No.16 Restoration of a Dangerous Old Stone Wall
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Works starts in earnest filling in the huge hole in our boundary wall whilst Helen finds treasure in our empire of dirt.
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The wall is looking absolutely fantastic….🔨⚒️
Some bits and bobs for backfillin'... I like that, it has a certain ring to it. Keep on keepin' on! ⚒️
Wow!! You 2 are killing it!! Building that wall.
Some reno channels give me a sense of being overwhelmed by the project but for some reason your channel gives me a very calm and confident feeling that you have can do this. I always enjoy your vlogs!!!
You see that there are professionals at work!
We won't lie - sometimes the overwhelm does raise its head but mostly we just take it little by little. We bought the mill so that we could enjoy the process and complete the project as a couple so we try to just enjoy it. Also it helps that Rich is a builder so he is calm in the face of restoration adversity! 😂 Glad you enjoy the vlogs 😁
Great intro music, keeping these walls blues!
Thanks Nomad 😁
Nice. Appreciate the teaching on the mortar finishing.
What a great father and son team and in that heat !The wall looks great and I love the finds shelf !👍👍👊👊👏👏👌👌❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thanks Barbara I'm sure the finds shelve will grow over the coming weeks 😁
Nice piece of brick work, well done. I hope you rewarded pops with plenty of cold beer, even if it was French beer 😁 Cheers
Nice to see the progress! Great to see the archeology going on in the old workshop. Deciphering all the clues left behind in the rubble is half the fun! Keep going, I am certain you are learning more about the mill and its surroundings with every passing day. Cheers!
It really is fun! Aside from the building and renovations we are fascinated by its history too.
Grand job doming that wall
Thank you!
Inspiring. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful stone wall you are recreating. Tell us more about when you plan to start work on the main house and what your approach will be to start the work. Many of us are interested in knowing more about that.
Thank you.
We are currently finalising plans with our architect. Once they have been submitted to the authorities we will be able to share a little more about our approach. We are planning a vlog soon on the main house so stay tuned! 😁
Nice Work & Video 👍
I love the effort you’re all putting in to the videography, camerawork, editing and narrative in the last few weeks, it really makes a huge difference. Love the treasure shelf it’s going to end up full of stuff you’ll enjoy for years. Great to see that proper strong and safe scaffold can actually be found in France 😉 stonework is looking great and you got so much done in a shift.
Mercy Buckets.
Hi Simon thanks for encouragement we're making a real effort with the production values to try and grow the channel so it's great that you've noticed 😁. the scaffolding came with me from the UK, I'm glad i brought it considering the scaffolding I've seen since I've been here 😬
@@moulinroche the better production quality lately really shows🙂 you’re doing great work and you’re both very engaging anyway, have been from the start you lovely people. The channel will grow and if I can mention you on other channels I will.
hard yakka well done
Thank you
Wow, you look as though he did a really good job on that wall. Well done
Thanks Ron the heat was super punishing throughout the rebuild we're so glad it's cooled off a little over the last few days.
Loved the contrast from time-lapse to real-time on the wall ;) And awesome to see some archaeology going on. You are doing great guys!
Thanks Rofl we have so much footage from this project that time elapses are very much the order of the day at the moment. One more vlog to go and the project is finished.
For sorting out the dirt, I would suggest buying some hardware cloth of different densities and frame the cloth with 1x2 (I'm from the U.S.) and sift shovel loads at a time.
work at night maybe looks good legends
I've never laid stone with a head torch before!😂
Wow. Hard hot work.
It was so hot that week! 🥵 Ironically been windy and rainy pretty much since then 😂
You need a soil screen sifter. A wooden frame with some screening on it, shake the soil through into a wheel barrow and find your treasures or glass on top of the screen
Yes I have something like that too but scraping seems to work the best to get it done more quickly
I am pretty sure that glass light is from an art deco lamp, it would have been a lady holding up a flame (your glass being the flame). I know these are very sought after as they usually break and art deco fans need them to replace their broken one. I would have a look on the internet and research it, you could get a few quid towards the restoration from it :) Teamwork with the wall. Be careful with that glass ridden floor, especially when sitting on it
Yes it does look like that doesn't it. We will do a bit of googling and see what we come up with. Don't worry, I am wearing work trousers with padding in all the right places and I definitely check before I sit down 🧐😂
Love the intro music 👏
Thank you! 🎶
The wall looks great!
Thanks Elaine the next installment shows the wall finally finished.
I don't know why but I was thinking you'd use some tie rods or something like rebar to tie the existing wall to the section you built - next time maybe - it's still going to be strong without. Good to see you making a good job of it. The rusted handtool - you might, it could have been a plane - John, the guy who is 'Scoutcrafter' might have a good idea if you add a comment to one of his videos. I thought it might be some form of old farming tool - one day, we'll find out....!
Hi Steve there's no need for rebar when the wall is 50cm thick. The new stonework is toothed into the old wall and is in fact now the strongest element of the entire wall as the mortar is new. Next week's vlog shows us completing the wall and pointing in other sections around the infill so hopefully my ramblings will make sense.
Will that wall need any form of buttressing being so tall or is there going to be a building behind it?? 😎👏👍
No it should be fine as the bottom bit is built directly up against the bedrock so it's not retaining anything. 🪨
Rich: Hey kids - look what I did today! I made a stone wall just like the Romans did that will last 200 years!
Kids: Cool Dad! Hey Mom - what did you do today?
Helen: I dug in the dirt to find broken glass and pieces of rusty metal. 😞
Helen - just letting you know we all appreciate you!
Thanks Bruce. It all counts! Small jobs and big ones 👍
After you finish this wall you‘ll be qualified to repair the Great Wall of China😂, did you know they found rice in their mortar and this gave the mortar more strength, you both must have been pleased with the results, mammoth effort
Ha that's really interesting. Maybe we should add some baguettes into the mortar 🤔
Great job!
Thanks for the encouragement! 😁
Raking the dirt with a fine toothed rake?
I have a few different little tools that work well.
A sifting Screen and shovel everything into in it, catch dirt in trash bin.
Did this Grandson have actual pictures of the water wheel ?
There's one photo showing a table saw powered by the wheel. We have asked if we can borrow the slides so we can digitise them and show you all. Watch this space!
Great progress!
You seem to have done away with the gates that were there previously. I thought a nice feature to have been reinstated and possibly quite useful?
Unfortunately they were too far gone to be reinstated we have kept them though so hopefully we will find a use somewhere even if only for decorative purposes.
They were actually a door into the former mill building which has long since been demolished. It was actually quite dangerous as they led from the road onto a drop of about 10 metres. So for both safety and security filling it in was the best solution.
Could that glass light fitting be Lalique?
That small moulded, flame shade was mass produced in France….just ordinary satin glass. Nothing like the many factories making opalescent glass…Lalique being the top maker
I wish! As Elizabeth said I think it's mass produced - pretty though
The wall is looking really good, a lot of hard work but so worth it. Another channel I watch are pointing their house with a tool that attaches to a drill, it looks like an icing bag but hard plastic. I’m not very good at describing things 😂 but it saved them so much time using it. Being that that is your trade, I’m guessing you know exactly what I mean.
Hi Alison do you have a link to the video you mentioned? I am intrigued......
@@moulinroche there channel is ateliermavi Italian stone house Reno
@@moulinroche just researched it, it is called an electric mortar grouting machine
Wow, what a project! Love it.... but, but don't understand why you're putting so much effort in the wall and things outside and didn't start with the house. I imagine that the rental house isn't for free and the longer the roof of the millhouse is leaking, the worse it gets. But I'll keep on watching and finaly you will start on the house 😉😂
The doors and surrounding masonry were at the point of collapsing down onto us. The decision was made to repair the wall the day we came into work and found several large pieces of stone had fallen down overnight.
that "planer" looks too clunky and the wood too rough for a planer imho.
i can't imagine someone using a piece of wood with a knot in the middle for an infill plane.
My uneducated guess would be that the metal bracket is supposed to go on the end of a beam and then the bolts? secure it in plate and the thing that sticks out could be a handle like a lock gate or it's a big hinge ?
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What sort of mortar did you use on the wall ?
I think he got a premixed of lime and cement. At least that’s what I understood. I could be wrong.
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Stone wall building ……. Is that a past trade of yours and your dads, you look like your more than novices ?
Dad's been laying bricks, blocks and stone for 57 years now and he has no plans to retire anytime soon. He taught me everything that I know although I really am a generalist when it comes to construction.
@@moulinroche …… you certainly listened to your dad 👏