Nails, wool, electricity and peeping at our Irish stone farmhouse renovation.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- So after removing the wooden ceiling strips of wood, it is time to cut off all of the nails that held them in place. At the same time, Dawn shows what sheep wool insulation we are using to fill the gaps around our temporary OSB flooring from the company Sheep Wool Insulation. While both things are going on, we have the electricity company outside digging a huge hole to fit our new pole. It was a busy day.
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hi folks, Wow, that company that uses wool for insulation is brilliant. at a time when they don’t know what to do with sheep wool anymore cause so much synthetic products are used and they don’t make clothes out of it very much. That’s a wonderful product to be made out of sheep wool and people can use it for every house that’s built or rehab if they just think about using a natural product, instead of synthetic product. Kudos to you guys for utilizing a natural product in your house. blessings 😊
Thank you, yes it’s a great product to use for insulation. We were told about it by a commenter when we first started the work on the house and we are so pleased he told us about it as it works so well around the house for multiple different uses and yes you’re right with it now being used when it’s uses may have been dwindling, hopefully that helps sheep farmers too.
Love watching the progress.
Quite a lot was happening on this video if I remember rightly Jean.
As always, thank you :-)
Its great that you found a sustainable product for insulation, quite fitting for the house.👍❤
Yes it feels quite fitting for the house! A friend mentioned it as a good insulation for these kinds of houses and for ease of blocking drafty areas it’s great! ❤️
I love your videos you have done brilliantly so far cant wait to see the progress❤ love all the treasures too
Thanks Gail. It has been a steep learning curve but bit by bit we will get there.
Dawn is always keeping "treasures", we seem to have boxes of them lol.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Have a nice Easter :-)
At some point when you're too tired to work, but you don't mind doing a video, I'm sure there are a lot of us out here who would love to know what took you guys to Ireland! I'm in Georgia of the US and have always wanted to go to Ireland because a good bit of my ancestry is there, along with England, Scotland and Wales. I think that's why I've always loved the Irish music, and the Appalachian music of the US because it came from Ireland. Anyway, just an idea for you! Love watching! I feel like I'm sharing a bit of your lives!
Hahaha too tired to work..... Have you seen Dawn? Dawn would work 24 hours a day if I let her, she doesn't stop. My idea of a weekend off is exactly that... Do little jobs, easy jobs, or better still.... Do nothing. not Dawn hahahaa.
I am sure we can do a video answering some questions, yours being one of them.
You should come over. We have no relations here, no real history here either but we came over and love it, it is sooo different to what we are used to. An indoor shower would be nice though.
There is a pub we go to and they usually have Irish music playing. Many a time Shazam gets used to find more info about the song.
Well now at least you’ll have lots of rocks to fill in the gaps in the outbuildings with what they dug out for the electrical pole!! Great job on the sheep wool insulation as well!!😊❤
Ooh my goodness they were huge that they were blasting through….its going to make digging French drains around the house a little….erm…tricky shall we say! The sheep’s wool insulation is great and has made such a difference around the house!
Good thing is that it puts your buildings on a solid footing, bad thing is any major digging will be a migraine.👍❤
So true! A simple French drain is out of the question.
Looks like you found the reason why the ground holds such much water, soil only a thin layer before you hit rock. 👍
Spot on. We are sitting on a huge rock seam which, as you can see, is only a few feet down. Some of it sticks up in the road and front of our house too. We plan on a mini digger to scrape back to the rock below in the hope we can help with the drainage.
Let there be light… lol. Y’all are moving right along. I’m impressed with the sheep’s wool insulation. 😮 I never knew such a thing existed. Yes, I’ve been living under a rock. 😂
Haha…shhh…I’ll let you into a secret…a friend suggested the door and window filler…and I hadn’t heard of that one, so it’s not just you! Lol I’d read before about the loft and wall insulation somewhere.
Oh it’s been a long time coming for the electric! Electrician should be here this coming week as well to get us wired and then hopefully in a few weeks we will connected! Yay! Can’t wait, we can get a proper fridge and everything!
When you told me it was rocky, that's not what I expected guys.
Great steps have been taken ~.insulation, electricity is close, all the nails gone ~ Go Team Tolley!!!
We don't think the ESB did either when they sent a toy digger to dig a hole. It didn't take them long to realise they needed a bigger digger and a bigger breaker. We didn't expect it to be one giant rock though, we pictured rocks... Ones you can dig up, not a rock you have to break first.
I was thinking while the guys were digging that it would be really cool if you could just use all that rock as a fence wall!! LOL Ben chose the best way to get rid of those nails! Love the music! See you next time!!
There is one rock on the top of the pile we would stand no chance of lifting, it is soooo heavy. There are some nice smaller ones though, I am sure they can join the ever growing pile Dawn is making as she clears more areas in the outbuildings and beyond, you know, in our weekends off hahahha.
It look as if the house has stopped fighting you and that you really are winning. That soil and rocks would make a lovely rockery but not sure if it would be wet enough for firnary! XX
We think you could be right Carol. Now the house realises we are not going to put plasterboard on every wall, rip out the stairs and replace all the doors, it has finally decided to let us help it with nice warm fires drying out the damp, getting rid of the wood worm which has been making it itch for over 25 years.
Wet? We can only grow cacti here it is so dry, no way would a fern be seen growing along the ditches we have, or water logged moss so thick you can squeeze out a cupful of water hahahaha.
We have quite a few fern growing wild and would probably cost £30+ in a garden centre.
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Watching this video which i was impressed in , wool insulation is impressive and natural and a nice find indeed.
I did like how after a small hole was done outside for the pole it was scanned for hidden items and safety. Gap filling is a slow but getting it done lessens the air into that room.
Great video of you doing plenty of stuffing and well done.
Thank you! It works so well too! Most evenings Ben gets the temperature in the kitchen to around 24 degrees since the wool has gone in along the osb! Looking forward to getting the other side of the house done too! Windows and doors will be done too 😁
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Looking forward to the house warming to hear what its like in the cold weather. Stay warm and safe guys.
Well in the kitchen it’s 23 degrees….but in the living room…only 12! But…we do have no floor and all the roof panels off!
ELECTRICITY! At last they are there, will make everything much easier and quiet.👍❤
We can't wait for how easy it will make things for us. The solar is great until you need to run large appliances or power tools. Hopefully this week will see the electrician wiring the place.
Your electric pole! A long time coming, and a tough time drilling; but it's finally here/there/where you two are. & that above-the-kitchen space looks like real room now. 😀
On the editorial side, I especially enjoyed the music this week.
🤣 yes it finally arrived and fingers crossed the electrician should be here this week to get us wired and ready for connection…it’s going to be soooo lovely to have (real) electric!⚡️ Ben will be pleased…he takes a lot of time choosing the “right” music 😂 perfectionist!
Thanks for peeping Ben. That piece of machinery did a lot. I never thought about using wool as an insulator, but when we renovated our last home there was fabric and newspaper in one of the walls…wool would have been nicer to find. Not sure about finding it here in the states but now I’m going to look for it for our basement refinishing…thanks for the tip!
Yes, strangely with you saying about newspaper…we did find newspaper in the gaps when we removed the floorboards! The wool works really really well….we’ve probably increased the temperature in the kitchen a few degrees, we still have the windows and doors to do as well, so fingers crossed it will nice and warm in the coming winter! 🤞
Amazing week for you two. Dawn your so relaxed with the videos your a natural .love and hugs from cali
Aww thank you for saying…I must admit I feel pretty awkward at times…so I must hide it well! 😂😉 Yes, it’s been a really good week and we’re extremely pleased with how it’s gone! 😘
You two are impressive. So much done is a short amount of time. I was waiting to see the power pole installed. Hopefully you’ll show us next video!?
Thank you very much we are just us lol. It was installed. The big silver post the digger held in place and they then poured concrete around it.
Suggestion.... lay ply on top of rafters temporarily with insulation laying on top of that. Only have to attach on side angle of roof. Ply and insulation eaily removed to use again. 😊
That’s a good suggestion, thank you! We will be looking at that in the coming week or so, so will see if that would work because the ease of being able to take it down and reuse would be great 😊
Screw it up rather than nail is best for reuse/recycling of the boards, no?
Also, that is a good suggestion rhondag
We much prefer to use screws as they have less physical impact on the poor old house. You need to remember we are fixing things OMG. But yes, once they are down again in the future we will be using them elsewhere.
Progress on each video
A little bit, but progress all the same.
Thank you Ronald :-)
Electrical power! I know you’re ready for that.
Oh yes, it has been a long time and to be honest we hate the generator with all of its noise in such a peaceful area. At present it is the other side of the out buildings with some plywood around it to try and make it seem quieter.
Won't be long until it is a thing of the past..... Until we need it down in the land for who knows what.
What a busy video, had it all going on in that one, caulking, de-nailing, and digging a nice watch, liked the grabbing bucket on the digger xx❤
Thanks Pa! That digger/breaker was amazing to watch! I loved how the bucket got changed for the breaker, it was like watching the transformers! Xxx
You will both be toasty and warm this winter. once you figure out an indoor shower brrr
Ooh we do hope so….and yes brrrr indeed! It’s getting really quite 🥶 out there now! 😂
@@thecornerhouseproject If I were you I would be standing in a kiddie pool in front of the fire with the garden watering can lol
@SweetOne. Well strangely I said to Ben earlier on today that we need a tin bath in front of the fire 🤭
@@thecornerhouseproject What a good Idea! where would you empty the water? You could build a little wooden platform for the tub on wheels that lock so you can move it to another room or to the door to empty it?
Haha I love it! I saved some little wheels from one of the old beds in the house…so we have wheels…watch this space! 😉
Love the progress you are making.
Thank you 😊 it’s coming along quite nicely 🙂
Ur ceiling would look good to insulate between rafters u need to do that anyway and put the tongue and Grovee between each rafter it's would be time consuming but beautiful around the top of ur walls put a wide board.
Strangely Bens dad suggested the same thing! We will look at all options I think…we love the look of the rafters as they stand at the moment, so it might be something to think about it when we do our finished ceilings. Thank you 😊
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