#12 Installation of the water line & small woodworking projects - Farm renovation in Italy
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Hi! We're Isis & Bertus. In January 2023 we (a Belgian-Dutch couple) bought a farm in the hills of Piemonte. In July we moved over all our belongings to Italy to start this new adventure. We are gradually settling in and tackling the jobs that need to happen before winter arrives.
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Isis, theres a sequence where you are working in the workshop and the light is behind you that I find very beautiful. As an artist I thank you for this moment of quiet poetic splendour. Regards from Australia
glad to hear you enjoyed it 🥰 we share a love for beautiful light!
Berta’s hat is fantastic but I haven’t heard mention if it’s design, style and personal significance. Can you share?
Always keep you hair tied back when using power tools with moving parts x
Read the story: "Scientist researching skin-healing powers of seaweed suffers catastrophic scalping".
Your videos are lovely and it's admirable what your doing. But the lack of safety around power tools is alarming. Please, please, please tie your hair back or put it up it only takes a split second for a strand to get wound up and the grinder to embed in you.
Greetings form Australia. Binged watched your first 12 stories in the last two days. Loving your journey and story telling😍 . Only 35 episodes to go to catch up 😅. Picking up a crafting ideas and techniques too, many thanks.
Isis, I love to hear your "end-of-vid." thoughts & pearls of wisdom & encouragement. I look forward to more of these - in a way I see it's your unique signature. Keep-em-comming... ♥
thank you for sharing your appreciation and inviting us to share more of these ❤️
So original how you made the drawer pulls. Nice video.
I love the way you film your vlogs, it's obvious you love living there in all that beautiful nature! This is such a special place :)
thank you eileen! we hope the exitement of living here never wears off ❤️
Your filming is so beautiful. Love all your B roll. Another great vlog.
thank you ❤️ glad to hear you're enjoying our videos!
Are you planning on planting along the water line? That would soften the area so nicely.👍
that is the plan exactly ❤️
Every day you work and accomplish a project toward your goal. Great watching. You are very tranquil.
the work doesn't always feel tranquil 😜 but we love finding tranquility in the everyday ❤️
Those drawer pulls you made were fabulous! Great idea! Every little step gets you closer. It's a lovely place, and You are both making it come back to life.
thank you! it was a fun little project 😊
Great work happening! What a beautiful project
thank you stuart! ❤️ how has your summer in piemonte been?
@@storiesfromthecascina we had a few weeks in northern europe to escape the heat a little, but it was lovely to come back in September
aaah yes, it was very hot here for a few weeks 😅 i hope you found some solace in the north!
In the future, PLEASE put your hair up when using a rotating power tool like the grinder! It's as important as the safety goggles!😊
I totally agree with you.
You have such a beautiful property The scenery is breathtaking
I really like your place and your videos. Good luck and enjoy. Well, you do. Love, Wil.
Love to see your day to day living in your new home ...
You guys have set up a great workshop, for the amount of work ahead that's perfect, keeping extra tools, also. Great seeing you guys woodwork when they you can't be outside, going to be really special with those extra personal pieces.❤
so happy with the workshop!
Hello all, let's get this amazing channel to 100K subs, ASAP!
Amazing watching you two work!! You can do ANYTHING!! Love your channel❣
still a LOT to learn, but we learn best by doing and making mistakes 😅
Bel lavoro e il finale con le tagliatelle al tartufo merita come minimo una nomination agli Oscar.
grazie mille sandro!
🙏🏻🫣🙏🏻PLEASE protect your long hair when working with rotating machines. ❤
Yes, that really worried me too...
Love watching your progress. It will be so nice to have your mother there Isis.
looking forward to that!
Ciao, sono Italiana, grazie per il grande lavoro che state facendo in questo paese, siete un dono del destino, o di Dio per chi come me crede. Forse noi Italiani diamo troppo importanza al cibo, ma mi sono emozionata per le tagliatelle al tartufo dopo il vostro duro lavoro. Bravi.😊
Grazie mille Cinzia ❤️ Ciò che hanno in comune belgi e italiani è l'importanza che attribuiscono al cibo 😅
Love your drawer handles and how you made them so glad to see you wearing a mask when working with the hay in the barn,sorry I do have agree about tying your hair back around power tools and paint so hard to get it out of your hair, love the shots of the grasses in the sunlight ,you are doing a great job video your original glad the water pipes are in and didn’t leak, such a bummer when that happens.
thank you! and of course you all have a point about the tying up of hair. 😊
Ребята , вы молодцы ! Желаю вам радости и здоровья .Счастья вам всем в этом прекрасном доме .
thank you ❤️
Hi Guys, if you unspool - IOW unroll the hose instead of just pulling off - the plastic hose from the outside of the roll , you won’t get the spiral of hose that you have to wrestle with. And it will lay down in the trench much easier. Unrolling measured lengths and letting the hose warm up in sunlight helps even more. Cold, kinked plastic hose is no fun. If you are doing more plastic pipe work you can build a wooden spool you cans slide the new roll of hose onto. Hang the diy spool between two ladders or saw horses, set it at on end of your trench, pull out the length you need. 😀 Eric.
hi eric! thanks for the tip. we already had the suspicion that there must be an easier way 😅
best
Your place looks like a small picturesque village on the hilltop.❤
haha yes we do jokingly call it "our village" from time to time 😅
You guys are making steady progress! Do you plan on putting in a water catchment system? It would be a great source of water for the gardens you plan to put in. Fruit trees in your future? Beautiful spot you have chosen to live in😎👋🇨🇦
two times definitely yes. we had planned to plant a bunch of fruit trees this fall but it will depend on how we get on with a few other jobs. otherwise definitely next year!
we also have a few fruit trees on the property that are in need of pruning so there is that too - a pear tree, prune tree, and wild cherries. there's also many hazelnut and walnut trees.
Bravissimi 👍💪💪👋
I love watching your journey and wish you every success. How will you prevent those garden faucets from freezing and bursting the pipes in the winter?
Trust me, you don't want to water your plants strait from the tap... Because plants will die from thermal shock... :)
Isis, I’m glad you’re finally wearing closed toe shoes, some sort of boots to be more specific, in this video. It makes me nervous seeing you doing all that hard work wearing sandals 😅
Please forgive me for speaking boldly, Isis, but I am very anxious about the danger from your hair when you are using power-tools. I did what you are doing and I have long hair too!
Thank you for sharing. It is becoming a home!!!
Siete bravissimi. È molto bello vedere come state dando di nuovo vita alla cascina. Sono sicura che tutto il lavoro che state facendo vi darà grande gioia. ❤
grazie mille marina! la vita nella cascina è belissima ❤️
@@storiesfromthecascina 😍
An exercise in patience ... I am so using that!
there's plenty of excercise in patience to be found in life 😅😊
Love the handles you made.👍
aah thanks! it was a fun little project getting to know acacia wood, which we had never worked with before.
Hello this is mehedi from Bangladesh. Do you need any employee in your farm? I am good at agriculture.
💪🏼 🙂 Every day you're moving ahead!
Je suis avec vous depuis le début, c’est réconfortant de voir la ferme devenir jolie et confortable. Un exercice de patience en effet, mais chaque amélioration est une étape si satisfaisante sur le parcours.
merci beaucoup pour suivre notre avonture ❤️
Lovely to see so much care and attention going back into the property it must be so rewarding waking up to a new day bringing life into a very neglected farmhouse. Well done to you both and looking forward to the journey 🙏👏❤️
thank you for your support! we do love waking up here ❤️
once it is finished things will be great
we think/hope it will! ❤️
I find it amazing that you both are so capable.
a lot to learn still! but excited to 😊
I,m impressed with your DIY skills. It would have been interesting to see what handles you were replacing . Kind of a before and after on the dresser. I enjoy your videos. Thank You for making them. I wonder if you ever watch the DIY of a nice young couple redoing a large home on Lake Cumo. They have been putting out a video everyday for more than a year. The channel is called Dreaming of a Chateau.
the ones we were replacing were absolutely beautiful horn and mother of pearl handles that we bought years ago, but they had a metal screw part sticking out on the back which doesn't combine very well with fragile textiles. we'll be using them somewhere else for sure! and yes, we do watch dreaming of a chateau every one in a while, but we hardly have time to watch anything these days. such is the life of a youtuber 😅 editing takes up a huge chunk of our spare time.
@@storiesfromthecascina I have heard many youtubers say you can either make videos or watch videos but there isn't enough time for both.
they were right! i think now we watch about one video from another channel every two weeks or so, where we used to have at least 2 evenings a week where we would watch a few.
I don't want to live in Northern Italy, but I would absolutely love to have a gigantic workspace and storage area like on your farm!
HI Isis & Bertus, you did make significant progress with the installment of the water lines, and the small woodworking was nicely performed in the preparations for the drawer, and the tiny knobs for the other furniture were well-done🇮🇹🇧🇪🇳🇱👍🏻🛠.Greetings.Hubertus🇳🇴🇳🇱☮🙏🏻
The weather is changing here in Northern Nevada too, time to harvest the remaining ... So even if you know how to do the plumbing you still must hire a licensed one? The owner here can do any job as long as you get the inspector to come out and inspect at intervals during the operation... Wow, Italy is super strict. Lots of work to do, but the place is so nice. Enjoy guys... Great vids.
yes, italy is fairly strict when it comes to building code! enjoy your late summer/fall harvest ❤️
As ever a very beautiful film… Thank you. I was going to say whilst that trench is open, lay a plastic conduit (s) for future use e.g Electrical wire or even irrigation. Just a thought. Loving all the ‘Makita’ tools my personal favourites.
we're fond of makita too! almost all of our recent purchases have been makita. and if we didn't already know we'll have to install new plumbing in a few years we'd absolutely should have put in conduit too! ❤️
So lovely. A joy to view.
I’m curious about the straw, is this because the trench is temporary? Another lovely video! Thank you for sharing your story.
we mentioned this in the video! the straw is to add organic matter to the soil to make it better for planting. we had a hard time sourcing compost in bigger quantities and this was readily available. it has nothing to do with the plumbing 😊
I guess despite the hard work, it was a plus that the spill occurred in the summer and not in the middle of winter, as digging in the cold would have been much more difficult. Now you have water and you don't have to worry about winter.
definitely!
Another beautiful video. What work you've done again. And ending with a lovely meal. Hopefully you found the truffle on your own land🤞
the truffle was not from our own land, although there probably are, but from a truffle hunter in the village. so still very local 😊
To help fill in the trench and create good growing environment, you can put sticks,twigs and small logs in the bottom..heugelculture…sorry for misspelling 😢
we've definitely considered that but the tube needs to be embedded in a layer of sand at the bottom. we're definitely curious to experiment witj hügel culture elsewhere in the garden in the future.
Maybe you shouldn’t plant plants with deep roots near the connections in the waterpipe, they might grow into it?
yes you're absolutely right! we're planning on plants with shallow root systems ❤️
Amazing video love watching this thanks
you're welcome ❤️
if you collect rainwater and use an electrip pump to bring it to the desired places, you dont need any permission afaik
it's definitely something that we're considering for the future! the communal water here is very hard (lots of calcium) which makes it bad for appliences like washing machine and dishwasher, so rainwater is a much better option.
Are you guys vegetarian? I don’t recall you eating meat in your videos. Just imagine all the delicious veggies you’ll be able to grow next year.
no we are not vegetarian. but we are pretty picky about the quality of meat we eat (organic, grassfed) and definitely don't eat meat at every meal. and we loooove veggies 🥰
Nice ✔️
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Getting that plumbing scratched off the list sure must be great! That trench is going to look good with flowers in it. What kind are you thinking of? Dahlias would look great....are they a perrenial where you are? ( here we have to store the roots indoors 😋)
we were thinking lavender, catmint, sage, stachys, purple alliums and an evergreen creeper. dahlia's are lovely but also quite labour intensive (as they are not hardy here) and for now we'd prefer something low maintenance. i'd love a cut flower garden at some point and dahlias will definitely find their way there :)
@@storiesfromthecascina Less labor is always nice in the harden 😉. Having some of these plants also means you'll be able to run your hands through them every time you go by and enjoy their smells!. I do this everytime I cross a lavender plant 😍
one of the reasons we like keeping the grass long in some areas is being able to run our hands along all the aromatic wild herbs that grow in between: field sage, wild tyme, wild mint etc. ❤️
Well done, love following you both
It looks like there is some previous knowledge / eperience with wood working? It's all looking really nice
not really! no experience beyond the very very basics, but as we both enjoy and admire skilled crafts we have definitely watched and read woodworking videos and articles etc.
@@storiesfromthecascina kudo's to you both, it looks like you are doing a great job
Thank you 😊
Hoi, goed bezig! Vraagje; de Tyleen waterslang is best een dunne diameter, waarom die keuze? Groetjes
wij dachten exact hetzelfde als jij, maar omdat het stuk leiding van de hoofdkraan naar de afsplitsing die we vervangen hebben ook 25mm diameter is zei onze loodgieter dat voor dit stuk een dikkere diameter gebruiken geen meerwaarde heeft. zoals we al zeiden in het filmpje: binnen een tijdje moet dit allemaal opnieuw, en dan gaat er een grotere diamater in. we vonden dat eerlijk gezegd niet zo leuk om te horen want we hadden gehoopt om dit stuk van de waterleiding maar 1x te hoeven doen 😅 maar we snappen de redenering van onze loodgieter ook. er is gewoon te veel wat niet klopt en verouderd is.
@@storiesfromthecascina ja jammer genoeg is dit dan idd de beste oplossing :) 32mm lijkt me het beste naderhand. Of 40 als jullie semi-industriële landbouwtoepassingen hebben gepland :)
yes idd!
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how do you drain the outdoor water taps when it is freezing in the winter ? A question that came to my mind
the same way as it used to be and the same was as everything else: at the lowest point in the house. it's not the textbook solution for sure 😅 but like we said: the whole system needs an update. but before we finalise our plans for the rest of the property it makes sense to keep everything as it was but minus the leaks. otherwise we wouldn't have running water at all this winter which would be a pain 🤣
May I add (frim NZ), that apparently flowing water doesn't freeze, so leave a tap open a wee bit... ?¿
exactly, leave it open just a little bit or use it regularly.
Господа, да зачем же так водопровод-то делать, ну ок, захотели траншею, трубу туда. Но труба кладется на подушку из песка и песком засыпается, если нужно утепление - есть специальная хреновина, на трубу одевается, штож вы творите та, ну хоть посмотрите как это делается на ют. Боги, всеж каждый должен заниматься своим делом 🙈
This is how it's done here in Italy and how our plumber told us to do it. And of course RUclips videos were watched beforehand. All the big stones were removed from the soil, so the pipe is cushioned by sand below and on top before we added straw. P.S. we are not living in Siberia :-)
@@storiesfromthecascina мммммм, глубокие сомнения в вашем сантехнике....и солому точно туда не надо
the straw had nothing to do with the plumbing. the straw is for the plants that will grow on top. it's only in the top layer of the filling - mixed with sand - and will decompose quickly. anywhoo. the new pipe is certainly an improvement from the old situation and we're inclined to trust our plumber and all the other locals that have been part of the process.
80 cm is a rule of thumb to prevent freezing of water pipes in NL. Think that is no risk where u are.
it does freeze here in winter, so from that perspective it deeper is definitely safer. i would say winters here are similar to winter in NL, only a little bit shorter and with generally more snow. but the topsoil layer doesn't reach 80cms in many places, so probably even the communal water pipes aren't as deep as 80cm everywhere :)