Professional acoustician here with a tip that might be helpful. If you are trying to identify which pipes connect to which pipes and you cant see the whole pipe run, you can use a tuning fork. Excite the fork and place the base on the pipe you're interested in. That pipe will ring and it helps figure out what is connects to what in another room. It's also nerdy fun! 😂
Only two professional acrobatics like yourselves could possibly do what you are doing in all of this!! Strength, agility, courage, perseverance - you two rock!!!
You two amaze me all the time. No project is too big for you two. I love watching your videos because you are both so down to earth. Some people doing renovations with makeup on , hair all styled and clean clothes are so far from the reality of renovations. We have done tons from building our own house and a log cabin to renovating our house through the years. Believe me it ain’t pretty. 😂
It ain't pretty, but it's real! 🤣 Glad you appreciate it... someone left me a comment the other day that I should "really try to be more pretty" which just made me roar with laughter. This person has clearly never renovated anything in their life 🤣🤣🤣
@@ShannonMakes No they didn't! 😮😂 That is the most hilarious thing! You're plenty pretty enough, and you're doing more than most of the rest of us when it comes to this sort of thing. I remember helping my dad with small home reno projects and the dust/grime/residue factor builds up super fast. I just wish I was as kinesthetically capable as you are!❤
@@ShannonMakesi cannot fathom the mindset of someone that thinks that is appropriate in any way! You are pretty but that’s not what you are for! You do extremely everything! And dress for whatever the occasion- and the fact you aren’t doing demo with fake nails and a full face on makes it honest and relatable- except the long list of things you can do that i could never, like heights for example , some people 🤷🏻♀️
I just want to say I love that you have been putting the editing time on all y’alls videos for awhile. I had no idea they took so long to edit. Eye opener for sure. Ive been watching since you were only doing sewing. I love the house videos, sewing, making do and circus stuff. All of it is cool. Also, my daughter wants a corgi and I told her we should name it Phil. LOL. She also thinks we look a bit a like, maybe a bit. Thanks for keeping it real.
The fearlessness that you and Phil showed in getting the old pipes out is inspiring! I love hearing his accent! Thank you for the excellent video ! The music you chose is perfect !
We had a home in Maine with the same heating challenges. Here's a thought. Where you are intending to pull off plaster and lathe on the walls, you can 'create' a chase-way for Pex tubing between studs. Since the tubing is so narrow it fits without issue. Just be sure to insulate the chase-way.
love watching you ask for balance assist, and Phil holds your back. That little Oh Oh was all it took for him to come back with the assist. So cute. Now I understand more why the conference in Astoria. What a task in front of you both!
Always love your videos, sewing, circus, renos, corgi :) The scene with the math going between metric and imperial and Phil asking if you made it up is exactly how my partner and I work when we are trying to figure out our house lol. I wish we were as coordinated and flexible as you two though!
The editing on the math trying to figure out your heating needs with the calculator is PEAK. That feels like a very accurate representation of the struggles of home buying/ownership/renovation. We close on our home at the end of this month and aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh 🥴😵💫🤣😃
I enjoy watching the way you interact with each other and work things out. This is a very realistic look at what it takes to do renovations as a couple where you are DIY’ing everything and learning as you go. My husband and I did the same kind of stuff at your age (without the acrobatics) but we were … get this … renters for most of that time. When we finally bought our own place it was brand new, but we went nuts doing renovations anyway. Good times. BTW I think you are the only YT creator I’ve watched who puts total edit time in the credits, and kudos to you for that! Media creation is hard work. Thanks for making it entertaining and inspiring.
Good morning, Shannon and Phil. It looks like sorting out the heating for the second floor is a challenge… but, I’m confident that you two will master it. I loved some Cannelle in the snow❤️ See you next week❤️❤️
Just ran across your channel 3 days ago and I have been going through the older videos trying to catch up. Love the spirit and gusto you both have in jumping into the deep end of renovating an old home. Sometimes all they need is a bit of love and help. Great vibes here and I am all for it! You also have a fantastic group of people filled with wonderful information on old things. Here to enjoy, learn and laugh!
I LOVED “The Alice Network”. Incredible book, and based on true events and people. Hang in there. I love watching your videos. It shows the REALITY of buying and fixing a house just to get it up to the “livable” standard. I’m a former realtor, and while people THINK they want a fixer upper, they really only want COSMETIC fixes. I have done what you are doing, and am currently helping my kids with their houses. Every single thing you learn (from unwanted lessons via “okay we fixed this, but now this is a problem…”) will build confidence. By the end? You will say “I could do this again!”, but really you’ll just want to spend time in the beautiful home you’ve created for yourselves. The Reno bug will hit you shortly after you settle in though…😂 Keep the videos coming. You’re doing fantastic!
So, hang on, you have this old crumbling house where you are rescuing everything that's been rotting for years/decades/etc, but the leak was because of _new_ work by a current professional? Oof, that must be frustrating! Also, was your editing time 22 hours for that one scene with you and Phil sitting at the table figuring out the heating math, and 7 minutes for everything else? It was worth it, that scene was delightful. :D Also also, I absolutely 100% want free croissants for life and other excellent bread products, and I tried to sign up, but I don't live in the US so I couldn't. I figured that would happen and I will emotionally recover :D but just -- it worked! The sponsorship worked, I'm just out of the area! :D
Saaaame, I think this would be a service I'd very much enjoy, opposed to all the other meal delivery services but I don't live in the US/Canada, so can't use it.
@@BethAge95 My apologies! I am guilty of assuming you are from Canada. My mistake. Surely, in Europe, you have access to some amazing pastries even if they're not free. I'm envious!
@ I know -- and I wasn't trying to get weird about it! Just wanted Shannon to know that the sponsorship was successful even if the stats from the company don't end up showing it :D (I did end up emailing the company to unsubscribe after I tried to sign up, and sent them a nice note wishing them luck and dropping this channel's name, so perhaps the message will get through anyway.)
Phil "Are you just making that up"? lol You two are too cute. That leak was in the new system, that you just had installed? That sucks. Glad it was easily found and fixed though. That math scene looks exactly like the inside of my brain when it gets hit with numbers; and the answer is purple pancakes. Thanks for the video; hope you are staying relatively warm. We've only had two days above freezing this January, brrrrrr.
In my house (130 years+) all the pipes (pluming) was added latter, as was yours. I have a double out side wall, a clipped corner that houses the water pipes for the upstairs bathroom. I wondered how the pipes never froze? Then I realized that the pipe for the radiator ran right along beside it. Some thing to keep in mind, you have worse winters then me.
Thank you for the adorable corgi content. I'm in a pain flare up and could actually feel the serotonin and dopamine boost watching her romp through the snow.
Hi, I'm new to your channel, and have spent the last few days binge watching you house renovation from the beginning. Am really enjoying it and love your corgi and her cute wriggle-but. Keep up the good work.
so cool 🆒 😎 that your sponsor is Wild Grain! And that they donate 4 meals to the Greater Boston Food Bank! I used to live in that area, and the need is great! 🙏❤️🥰💞♥️👍🏻🆒🌟🤩
Please order the fin radiators as soon as you can. Things are changing everyday here, and I dont want you guys to be caught without. Love from your neighbor to the south.
We faced many challenges while renovating an old house here in Ontario. It was all worth it as we had a beautiful home in the end. I love everything about your chanel.
I learned when removing something that's going to replace to use a heavey string or rope behind (attch it to say the wire or pipe) this helps you to pull and feed the wire /pipe back threw. My husband found if I'm going to redo a room that cuting the sheetrock and replace. I'm glad we didn't have plaster walls😂 though I'd likely have a new skill. Ps my husband kept up with the amount of string rope used to help with the length needed.
Love your teamwork!! Hurrah for leak being found! I am still rooting for you, despite having to step away from Patreon 💪🏻💪🏻. Fingers crossed for the upstairs heating: that is a huge puzzle! 🥰🤞🏻🤞🏻
It's really cool seeing how having a circus day job ties in really well to working on a house. I wonder why the water heater part is corroding so quickly
So glad you found the leak. I'm hopefully it was a quick fix. ❤ Thanks for great realistic content. Spending hours just deciding what the next step needs to be is so relatable. Sometimes there just isn't an obvious solution and thinking needs to happen before action. 😊
You're very welcome, glad you appreciate the pragmatism (did we spend literal hours standing there talking about possible solutions? Yes. Do I have hours of footage of us doing so? Also yes. Did I feel the need to incur such pain on the viewer? Only a tiny fraction of it 🤣)
Oh my. We are so thankful we already put a bath, squeezed into a laundry room downstairs that was probably the home's entrance from the barn in 1868, as our upstair bathroom is a mess with old leaking pipes. We finally found the issue from a tiny drip, drip, drip leak through the wall to the dirt floor basement. I feel ya, guys!
Great video. Loved the editing touches. You two are impressive and make a great team. Happy you will be warm and toasty this winter with the re-fashioned heating design.
Ok, strange idea, but could you feed the new PEX plastic piping through the straight metal pipes that are going floor to ceiling, like a fascade? Just a thought. No idea about sizes.
If they weren't used for water, possibly, but water deposits find the strangest places to appear. Plus, trying to do any repairs would really be challenging.
Uggg...what a lot of work! Well done! Could you build enclosures around the pipes, leaving them on the external walls and then maybe create a sort of architectural design of the enclosures like nooks, books shelves or columns between where a bed would go. You could also use these enclosures to run wiring for wall lights and extra plugs. A nook between two columns (one might be just for aesthetic balance) could maybe have a little table, dresser or chair with a mirror or picture above.
I love doing home remodel and restoration!! This makes me want to come toNova Scotia on a vacation and just work on your house for meals…..lol. The hubby and I have done it all, demo, framing, plumbing, electrical. I had wallpaper and paint business as a hobby for years. Just finished a 1000sq ft in-laws addition, bathroom remodel for my mom, bathroom remodel for brother and sister in law….i just find it fun. And we both have our full time real jobs too! Something about looking at the finished project is so rewarding. Good luck to you as you tackle the projects and I know it’s gonna be great when done.
Take the Pax pipes and run them side-by-side in a large PVC pipe and that would give you the aesthetic look that would be similar to having the cast iron pipes but that does I'm not saying through the whole building but if you have to run where you can see the piping 13:28 the look of the pax.
😮 Shannon, j’apprécie que tu mettes le temps que tu passes à éditer les vidéos ! 22h pour celle-ci ! Waouh ! Pourquoi ne pas demander conseil à un chauffagiste pour votre installation de chauffage ? Pour être sûrs de votre commande ? Même ici, un pro peut peut-être vous répondre, non ? Je comprends votre choix de ne pas poser de fenêtres plastiques ou PVC, mieux vaut attendre d’avoir un budget confortable pour installer de belles fenêtres en bois avec du double, triple vitrage 🤭 Rien de tel qu’une pause Cannelle dans la neige 😂 (avec super musique 😉) Prenez bien soin de vous 🥰 À bientôt !! ☀️🌺🌺🌺☀️
Always a joy watching someone else wrestling with strange pipes. When we were renovating our house a random pipe suddenly started pouring water into the kitchen. Turned out there was a whole filled water heater behind the gas heater. Funny thing....those only work with a solid fuel stove. Just a mystery
I love the continued showing of team work with you and Phil. You clearly have a good system going after many years being a circus pair. Love it! Also, as an Australian who doesn't have to deal with such cold temperatures, I never knew that you had to plastic windows to help with insulation. Fascinating!
The more time taken to discuss, to map out, and inspect various routes, the better plans are created. Rushing through almost inevitably creates more problems. Good, the leak is located. That should keep the city and you both happier about water consumption and conservation. Cannelle is truly enjoying winter snows. I wonder how she would react being forced to wear boots, my Sheltie cross was definitely not pleased until he went out and didn't have cold paws he had to lick to warm up.
YIkes! You could change the lyrics of that song about the ankle bone is connected to the knee bone, the knee bone's connected to the ... and so on! But it's all going to be so nice when you get to the end!!!
The bit where you're chugging through the math of the project may have been my favorite part. I, too, do this with things wildly outside my expertise and I find it exhausting but so so fun!
Also, I know it's by far way too late, but I wonder if the new piping could've been hidden inside some of the vertical cast iron pipes for function, ease, and aesthetic
Hello from PEI. Yup it is cold here. I got from a thrift store, moving and bed blankets. I got curtain rings that had a clippy thing on them to attach the blankets. I got rods from dollarama and put them up on the windows and some doors. It sure helps with the drafts. This is our first winter with having rats and mice in the house. Gross! Ordinary traps didn’t work so we got the sticky traps. No more creatures. I suggest that you put traps up the attic and between the floor spaces, but remember where they are to remove should you capture creatures. Love the dog rolling. Our dogs like the snow too.
Im interested in what you're accomplishing as our house has hot water heat with radiators and pipes going up in the rooms. I hope you plan to insulate your new pipeline if it travels up through the outside walls 😮 (im watching incase we ever have to replace our system. Hopefully not!! But a good thing to know. 😬) Thank you for your videos, I enjoy ppl saving older homes. They were built with real wood that can be repaired ❤
What a challenge. I had forgotten that old radiators each need an in and out/back to the basement pipes. Our baseboard radiators were installed in about 1970 and use one loop around each floor, and it was done pretty well so we still use the system. The only problem is that on the ground floor, the pipes drop down to the crawl space on their circuit, which become open highways for mice. (Yes, we've used steel wool, but it isn't permanent.)
Getting double glazed windows and a ventilation system was a total game changer for us, we went from windows literally dripping with condensation to nothing it's fantastic. We do live in Aotearoa New Zealand though so our winters are cold and wet but no snow
So if we assume that you replaced your windows with vinyl (a bit of an assumption, I admit, but since that's what most people do, it's not that big of a stretch), then what I'm hearing is that you switched from repairable-but-unmaintained sustainable wood windows to unrepairable and ecologically-unfriendly vinyl windows that will end up in the landfill in 15-20 years when they fail and can't be repaired. A decision that is many people make, and that's perfectly valid, but one that I personally will not be making over here.
Hello from NW PA USA - although I've never owned a property like yours, I have rented more than a few! Put money into survival and comfort with no recompence. I'm just happy for you that your $ goes to you.
I have fought tooth and nail to keep my original 1853 windows, I will never replace them! I have been able to find some original window and door hardware locally, but will need to special order other parts. Thank you for restoring the home's beauty instead of replacing everything with new materials! 💕❤️💕❤️
My head would have exploded doing those calculations lol, glad you found where the leak was coming from too, lovely to see little Cannel having fun in the snow, tfs x Julie 🇬🇧
That montage with the math was genius! Thanks to the three of you for bringing laughter and courage into my day. I hope you know I live vicariously through you, Shannon. Right down to throwing the the stick for the snow dog!
I love watching you and Phil working together on the house but I can’t wait till you can do another video on the found vintage and antiques and some decorating. More corgi cuteness please. Good luck with the heating mess. You are both very brave.
Hi Shannon! You two are doing great . Not sure if I could tackle renovating an old home but love watching your process and progress. Curious I know the house is split into two units. Are you fixing the heating in the second half to while you are doing the half you are currently living in?
Cardboard was used a lot during the Depression it was Poor Man's sheetrock my mom's ceiling in her basement was cardboard and I've been in multiple homes for the walls built in between children's bedrooms and Etc not an uncommon practice.
It's a good thing you are both acrobats, or you'd never get in the tight and awkward spaces that you need to be in!😂😂 2nd floor piping comundrum: you could run the heating loop under the floor of the hall/corridor/landing on the 2nd floor, and put the water based skrting board heaters on the other side of the wall in each room.
Great editing, Shannon! Love what you did during the room calculation section. I'm a bit envious of your windows, wishing I had some lovely big windows to look out of here. We're planning on some renovations of our own, hopefully this coming summer if things don't go completely sour here in the states, which would give us a few nice large windows in the main living area. I'm definitely going to do my homework before we purchase anything! Thanks for more fun Corgi content! As always, she is adorable to watch!
First your Christmas mantal looks so pretty and you slide decoration. Well done. As for the house pipes it is so good you two are so flexible with all the cramped spaces you have to work in. Thank you for sharing, so enjoy watching. Have a blessed week ahead.
Love seeing how wonderfully you two work together. What an impressive lot of work and progress you are making. I love you are saving this grand old house.
Another well produced video Miss Shannon! Nice mix of hard work (those pipes! 😳😎), maintenance work, and an always popular addition of your sweet and funny Cannel (sorry if I misspelled 🤭) playing in the snow! Thank you, and see you next week! Oh, and I also enjoy how well you and Phil work together- guessing the work you do together has solidified a true value of trust in each other! ☺️💖💖
Must have added bathrooms/ indoor plumbing well after the house was built, because even Victorians dont wallpaper service areas! Thank goodnes you are acrobats and get along so well! Rock on!❤❤
I'm pleased that you want to restore the house to its former glory. Everything you do, you do with so much patience and love. Great that you found the water damage. the best thing is to play with canelle💕🐶. Your music is on point 🥰
Show don't tell - talk too much - unsub, bye 😢
Number of hearts broken by you leaving: none
@@ShannonMakes : just saying the reason why i've unsub. no need to overreact. 👍
But this isn’t an airport, there’s no need to announce your departure. People are free to come and go as they please 🥰
@@ShannonMakes 🤣😂😅
re-listen to what Shannon says at 12:13 my dude.
Professional acoustician here with a tip that might be helpful. If you are trying to identify which pipes connect to which pipes and you cant see the whole pipe run, you can use a tuning fork. Excite the fork and place the base on the pipe you're interested in. That pipe will ring and it helps figure out what is connects to what in another room. It's also nerdy fun! 😂
That is such a great tip that I never would have thought of! I think we’ve identified and removed everything already, but thanks for sharing! 🎶🔧
I think that this might help me with my little labyrinth. ❤
Oh, brilliant! 😳👍☺️
I love how the two of you work together ❤❤❤❤❤
"Unless you want to get in there"
Squeeze myself into a tiny hole in the wall?? HELL YEAH!!!!
You two are crazy. The perfect couple. 😊
Lol thank you 😂😂🐶
If you don't mind visible radiator tubes as long as it isn't pax I would recommend copper tubes. Looks absolutely awesome.
@@Anaxeena if only it was not so expensive. That house is big.
Only two professional acrobatics like yourselves could possibly do what you are doing in all of this!! Strength, agility, courage, perseverance - you two rock!!!
Yes, I see them getting into some of those nooks and crannies and think their acrobatic flexibility must be such a huge help in those spots!
You two amaze me all the time. No project is too big for you two. I love watching your videos because you are both so down to earth. Some people doing renovations with makeup on , hair all styled and clean clothes are so far from the reality of renovations. We have done tons from building our own house and a log cabin to renovating our house through the years.
Believe me it ain’t pretty. 😂
It ain't pretty, but it's real! 🤣 Glad you appreciate it... someone left me a comment the other day that I should "really try to be more pretty" which just made me roar with laughter. This person has clearly never renovated anything in their life 🤣🤣🤣
@@ShannonMakes No they didn't! 😮😂 That is the most hilarious thing! You're plenty pretty enough, and you're doing more than most of the rest of us when it comes to this sort of thing. I remember helping my dad with small home reno projects and the dust/grime/residue factor builds up super fast. I just wish I was as kinesthetically capable as you are!❤
@@ShannonMakesOMG you should totally put on a fancy dress and Phil should put on a suit or tuxedo for the next video!!!!!
@@ShannonMakesi cannot fathom the mindset of someone that thinks that is appropriate in any way! You are pretty but that’s not what you are for! You do extremely everything! And dress for whatever the occasion- and the fact you aren’t doing demo with fake nails and a full face on makes it honest and relatable- except the long list of things you can do that i could never, like heights for example , some people 🤷🏻♀️
@@ShannonMakesI’ll bet they didn’t tell Phil HE should try to be more pretty! Jerks
I just want to say I love that you have been putting the editing time on all y’alls videos for awhile. I had no idea they took so long to edit.
Eye opener for sure. Ive been watching since you were only doing sewing. I love the house videos, sewing, making do and circus stuff. All of it is cool.
Also, my daughter wants a corgi and I told her we should name it Phil. LOL. She also thinks we look a bit a like, maybe a bit.
Thanks for keeping it real.
The fearlessness that you and Phil showed in getting the old pipes out is inspiring! I love hearing his accent! Thank you for the excellent video ! The music you chose is perfect !
Instead of an ad break, we get a Canelle break! I love it
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We had a home in Maine with the same heating challenges. Here's a thought. Where you are intending to pull off plaster and lathe on the walls, you can 'create' a chase-way for Pex tubing between studs. Since the tubing is so narrow it fits without issue. Just be sure to insulate the chase-way.
You and Phil are a pair of brave souls. My old house has taught us to abandon all hope when cutting into the walls. We never know what lurks in there!
Lots of cans of worms 🪱
@@ShannonMakes sometimes literally😅
love watching you ask for balance assist, and Phil holds your back. That little Oh Oh was all it took for him to come back with the assist. So cute. Now I understand more why the conference in Astoria. What a task in front of you both!
Always love your videos, sewing, circus, renos, corgi :) The scene with the math going between metric and imperial and Phil asking if you made it up is exactly how my partner and I work when we are trying to figure out our house lol. I wish we were as coordinated and flexible as you two though!
LOL I adore this comment, thank you!
The editing on the math trying to figure out your heating needs with the calculator is PEAK. That feels like a very accurate representation of the struggles of home buying/ownership/renovation. We close on our home at the end of this month and aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh 🥴😵💫🤣😃
You've got this! 🥳
*Great Editing* ...
*"Did you just make that up?"* ... made me chuckle
Lol I knew someone else would get a kick out of that!
I enjoy watching the way you interact with each other and work things out. This is a very realistic look at what it takes to do renovations as a couple where you are DIY’ing everything and learning as you go. My husband and I did the same kind of stuff at your age (without the acrobatics) but we were … get this … renters for most of that time. When we finally bought our own place it was brand new, but we went nuts doing renovations anyway. Good times. BTW I think you are the only YT creator I’ve watched who puts total edit time in the credits, and kudos to you for that! Media creation is hard work. Thanks for making it entertaining and inspiring.
Good morning, Shannon and Phil. It looks like sorting out the heating for the second floor is a challenge… but, I’m confident that you two will master it. I loved some Cannelle in the snow❤️
See you next week❤️❤️
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Glad to hear that you’re keeping original windows. Anything original that can be salvaged will definitely be an investment.
Plumbing and heating is such a puzzle. It's so interesting to watch y'all figure it out as you go along!
A constant learning curve!
Your pup is so CUTE! When she ran back and did a roll over in the snow. So cute.
Just ran across your channel 3 days ago and I have been going through the older videos trying to catch up. Love the spirit and gusto you both have in jumping into the deep end of renovating an old home. Sometimes all they need is a bit of love and help. Great vibes here and I am all for it! You also have a fantastic group of people filled with wonderful information on old things. Here to enjoy, learn and laugh!
Thank you so much! It's been a wild ride! ❤️ Welcome to the party! 😊
I LOVED “The Alice Network”. Incredible book, and based on true events and people.
Hang in there. I love watching your videos. It shows the REALITY of buying and fixing a house just to get it up to the “livable” standard.
I’m a former realtor, and while people THINK they want a fixer upper, they really only want COSMETIC fixes. I have done what you are doing, and am currently helping my kids with their houses. Every single thing you learn (from unwanted lessons via “okay we fixed this, but now this is a problem…”) will build confidence. By the end? You will say “I could do this again!”, but really you’ll just want to spend time in the beautiful home you’ve created for yourselves. The Reno bug will hit you shortly after you settle in though…😂
Keep the videos coming. You’re doing fantastic!
So, hang on, you have this old crumbling house where you are rescuing everything that's been rotting for years/decades/etc, but the leak was because of _new_ work by a current professional? Oof, that must be frustrating!
Also, was your editing time 22 hours for that one scene with you and Phil sitting at the table figuring out the heating math, and 7 minutes for everything else? It was worth it, that scene was delightful. :D
Also also, I absolutely 100% want free croissants for life and other excellent bread products, and I tried to sign up, but I don't live in the US so I couldn't. I figured that would happen and I will emotionally recover :D but just -- it worked! The sponsorship worked, I'm just out of the area! :D
Saaaame, I think this would be a service I'd very much enjoy, opposed to all the other meal delivery services but I don't live in the US/Canada, so can't use it.
Shannon does not live in the US. 🤷♀️
@@jenniferk7525 yes but they do deliver to Canada but not to Europe. Being the neighbouring country helps
@@BethAge95 My apologies! I am guilty of assuming you are from Canada. My mistake. Surely, in Europe, you have access to some amazing pastries even if they're not free. I'm envious!
@ I know -- and I wasn't trying to get weird about it! Just wanted Shannon to know that the sponsorship was successful even if the stats from the company don't end up showing it :D
(I did end up emailing the company to unsubscribe after I tried to sign up, and sent them a nice note wishing them luck and dropping this channel's name, so perhaps the message will get through anyway.)
Good morning everybody ☕️⛄️
Good morning! It's a freezing cold day in Wisconsin, 9:15 but the sun is out.
Phil "Are you just making that up"? lol You two are too cute. That leak was in the new system, that you just had installed? That sucks. Glad it was easily found and fixed though. That math scene looks exactly like the inside of my brain when it gets hit with numbers; and the answer is purple pancakes. Thanks for the video; hope you are staying relatively warm. We've only had two days above freezing this January, brrrrrr.
PURPLE PANCAKES!!! We’ll never know if I was making it up or not… ➕➗✖️➖🟰
Stuck in a pointless meeting at work 🫠 I’ll have to come back here and watch the vid later 🥲 love your content Shannon ❤
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In my house (130 years+) all the pipes (pluming) was added latter, as was yours. I have a double out side wall, a clipped corner that houses the water pipes for the upstairs bathroom. I wondered how the pipes never froze? Then I realized that the pipe for the radiator ran right along beside it. Some thing to keep in mind, you have worse winters then me.
None of our domestic water runs in an exterior wall 😉
Thank you for the adorable corgi content. I'm in a pain flare up and could actually feel the serotonin and dopamine boost watching her romp through the snow.
You're so welcome! I hope it deflares as quickly as reasonably possible 🥴🥰🐶
Hi, I'm new to your channel, and have spent the last few days binge watching you house renovation from the beginning. Am really enjoying it and love your corgi and her cute wriggle-but. Keep up the good work.
so cool 🆒 😎 that your sponsor is Wild Grain! And that they donate 4 meals to the Greater Boston Food Bank! I used to live in that area, and the need is great! 🙏❤️🥰💞♥️👍🏻🆒🌟🤩
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Please order the fin radiators as soon as you can. Things are changing everyday here, and I dont want you guys to be caught without. Love from your neighbor to the south.
I do hope you know that this was about a year ago, the renovation videos are not anywhere near real time
We faced many challenges while renovating an old house here in Ontario. It was all worth it as we had a beautiful home in the end. I love everything about your chanel.
I learned when removing something that's going to replace to use a heavey string or rope behind (attch it to say the wire or pipe) this helps you to pull and feed the wire /pipe back threw.
My husband found if I'm going to redo a room that cuting the sheetrock and replace. I'm glad we didn't have plaster walls😂 though I'd likely have a new skill.
Ps my husband kept up with the amount of string rope used to help with the length needed.
Yes, that’s called “fishing” 🐟🐟🐟
Top notch Canelle content 😍
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Love your teamwork!! Hurrah for leak being found! I am still rooting for you, despite having to step away from Patreon 💪🏻💪🏻. Fingers crossed for the upstairs heating: that is a huge puzzle! 🥰🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thank you so much! Take care, Lynne!
It's really cool seeing how having a circus day job ties in really well to working on a house. I wonder why the water heater part is corroding so quickly
Lack of pipe dope, undoubtedly!
One minute to midnight here in Aus🦘-don’t think I can stay awake for another hour, will have to watch tomorrow 😢🥱⏰
No worries, I’ll still be here tomorrow 🥰
Thanks so much for showing the realities of remodeling (and being a team)! 💖
You’re welcome!
So glad you found the leak. I'm hopefully it was a quick fix. ❤ Thanks for great realistic content. Spending hours just deciding what the next step needs to be is so relatable. Sometimes there just isn't an obvious solution and thinking needs to happen before action. 😊
You're very welcome, glad you appreciate the pragmatism (did we spend literal hours standing there talking about possible solutions? Yes. Do I have hours of footage of us doing so? Also yes. Did I feel the need to incur such pain on the viewer? Only a tiny fraction of it 🤣)
Oh my. We are so thankful we already put a bath, squeezed into a laundry room downstairs that was probably the home's entrance from the barn in 1868, as our upstair bathroom is a mess with old leaking pipes. We finally found the issue from a tiny drip, drip, drip leak through the wall to the dirt floor basement. I feel ya, guys!
Darn, not an easy leak to fix. Good luck with all the math! 💜
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Great video. Loved the editing touches. You two are impressive and make a great team. Happy you will be warm and toasty this winter with the re-fashioned heating design.
Doggies always make verything better 🐾
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Ok, strange idea, but could you feed the new PEX plastic piping through the straight metal pipes that are going floor to ceiling, like a fascade? Just a thought. No idea about sizes.
I was thinking the same thing!!!
If they weren't used for water, possibly, but water deposits find the strangest places to appear. Plus, trying to do any repairs would really be challenging.
Uggg...what a lot of work! Well done! Could you build enclosures around the pipes, leaving them on the external walls and then maybe create a sort of architectural design of the enclosures like nooks, books shelves or columns between where a bed would go. You could also use these enclosures to run wiring for wall lights and extra plugs. A nook between two columns (one might be just for aesthetic balance) could maybe have a little table, dresser or chair with a mirror or picture above.
Such great video and editing! Thank you for all of your talent and time!
Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏🙏 Glad you're enjoying the videos!
I love doing home remodel and restoration!! This makes me want to come toNova Scotia on a vacation and just work on your house for meals…..lol. The hubby and I have done it all, demo, framing, plumbing, electrical. I had wallpaper and paint business as a hobby for years. Just finished a 1000sq ft in-laws addition, bathroom remodel for my mom, bathroom remodel for brother and sister in law….i just find it fun. And we both have our full time real jobs too! Something about looking at the finished project is so rewarding. Good luck to you as you tackle the projects and I know it’s gonna be great when done.
A corgi, a corgi in snow!!!
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Take the Pax pipes and run them side-by-side in a large PVC pipe and that would give you the aesthetic look that would be similar to having the cast iron pipes but that does I'm not saying through the whole building but if you have to run where you can see the piping 13:28 the look of the pax.
Every time I see your videos I think you guys are so brave. I'm sure your house will eventually be a beautiful home.😊
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😮 Shannon, j’apprécie que tu mettes le temps que tu passes à éditer les vidéos ! 22h pour celle-ci ! Waouh !
Pourquoi ne pas demander conseil à un chauffagiste pour votre installation de chauffage ? Pour être sûrs de votre commande ? Même ici, un pro peut peut-être vous répondre, non ?
Je comprends votre choix de ne pas poser de fenêtres plastiques ou PVC, mieux vaut attendre d’avoir un budget confortable pour installer de belles fenêtres en bois avec du double, triple vitrage 🤭
Rien de tel qu’une pause Cannelle dans la neige 😂 (avec super musique 😉)
Prenez bien soin de vous 🥰
À bientôt !!
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Always a joy watching someone else wrestling with strange pipes. When we were renovating our house a random pipe suddenly started pouring water into the kitchen. Turned out there was a whole filled water heater behind the gas heater. Funny thing....those only work with a solid fuel stove. Just a mystery
So strange!! If only the houses could talk!
I love the continued showing of team work with you and Phil. You clearly have a good system going after many years being a circus pair. Love it!
Also, as an Australian who doesn't have to deal with such cold temperatures, I never knew that you had to plastic windows to help with insulation. Fascinating!
Hi Shannon I knew you could get in any hole ,please wear a mask .All that dust could get on your lungs sending lv Ann uk ❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧
Your editing is getting soooo tight. Great video as always. Have a beautiful day.
Thank you so much, you too!! 🥰🥰
The more time taken to discuss, to map out, and inspect various routes, the better plans are created. Rushing through almost inevitably creates more problems.
Good, the leak is located. That should keep the city and you both happier about water consumption and conservation.
Cannelle is truly enjoying winter snows. I wonder how she would react being forced to wear boots, my Sheltie cross was definitely not pleased until he went out and didn't have cold paws he had to lick to warm up.
She will wear them if needed, but we just avoid salty sidewalks for the most part 🥰🥰
YIkes! You could change the lyrics of that song about the ankle bone is connected to the knee bone, the knee bone's connected to the ... and so on! But it's all going to be so nice when you get to the end!!!
The battle continues! Love seeing what you're doing to the house. Wish I could help!
It’s just delightful to watch you two work together.
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That cardboard wall!! Oh my word!!!
The bit where you're chugging through the math of the project may have been my favorite part. I, too, do this with things wildly outside my expertise and I find it exhausting but so so fun!
Also, I know it's by far way too late, but I wonder if the new piping could've been hidden inside some of the vertical cast iron pipes for function, ease, and aesthetic
Shannon old house blues! ❤😊❤
Corgis and snow, math and plumbing, planning and bread 😂 this video covers everything
I like to cover ALL the niches in one video, really confound then algorithm 🤣🤣🤣
Outstanding job! I believe wooden windows are so much better. Can be repaired, rebuilt if needed, and allow your house breath
Hello from PEI. Yup it is cold here. I got from a thrift store, moving and bed blankets. I got curtain rings that had a clippy thing on them to attach the blankets. I got rods from dollarama and put them up on the windows and some doors. It sure helps with the drafts.
This is our first winter with having rats and mice in the house. Gross! Ordinary traps didn’t work so we got the sticky traps. No more creatures. I suggest that you put traps up the attic and between the floor spaces, but remember where they are to remove should you capture creatures.
Love the dog rolling. Our dogs like the snow too.
Always like watching you two renovate your house.
Im interested in what you're accomplishing as our house has hot water heat with radiators and pipes going up in the rooms.
I hope you plan to insulate your new pipeline if it travels up through the outside walls 😮
(im watching incase we ever have to replace our system. Hopefully not!! But a good thing to know. 😬)
Thank you for your videos, I enjoy ppl saving older homes. They were built with real wood that can be repaired ❤
What a challenge. I had forgotten that old radiators each need an in and out/back to the basement pipes. Our baseboard radiators were installed in about 1970 and use one loop around each floor, and it was done pretty well so we still use the system. The only problem is that on the ground floor, the pipes drop down to the crawl space on their circuit, which become open highways for mice. (Yes, we've used steel wool, but it isn't permanent.)
Getting double glazed windows and a ventilation system was a total game changer for us, we went from windows literally dripping with condensation to nothing it's fantastic.
We do live in Aotearoa New Zealand though so our winters are cold and wet but no snow
So if we assume that you replaced your windows with vinyl (a bit of an assumption, I admit, but since that's what most people do, it's not that big of a stretch), then what I'm hearing is that you switched from repairable-but-unmaintained sustainable wood windows to unrepairable and ecologically-unfriendly vinyl windows that will end up in the landfill in 15-20 years when they fail and can't be repaired. A decision that is many people make, and that's perfectly valid, but one that I personally will not be making over here.
You do such a good job with your videos. Really enjoying your progress.
Appreciate it! 🥰🥰
Oh shannon very large tool in a very small space😮😅😊
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Hello from NW PA USA - although I've never owned a property like yours, I have rented more than a few! Put money into survival and comfort with no recompence. I'm just happy for you that your $ goes to you.
Very true!
I have fought tooth and nail to keep my original 1853 windows, I will never replace them! I have been able to find some original window and door hardware locally, but will need to special order other parts. Thank you for restoring the home's beauty instead of replacing everything with new materials! 💕❤️💕❤️
I am SO with you on that! Old windows are magical 🥰
12:13 "Some days, you spend as much time trying to make decisions as you do actually working on the house." Truer words were never spoken!
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btw, Canelle's frolicking is so well edited to the music I had to go back and watch it once again. Perfection! :))
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Corgi yawns are adorably contagious
heheheh very true!
When the piece of drywall or plaster fell at 4:15 i flinched 😂.
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My head would have exploded doing those calculations lol, glad you found where the leak was coming from too, lovely to see little Cannel having fun in the snow, tfs x Julie 🇬🇧
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Thanks for showing the reality of renovating an old house. It's a lot of what is this and why would anyone do that.
“why on EARTH did they do it THAT way‽‽?” 🤣🤣
That montage with the math was genius! Thanks to the three of you for bringing laughter and courage into my day. I hope you know I live vicariously through you, Shannon. Right down to throwing the the stick for the snow dog!
I am so glad you got a laugh out of it!! 🥰🤣
Really appreciate that you talk through your joint decision processes & the entire calculation adventure.
Glad you’re enjoying it (although I’ve spared you from several hours of “the actual process” aka noodling around on all our various ideas 🤣🤣)
I love watching you and Phil working together on the house but I can’t wait till you can do another video on the found vintage and antiques and some decorating.
More corgi cuteness please.
Good luck with the heating mess. You are both very brave.
Hi Shannon! You two are doing great . Not sure if I could tackle renovating an old home but love watching your process and progress. Curious I know the house is split into two units. Are you fixing the heating in the second half to while you are doing the half you are currently living in?
Cardboard was used a lot during the Depression it was Poor Man's sheetrock my mom's ceiling in her basement was cardboard and I've been in multiple homes for the walls built in between children's bedrooms and Etc not an uncommon practice.
Yup… poor man’s plaster, and newspaper was poor man’s insulation!
It's a good thing you are both acrobats, or you'd never get in the tight and awkward spaces that you need to be in!😂😂
2nd floor piping comundrum: you could run the heating loop under the floor of the hall/corridor/landing on the 2nd floor, and put the water based skrting board heaters on the other side of the wall in each room.
I so love the wall paper with the ships. Painted cardboard...lol what! Really good you guys are such good athletes.
Great editing, Shannon! Love what you did during the room calculation section. I'm a bit envious of your windows, wishing I had some lovely big windows to look out of here. We're planning on some renovations of our own, hopefully this coming summer if things don't go completely sour here in the states, which would give us a few nice large windows in the main living area. I'm definitely going to do my homework before we purchase anything! Thanks for more fun Corgi content! As always, she is adorable to watch!
First your Christmas mantal looks so pretty and you slide decoration. Well done. As for the house pipes it is so good you two are so flexible with all the cramped spaces you have to work in. Thank you for sharing, so enjoy watching. Have a blessed week ahead.
Thanks so much! Loving the decorated mantle as well 🥰
Love seeing how wonderfully you two work together. What an impressive lot of work and progress you are making. I love you are saving this grand old house.
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Very challenging endeavor!!!
Fun challenges!!
Good morning from Ontario 😊
Another well produced video Miss Shannon! Nice mix of hard work (those pipes! 😳😎), maintenance work, and an always popular addition of your sweet and funny Cannel (sorry if I misspelled 🤭) playing in the snow! Thank you, and see you next week! Oh, and I also enjoy how well you and Phil work together- guessing the work you do together has solidified a true value of trust in each other! ☺️💖💖
I love the detailing of the old wood around your outside windows!❤😊
Me too!!
Must have added bathrooms/ indoor plumbing well after the house was built, because even Victorians dont wallpaper service areas!
Thank goodnes you are acrobats and get along so well! Rock on!❤❤
I'm still awake ! 12.30am in South Australia. At least I get to see your premiere ❤🎉😊
You are so dedicated! 🥰
I'm really enjoying all your videos. Thanks you three!
Our pleasure!
Omg❤I love swing music 😊
17:53 UGGGGGGG I'm in NH and need to do this . 😬
I'm pleased that you want to restore the house to its former glory. Everything you do, you do with so much patience and love. Great that you found the water damage. the best thing is to play with canelle💕🐶. Your music is on point 🥰
Thank you so much!
Some of the things you guys tackle are mind boggling!! It is truly impressive!
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I always look forward to your upload