#25 - Uncovering the BEAUTIFUL Stone Walls Inside Our Restoration Project in Central Portugal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2024
- This week Michael comes close to finishing off the render removal inside the house and the results are AMAZING. It may sound crazy at this stage, but it already feels like this old Portuguese house is becoming a home.
Michael also gets creative moving some heavy furniture around!
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I wish more people had the guts you have to renovate these old buildings in my country! They are beautiful but they just fall apart and no one cares. I have been following you and am so respectful of your work and the interest you take in all the old stuff that you keep finding... there is so much character in these buildings, and the end results when finished don't compare to a new build in any way. You are going to have a top notch home in a beautifully scenic spot! Well done!
Thank you so much 😊 that really means a lot! We've always loved old things and antiques so doing this seemed like the perfect thing! Thanks again 💛
Totally agree
Thanks so much 😊
Love watching those whose restore those beautiful stone buildings rather than tear down and build new. Good job.
Thanks so much. It means a lot 😊
Love the cupboard, design and colour.👍
We do too ♥️
I have very recently renewed my own large granit farm house in northern portugal where i now live. I used professional help though because i havent got the skills and wouldnt have had your kind of energy. But the house and land have come back to life and it is such a gratifying acheivement. I now live in a uniquely quirky house like no other, full of history and space, i love it!
That sounds wonderful 😍 it's so satisfying bringing an old place back to life isn't it!
Wow, you got through loads this week, epic amount. 👍
Thank you 😊
Judging by the amount of plaster you've had to remove already I'd bet on you twitching if you had to watch someone putting it on lol. 😂 You have done so much since you arrived, it must be rewarding seeing your place transforming.👍
😂 definitely! Thanks so much 💛 very rewarding!
You should put a ramp on the stairs to make it easier for you
Thank you! 😊 We have done when there are lots of barrows but this only needed a couple of trips 😅
More great work Michael , especially your signature face in the wall. Expensive skips, though. Flip side I believe Portugal is one of the cheapest places to live in the globe.
Thanks so much 😊 luckily I managed to find one for half the price 😅
I liked the idea of "lights off"; this showed very well the passage of time, with the time lapse its easy to lose perspective of how laborious a task it is. Looks good!
☺️ thank you so much!
fantastic,hard working bloke,good luck to you sir.
Thank you so much 👍🏼
Well done love stone walls. 📣
Thank you ☺️
It really is amazing that your poor shoulders haven’t given out! It’s going to be a beautiful house, all done right.
😅 thanks so much!!!
You are doing a fantastic job bud ...from a mould lot to a masterpiece .we lived in Cornwall for a few years and did the same on the inner walls as with the render the house could not breathe..so a mould pit .well done 👍👍👍
Thanks so much 😊 you can almost hear the walls sighing with relief!!
Doing great it is going to look amazing x
Thank you ♥️♥️
When lifting anything from 1 oz to 150 lb bend your knees and then lift. I learn the hard wsy as well 48 years ago was laid up for 3 days. Never again as I always bend my knees, even to pick up a pencil.
Thank you 😊
NEVER EVER HAVE I SEEN ANYONE WORK SO CONSISTENTLY HARD AND PROFESSIONALLY ✅✅✅✅✅ AND THE CHERRY 🍒 ON THE TOP IS YOUR METICULOUS TIDY UP ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Ah, that's lovely. Thanks so much 💛💛💛
Michael can some one are somebody use the debris for their driveway to fill-in 👍✌️🤙❤️🇵🇹❤️
Thank you 😊 Did wonder this! We might keep some to do it ourselves as we need some off-site parking.
Amazing what you have achieved taking the render off, hope your wrists are ok. You do seem so much more relaxed in front of the camera and it is lovely to see your smile. Very ingenious moving the chest. Well done.
Thank you so much. He's definitely taken to the camera ☺️ making sure he has a lazy morning today! Thanks again 💛
Wow, great work! I hope you are doing daily stretches every night to compensate. That old chest is impressive. I think it might be an old "salgadeira" a box that used to be used to keep meat, usually pork, in between layers of salt. Or, it could be used to keep different types of grains and beans in burlap sacks away from rodents. My grandmother used to have a couple of those chests. When I was a kid, I used to love to dig up some meat and bacon out of the salt!!
Thank you so much 💛 we think they were used for grain as we found some in the bottom! Lovely old chests ☺️ hoping to use as a sideboard or something! Have a lovely weekend.
continua com o excelente trabalho💪
Muito obrigada. Vamos! 💪🏼
The outtake was hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 pleased you thought so! We weren't sure whether to add but we found it hilarious! 😅
You are doing a sterling job! Loads of hard work getting that render off ...nearly there! Although it is going to be a tough job getting it into the skips. Its wonderful to watch the progress :)
Thanks so much 😊 we've managed one skip and another one to fill this weekend! Thanks again ♥️
Meu Deus meu amigo trabalha tanto nao sei como nao está exausto e com dores nas costas e faz tudo sózinho sem nenhuma ajuda. Tenho a certeza que essa enorme sala vai ficar linda.
Muito obrigado gosto muito dos seus vidios vou ver sempre que postar.
Bom fim de semana 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Muito, muito obrigada 💛 Nós realmente apreciamos suas amáveis palavras. Eu (Becci) também não sei como ele consegue! Bom fim de semana ☺️🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
So still in Castelo Branco, but only just as looks like you about 3 miles from Coimbra county. If you have stream then you could say your in heaven, but 22 a lot of wells watermines and streams dried up and many like ran out of water so I had ferry by trailer from the house which has mains.. While you are making the house habital. Hope you got the garden sorted first as then you have the fruit shop on the doorstep instead of buying it.
Looking good. Is that an LG washing machine outside? Moving mine outside this week. Wonder if the ryobi cordless SDS drill would speed up the render removal? Fairly light and can have hammer without turning the bit.
Hotpoint I think! 😊 Ah interesting... I'll get Michael to have a look. Thanks, John!
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys good work,if you lost your hammer 🔨 it's up the wall by the stairs, are you going to point the walls.
Thank you so much 💛 we are going to point the walls 😊 have a lovely weekend!!! X
Can you sort the weather out for April please, as we're over working on our renovation then 😁 Great work again this week, with more visible progress in the internals 💪
😂 we'll try! It's been absolutely torrential this afternoon... Hoping April showers are just a month early?! Thanks Stuart ☺️
@@PortugalonaPostcard Just think how lush it's going to make your garden
Exactly ☺️
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bel endroit et bon boulot
Merci beaucoup 💛
Stone houses are very cold in the winter I recommend you put isolation.
Thank you so much. We are researching what is best, especially for allowing the stone walls to breathe ☺️
Outtakes in more than one way lol.😂
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that's a mammoth job. Not hard to fill a week up at your place.
😅 that's very true!!
A mini jack would make like work of that render removing. Let me guess you are in Castelo Branco, why most Brits choose that I don't know. cheap yes, but for a reason as the water supply there isn't adequate to produce the food you need year round and can reach 47c some years, that is why so many abandoned farms and so cheap. You would have been far better of a little further north, like Guarda, Visue or Villa Real where the rainfall is more reliable and the summer is less stressful. A little dearer but still very cheap in comparison with U..K. That's why I am here as no way could I afford land and house in U.K. without a massive loan while as here I got a massive house for cash. no cash left after making it livable, but who cares can live comfortable on a pension and a bit left over.
Thank you 😊 we're actually near Figueiró dos Vinhos by a stream that runs all year around. We love it here. You're right... We definitely couldn't have afford such a wonderful place in the UK. Thanks for watching!
It's terrible to go with a wheelbarrow downstairs. Why don't you put some old wood,like planks ,in the direction of the mess and just drive over it?
Thanks for the tip! We'd only got a couple of barrows to do but with bigger loads we'll make something more substantial 😊
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