Stone Houses: My Issues with DIY Renovations - Architect's POV
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
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I've watched probably as many videos about stone cabin renovations as humanly possible. I love them. But, I also see how they can be doner better.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Costly mistakes & toilets
2:41 Ways of waterproofing
4:07 Roofs
5:37 Order of works
5:18 How to find out info fast
5:58 New materials & old houses
7:58 Good example
8:23 cultural approaches
9:28 legal notes
Good example: / @ateliermavi
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I am commenting because, I have also seen a few stone house renovation videos, but also because we also have and renovated a stone house (work on it started before RUclips even existed) and I watched till the end of your video. 🙂
I fully agree with you. And sorry this comment is long.
To start, before we even purchased I insisted we hire an architect to review the house. We even got one who was also a structural engineer. I wanted to make sure the house was even one that could be repaired, not a demolition project.
Next we dug around the house to dry it out and deal with the wet walls. Part of the house was built into the hill (mostly a brick extension that was added about 60 years ago). We dug it out and put in retaining walls. We did nothing else till the house dried out. Slowly. That took two years. We also added water drains to the roof as there were none before, and has helped preventing it from getting wet again. Our work has kept the main house from rising damp getting into the living area (the house sits over a wine cellar, which has damp, but a wine cellar should have some humidity for the wine of course).
I have done a lot of construction in my life, but being from North America it was mostly carpentry framing, and I did not feel confident I could plaster and lay bricks well enough to start. So for the important work, to get started, we hired a contractor we could trust (including the roof). As I got more skilled in with bricks etc I started doing things more DIY as I learned the local way of doing things. My wife was native, but I was not, but even she learned things, especially the logistics of construction here, by having first a local contractor.
I posted a few topics on or renovation at my blog about 10 years ago (see my about page under the topic "renovating"). And even then there were few such "stone house renovation" vlogs. I did comment at a few back then when they started repointing their walls with cement to consider rather use a more traditional lime mix as appropriate. And they actually listed to me and took my advice. Recently, these stone house renovation vlogs seem to have exploded in recent years. I commented again a few times at these modern ones to consider the use of traditional lime mixes rather than cement or concrete and my comments appear to have been simply deleted and they carried on as before.... Oh well, it is their house. They can do what they want. I guess they are interested more in "views" than in actually helping others do it more correctly. I am only glad I will not have to live in them when they are "done". 🙂
This comment made me happier and happier the more I read, so thank you for sharing and for pointing this out! Same here, we can make suggestions to the best of our expertise, but in the end, everyone chooses what they want: for some it's just: easy, short-term or bare minimum for the construction to work for 2 years.
I appreciate you taking the time to learn about brickwork, I'm familiar with the wood-frame style from the States and I was just thinking the other day: that's a whole other story 😄
Thanks for watching and for taking the time to write this, I'm sure it will be insightful to many people! 😍😍
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Thank for the feedback! Super happy to hear this! 🙏💓
The link to the Good Example doesn't work. I'm very curious to see it. 😀
Thanks for pointing this out, I updated it & it's this one: www.youtube.com/@ateliermavi 🍀
Yeay 🎉 a new video! Do you have some design advice for long or interesting shaped houses?
Yay, glad you like it! My advice: look at many examples! Look how others approached the shape and what were the main ideas + what you like/dislike! And never compromise functionality for the shape 😅😇
@AxiMolnar Thanks for your advice 😊 The house is already bought, so it's more about dealing with the existing layout
@@AliceMara It also never hurts to talk to an architect 😇