love ♥️
@@ivandaniels5021 Happily married and completely faithful, thank you very much.
Your little one voice melts my heart
Congrats on almost 400k subscribers! Quite a jump from when I started watching at the beginning of $12,000 home. You have a lot of good ideas with working with what you've got.
👍👍👍
I would add a stair rail just for more accessibility but it looks great!
Looking good! Simple is stylish!
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You could also level out that crack and then tile the porch, maybe with a slate style tile
I like the idea of staining/natural wood color. It's looking great!
Such a simple design yet it look so nice.
I like the simplicity of the railings. It is also helpful when you explain how to dress it up if you want. The paint colours are totally up to you. You house your choice. Be well from Canada❤️
Yep, whip those bushes out!
The new porch railing and banisters are very nice! If you are going to rent the place out, paint it, and will provide a more protective cover over the wood, 😊👍💕💕💕
The handrails look really clean and sharp, great job. Painting would of course improve durability. The front of the house looks so much more solid - neighbours must be pleased 😃
I had a porch that looked something like that, I put rough surface ceramic tile on it. Looks great !
Man that railing looks fantastic. Transforms the porch. Tight video. Thank you!
Sometimes its easier to get started "Doing" and plan as you go instead of always planning with no action ever taken.
I think you did a great job on the balance of the railings. It looks very good. Sometimes when you overdo the trim out it never looks good. You definitely struck the right balance. Try to save those bushes. Trim them back a bit and fertilize. i think you should consider a trim color to set off some of the trim. A nice forest green over white might look good. I really like the slanted steps, sort of enchanting. Keep up the good work. I learn from each of your videos.
I loved the Norm Abram moment when you talked about the sawblade's thickness turning the wood into sawdust. Every weekend warrior needs those kinds of finish carpenter tips. Measure, mark the cut...? leave the pencil mark or not to make the wood fit perfectly and tight. You know, that sort of thing. We all need those tips. Great video.
This is the first time i've commented. I think all you do helps the neighbor. I used to do a lot of remodeling and sometimes things you just got to figure it out for yourself. People don't realize how hard a remodel is! I have 2 rental properties and I'm thinking about selling them. and also the house I live in. I own 3 acres from where i live its 6 miles down the road. And its a secluded property, One I look forward to building for myself and my daughter. I'm divorced and I've taken care of my daughter since she was 2. I can't wait to build a stick built cabin. All kinds of deer, bear, and grouse. I'll have a chicken house and a big garden to feed my dad and mom. But I enjoy your videos, keep em coming!
that thumbnail, love it!
I LOVE the columns and railings! This is my favorite style 😍
I like the idea of accent color for the columns and handrails. But, when it's all said and done it is your house so do what makes you happy.
Glad you enjoyed talking about the saw and wood, because that was my favorite part this time around. Love learning this stuff
1:42 Cutting out the metal cladding strip, where the half column was, made a great sound - it would make a great sample on which to build music tracks. Took my mind away from the renovation, lol.
I love teaching moments.
Hello there beautiful friend ♥️
Hows the weather from over there ♥️,
Winter here. Husband and I just came in from outside. Very cold and snowy.
@@debbiecrum7585 that is beautiful, seasons greetings to your family Dear
@@debbiecrum7585 that is very beautiful, seasons greetings to you family dear
Wow!Those hand rails really brought out the house
I think you should paint the basement portion a navy blue and then stain the wood. The natural tone of the wood; along with the navy and white would look so good!
I liked the way you framed the rails. Clean looking and functional. I bet in the long run those rails will shrink less or become loose. Like the rails on my townhouse!
Looks like a lot of fine old homes in that area.Those rails are looking great.
That porch is very nice. Simple and clean.
This is moving along very nicely. Well dooooone sir! Loving the house! Can't wait you start doing dry walls inside and see the space better
Agreed! Lol every time I get a notification from your videos, I'm like "IS HE DOING DRYWALLLL??" 😅 Not that I'm disappointed with the other content! 😁
You are SO DARN COOL :)
Thank you for seeing the beauty in simplicity and structure. Adding your own special details here and there (like the custom porch rail, the new ceilings everywhere they were needed, the completely new master bathroom, etc.) will absolutely take this house from "just an ordinary rental" to something WAY nicer than is typical! I'm delighted by the creativity and effort you've put into this project and cannot wait to see more~ Take care!
Does anyone else think Lowes is crazy if they don't sponsor him or hire him for their commercials? All 396K of us should message them.
I'm not so sure about that. He uses a fair amount of ad hoc and non-traditional means and methods. Not sure how far that would fly with a national chain that sells to contractors that are compelled to do things correctly.
I think there is a reason you very rarely see HD or Lowes sponsor RUclipsrs. For one thing, it's not really needed for them since HD and Lowes are a lot of people's only options. Additionally, a lot of RUclipsrs, including this one, don't do everything exactly as it "should" be and I don't think they would want to deal with any issues that come from that.
@@StockAL3Xj They work with a blogger I follow who is similarly unorthodox on his old house projects....
He already mentions them so much they don't need to 😂
If lowes sponsored this guy, it would mean he is an idiot, because every video I've seen that is sponsored by lowes was done by idiots that don't know what they are talking about.
It's gettin' there, it's gettin' there. Be fun to see your final color for porch and trim. We painted an old house we owned. It looked plain. There was a store, I forget which one, that had fake imported shutters, but made of real wood, for about $3 each. I bought those and painted them our trim color. Easy to put up. It really dressed up that litte house.
Great series! You go over and above what most landlords would do. Its fine if you repeat yourself! I can't wait for your plan on the lopsided broken steps!
Nice to see quality building on these hand rails. Our old house I leaned on the rail one night and it collapsed sending me ass over tea kettle into a rose bush. My dad looked the next day and the rail was built with nothing but small nails. No screws or anything except what was holding it to the posts. I just happened to be the first unlucky sap to lean on it.
“I’m gonna get off topic here.”
My favorite part of these videos. I really enjoyed how you showed drilling everything the first time and then sped up the rest, but showed most everything else. You cut out anything that repeated like the other section of the railing.
I am one of those people who appreciates learning some stuff--bought a fixer two years ago that we've been slowly renovating ourselves and your videos are quite helpful. Even if I don't do all of the things you do, its good to know how I might do those things, or how they might interact with other projects we're working on, so thank you!
Nice!! That old porch is completely transformed just by what little you did so far H.H. It's all coming together nicely, but being a long time viewer of your videos, I'm sure you're gonna rip the whole place down and rebuild it all. Haha. Thanks PolicyGenius, this channel is so worth the sponsorship! Looking forward to the next episode.
I appreciate the "teaching" and planning topics. Even if you repeat yourself when explaining something, its interesting to see a concept applied to a slightly different scenario.
I don't know how to do anything, apart from painting, I stumbled on your videos by accident and wow! You are so talented!
Yeah I like the simplicity of that rail as well. It dress up the front. Good Job!!!
The handrails really helped the look of the porch and house in general. And I like the simple design. Great work!
Really appreciated seeing your process for the hand rails. Looks great! One suggestion for the balusters would've been to create a roundover profile on the corners, although I can appreciate keeping it simple. Curious to know how long treating the ends with that stuff will last. I've had to repair all three of my patio post bottoms from rot (same style you took out - rotted only on the front sides from rain). To make it more bulletproof, I cut out the sections containing the rot, patched with treated lumber and coated the bottom end grain with epoxy before installing. Probably overkill but I don't want to have to do it again. :)
Looks great!
Hello there beautiful friend ♥️
Hows are you over there love ♥️
Black would look really nice 💕 a classic white and black house
Great DIY porch! It really changed the look of the house in front. Can't wait to see more!
haha "90210" as the zip in Policy Genius promo. Great video as usual - watching you is just kind of relaxing. Glad to see these coming out more regularly again.
You can always paint the railing neon yellow then it would really pop against a white house.
I primed all my railing components before assembling. It made painting a little bit easier.
I can’t wait to see the porch all painted!
I enjoyed the one task video. Porch railings look great.
Rail looks fabulous
Great video. It is nice to stay on one topic and learn something. Also the lack of music and just work sounds makes the video more relaxing to watch somehow. It reminds me of the earlier 12k house videos.
Love learning, and you are a good teacher. Beautiful job on your railing!
love following this journey since the first episode.
Love the porch railings!
Love your work Sir, I've been following your channel for sometime.
Love this. Thanks for all the talking, I feel like I’m learning every time I watch!
i also agree on ripping out the bushes, and vote to stain the wood a very dark color to contrast the white, would look like a nice modern farmhouse.
Excellent job. The house looks so much better with everything you do. Looks more homie.
Porch looks real nice. Can't wait for the broken cement stairs be replaced.
merry christmas to you and your family... im starting to say that now because you never know what might change at this time of year