Groundworks on our Irish DIY Derelict Renovation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi, we are Bec, Sam, Isabella & Euan. After selling our house in the UK & travelling Europe in a motorhome for 10 months, we have bought a derelict stone cottage in Ireland. We are keen to try and live an off grid life, free from debt whilst bringing the farm back to its former glory. We are doing this on a very tight budget and plan on doing the work ourselves.
Please follow along on our journey...we need all the support we can get!
This week we begin the groundworks and drain the rainwater swimming pool we never asked for!
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Real people doing real stuff. Love your channel.
I appreciate that! Thank you for the support.
Pure genius! Before you are finished, there will be a Taj Mahal in Ireland and it will be built by Sam and Bec!
Ha ha, Fingers crossed!
Sam and becky each week you bring us great content, your such hard workers, nothing will stop your quest for the end goal, stay safe.
All that building work and you still find time to look after two more kittens. Your a great team.
Just about! I did think to myself at 5am the other day when I was cleaning their litter trays, "why do I do this to myself?"...then I remember, it's because someone has to! 🤣👍
My ginger tom was called Alister. I had him for 13 wonderful years and he brought me so much joy. Your little one really does look like him. So glad he's a keeper Bec. xxx
They are so lovely. I was never a cat person til I got the kittens last year.
You impress me with your kindness toward animals. Thats the sort of things that make me a regular watcher along with watching the Irish Homstead progress!!!! I think that you are still in the thick of it, but getting alot closer to easier progress. Steady and surely!!!!! ps that horrible suspicion about black cats it ridiculous, they are absolutely amazing cats. Very smart and loving. If I were looking for a cat or two, I would choose black color first.
Thanks Heather. Really appreciate that. I hope we find a home for them both too. Very soon! 😉🤣
Those little black kittens are adorable! I hope and pray a kind hearted soul will adopt both of them so they can always stay together. Bless your hearts for giving them such a good temporary home! 🐈🐈⬛🧡
I hope so too! 🍀🤞
@@theirishhomesteadI did hear you say you're not keeping the black kitties, but could you consider them as barn cats? I know you just have the donkey but he's kinda in a barn. The kitties would keep a lot of mice and anything else that may not be needed away.
Sam and Rebecca this channel is one of my favourites love what you are doing to the rebuild can't wait to see the next update keep them coming cousin hopefully i will definitely come over one day I've never been to Ireland
Lots of graft and long days but its worth it cuz
Hi Sam and Rebecca Garfield is a nice name for your lovely kitten your doing well with the build love watching you all
Becky you are fantastic to Foster two sick kittens it is a big undertaking to keep on top with eye drops and minding they don't pass it on.Well done.Sam seems to cope so well with all the drainage and the mini digger driving. The window sills look really well, heavy lifting. Euan not impressed with the truck noise.Take care and God Bless you all xxxx
Euen should have ear mufflers. That lovely little lad was distressed with the noise ❤️
He gets overwhelmed with some noises and has ear defenders, but that all happened so quickly he wasn't expecting it to be that loud! .
I am a glutton for punishment Colette. Honestly I just can't say no to looking after the little sausages. I know they struggle for fosterers!
Great to have experienced machine operators save you money and simplify things
Absolutely! It's been a huge relief. Sam was really nervous about the groundworks.
Love black cats and those two are adorable🤗
Well done on all that ground work and the sills look great Sam
Bec you are so kind to all those animals.😊
😊 thank you
It is God awful being an orphan. Can't abide cats but hoping all abandoned souls find someone to love them. ❤🎉🙏💞. I can really SEE the house coming together now. So chuffed for you all. I hope the drain away functions perfectly. Big hugs all around. ❤🎉❤🎉
I hope so too! Can't be keeping them all forever. Thanks Moira.
You two are knocking it out of the park once again! Each episode we watch brings so much progress, and proof that if you want something, and are prepared to work for it, it is possible.
The kittens are all gorgeous, and I hope that the little black ones are soon well enough to be loved by their forever family/families.
Have a great week ahead. See you next week xx
Thanks Jean x
Nice seeing your son helping.
It's moving fast now. Once those floors are done you'll make amazing progress. I get more excited every week to see things slotting into place.
No better feeling then watching that water drain away
I love the concrete lintels and sills. No maintenance and they blend right in.
Good to see you have help with the drains. Well designed and installed drains work well for many decades, centuries, allowing home to run, protecting the structure. The great thing about the setting is being on a hill, so the water can be easliy removed.
Thanks 👍
I just love the 2 little kittens that you can't keep. Every building is coming along well and you have been working so hard to make your dreams come true 😊❤❤ Keep on keepin on
Ah so happy you are keeping “Otis” great name, not sure I spelled that right. The black ones are so cute. I’ve had many black cats in my life. I love them all. Great job Sam.
Otis is a lovely and apt name for your red furred kitten.
Hope that he'll be as melodious as Otis Redding 😊
If only! 🤣
So sad about the mother cat, but she did the right thing for her kittens, can't wait for more on the build for the house :) well done Sam & Becky
I know! Such a heartbreaking story. 💔
Awwww Rebecca you are truly so kind glad one kitten gets to stay di hope the other two get a loving home they look s😅 cute sam grand work has always hooe you can catch a brek luv to you all the oldies 🤗🤗🤗🤗👍👍👍👍
I hope so too! I'll be working on it. ♥️
I recently came across your channel as I am a renovation fan! I am about 7 videos in and I am hooked. I love your candor, honesty, ambition and the unbelievable amount of hard work you all put in to bringing your vision to life! The love of animals and willingness to foster and adopt makes you even more loveable. I am loving the channel! Sam, Becky, Isabella and Euan, I wish you all good fortune, peace and health!
Thankyou, hope to have the main roof on ASAP
Your kids are so lucky to grow up with so many pets ✨️
I agree. I think they do too. 😉
Fantastic job, can’t wait to see end result.
You and me both!
The day will come, when all you have built will smile back at you for all your hard work. and your back will curse you for every time you lifted something big and heavy without using your legs for the lift!
I suspect so! 😫🫣
Love watching these videos and the journey Sam and Becks are on with their family and ever growing animal family ❤ 😊 love it 🌸
Otis is the perfect name for your lovely boy, my Great Dane in my pic on my profile is a Otis, named him after Otis Redding who came on the radio in my car as we set off from the rescue he got brought to after his rescue from neglect in Romania, so happy you guys are helping all these animals, its hard work but so worth it💛
Ahh that's so lovely! I've always wanted a great dane such beautiful dogs. H
Glad you helped him too. It's really satisfying making a difference lile that.
The stonework in the future launch is looking really nice.
Fantastic progress as always. Look out you’re going to end up with more kittens. They are so cute.
Nope only the one is staying the others are definitely foster only! 😁
You are both such hard workers and full of compassion love the videos
😮 My back hurts for you, Sam, when you're wrestling those stone sills!! 😢
So glad you’re keeping ‘Otis’, knew you would! Hope Toby gets the same luck!
I hope so too!
Good evening Bec’s and lovely family 😍 That windowsill Sam has made a massive difference and going to give you a fantastic view 😊 I love have people sent you stuff as you all deserve everything just for the entertainment value if nothing else 🤩 Lovely Toby at the end xx
It's just so kind and always a wonderful surprise when anything turns up. ♥️
Well done 🙂on trenching out the pool of water. Those kittens are adorable. Tiger is a good name for a stripped ginger I think. Best wishes on getting the kittens rehomed.
Real hard workers,good to see
Thank you
Great work yet again 😁👍Gosh your homestead is really progressive ✅✅
Thank you! ♥️
Oh my word the window sills make such a difference. The house is taking shape and the groundworks are coming on. Love the kittens but we’re not near you and we have just taken on two kittens. 😂
Thanks so much! 😊 Hope your two are giving you hours of fun & love x
Our daughter adopted a cat a year ago now. The people in the adoption area of the pet store named her creamsicle ( after a lollipop here in Ontario) but we shortened it to Cream. She is just like the kitten you're adopting and she couldn't be loved more. Love watching your progress too. Very exciting to watch and very happy for a lovely family.❤
Ahh gingers are so cute aren't they. My favourite colour cat. Love your story and the name. Thanks for sharing. ♥️
Progress! Oh, and great job on the stache, Sam! ha
Thank you!! 😁 🤣
I know you know this, but lift with you're knees man. You're not a young buck any more. You're doing great by the way. Love watching.
Thanks! Will do!
I knew Sam would give that stone a little ‘tickle!’ 😂
Course he did! 🤣
The water shows you where the land drain should go. Such an important part of your house. The window sills suit the building and look good. Press on! Regards, Stephen.
The two gables with their concrete sills (and lintel) look really secure. I said in my last comment 'well done' on the drainage plans and it is so good to see that being actioned. Having a soak away and drainage from the house to the field drain is fantastic in making water run away in a known direction - and especially away from the cottage. SO nice that others are helping with the purchase of items from the wish list. Every success.
Thanks Jim. Much appreciated.
The bravest couple known .😊🎉
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Cute black kittens.
Love your videos. I’ve missed you!
Yay! Thank you!
Nice bit of work done there. Fair play
Thanks 👍
The reason I watch your channel is because you actually achieve something you want to do and finish it , a lot of vids on TH-cam start as a good project and somehow get lost along the way ,, after all it’s only so many times you can watch a person paint a doorframe if you know what I mean , all the interaction with the family the building work the softness with the donkey kittens and so on make a reel difference to a vid ,, so just keep doing what you do it makes a good watch every time ,,cheers JOHN
Thanks John. We are trying not to get too lost along the way 🤣
Hello from Australia love what your doing, love everything about your beautiful family goals keep going awesome job love the Taylor’s Central coast nsw Australia ♥️
I'm an Aussie too, from Gippsland Victoria, and I love this channel!
I too am from Gippsland, Traralgon in Victoria!!
@@Diwondermum I'm in the vicinity!!
I’m from Townsville, Nth Qld, Australia and love your channel too.
I’m from Fremantle Western Australia - also rounding out the love!
I'm really getting into watching you both. I wish you all the best of Irish luck. And hope the weather keeps up for you. God bless you all.
Windowsills look amazing, I really can't wait for the floor to be started, so I can get a real vision of it ❤
Me too. ♥️
Brilliant work!
Many thanks!
Doing a good job there xx
Great content 👌 👍
Thank you 🙌
Window sills look just right. Hope you find good homes for the black kitten's
Thank you so very much.
I think your cement work is absolutely gorgeous and spot on. Looking forward to seeing it all progress. Good work all!
Thank you.
Great job Guys...............well done.
Becs didnt fancy an indoor swimming pool? 😂😂 I cant believe how fast you are cracking on with the build. It's going to be beautiful 😍 Love the name Otis, he is such a cutie. I fostered a couple of kittens 3 years ago for three weeks. My cat Boris turned into a jealous monster and couldnt look at them without hissing at them. So that was the end of fostering for me. It was fun and i was sad to see them go, even if Boris wasn't 😂🙈
Euan did have a great time playing in the rainwater pool that we never ordered, but it has to go! 🤣 They were a bit sissy at first but once they realised he wasn't going anywhere they are best pals now. Luckily.
'He's a grand lad' ....watch out Sam, you'll be one of us before you know it😂😂😂
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Enjoyed
Wow I don’t expect that much water to flow out of your room - windowsills look beautiful ❤
Thank you.
Living in Tennessee we usually have enough rain but we are in a drought. Not much rain since last month. We could use some of your rain here. The lentils look so nice with the stone. Those kittens are so sweet. Glad your keeping the orange one. They usually have a mile manner to them. He fits in nicely.
"The lentils" made me laugh. I had to look again to see if I had missed them!
Yes wish we could have a few if your sunny days too. Although we are doing ok past few days thankfully.
Otis is a good name. ❤
Great ground work nothing better then getting water away from your home moving right along
It sure is!
beautiful window!
Fantastic progress 😊
cracking job.
I was watching you cutting concrete with the diamond disc. Consider taking a 500ml cold drink bottle, drill a four mm hole in the cap. Have a glamorous assistant squeeze water on the cutting arc as you cut. The water will keep the amount of dust down, which assists you seeing where you cut. The other benefit is to keep the diamond cutters cool which extends the life of the blade.
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great video ,things are comin along ,2 black kittens are so cute ,glad u will keep ginger one ,hes settled in well , amazin wrk goin on in cottage welldone , gd u cut ur beard offffff
Nice work sam
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Thanks 👍
Trust the process! ❤
Good work Sam and family more progress with lots more work to be done. It's great to see you're still smiling and getting stuck in good luck in the future.
Thanks 👍♥️
The kittens are so cute..it's unusual how well they all get on..
Great progress on the cottage and wow everytime I look at the stonework I am in awe of how beautiful it is..❤
We are fortunate so far that all our animals just seem to merge happily together. ♥️
Sorry you're having a challenge you didn't really need to add to your day. Boggy land must be an absolute nightmare. Our problem here is flash flooding. We get no rain for weeks and then suddenly the heavens just open up and the land can't hold that amount of water. Since we're in the mountains, it all runs downhill and we just watch it overflow the banks of streams and try to get out of the way.
The window sill looks great! My back hurts just watching you lift it!
Carry on! You're doing a brilliant job! Take lots of tea breaks! Lol!
Look up berms and swales and see if it might you.😊❤
Flash flooding is awful. Water is very destructive! Not something we want to have issues with in the years to come. 🫣
We took 2 bonded kitties - one black - Huckleberry, one orange - Finn. Finn passed very unexpectedly in a rare growth in his neck. We have just adopted another one. He's gray and black stripped. He's Tom Sawyer. Hopefully, Tommy will be a good friend to Huck. It's slow going, though.
How sad, so sorry for your loss. Poor Huckleberry is probably still missing Finn, he'll come around eventually.
He will come round. Onyx is not a fan of the kittens but Jasper & Felix get along quite well with them now. It just takes time. So sorry to hear about the loss of Finn. I know first hand how hard that must have been. 💔
@@theirishhomestead it is hard, and it is slow going. Life is like that, though, right? Progress. They sat inches together last night. Tom is catching on to "cat" life, and Huck is being kind and generous. Love watching all your animals. Toby seems so happy. You are slowing building your house into a home. Love watching how it's progressing. Just amazed at the vision!
I assume you could use some of the sunshine we're having in Colorado.. All the best from Colorado USA.. 😎🇺🇲
Always! 🤣♥️
Lol I knew the kitty would be a foster fail, and as to the 2 black kitties I hope they find a new home. I would have them in a second, but my Freya is not in favour of other cats, she is a black cat and she's a wee darling and a spoiled like crazy, love and blessings from Scotland xx
Great work 🎉
Thanks 😁
Lifting that slab of concrete, you didn’t bend your knees very much picking it up , A FEW OF THOSE TREES ROUND YOU LOOK VERY HEALTHY ARE THEY ON YOUR LAND?, Well done with your drainage that’s a very good job done.😊
ASLAN. The lion front the, Chronicles of Narnia. I had an orange cat named Aslan who showed up on our farm and adopted us years ago. Miss him very much.
Aslan is a great idea!
Oh and you do need to finish this as we all love your adventures
Give it a tickle lolol😂😂😂😂 looking good
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Love your vlog, I just found it, from a South African supporter 🇿🇦
Awesome! Thank you!
👍👍👍. Thank you
Thanks for the vlog; lovely job. Have a look at Compriband tape when putting in the windows.
Thanks will do. 👍
That is a brilliant idea. 🙌🙌👍
Well done French drain is a great job guarantee it works,entertaining video,don’t doc under cull
kind regards Sean
Thanks
Thank you Shelair. Xx
Congrats on 30k subs!
Soon be 40k 👍
Hope so! 🍀🤞
I've just watching this episode and I really have to remind myself that it is supposed to be summer in Ireland. Which should mean no inside swamp lol
Lol if only! We get a few good days then some rain! 🙄🤣
Just binge watching from the beginning ...absolutely loving every minute of your journey and more so after hearing about your recovery! One day at a time 🙏 love in fellowship ❤
Awesome! Thank you!
Hey folks, great progress. Watching you dig the drain to empty the swimming pool inside the house reminded me of the old aphorism “a rising tide lifts all boats" which I heard for the first time the other day on an old NeighbourFood ie podcast, which I think applies perfectly to us all.
Keep up the good work!
I hope the saying proves accurate. We need a big rising spring tide to push is through this renovation right now! 🤣
Love your vlogs! ❤
Glad you like them! Thanksv
Great video, really making progress. "Now were sucking diesel" lol old Irish saying. Lintels, beams, pointing ( Becca 💪)all near done looks fantastic starting to take shape. 🎉
Sam I do think you will need to buy another acre, for Rebecca's animals. I do believe that will continue to grow😂. Have a lovely weekend again thanks for sharing your journey. I would love to be in a position financially to buy an old farm and get out of Dublin one day, when the lotto numbers come out😂
I definitely need more land but nobody wants to give it up here...plus yep we need to win the lottery too first 🤣
Getting that drainage started has got to feel good. Having been a landscaper, I know the feeling when the water begins to move.
Regarding the kittens; I'd love to take the two but I have my own little cat rescue here on the outskirts of the Everglades. (literally) Will put some good vibes out there for you.
Thanks! Yes it was a big relief to see that swimming pool empty! 🤣
Great watch guys,
Thank you.