This renovation was from a couple of years ago. You might think we're mad but we've started another since then! Follow along here: th-cam.com/video/tCQe_OoeHZs/w-d-xo.html 👍
I am 72 year old woman and I am exhausted watching you. LOL. Loved every minute. If only more people (including myself) and youngsters had skills like you. I'm sure we'd never be out of work. Fantastic quality work. Wonderful. I am moving onto the garden renovation, which is much more in my capabilities and talents. Thank you again.
Sadly young people aren't being motivated to learn these skills. Here in Australia a lot of our tradies are immigrants. Now we're starting to see a real shortage. The low pay as well as demanding physical labour makes the job really unattractive to young people like me. I want to be able to afford rent, not even expecting to have a house of my own. I'd be living from paycheck to paycheck at best if I worked in the industry, at least right now.
@@charlottebarham7722 I do understand the problem and I sympathise. I don't know anymore if cookery and wood working and things like that are taught in schools any more? I guess it's all about finding a balance in life. Of course we have to march resolutely towards an I.T. future (the stuff that pays well), but we also have to balance that with relearning the value of the practical stuff. What I don't understand is if less young people are going into building/electricity/plumbing/gardening/DIY the demand for a dwindling supply should increase the value of the suppliers? Maybe I'm missing something here. I hope you don't think I'm teaching you to suck eggs but have you looked into tiny homes? Or house share buying?
@@C.E.Thomas1952 Woodworking and cookery are most certainly still taught! My sister actually took a woodworking course recently. As for the dwindling supply thing, the value of suppliers should be going up, it's just not. Corporate greed and all that. I haven't looked into house share buying and all that yet because I've got a few more years of high school to go and am still working on basic life skills like emotional regulation and recognising the sensations in my body e.g. hunger/needing to use the bathroom (I'm disabled). I won't be moving out soon at all but I'll certainly take your advice when the time comes! It feels pretty weird, I've just gone from being a carefree kid to a teen with only a few years before I'm going to be an adult and already having to think about the future. The economy sucks and I'm certainly anxious but I have hope!
The depth of knowledge this individual possesses is the reason this renovation was only around €100,000. He isn’t a ‘handyman’; he is a master craftsmen. P.S. The music choices were great.
You sir could never ever be described as a ‘handyman’. One can only sit back and admire you and your lady for the effort and workmanship you put into that tired house! It’s so beautiful and you two thoroughly deserve to spend the happiest days in your stunning home. 🙌 ❤👏👏👏
It’s nice to see somebody who is so passionate about his work that he even wipes off the excess cement from the walls under the doors on the outside ! My dad would have loved watching this - he was a stickler for doing a job ‘done right’. My father, who was a carpenter, bought our family home for £1,200 in 1950 in Droylsden (Lancashire at the time, but now part of Tameside, Greater Manchester) a year after he’d married our mother (they lived the first year with her parents in Burnage (it was posh once !) He’d actually watched this house get built in 1931, when he was 6 years old ! (My mother wanted a big family because she was an only child and my father stated he wouldn’t be able to afford that on his wage, so he followed his father’s-in-law into the Police in 1951) It was a 3 bed semi detached with garden front and rear, a long hallway leading to a tiny kitchen and a long landing with a separate toilet and bathroom which he knocked into one room. He added a hatch between the dining room and kitchen and also hand made little cupboards in the kitchen for herbs and spices, medicine and staples like rice and flour. He also built fitted bookcases either side of the window in the front lounge to exactly fit my mum’s ever-growing classic novels book collection. He built a brick porch on the front with a slated lean-to roof, and a brick wall all around the perimeter of the front of the house with big white iron gates and a coal bunker to the side. My parents brought up SEVEN children in this home and I was the last of them. For years, my mother boiled up Terry nappies in the tiny kitchen and cooked wonderful meals there. She had always hoped for a bigger kitchen and my father had plans from the ‘50’s/60’s to build an extension. There was land to the left of the house which had been a public right-of-way prior to the housing estate being built (when my parents moved in, there was a big family living in an old cottage without water and electricity in the land at the side of this way) that my father contested in court to own years later but lost to the new owner of the land where the cottage once stood (a timber merchants). After my father retired from the Police force in 1982, having done his 31 years of service, he found the time to dig the footings, build and kit out the new extension. I remember the officer coming from the council and stating that he’d never seen such neat trenches before, nor perfect curved edges to the mortar between the bricks - dad had used a length of dowelling to make sure these were all perfectly the same ! Dad passed away in 1992. I was the last to leave the family home in 2001 after my mum had passed away in 2000 - I sang ‘This House’ by Alison Moyet with tears in my eyes on the day I handed in the keys to the Estate Agent. PS - all the things that my dad had built in the house were still there when it was sold.
To see a skilled,true and honest builder at work gave me so much joy. The care and attention to detail is astonishing, I'm presuming your wife was assisting, what a team you two are. You reminded me of my brother,thanks for talking the time to film this video and sharing it with all of us around the world, warm regards .
You are indeed an incredibly talented,knowledgeable, very hardworking man. I hope your wife appreciates how blessed she is to have such a magnificent husband.
He really is. I can’t imagine how much money I would save/saved if I had a handy, willing husband like this. I try and do as much as I can, but there are limits when you’re a registered nurse who doesn’t have those skills, and a lone parent.
@@GosforthHandyman don't know if you've ever heard of a TH-cam couple 'kingingit' but they've just bought a house in Scotland and they are asking TH-camrs for renovation advice. Think they're pretty clueless. Maybe you could reach out to them. You're obviously far more than a handyman
Hi, I stumbled over your channel. Amazing effort to get to this point. My family comes from Newcastle. What is it about Geordies? They work so hard.🇦🇺 well done.
What a fabulous video! My favourite part was the renovating of the old door. So satisfying seeing the hardboard ripped off and the panels revealed. The doors in our old home were like that and I used to beg my dad to uncover them, but he wouldn't. I don't know what people were thinking in the 70s, doing stuff like that to beautiful panelled doors!
Absolutely full of admiration. My husband doesn't know one end of a screwdriver from the other. I'm the one with the toolkit and paintbrushes. So envious. Fantastic job
Literally the same, came downstairs to watch something cozy so I didn't wake my boyfriend up with my coughing fits 😂 What a lovely video to keep us company in the small hours ❤️
Especially enjoyed the two orange tabbies supervising the renovation. Glad to see those two kittens lounging in the living room. So toasty & comfy - having a good sleep in front of the fire - supervising the humans is so tiring❗♥🍓🍎Glad to admire all of your hard work from San Mateo, CA in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA❗🇺🇸
I gutted and refurbished a 120 yr old house in Canada so it was interesting to see the differences in building code, supplies and finishes. You've done a wonderful job! Cosy, warm and very attractive
At this point the word Handyman really is a giant understatement. 😂 Phenomenal work man and congratulations to you and the family on creating such an amazing home!
This was awesome to watch. I grew up with the men around that worked with their hands repairing, building and creating. There are still some in the family that like to do this. Ya'll did a beautiful job.
I’ve watched every video in this series (I’ve been a subscriber for years prior) but this is wonderful to see in all its glory. How you lived through those cold and wet winter days is simply amazing to me, true northern grit!
I loved watching that all over again in a Time-lapse I watched it from the first time round. I am an OG to your channel. Like I’ve said before behind every man is a good woman and you’re a lovely wife deserve a bloody medal all that work she did helping out 😊😊
This is marvelous! Saw the garden renovation first and couldn't wait to see the house! Such hard work, skill, planning and persistence! You all deserve the result and more- thanks so much for sharing this. Best video I have seen on TH-cam hands-down. Subscribing and watching often now. Good day!
The work you did is amasing and heroic. I did once in my life a complete old house renovation and I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN! I admire a lot your hard work, your knowledge and the resuls (they are fantastic!). For the next 50 years the house is as good as new. You should have placed under the floor a plastic bag with today's newspapers - a treasure surprise for next renovators.
Wow, fantastic job, you are a skilled man not a handyman, and i love that you keep cleaning up as you go along so you're not trying to make progress in a big mess. Final result looks amazing. I have just painted my 1990's pine bedroom furniture the same green as your kitchen cabinets and it looks great, i love that soft green its very calming. Well done to you both and the kitties too!
I followed one of your tutorials to build some alcove shelves either side of my fireplace and they are absolutely solid, I can sit on them happily. Great tutorial as well. Nice to see this blowing up on TH-cam
Dude, I am totally impressed....beyond impressed....with what you guys have done!!!! You didn't so much as remodel as rebuild!!!! It is stunningly beautiful!
So incredibly happy for you to be blessed with this beautiful property. I could feel the love poured into this project. What an amazing job you’ve done. Congratulations.
Its good to look back and remember how it was, I still remember the 1st video of you going in to the house and I was thinking cant wait to see it finished. glad I had the privilege to watch the full process.
i don't agree with everything you've done BUT! I have a lot of respect for you that you dared to remodel the house all by yourself. Keep up the good work!
God Bless You Both. Love in action 🙏 My favorites: -Your Fur Babies…Tabby kittens with lovely markings. I have a long hair tabby 😻They need a rug to lay on in front of the fireplace. Purrrrfect -Both of you working together in such harmony… -Finding all the bird and hornets nests. -The green moss, yes, damp lived there. I watched the garden makeover, thrilled. May you always have a happy home sweet home. 🏡
You are a genius it was so good to watch your journey I'm 87myears young nana who when my husband and I did all renovations but didn't have the tools that are around now take care be safe look forward to your next vlog 😊😊
I love renos! Most amazing to me are the many precise measurements and cuts that fit everything together perfectly. Your new home is absolutely beautiful.
By the time I started to watch your channel, I was also planning to do a similar project. Our project is also almost done now-and watching your channel was massively helpful! I was also struggling with a contractor who kept postponing the work I have already paid for and becoming dodgy. Coincidentally, you posted a video about why/how you got rid of a builder like that and how better you feel even after losing some money. That encouraged me to take a decision right on time-otherwise, I would have been ripped off further and waiting still to get the groundwork finishes. I got rid of them at the end of November and employed a new builder on the 2nd of December. Things progressed really well. They started by completing the remaining groundwork that the previous builder failed to complete and they finished everything up to roofing (oversite, concrete flooring, concrete pads, steel beam structure with 3 columns and 2 beams, walls, 2 massive roofs, floor insulation+screed etc) before the end of January. Today the house became wind proof after the installation of doors, bifold door, skylight lantern and windows. I followed most of the things you have done, but I had to go for Wren Kitchen instead as DIY Kitchens do not offer monthly payment options. The previous contractor ended up billing me twice the price he initially quoted. I also understood that he couldn't do it all for the initially quoted price, so I paid him the money he asked for. But I realised that he took the advantage of it making my budget tight in the end.
Wow, amazing but what a gorgeous gem of a house and space you have. Bless your patience and fortitude because I could not do that for 2 years, I'd be completely gray and my enthusiasm would wane inside of 6 months. I hope you enjoy your home for many years to come, you deserve it 💜💜
Very impressive craftsmanship. I like how you kept it classy and modern but simple at the same time. Each room has it's own character and has not been made over complicated. Excellent work 👏
Watched your video and realized how different construction is in the UK from Canada. The last year and half I had my kitchen redone, bathroom and all the flooring which was 3 bedrooms, kitchen/diner and livingroom. The only electrics changed were in the kitchen. It cost me $60k Canadian. One big difference is we have basements so when I watched you install the toilet I hadn't realized you waste pipe is in the wall and you fastened it to the wall. Here it is seated on a floor flange and there are floor bolts. Installation is very important here since winters average at minus 15 or colder for months and plus 20 during summer. Very cool watching you work. Oh and that was a big part of my cost was labour..
Wow! You are fantastic with your detail and focus. BRAVO! Well done! Am subscribing. It's a pleasure to watch someone do things RIGHT rather than cheap and half assed.
You are an absolute and awesome house builder, an engineer, architect, plumber, electrician, woodworker, you have it all! Congratulations. We have stuff to do in our house, but we lack the tools and the money to buy or rent them. My husband does what he can, fixes what he can, I do the gardening I can. We're Brazilian , both 75+ years of age, but we don't like to sit still. Especially my husband, he is always doing something, albeit not nearly to the extent you did. Wish we could. ❤❤❤
Excellent mate, been there, done that in a 1930s semi, taken years, back to shell, start again from new roof down, extension, doing garage now 👍🏻👍🏻 nearly finished, then just gardens to sort👍🏻
I've been watching your renovation on and off since you started this house but have only just caught up with the finished video. I'm in awe at the magnificent home you've created - it's just beautiful!! Thirty odd years ago we built a huge extension on the back and side of our old house and I still remember the thrill of the builders knocking through to the new rooms - particularly the large en-suite off the main bedroom - we couldn't wait to stand in the space so climbed through the window to see it from the other side 😃 Enjoy your wonderful family home!
Wow! I am in the USA so I do not know the proper title for the creator in his area but in my mind he is truly a Master Craftsman! That was an amazing transformation! I have always admired such skills. I have tackled several cosmetic renos, thankfully never dealing with lathe and plaster or interior walls of such thickness and of structural importance. Major kudos to sudh a brave an determined couple! Your home is magnificent and customized for your needs. In my mind that is priceless!
You are a very talented builder, joiner, electrician, painter and all else, and oh boy your wife, what a blessing she is. I do love a good renovation job, well done to you both.🥰
This was really great I am 85 and through the years one of the things that always impress me was taking kneeled and making it new, are used to drive through the different parts of the city that I lived in and I would tell, my friend I said you know what we could really fix that up. We could really do this, but you know what I wound up in the large apartment complexes that had fallen apart, and I got the chance to do what you did the only difference dear heart I was a lady and I could hire it down, but I loved every minute of it
Wonderful. Gorgeous From an old French lady who is renovating a tiny house in Brittany,France. Hélas,i do not have your skills:a whole team of artesans is doing the job for me . So ,FELICITATIONS !!! And I subscribe…right now!
This renovation was from a couple of years ago. You might think we're mad but we've started another since then! Follow along here: th-cam.com/video/tCQe_OoeHZs/w-d-xo.html 👍
I am 72 year old woman and I am exhausted watching you. LOL. Loved every minute. If only more people (including myself) and youngsters had skills like you. I'm sure we'd never be out of work. Fantastic quality work. Wonderful. I am moving onto the garden renovation, which is much more in my capabilities and talents. Thank you again.
Sadly young people aren't being motivated to learn these skills. Here in Australia a lot of our tradies are immigrants. Now we're starting to see a real shortage. The low pay as well as demanding physical labour makes the job really unattractive to young people like me. I want to be able to afford rent, not even expecting to have a house of my own. I'd be living from paycheck to paycheck at best if I worked in the industry, at least right now.
@@charlottebarham7722 I do understand the problem and I sympathise. I don't know anymore if cookery and wood working and things like that are taught in schools any more? I guess it's all about finding a balance in life. Of course we have to march resolutely towards an I.T. future (the stuff that pays well), but we also have to balance that with relearning the value of the practical stuff. What I don't understand is if less young people are going into building/electricity/plumbing/gardening/DIY the demand for a dwindling supply should increase the value of the suppliers? Maybe I'm missing something here. I hope you don't think I'm teaching you to suck eggs but have you looked into tiny homes? Or house share buying?
@@C.E.Thomas1952 Woodworking and cookery are most certainly still taught! My sister actually took a woodworking course recently. As for the dwindling supply thing, the value of suppliers should be going up, it's just not. Corporate greed and all that. I haven't looked into house share buying and all that yet because I've got a few more years of high school to go and am still working on basic life skills like emotional regulation and recognising the sensations in my body e.g. hunger/needing to use the bathroom (I'm disabled). I won't be moving out soon at all but I'll certainly take your advice when the time comes! It feels pretty weird, I've just gone from being a carefree kid to a teen with only a few years before I'm going to be an adult and already having to think about the future. The economy sucks and I'm certainly anxious but I have hope!
Amen to all you have said!!
I am 35 and I am exhausted as well😅
I loved the help that the kitten was providing when the door was being painted!
Без котёнка ничего бы не получилось
I always say this whenever our ginger shorthair comes over to "help" me with DIY. It's clear to me he's doing a quality inspection as the site foreman
Most important part of a new house. Install Cats
Cats 🐈 are wonderful and the Spirit of the Home. For sure.
@@JamoonXerxesSauber
Absolutely nothing like a Great Ginger.
An authentic craftsman from Britain 💯💯💯
The depth of knowledge this individual possesses is the reason this renovation was only around €100,000. He isn’t a ‘handyman’; he is a master craftsmen.
P.S. The music choices were great.
This is what we actually call a couple. Understanding each other and working together beautifully. Such a hard work. Amazing and very impressive.
But I only see the man doing all the work .?
@@foxywhitetip7387 if my dad taught me all the handyman work i would help but only male children get to learn it and it's not fair. I wanna do it too
Så fint att se sådant❤❤❤❤❤🇸🇪
I’m watching this just before bedtime and I’m exhausted to see all you’ve done. Will sleep well. 🤣 Truly an amazing work!
Amazed at your skill levels on every job. Also how you worked as team with your wife . Excellent
You sir could never ever be described as a ‘handyman’. One can only sit back and admire you and your lady for the effort and workmanship you put into that tired house! It’s so beautiful and you two thoroughly deserve to spend the happiest days in your stunning home. 🙌 ❤👏👏👏
mandatory youtube fanboy suckup comment
More like a Renaissance man. So few of these guys in the world are left!! Bring back the trades.
Ja håller verkligen med. Fantastisk att se ett storartade förvandling av huset👏❤❤❤❤❤❤♥️♥️
It’s nice to see somebody who is so passionate about his work that he even wipes off the excess cement from the walls under the doors on the outside ! My dad would have loved watching this - he was a stickler for doing a job ‘done right’.
My father, who was a carpenter, bought our family home for £1,200 in 1950 in Droylsden (Lancashire at the time, but now part of Tameside, Greater Manchester) a year after he’d married our mother (they lived the first year with her parents in Burnage (it was posh once !)
He’d actually watched this house get built in 1931, when he was 6 years old !
(My mother wanted a big family because she was an only child and my father stated he wouldn’t be able to afford that on his wage, so he followed his father’s-in-law into the Police in 1951)
It was a 3 bed semi detached with garden front and rear, a long hallway leading to a tiny kitchen and a long landing with a separate toilet and bathroom which he knocked into one room. He added a hatch between the dining room and kitchen and also hand made little cupboards in the kitchen for herbs and spices, medicine and staples like rice and flour. He also built fitted bookcases either side of the window in the front lounge to exactly fit my mum’s ever-growing classic novels book collection. He built a brick porch on the front with a slated lean-to roof, and a brick wall all around the perimeter of the front of the house with big white iron gates and a coal bunker to the side.
My parents brought up SEVEN children in this home and I was the last of them.
For years, my mother boiled up Terry nappies in the tiny kitchen and cooked wonderful meals there. She had always hoped for a bigger kitchen and my father had plans from the ‘50’s/60’s to build an extension. There was land to the left of the house which had been a public right-of-way prior to the housing estate being built (when my parents moved in, there was a big family living in an old cottage without water and electricity in the land at the side of this way) that my father contested in court to own years later but lost to the new owner of the land where the cottage once stood (a timber merchants).
After my father retired from the Police force in 1982, having done his 31 years of service, he found the time to dig the footings, build and kit out the new extension. I remember the officer coming from the council and stating that he’d never seen such neat trenches before, nor perfect curved edges to the mortar between the bricks - dad had used a length of dowelling to make sure these were all perfectly the same !
Dad passed away in 1992.
I was the last to leave the family home in 2001 after my mum had passed away in 2000 - I sang ‘This House’ by Alison Moyet with tears in my eyes on the day I handed in the keys to the Estate Agent.
PS - all the things that my dad had built in the house were still there when it was sold.
@@vahvahdisco why sell it?
Thats such an amazing Testament to your Family ❤
This is sort of talent the world needs more of.
I think you do yourself an injustice calling yourself a "handyman" your more like a construction superhero 😂. Looks absolutely mint 👌
I thought the same just started to watch this u tube l will go back and watch all of videos thank you best wishes from Lynda
@@lyndaward5179 I would have demolished the whole place and started again from scratch personally.
@@PreservationEnthusiast So much for being a "Preservation Enthusiast" - proving that nominative determinism isn't a thing!
I’d love a handyman like him about the house.
Did you just cut a hole in your sound wall? 😬
To see a skilled,true and honest builder at work gave me so much joy. The care and attention to detail is astonishing, I'm presuming your wife was assisting, what a team you two are. You reminded me of my brother,thanks for talking the time to film this video and sharing it with all of us around the world, warm regards .
You are indeed an incredibly talented,knowledgeable, very hardworking man. I hope your wife appreciates how blessed she is to have such a magnificent husband.
He really is. I can’t imagine how much money I would save/saved if I had a handy, willing husband like this. I try and do as much as I can, but there are limits when you’re a registered nurse who doesn’t have those skills, and a lone parent.
His wife actually put her weight in participating and worked hard as him, now enjoy your beautiful home.
I’ve never seen one person with so many talents and master them all……actually slay them all! So much creativity. Wow, just Wow!
That renovation took not only talent, patience and very hard work, but also a ton of courage! Well done.
Having watched every video in this series multiple times, I am so happy to see this in all its glory.
Same here Callan. The video shows an unbelievable effort by team Mac
Was going to say the same also. Fantastic result to make such a wonderful home. Thanks for sharing it all with us Andy.
Thank you! Brought back a lot of fun memories putting this together for you guys! 👍
@@GosforthHandyman don't know if you've ever heard of a TH-cam couple 'kingingit' but they've just bought a house in Scotland and they are asking TH-camrs for renovation advice. Think they're pretty clueless. Maybe you could reach out to them. You're obviously far more than a handyman
Hi, I stumbled over your channel. Amazing effort to get to this point. My family comes from Newcastle. What is it about Geordies? They work so hard.🇦🇺 well done.
Absolutely magnificent!! If only the people who lived there in the 20's could see how beautifully you fixed it up!
I think they'd be too amazed by things like indoor plumbing and electric lighting to notice the decor
thats what I thought!!
Awesome to see Mrs Handyman getting stuck right in, she is a keeper!
What a fabulous video! My favourite part was the renovating of the old door. So satisfying seeing the hardboard ripped off and the panels revealed. The doors in our old home were like that and I used to beg my dad to uncover them, but he wouldn't. I don't know what people were thinking in the 70s, doing stuff like that to beautiful panelled doors!
Barry Bucknell was there.
My dad ripped all the panels off ours. Beautiful doors underneath.
WOW! WOW! WOW!!! Great job! But I really liked the bricks in the fire place. Like your ginger cats too!
Your attention to detail and build quality exceeds so many of the projects you see online - very, very commendable.
Wow what a beautiful home you now have ,you worked so hard ❤❤
Absolutely full of admiration. My husband doesn't know one end of a screwdriver from the other. I'm the one with the toolkit and paintbrushes. So envious. Fantastic job
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm sure he has other great qualities Jane
@@shake741 that's debatable 😂
Usually there is a sharp bussiness-end and a stubby handle part.
@@ducemano maybe there is a TH-cam tutorial about tools and what they're for 😀
You sir, are a genius. You do yourself an injustice calling yourself a handyman! Amazing work and commitment
Absolutely stunning, what a massive transformation and to top it all two lovely kittens.
Watching at 0345 as awake with nasty cough. What a great project and video. Glad to see the cats being helpful as usual!
Literally the same, came downstairs to watch something cozy so I didn't wake my boyfriend up with my coughing fits 😂
What a lovely video to keep us company in the small hours ❤️
I'm always so happy and proud for people when they work so hard and create something so beautiful at the end! It's inspiring, great work!
Without a doubt, you are the most awesome handyman in the UK. You have exceptional skills. You know all the trades.
Especially enjoyed the two orange tabbies supervising the renovation. Glad to see those two kittens lounging in the living room. So toasty & comfy - having a good sleep in front of the fire - supervising the humans is so tiring❗♥🍓🍎Glad to admire all of your hard work from San Mateo, CA in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA❗🇺🇸
Watched these as you went through the trials and tribulations. You must both be so proud of what you achieved.
Love the fact you tidy up as you go along.
I gutted and refurbished a 120 yr old house in Canada so it was interesting to see the differences in building code, supplies and finishes. You've done a wonderful job! Cosy, warm and very attractive
Вы тоже герой. А вы видео своей работы снимали?
At this point the word Handyman really is a giant understatement. 😂 Phenomenal work man and congratulations to you and the family on creating such an amazing home!
This was awesome to watch. I grew up with the men around that worked with their hands repairing, building and creating. There are still some in the family that like to do this. Ya'll did a beautiful job.
An astonishing level of skill, utterly astonishing…👍🏻
The kitty helper was nice!! Always good to have help!
You've got a lovely home now Andy. Mrs Mac gave you invaluable help when you needed it and she also has a great eye for decor. Please pass that on. 👍👍
I will - thank you so much!
Builders are the most skilled people EVER. Incredible work.
Your friends and family are so blessed to have you in their world.God has bless you with many amazing skills.Thank you for sharing your story.
I’ve watched every video in this series (I’ve been a subscriber for years prior) but this is wonderful to see in all its glory. How you lived through those cold and wet winter days is simply amazing to me, true northern grit!
I loved watching that all over again in a Time-lapse I watched it from the first time round. I am an OG to your channel. Like I’ve said before behind every man is a good woman and you’re a lovely wife deserve a bloody medal all that work she did helping out 😊😊
And his wife probably took a lot of the video, too. They make a great team.
WOW! FANTASTIC! My Father was a carpenter and I used to watch him build houses. Never was a fascinating as this was. You have skill!
This is marvelous! Saw the garden renovation first and couldn't wait to see the house! Such hard work, skill, planning and persistence! You all deserve the result and more- thanks so much for sharing this. Best video I have seen on TH-cam hands-down. Subscribing and watching often now. Good day!
Thank you for showing and explaining why the different parts of the renovation were done, it makes it educational as well as interesting.
The work you did is amasing and heroic. I did once in my life a complete old house renovation and I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN! I admire a lot your hard work, your knowledge and the resuls (they are fantastic!). For the next 50 years the house is as good as new. You should have placed under the floor a plastic bag with today's newspapers - a treasure surprise for next renovators.
great idea, i would have kept the ones he found, framed them and used them as art ♥
Wow, fantastic job, you are a skilled man not a handyman, and i love that you keep cleaning up as you go along so you're not trying to make progress in a big mess. Final result looks amazing. I have just painted my 1990's pine bedroom furniture the same green as your kitchen cabinets and it looks great, i love that soft green its very calming. Well done to you both and the kitties too!
Even your cats appreciate the end result! Totally magnificent 😍🐱🐱
I followed one of your tutorials to build some alcove shelves either side of my fireplace and they are absolutely solid, I can sit on them happily. Great tutorial as well. Nice to see this blowing up on TH-cam
Dude, I am totally impressed....beyond impressed....with what you guys have done!!!! You didn't so much as remodel as rebuild!!!! It is stunningly beautiful!
Beautiful detail and skills. I'm proud for you and the lady and 2 tigers. Very well done
Andy, you are a King of Handyman, it's amazing what you're done in this project! Big-big congratulations!
Thank you so much!
I am in absolute awe of not only your tanasitty but your endurance, your envision. You are a true inspiration. Makes me wanna try....
So incredibly happy for you to be blessed with this beautiful property. I could feel the love poured into this project. What an amazing job you’ve done. Congratulations.
I second Peach below - handyman indeed, wish there were more of them like you. Wonderful job well done.
Its good to look back and remember how it was, I still remember the 1st video of you going in to the house and I was thinking cant wait to see it finished. glad I had the privilege to watch the full process.
i don't agree with everything you've done BUT! I have a lot of respect for you that you dared to remodel the house all by yourself. Keep up the good work!
He even sweeps up as he goes along. Wow. My spouse like to Make a mess where theres a clean space!!!!!
You are one amazing young man. I just enjoy watching what you do. They don't make men like you anymore. God bless you and your family 🙏
God Bless You Both. Love in action 🙏 My favorites:
-Your Fur Babies…Tabby kittens with lovely markings. I have a long hair tabby 😻They need a rug to lay on in front of the fireplace. Purrrrfect
-Both of you working together in such harmony…
-Finding all the bird and hornets nests.
-The green moss, yes, damp lived there.
I watched the garden makeover, thrilled. May you always have a happy home sweet home. 🏡
You are a genius it was so good to watch your journey I'm 87myears young nana who when my husband and I did all renovations but didn't have the tools that are around now take care be safe look forward to your next vlog 😊😊
What an epic retrospective of all the effort both Mr. & Mrs. Mac have put into the renovation.
Well done you two on all the hard work 👍
I love renos! Most amazing to me are the many precise measurements and cuts that fit everything together perfectly. Your new home is absolutely beautiful.
By the time I started to watch your channel, I was also planning to do a similar project. Our project is also almost done now-and watching your channel was massively helpful! I was also struggling with a contractor who kept postponing the work I have already paid for and becoming dodgy. Coincidentally, you posted a video about why/how you got rid of a builder like that and how better you feel even after losing some money. That encouraged me to take a decision right on time-otherwise, I would have been ripped off further and waiting still to get the groundwork finishes. I got rid of them at the end of November and employed a new builder on the 2nd of December. Things progressed really well. They started by completing the remaining groundwork that the previous builder failed to complete and they finished everything up to roofing (oversite, concrete flooring, concrete pads, steel beam structure with 3 columns and 2 beams, walls, 2 massive roofs, floor insulation+screed etc) before the end of January. Today the house became wind proof after the installation of doors, bifold door, skylight lantern and windows. I followed most of the things you have done, but I had to go for Wren Kitchen instead as DIY Kitchens do not offer monthly payment options. The previous contractor ended up billing me twice the price he initially quoted. I also understood that he couldn't do it all for the initially quoted price, so I paid him the money he asked for. But I realised that he took the advantage of it making my budget tight in the end.
Be incredibly proud of yourself. Fantastic work has been done. Wishing you full enjoyment of life in such a beautiful home!
Wow, amazing but what a gorgeous gem of a house and space you have. Bless your patience and fortitude because I could not do that for 2 years, I'd be completely gray and my enthusiasm would wane inside of 6 months. I hope you enjoy your home for many years to come, you deserve it 💜💜
Very impressive craftsmanship. I like how you kept it classy and modern but simple at the same time. Each room has it's own character and has not been made over complicated. Excellent work 👏
Watched your video and realized how different construction is in the UK from Canada. The last year and half I had my kitchen redone, bathroom and all the flooring which was 3 bedrooms, kitchen/diner and livingroom. The only electrics changed were in the kitchen. It cost me $60k Canadian. One big difference is we have basements so when I watched you install the toilet I hadn't realized you waste pipe is in the wall and you fastened it to the wall. Here it is seated on a floor flange and there are floor bolts. Installation is very important here since winters average at minus 15 or colder for months and plus 20 during summer. Very cool watching you work. Oh and that was a big part of my cost was labour..
Wow! You are fantastic with your detail and focus. BRAVO! Well done! Am subscribing. It's a pleasure to watch someone do things RIGHT rather than cheap and half assed.
Wow, you took on an incredible project and knocked it out of the ball park. Lovely.
Nice work. Good to see there are still craftsmen out there.
Spectacular! I hope the two of you can have a wonderful family there for generations to come!
You are an absolute and awesome house builder, an engineer, architect, plumber, electrician, woodworker, you have it all! Congratulations. We have stuff to do in our house, but we lack the tools and the money to buy or rent them. My husband does what he can, fixes what he can, I do the gardening I can. We're Brazilian , both 75+ years of age, but we don't like to sit still. Especially my husband, he is always doing something, albeit not nearly to the extent you did. Wish we could. ❤❤❤
Amazing work, but did you have to destroy the fireplace,
I wish the podcast was still going, because the chat about this video would be great. Definitely blown up!
Even speeded up you can tell what a lovely neat worker you are. My husbands the same as am i. Beautiful work thanks for the upload!
That brickwork demo was so satisfying. I love when things come apart with ease a no disturbance of any neighboring objects.
I have never seen anything like it. What an amazing home you’ve built.
Wonderful. I really enjoyed this transformation. What a super-man and wonder-woman!
Excellent mate, been there, done that in a 1930s semi, taken years, back to shell, start again from new roof down, extension, doing garage now 👍🏻👍🏻 nearly finished, then just gardens to sort👍🏻
I've been watching your renovation on and off since you started this house but have only just caught up with the finished video. I'm in awe at the magnificent home you've created - it's just beautiful!! Thirty odd years ago we built a huge extension on the back and side of our old house and I still remember the thrill of the builders knocking through to the new rooms - particularly the large en-suite off the main bedroom - we couldn't wait to stand in the space so climbed through the window to see it from the other side 😃 Enjoy your wonderful family home!
Wow! I am in the USA so I do not know the proper title for the creator in his area but in my mind he is truly a Master Craftsman! That was an amazing transformation! I have always admired such skills. I have tackled several cosmetic renos, thankfully never dealing with lathe and plaster or interior walls of such thickness and of structural importance. Major kudos to sudh a brave an determined couple! Your home is magnificent and customized for your needs. In my mind that is priceless!
What a transformation. Absolutely love it. Lovely cats too
I was here for the kitties! Gorgeous house!
Man, I sincerely hope that you're happy with the results because that was a lot of hard work!
We love it!
The skill of this one man is admirable
You are a very talented builder, joiner, electrician, painter and all else, and oh boy your wife, what a blessing she is. I do love a good renovation job, well done to you both.🥰
Brilliant transformation. You are a first class builder. So pleased you put in the log burner. Gorgouse ginger kittens.
Very impressive. You guys are really hard workers. Everything looks beautiful. 😊
Phenomenal! I couldn’t stop watching. You guys have serious skills!
This was really great I am 85 and through the years one of the things that always impress me was taking kneeled and making it new, are used to drive through the different parts of the city that I lived in and I would tell, my friend I said you know what we could really fix that up. We could really do this, but you know what I wound up in the large apartment complexes that had fallen apart, and I got the chance to do what you did the only difference dear heart I was a lady and I could hire it down, but I loved every minute of it
What is good about this guy is that most if not all of this renovation he wasnt wearing any gloves and was working with bare hands so well done!
This is insanely beautiful! Great job!
You are very skilled ...give yourself a pat on the back ,well done you FABULOUS !😊
Absolutely gorgeous, I wish i had half your skills and talent. My wife can only dream!!
I rarely comment but this channel happened to pop up on my feed and felt compelled to comment on this guy's work ... top notch, love it.
Wonderful. Gorgeous
From an old French lady who is renovating a tiny house in Brittany,France.
Hélas,i do not have your skills:a whole team of artesans is doing the job for me .
So ,FELICITATIONS !!!
And I subscribe…right now!
The cats chilling at the fireplace ❤
Beautiful work!! I love how the kittens grew up during this project 😍
I cant believed how thoroughly you did it without cutting corners. I loved this renovation