I really enjoyed this video. Liked how you started off with the tools names and there uses. Learned so much that I feel if ever I had a need to do pointing that I could actually do it! Awesome job by the way!! Nice touch with the shot of the sun set. So beautiful!! Thanks! Till next time then!!
Great work and advice. Our walls are a bit more modern (rebuilt after it was bombed in the war) it has been pointed with cement, so we need to change it! 😬
Thank you Budo has taught me how to point so lm known now as the pointing Queen 👸 😂 and l love it .. l have pointed everything so far in the inside of the farmhouse and some outside . Budo has pointed the front of the house 🏠 but l will be starting a big job of pointing all the outside of the farmhouse which will keep me busy for a few months lm sure 😉 🤗❤
I posted a comment and poof was gone must be on my end not good w tech lol so may get two lol .. thank you for explaining everything you two are up to that I can say I find myself nodding my head as to say ya ya I seee lol take care and stay safe
How come your friends on Escape to the dream called you hans? Confused on your name. Can you do a video on your journey on how you decided on France etc. Why a farmhouse instead of a chateau etc? What are Tracy's skills. Etc. Basically more about you guys.
Hans is his real name and Budo is his nickname 😍 why a farmhouse and not a chateau ? We did consider a chateau but decided to go for a farmhouse as we knew we could finish the renovation and have money left for quite a few years to live comfortably in france . We will be doing soon a Q & A were we will talk alot about ourselves, our journey and our plans for the future. My skills are dly painting I.e.painted furniture, soft furnishings labouring, gardening and of course now pointing all aspects of labouring 😍
I saw you tonight on Escape To The Dream, Restoring The Château channel. Thankyou for posting this fantastic video. I learnt so much in such a little amount of time. Your a great teacher. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos about this french farmhouse restore.
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries I am a new viewer, and I knew I recognized you from somewhere. Now I know where. If I remember correctly, you are working on a door and window for Tony and company! I love seeing folks from different channels working together. After a while the familiarity Kicks in, and it brings a greater sense of community even though we are in different parts of the globe (Texas, US). I appreciated your description of the pointing procedure and the tools used. I have seen it done many times on the channels I follow, and it is good to know the names and functions of the items in use. I think it is cool that you are using the English tools you are familiar with, but also adding French ones to your arsenal.
As tedious as pointing must be, it seriously looks so ... classy, rich, timeless. How wonderful that people, such as yourselves are reclaiming the efforts of those of the last few hundred years. These UA-cam channels give me so much respect for the labourers of year's past and now, those reclaiming those efforts with their own. Excellent work Hans and Tracy! ❤️🇨🇦 Mariya
I've come over from Escape to the Dream - Restoring the Chateau, after your guest appearance. The piece on pointing was really interesting, not that I'm ever likely to do it. Just seeing the whole process, with the right tools was quite satisfying to watch. Great end result, too, by the way. Thanks for sharing. I have subscribed and will continue to follow you. From the UK.
I found your channel after seeing you with Terry and Ash. Love your drone and nature shots. Never underestimate them. They add so much. Your so informative in such an easy going manner. I very much enjoyed this video.
Wow, both of you have done an amazing job of the pointing on the house.....so beautiful. You are moving along very quickly. I am really enjoying watching your DIY vlog....Excellent!
I've watched so many hours of pointing I'm feeling quite expert at it. Not really - HA! HA! It's clearly very hard work. For some crazy reason I love to watch pointing. Who knew?
This was a great tutorial. I'm a new subscriber and really want my own place in France in a few years, so this was great. Thanks so much and I'm looking forward to seeing your lovely place as it unfolds. Best of luck! 💕
Hi Robert I would say start with the bronze wire brush buddy then see if it cleans it for you if not move up to the hard wire brush but I know our stone is very hard and a mechanical wire brush wouldn't be a problem 😉
This is awesome, as I live in an old farmhouse in the US, our cellar walls are stacked stone, and I have always wanted to point them up. I have watched Tracy in more recent videos, and gained confidence that I can do it also, might be my summer project when its too hot to be outside. Crack on!
You are so welcome 😊 there are different types of mixes for different situations with different limes which you will see in future videos coming up . Thank you for watching 🤗
Cracking video, really broke down the steps and has given me the assurance that I can do my own. I'm pretty handy but have zero pointing or lime experience. The stone that has been repainted looks much cleaner that the rest, especially outside. Did you just clean with a wire brush by hand?
Great job! Doing this on my garden stone wall. Will probably use 1 bucket of lime for every 4 buckets of sand + water. Is this ratio good for outdoors?
Hi Lotus depends on the type of lime you are going to use and the type of stone i.e. porous or not but you wouldn't go to far wrong as a general with 1 to 4 sand 🍺🤠👍
Oh 😮 wow I didn’t even realize you were the gentleman who did the doors for Terry, Tony, Tracy, and Ashley. You did such a beautiful job and now seeing that you did it while still living in your RV. So much respect for your woodwork and now even more excited to see what is coming.
Coming up on your pointing job and I have to say of all the DIY chateau channels your pointing is absolutely beautiful. The whiteness of the mortar is so bright and makes the stone even more beautiful. Lovely so very lovely.
Hi Guys, wow what a fantastic lesson you shared with us, It kept me focused and enthralled all the way through thank you for sharing the learning. I have a home up in Brittany, it was originally a change station for the horses and coaches and the builders start work on the outside next summer. (It has also had many incarnations over it's lifetime). It a full roof replacement over 3 buildings plus all the windows and doors plus all the lime plaster on the outside over 1 building and one wall plus having it's shutters put back on. It's going to be a full on summer for them while I'm stuck here in Melbourne working out my last month's before I retire in the spring of 23 and return to France to start work on the inside. I look forward to your learning and the sharing of your skills and would be happy to drive down/across to attend a workshop or learning weekend. With much appreciation, cheers from Melbourne Kim 😁💁♀️❤
wow Kim thanks for your kind words and we are very glad you are following our journey and look forward to more of your lovely constructive views on many videos to come for all you guys all the best Budo and Tracy
What a great tutorial, do you have any advice on how to bring the colour of the stones back out after a wall has been plastered and then the plaster removed. It seems to leave a very dusty colourless appearance to the stones that brushing doesn’t seem to help.
Morning Nelson when you chip out all the old pointing after you have chipped all the old plaster off, if you can then jet wash it all and scrub with a brass wire brush leave to dry then wipe it all down with a cloth before you lightly wet the joints for repointing give that ago 😉
The stones look far more beautiful than I expected, I wonder if the original farmer ever got to see those colors. This video itself is just the sort of thing I was thinking so many stone building restorers would need now. It’s exciting to watch these chateau videos, but once you’re faced with a wall to do yourself all sorts of questions start popping up. This video is just brilliant, you’re a great teacher, so many details and reasons why.
Came to you from Terry's and Ash's channel. Love this video. I'm from the Los Angeles area and no buildings anywhere near this old, so this is fascinating to me. I like the fact that yours isn't a chateau. Don't get me wrong, I love chateaux and I follow a bunch of chateau owners, but only one other french house channel. I'm looking forward to watching the transformation of your beautiful farmhouse. 💚
This was fascinating. I’ve watched a few other French restoration channels that do pointing on their walls, but I never saw anything other than the application of the lime. So I really enjoyed seeing how each step was done. My only question was how long do you need to wait between each step? Between the application, and the rubbing you seem to suggest that it was still soft. Does that mean you should wait until it completely dries to do the rubbing or you should do it when it softer. I mean, I’m never gonna do it myself, but it was a question that occurred to me as I watched. Great job!😊
Hi Malcolm lime can really dry your skin out giving a feeling of a burning sensation some people are more sensitive then others but when using hot lime mix now that will burn you as it gets to over boiling point in its reaction from the slaking process buddy
I’m spending the evening catching up to date! What a blast! Can’t wait for the next ! Love the drone shots Soo beautiful and get to be able to see soo much .. take care and be safe.. thank you also for taking your time explaining all that your doing that even I feel like I can understand and be a part ..
Hey Barbara i am a carpenter by trade but i learned this pointing and plastering skill by an old timer years ago and offered it to my clients when i worked in the UK thanks for following us on our journey
Very informative video. Thanks very much. Do you wash the stone when the lime dries to remove the white look off them? Going to try this on our french home at the end of the month.
Hi Tommy thank you no we don't wash the stone as we make sure the lime goes were it should then when its dry a light brush over with a churn brush mate all the best Budo 🪚🤠👍
Nice job chap. You speak very well, and there was very little off topic fluff. For someone who has not done a lot of presenting before this was a great watch, and I learned a lot, Thanks
hi Patricia we like the natural lime white as in the evenings it can give of a lovely glow but it will darken with time and go more biscuit colour nice to have you on board with our journey all the best Budo
Thanks for sharing this video. I learned something new today, and I should say , you’re a very good teacher. 👍 The pointing technique has given your walls a new life. I’m really amazed at the amount of work you give in restoring your old walls.
That was very interesting. We have a small interior wall covered in paint which is now becoming powder and flaking. Can we use hydrochloric acid to clean the paint from the walls as you did in another video? If we can clean the walls we will try pointing.
Hi Liama don't use the hydrochloric acid first try a general paint stripper first the acid is really for cleaning the cement and excess lime of use it lightly after you have cleaned the paint off the paint has gone flaky because the wall cant breath if you want to repaint any of your walls that are stone then clean them and use only lime paint with pigment if required it will glow and work in harmony with your wall all the best Budo
Hello, I'm so glad you did this and carefully showed the tools needed. I noticed in one of your intro videos there was a building with a very big crack running down near a corner, how would you fix that? Would you put some kind of metal strapping to hold it? I ask because we have a very old stone barn or byre and it has a big crack and builders have told us different things. I can't wait to try pointing with the lime mortar, it badly needs it!
Hi Mary don't panic these buildings have been standing for many years and they normally have very little if no foundations and are still up first thing you need to do is see how thick your walls are were the crack is then try and determine what is around that area i.e. if the roof is leaking or the gutters are missing and so on if all is good then its more then likely the building has been settling over the years i.e.to much rain or very dry years so fix any thing that looks wrong first gutters roof tiles or what ever then rake out properly the lose mortar and repoint making shore you wet first and push the mortar right to the back of the joint then leave for a year or two to see if it keeps cracking but the main thing is don't panic and enjoy your lives in France all the best Budo
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries Thank you so much! Well we know it's missing gutters and rain is collecting too much there, my husband has been putting the huge wheelie bin under where it drips until we can dig a trench (and have gutters repaired). On our bad corner it is actually pushed out a bit and huge gaping holes inside, we could stick rocks and lime mortar back in but it 'feels' like it should be secured more. I really can't wait to start lime mortering, I watch videos about it all the time! Haha...been collecting tools to get ready. We also have some areas of cement that need to be removed on some walls. I love that the barn has original cobble stone floor. You know who Sir Walter Scott is? Well he actually visited this house and put his horse in that barn, many many years ago. (We're in the Scottish Borders) We really want to preserve and protect the barn and love it so much! It'll be fun watching what you both work on for sure!!
@@marymcandrew7667 Hi Mary its great to hear from some one like us who are passionate about restoring history and on the water issue ask your husband to drill a hole 4 inches from the top of the barrel your catching the water with and push or glue a hose pipe in and run it away from the footing then do your repairs to the gutter don't do any pointing yet wait till early summer let it all dry out first then when you come to point it fill it in with strong small stones and pack it in and the pointing try and buy lime from Buxton derby and the main thing is use 3.5 NHL a 3 to 1 mix lime being the 1 hope this helps and if you guys need any help don't hesitate to message ill try me best Budo 🙏🙏😘😘
Hello from NYC USA. At no time in my life will I ever point a stone wall, however I couldn’t stop watching your video. You are a AWSOME teacher. Looking forward to watching more of your videos as you work on your new home. Thank you for posting. ❤️❤️🐾🐾😁😁
I really enjoyed this video. Liked how you started off with the tools names and there uses. Learned so much that I feel if ever I had a need to do pointing that I could actually do it! Awesome job by the way!! Nice touch with the shot of the sun set. So beautiful!! Thanks! Till next time then!!
Much too much talk, not enough work
That was an excellent video. A great teaching lesson. Thank you for sharing your tips.
Great work and advice. Our walls are a bit more modern (rebuilt after it was bombed in the war) it has been pointed with cement, so we need to change it! 😬
Thank you Budo has taught me how to point so lm known now as the pointing Queen 👸 😂 and l love it .. l have pointed everything so far in the inside of the farmhouse and some outside . Budo has pointed the front of the house 🏠 but l will be starting a big job of pointing all the outside of the farmhouse which will keep me busy for a few months lm sure 😉 🤗❤
I posted a comment and poof was gone must be on my end not good w tech lol so may get two lol .. thank you for explaining everything you two are up to that I can say I find myself nodding my head as to say ya ya I seee lol take care and stay safe
A few other subscribers have said that as well Gabe 😂🙏
How come your friends on Escape to the dream called you hans? Confused on your name. Can you do a video on your journey on how you decided on France etc. Why a farmhouse instead of a chateau etc? What are Tracy's skills. Etc. Basically more about you guys.
Hans is his real name and Budo is his nickname 😍 why a farmhouse and not a chateau ? We did consider a chateau but decided to go for a farmhouse as we knew we could finish the renovation and have money left for quite a few years to live comfortably in france . We will be doing soon a Q & A were we will talk alot about ourselves, our journey and our plans for the future. My skills are dly painting I.e.painted furniture, soft furnishings labouring, gardening and of course now pointing all aspects of labouring 😍
Amazing the patience it takes to point the wall. The results are beautiful!
I saw you tonight on Escape To The Dream, Restoring The Château channel. Thankyou for posting this fantastic video. I learnt so much in such a little amount of time. Your a great teacher. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos about this french farmhouse restore.
thank you buddy we are glad to have you on board our journey and we have many more videos to come over the next few years all the best Budo
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries I am a new viewer, and I knew I recognized you from somewhere. Now I know where. If I remember correctly, you are working on a door and window for Tony and company! I love seeing folks from different channels working together. After a while the familiarity Kicks in, and it brings a greater sense of community even though we are in different parts of the globe (Texas, US).
I appreciated your description of the pointing procedure and the tools used. I have seen it done many times on the channels I follow, and it is good to know the names and functions of the items in use. I think it is cool that you are using the English tools you are familiar with, but also adding French ones to your arsenal.
@@1jmass Thank you Jean we would like to welcome you on board our channel and hope you enjoy our journey in France 🙏🙏😘😘
Great tutorial ☺️ Xx
As tedious as pointing must be, it seriously looks so ... classy, rich, timeless. How wonderful that people, such as yourselves are reclaiming the efforts of those of the last few hundred years.
These UA-cam channels give me so much respect for the labourers of year's past and now, those reclaiming those efforts with their own.
Excellent work Hans and Tracy!
❤️🇨🇦
Mariya
I've come over from Escape to the Dream - Restoring the Chateau, after your guest appearance. The piece on pointing was really interesting, not that I'm ever likely to do it. Just seeing the whole process, with the right tools was quite satisfying to watch. Great end result, too, by the way. Thanks for sharing. I have subscribed and will continue to follow you. From the UK.
Wasn't it though! I loved all the details without boredom
I found your channel after seeing you with Terry and Ash. Love your drone and nature shots. Never underestimate them. They add so much. Your so informative in such an easy going manner. I very much enjoyed this video.
Thank you you are welcome all the best budo
Great lesson plan! That‘s how I benefit best.
Wow, both of you have done an amazing job of the pointing on the house.....so beautiful. You are moving along very quickly. I am really enjoying watching your DIY vlog....Excellent!
I've watched so many hours of pointing I'm feeling quite expert at it. Not really - HA! HA! It's clearly very hard work.
For some crazy reason I love to watch pointing. Who knew?
This was a great tutorial. I'm a new subscriber and really want my own place in France in a few years, so this was great. Thanks so much and I'm looking forward to seeing your lovely place as it unfolds. Best of luck! 💕
Thank you for your lovely comment and we wish you all the best in the future owning your own french home
Well done guys. Good tutorial 😁 Xx
Excellent pointing ...
Thank you for your great feed back all the best budo
👏👏👏 great video 👍👍👍
Lovely bubbly 🇫🇷👍🏼
Fabulous video, so clear and to the point. I shall be saving this one for my go to, on lime pointing! Thank-you, loving your channel already!
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching 🤗xc
Very informative, so generous sharing your knowledge when you could keep quiet
Bronze brush on light external stone instead of steel wire brush?
Hi Robert I would say start with the bronze wire brush buddy then see if it cleans it for you if not move up to the hard wire brush but I know our stone is very hard and a mechanical wire brush wouldn't be a problem 😉
Best demonstration of lime pointing I have ever seen.
Thank you brettkruempel244
This is awesome, as I live in an old farmhouse in the US, our cellar walls are stacked stone, and I have always wanted to point them up. I have watched Tracy in more recent videos, and gained confidence that I can do it also, might be my summer project when its too hot to be outside. Crack on!
Yes that is the best time of all to do that project lady Courtney 🥰😘
One of the best videos I've seen that explains the process of pointing with lime. Spot on! Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge. :o)
You are so welcome 😊 there are different types of mixes for different situations with different limes which you will see in future videos coming up . Thank you for watching 🤗
We are so glad you enjoyed the video. There are many different types of lime which are used in different situations as you will see in future videos 🤗
Great video and so informative. I certainly learned something from it. Much love Jill. Birmingham U.K. XXXX
Cracking video, really broke down the steps and has given me the assurance that I can do my own. I'm pretty handy but have zero pointing or lime experience. The stone that has been repainted looks much cleaner that the rest, especially outside. Did you just clean with a wire brush by hand?
Hi Buddy yes just cleaned it with a wire brush then jet washed it down if on the out side 🍺🤠👍🏻
Very therapeutic and rewarding! The walls look great!!
Love your videos ❤️🇫🇷
Great job! Doing this on my garden stone wall. Will probably use 1 bucket of lime for every 4 buckets of sand + water. Is this ratio good for outdoors?
Hi Lotus depends on the type of lime you are going to use and the type of stone i.e. porous or not but you wouldn't go to far wrong as a general with 1 to 4 sand 🍺🤠👍
es braucht sicherlich eine Menge Übung, bis es so perfekt aussieht wie bei dir
Lovely pointing thanks for showing us 👍
Thank you Ivy 🤗❤
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Fascinating to watch brilliant tutorial thanks 😊
My pleasure 😊
Oh 😮 wow I didn’t even realize you were the gentleman who did the doors for Terry, Tony, Tracy, and Ashley. You did such a beautiful job and now seeing that you did it while still living in your RV. So much respect for your woodwork and now even more excited to see what is coming.
Coming up on your pointing job and I have to say of all the DIY chateau channels your pointing is absolutely beautiful. The whiteness of the mortar is so bright and makes the stone even more beautiful. Lovely so very lovely.
Thank you once again Rowena 😍🥰
Hi Guys, wow what a fantastic lesson you shared with us, It kept me focused and enthralled all the way through thank you for sharing the learning. I have a home up in Brittany, it was originally a change station for the horses and coaches and the builders start work on the outside next summer. (It has also had many incarnations over it's lifetime). It a full roof replacement over 3 buildings plus all the windows and doors plus all the lime plaster on the outside over 1 building and one wall plus having it's shutters put back on. It's going to be a full on summer for them while I'm stuck here in Melbourne working out my last month's before I retire in the spring of 23 and return to France to start work on the inside. I look forward to your learning and the sharing of your skills and would be happy to drive down/across to attend a workshop or learning weekend. With much appreciation, cheers from Melbourne Kim 😁💁♀️❤
wow Kim thanks for your kind words and we are very glad you are following our journey and look forward to more of your lovely constructive views on many videos to come for all you guys all the best Budo and Tracy
🦘🦘🦘Thank you that was so informative 🦘🦘🦘
What a great tutorial, do you have any advice on how to bring the colour of the stones back out after a wall has been plastered and then the plaster removed.
It seems to leave a very dusty colourless appearance to the stones that brushing doesn’t seem to help.
Morning Nelson when you chip out all the old pointing after you have chipped all the old plaster off, if you can then jet wash it all and scrub with a brass wire brush leave to dry then wipe it all down with a cloth before you lightly wet the joints for repointing give that ago 😉
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries excellent, Many thanks for taking the time out to answer me. Just found you so lots of goodies to binge watch.
Wow incredible!!
Thank you 😊
Beautiful finish.
Thank you! Cheers!
You've shown more detail on tools than I've seen before! Thank you. Ya did a great job Tracy👍
You are so welcome!
The stones look far more beautiful than I expected, I wonder if the original farmer ever got to see those colors. This video itself is just the sort of thing I was thinking so many stone building restorers would need now. It’s exciting to watch these chateau videos, but once you’re faced with a wall to do yourself all sorts of questions start popping up. This video is just brilliant, you’re a great teacher, so many details and reasons why.
Thank you for your lovely words and we are so glad to have people like you joining our journey and giving us great enthusiasm all the best Budo
Very interesting thank you for sharing. Xx
Brilliant👍
Thank you
Excellent work! 👏🏻👏🏻
Just started watching your journey. Thank you for such an informative lesson on lime pointing.
You are so welcome! Welcome aboard 😀
Came to you from Terry's and Ash's channel. Love this video. I'm from the Los Angeles area and no buildings anywhere near this old, so this is fascinating to me. I like the fact that yours isn't a chateau. Don't get me wrong, I love chateaux and I follow a bunch of chateau owners, but only one other french house channel. I'm looking forward to watching the transformation of your beautiful farmhouse. 💚
Thank you. Great educational vlog. I learned quite a few things. I finally remembered to subscribe..... !!!! I'm blonde
No worries Patrick great to have you on board mate 👍
This was fascinating. I’ve watched a few other French restoration channels that do pointing on their walls, but I never saw anything other than the application of the lime. So I really enjoyed seeing how each step was done. My only question was how long do you need to wait between each step? Between the application, and the rubbing you seem to suggest that it was still soft. Does that mean you should wait until it completely dries to do the rubbing or you should do it when it softer. I mean, I’m never gonna do it myself, but it was a question that occurred to me as I watched. Great job!😊
Thank you Sylvanaire glad you enjoyed the video 😘🥰🪻
Tracy you have done a great job, love the pointing work!!
Wow what difference the pointing makes on the outside! Well done both of you.
Well done Tracy very professional work
Lovely space you have. Enjoyed the lime pointing, does the lime burn your skin if you get to much on yourself? Thank you
Hi Malcolm lime can really dry your skin out giving a feeling of a burning sensation some people are more sensitive then others but when using hot lime mix now that will burn you as it gets to over boiling point in its reaction from the slaking process buddy
You are a great instructor. Thanks, I found that answered many of my questions. Looking forward to seeing the progress! Best wishes to you, both.
Thank you J&L McBurney glad you enjoyed and sane to you 😊
I heard about you from Terry & Ash. I’m really looking forward to following you & Tracy
Glad you are following us Tracy
I’m spending the evening catching up to date! What a blast! Can’t wait for the next ! Love the drone shots Soo beautiful and get to be able to see soo much .. take care and be safe.. thank you also for taking your time explaining all that your doing that even I feel like I can understand and be a part ..
So glad you are enjoying the vlogs ☺ 🙏 it really helps if you ever need to ask about anything Budo or l will try and help 😊
Wow! I am impressed with the pointing job. Did you do this professionally? You are so neat.
Hey Barbara i am a carpenter by trade but i learned this pointing and plastering skill by an old timer years ago and offered it to my clients when i worked in the UK thanks for following us on our journey
Many thanks, we are renovating our Croft in Orkney and this video has been very helpful.
Glad it was helpful Steven & Jayne thank you for watching all the best Budo 👍😘
Very informative video. Thanks very much. Do you wash the stone when the lime dries to remove the white look off them? Going to try this on our french home at the end of the month.
Hi Tommy thank you no we don't wash the stone as we make sure the lime goes were it should then when its dry a light brush over with a churn brush mate all the best Budo 🪚🤠👍
Loved watching you do this. Looks beautiful
Thanks so much 😊
Great job Tracy - absolutely gorgeous!!!
Wow what a difference it looked amazing when you finished doing that bit, I’m amazed at the difference!
It really makes the stone stand out
Nice job chap. You speak very well, and there was very little off topic fluff. For someone who has not done a lot of presenting before this was a great watch, and I learned a lot, Thanks
I'm really glad I could help and we appreciate you coming along on our journey all the best Budo
It is art.
Why not use a darker colored pointing?
hi Patricia we like the natural lime white as in the evenings it can give of a lovely glow but it will darken with time and go more biscuit colour nice to have you on board with our journey all the best Budo
Instead of brushing or Hoovering can u use a leaf blower to get out the loose old pointing?
Not shore on that one Marsha I've never tried that might give it ago all the best budo
Tracy is so particular. A real artist in everything she does.
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Love the detailed explanations. Great educational value!
Thank you Tracy
Thanks for sharing this video. I learned something new today, and I should say , you’re a very good teacher. 👍
The pointing technique has given your walls a new life. I’m really amazed at the amount of work you give in restoring your old walls.
Excellent tutorial
thank you and we are glad you are joining us on our journey
That was very interesting. We have a small interior wall covered in paint which is now becoming powder and flaking. Can we use hydrochloric acid to clean the paint from the walls as you did in another video? If we can clean the walls we will try pointing.
Looks like that much acid could be too dangerous. Wire brush probably although there might be a reason it was covered in the first place
Hi Liama don't use the hydrochloric acid first try a general paint stripper first the acid is really for cleaning the cement and excess lime of use it lightly after you have cleaned the paint off the paint has gone flaky because the wall cant breath if you want to repaint any of your walls that are stone then clean them and use only lime paint with pigment if required it will glow and work in harmony with your wall all the best Budo
Hello, I'm so glad you did this and carefully showed the tools needed. I noticed in one of your intro videos there was a building with a very big crack running down near a corner, how would you fix that? Would you put some kind of metal strapping to hold it? I ask because we have a very old stone barn or byre and it has a big crack and builders have told us different things. I can't wait to try pointing with the lime mortar, it badly needs it!
Hi Mary don't panic these buildings have been standing for many years and they normally have very little if no foundations and are still up first thing you need to do is see how thick your walls are were the crack is then try and determine what is around that area i.e. if the roof is leaking or the gutters are missing and so on if all is good then its more then likely the building has been settling over the years i.e.to much rain or very dry years so fix any thing that looks wrong first gutters roof tiles or what ever then rake out properly the lose mortar and repoint making shore you wet first and push the mortar right to the back of the joint then leave for a year or two to see if it keeps cracking but the main thing is don't panic and enjoy your lives in France all the best Budo
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries Thank you so much! Well we know it's missing gutters and rain is collecting too much there, my husband has been putting the huge wheelie bin under where it drips until we can dig a trench (and have gutters repaired). On our bad corner it is actually pushed out a bit and huge gaping holes inside, we could stick rocks and lime mortar back in but it 'feels' like it should be secured more.
I really can't wait to start lime mortering, I watch videos about it all the time! Haha...been collecting tools to get ready. We also have some areas of cement that need to be removed on some walls. I love that the barn has original cobble stone floor. You know who Sir Walter Scott is? Well he actually visited this house and put his horse in that barn, many many years ago. (We're in the Scottish Borders) We really want to preserve and protect the barn and love it so much! It'll be fun watching what you both work on for sure!!
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Hi Mary its great to hear from some one like us who are passionate about restoring history and on the water issue ask your husband to drill a hole 4 inches from the top of the barrel your catching the water with and push or glue a hose pipe in and run it away from the footing then do your repairs to the gutter don't do any pointing yet wait till early summer let it all dry out first then when you come to point it fill it in with strong small stones and pack it in and the pointing try and buy lime from Buxton derby and the main thing is use 3.5 NHL a 3 to 1 mix lime being the 1 hope this helps and if you guys need any help don't hesitate to message ill try me best Budo 🙏🙏😘😘
@@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries thank you so much! I'll keep you posted! (I'll note down what you suggested using)
Hello from NYC USA. At no time in my life will I ever point a stone wall, however I couldn’t stop watching your video. You are a AWSOME teacher. Looking forward to watching more of your videos as you work on your new home. Thank you for posting. ❤️❤️🐾🐾😁😁
Ahh thank you for your kind words great to have you on board