The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The Hill House, in Helensburgh, Scotland was decades ahead of its time... but that means it's also experimental. And damp. ■ More about the Hill House and how to visit: www.nts.org.uk...
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This video has a correction: it originally implied that all the individual chainmail rings were hand-sewn together. While the sheets of chainmail were linked that way on-site, ring by ring, the individual rings within those sheets were connected by machine! As this was an easy line to crop out in UA-cam's editor, it's been removed. You can see all corrections on this channel at www.tomscott.com/corrections/
Knock knock
One other point you mentioned that costumes would use the same stuff - but i looks like "butted" links (Just folded together) rather than riveted links mail used in real armour
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Who’s there?
They need to rent a room for hard disk / memory back ups, it’s like a big faraday cage 👍🖖🏴
The whole thing looks so modern, but what really got me were those box chandeliers - they look like something I'd see in a house built today!
its insane to think it was built in 1902
That’s why CRM was way ahead of his time, the’Glasgow’ style is world famous.
These designs were common during that period of architecture. Check out Frank Lloyd Wright in the USA. Very similar, with construction problems as well.
I would expect those in an Art Deco house, 1920s-30s. And it was built at the height of Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Secession period, when, although clean lines and simple surfaces were sometimes present, much more ornate motifs prevailed.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 I have worked in buildings built and inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright! Gammage Theater is a fun place to work (managers are bad tho). It's weird how modern most of it looks when it's also so old that some decorations are falling apart in front of you. There are a few resorts around here with similar aesthetics and the geometry of art deco is visually entertaining.
Chainmail went from protecting human beings from danger to protecting architectural works of art. Quite the evolution I might say.
hello mr everywhere
it’s multiple people using the same account
Still protects butchers hands, they were maille gloves.
it's not a work of art. In the uk there are thousands of houses that look exactly the same. The cool thing about it is that it used building techniques that were, as tom said, experimental and didn't use any lyme.
@@M3PH11 Plus all the product and interior design that goes alongside it... Let's not forget that.
For a victorian era house, that is astoundingly modern. I wouldn't feel out of place living in it with a PC, a cellphone and stuff.
I'd assume that cellphones might not work in there anymore. That whole chainmail cage is a massive Faraday cage
Isn't the macintosh PC probably named after this?
@@mrtalos that would be an interesting place to spend a weekend then
Its almost like it was only made 120 years ago
@@jannikheidemann3805 it’s named after the McIntosh apple, because it was Jef Raskin’s (Apple employee, creator of Macintosh) favourite type of apple.
15 years later : so we have build this box around the chainmail box
please shred my life decision mistakes
Ahahahaha !
Well done.
They still need to build the leather box on the inside and the full plate metal box on the outside
Just tie a big red ribbon and it will looks fine.
LMAO
Thanks so much for visiting The Hill House, and for spreading the word about our vital conversation project to protect this iconic building. Tom Scott = legend! ❤️
You guys are legends too - so clever not just to protect the building, but use the protective measures to promote it!
Oh, it's called the Hill house! I kept hearing Hell house!
@@Ealsante Thanks for your kind words 😊
@@DehimVerveen With it being named after where it was built (on a hill), we're thankful it's NOT called Hell House!
Let us have a talk about the conversion of the conversation to mean conservation?
Architecture isn't normally something I talk about. But architecture that's being protected by eight tons of chainmail? That's very much in my wheelhouse. Thanks so much to all the Hill House team: as ever, there's a link in the description to find out more!
8 tons of chainmail is a great way to improve any home
The architecture firm who designed the box are carmody groarke
Actually, you hit on architecture in many of your videos.
Todd's workshop can swing by and test if it holds up to arrows ;-)
You can do a lot with 8 tons of chainmail
The giant cage is cool and all but WOW that house is incredible for it’s time. Architecture is fascinating
agreed dude. 110% right dude
For sure
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was prolific in this sort of design. House for an Art Lover, the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland Street School (now a museum) are all done in his very unique and famous style.
Zaha Hadid was also ahead of her time
I visited Hill House just three weeks before the initial lockdown. I enjoyed seeing the house, its decor and contents, but being able to view the house from the walkways of the box was amazing. To view the walls and roof at such close quarters was a really unusual thing and made visiting Hill House really exciting. Also would give the tearoom a big thumbs up, lovely Rennie-MacIntosh crockery and even the biscuits and cakes had themed icing!
You just cleared up something for me.
I thought it was called "Hell House".
I thought maybe it was named that because of the effort necessary to preserve it under those rainy conditions.
The concept of putting a three-story house in a five-story box messes with my sense of scale so much that even though I'm watching a normal-sized Tom walk around it, my brain wants to think I'm looking at a dollhouse! I'd love to go there in person one day. I wonder if the illusion would be even stronger, or broken by having a better sense of perspective.
I was thinking that. At 2:46 it really looks like a toy.
Yesterday I assembled a Barbie Dreamhouse for my grand daughter and I swear it was almost as bad as assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Couldn't imagine the work it took to build just the cage for this thing from hand sewn chainmail.
Feels like it's a film set. Put some green screen on the inside of the box and you can have it be "anywhere".
I think you nailed what I was trying to figure out in my head. Something about the ability to walk over the house and see it from angles you usually don't see in person was messing with my head. I was likening it to being able to walk around a sculpture in an art gallery and see it in every angle, but comparing it to a dollhouse I think captures what feels so weird about this -- because you can then go and _walk inside_ the house you just walked above. While I don't have to live with it in my neighborhood, I think it would be cool to keep the walk ways up afterwards, but maintaining them and preventing them from damaging the property would be problematic.
All the world's a dollhouse, and the men and women in it merely dolls.
This is really a house-sized example of a box being as interesting as the product inside it. They'll need to call some UA-camrs in 15 years for the Hill House Unboxing 🏠📦
I just realized they'll bring in Unbox Therapy but then they'll have to call in Shadiversity to figure out how to defeat chainmail
thats would be hilarious, invite Tom Scott back to do an unboxing!
Get Ashens to do it
Bold of you to assume UA-cam will still be a thing in 15 years
The box was completed in June 2019 so it's really only 12 years to wait. :) However, from reading the National Trust for Scotland website about the house, the box may only need to stay in place for between seven and ten years (maybe not fifteen) so it may only be four to seven years before the house is unboxed. Further reading reveals that conservation work can start in earnest after the box has been in place for three years so that should commence this year (with the box still in place).
As a Scot I’m loving this Scottish mini series and I didn’t even know they had built this structure around the house. Glad to see that this will help preserve it for many years to come.
Now write that again but with a Scottish accent
As a Scot, I imagine you understood most of what the female interviewee said?
Most of what I know about Scotland I learned from John Rebus...
@@marisarhodes2446 you have no idea! This is a clean Scottish accent. Its amazing how varied the scottish accent really is
As a fellow Scot, I've been here before too and also had no idea this was built!
tom is also scott
i will see myself out
I love the forward thinking of making the conservation efforts part of the viewing experience. Not only does it impress the importance and specialness of the house, but it also gives more of an experience rather than less. I hope, once the house no longer needs it's chainmail skirt, that they consider keeping it.
Reminds me that I believe there have been some art restorations where the restoration process itself was actually recorded/streamed and made available so that people could follow along with all the details.
Ironically, building a chainmail box to promote this house is incredible outside-the-box thinking.
It takes thinking out of the box to put something in a box.
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Out side the box thin King
My brain is too incompetent to even try to get out of the box. It will always stay inside the box
Pun intended?
@@bossshoang Clearly not!
Here in the western US we have big problems with adobe brick dissolving. We have lost so many structures that way. Turns out they need a roof. Glad to see people taking care of buildings like this.
Like a termite hill, they're a construction that seems to need fresh life, maintenance & generations
Still, sponge in Scotland
Was Adobe Brick dissolving because it started asking for a monthly subscription fee?
thats what happened at the casa grande ruins!
I've heard about Photoshop and Premiere, but Adobe Brick is new to me.
@@larsiparsii just a joke. Adobe brick is an unbaked mud brick that was used a lot in the US west and elsewhere.
I love that he's talking about how the house exterior is quickly disintegrating and after "only" 120 years it needs to be fixed up. As a Canadian, it is amazing when any building lasts 120 years and we would consider that to be very well made. It appears to be in better condition than 50 year old houses around here.
Mind you, this is survivorship bias in action and the house likely had continuous maintenance over its history.
This is Britain, we generally like our buildings to last multiple centuries. Those that don't were either cheaply/poorly built to start with or have become redundant for socio-economic reasons (e.g. Victorian industrial barons' mansions that are far too big for locals and in the wrong part of the country for the mega rich to be interested).
That's... not really true? Apartment building I live in is over 120 years old now, and there's many such buildings here. The copper pipes literally rotted out from the walls, and one of the corners pulled away from the rest of the building and had to have industrial chains drilled into it and the rest of the building to hold it together while they did repairs. It really is survivorship bias and non-acknowledgment of the maintenance done over the years, aye.
There are houses here in the U.K. that are 4 times as old as this and normal people just live in them. 120 years old isn’t seen as old in the U.K., and a 50 year old house would be seen as modern.
We have the same problem here in Finland. Maybe the problem lies in the extreme temperature fluctuations. You need to insulate enough to survive -30 celcius, but somehow the structure should also be able to breathe for not to mold. Very few building are so well built that this balance could last more than 50 years without huge renovations
@@KainYusanagi I jave houses I my town that are 900 years old. My town in England dates back to 10000bc
The lady's Scottish brogue is so enchanting that I felt like I almost needed the subtitles on to fully understand her.
Aye, indeed!
Really? I understood her no problem and I live 3500 miles west of Scotland.
I think people just visit the house to hear her talk.
It was such a quick transition from Tom to her I didn't understand a word for 30s until my brain turned on Scott mode, I rewound and suddenly I understood about 75%.
I was lost immediately
This is VERY clever way to save the buildings.
Those walkways really add values to the whole experience.
How is that? A Scottish architect made a house that can't survive Scottish weather....if that happens in the USA they bulldoze the mistake and build something that is ACTUALLY worth praising. This seems like a manipulated strategy to provide a handful of people jobs caring for a serious mistake.
@@47ravenlord Yes yes, it is all of that, but that's fine. I like it when famous architects produce garbage while little-known innovators produce the incredible technological solutions that actually work to save the garbage from its own misery. I like this because I'm cheap, I know famous architects are expensive, and I know the innovations of actual geniuses are far cheaper.
@@gorkyd7912 Very very well worded and insightful response and i thank you for it. There are so few people like yourself left these days. Everyone else just wants to be angry and have no time to explain their views.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that we're using Medieval armor to protect a Victorian house in the 21st century? It's such a mix of time periods, all you'd need is for the chainmail box to be held up by ancient Greek columns and you'd have the proverbial cherry on top!
And a sabertooth tiger protecting the main entrance
With a Rolling Boulder to close the Front Doors
We still use maille gloves in butchery to protect our hands from very sharp knives while allowing the flexibility to grip things.
A non-proverbial cherry on top might be the future, who knows!
No doubt building techniques that were used by Ancient Greeks and Romans wud have been used in erecting this structure too
Oh Scotland, never change. "This historical site is dissolving and we need to protect it from the elements! What ought we do?" "Make it wear chainmail."
IKR, it's sickly and needs protection! Well, did you try covering it in Chainmail?
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@@Wallyworld30 dietary restrictions putting you at risk of anaemia? Prescription for high iron meld!
This crafty Englishman seems to have found his way through the armour though, I demand further measures such as swinging claymore traps hung inside.
And yes, I mean the sword.
@@squatchjosh1131 both
The juxtaposition of the tall, flat walls with soaring chimneys and turrets that call back both to ancient keeps and Victorian manors, with the nearly Prairie-School Modern Style, is as fascinating as it is jarring. The interior is just magnificent.
And can we all take a moment to recognize the driest piece of natural ground in all of Scotland?
@@enturnetrol7869 Your dad should have pulled out.
@@enturnetrol7869 you're not going to get anybody with this bait.
It seems the "box" is as much a part of the house's history as the house itself now! Would almost be a shame to take it down when the restoration is complete
You may well prove to be correct. Check back in 15 years and there will likely be a movement to declare the box a feature of significance which should be given protected status. A case in point is that of Dublin's twin 200m chimneys (search for - Dublin treasures, the Poolbeg chimneys). Erected in 1969 and 1977 to serve a power station they were condemned as an eyesore. Decommissioned in 2010 it was proposed to demolish them. As a result of opposition to this they will remain in place (and at considerable cost for no beneficial reason other than safety) will have to be maintained.
I sure hope the box is removed but some element of it remains like some of the walk ways. The box can then go onto its next project for another decade or two, melting it down would be a darn shame.
honestly I feel like they have no real plan for preventing the damp getting in again after so wouldn't be that surprised if they just left it up if the structure is cheaper to maintain than the maintenance on the exterior of the house itself
@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming there are lots of great technologies that can prevent damp these days such as hydrophobic sprays that can penetrate and inch into materials and create a barrier lasting decades.
I'm sure they have plans as no way would the box be built without them prior proving they are able to dry and protect, however if thosebplans change that's the other question.
they're going to build a box to protect the box
I remember visiting it a few years ago, and there's a walkway that goes straight over the house. I would have loved to see you try this, cause there was an interesting phycological effect: You can see through the bottom of the walkway quite clearly, so when you're up there it feels like you're walking on the roof. The fun part is when you get to the edge of the house, your brain is tricked into thinking you're about to stroll off the roof and fall to your death. My whole family tried this and all experienced getting nervous and stalling as we tried to walk forwards. We all laughed at each other cause it looked really funny, not being able to continue walking along the path because of the perceived drop.
jumping off a cliff in VR is harder than you think.
Wow, that must be how Superman feels!
I'm no architect.. nor do I know anything about design but I'd never say that house was 120 years old.. absolutely amazing and awesome to see the engineering that's preserving it!
But a failure, non-the less. You can't build houses that can't get wet in Scottland. I've owned houses that old, and they held up a lot better.
Come to India 🤭
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"In the modern times they don't build things that last long".
Maybe this house is "ahead of it's time" also in that regard, if has lost it's longevity because all that innovation. The house that requires a house to be built around it...
Our wish for preserving culture does interfere with natural order of things. Which says if it is not made to stay, it goes.
@@justayoutuber1906 true
Nobody does videos like you Tom. I've learned more watching your videos than I ever did at school. Thank you
100 years from now : We've built a box to preserve the only chainmail conservation box.
I studied architecture at the now burned Glasgow school of Art, Mackintosh's true masterpiece. It's great to see some of his legacy being treasured like it deserves to be.
Twice burned!
They did something similar with access to the scaffolding around Himeji Castle in Japan during its years long renovation. Unique views of the exterior.
And Tyntesfield in the UK, The roof needed replacing so they built a similar structure and gave tours from above.
really very interesting this approach that during a renovation it is important to let the public see what is renovated!
I always appreciate how fully you tell a story without dragging it out just to reach yt ad optimal lengths like some others
Tom: "I think I have done all the ideas I can find in the UK"
Also Tom: "here's a modern day house made during the Victorian era covered in chainmail"
Never change Tom, I love how you seem to discover new things, all as facinating as the last.
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Kendrik: Hear! Hear! Agreed. .....never change and please don't stop do videos.
* Edwardian era
I had the pleasure of staying in the top floor of this house for a week when it was still available to be booked as accommodation. It was gorgeous, and in the evenings after the public had left, having drinks in the garden was amazing
I did too! It was an experience that will stay with me forever.
Oh wow, that's amazing!
After the disastrous fire at Macintosh’s school in Glasgow, I’m so glad Scotland sees it fit to make the massive investment to preserve this gorgeous house.
I saw the Glasgow school on my honeymoon in 1991 and was so moved by the work of Scotland’s greatest architect. He’s a national treasure.
The fact that the chainmail was hand-sewn is crazy.
Edit: I guess it’s not actually hand-sewn, and has been corrected in the video!
Thank goodness they only went for a 4 in 1 pattern
And unnecessary. It is like buying hand forged CPUs, why would you even buy that?
Has nobody solved the problem of building a chainmail sewing machine/robot?
The real question is-why? We have machines that do that much better than humans for a fraction of the time needed.
@@zwerko Most likely: size.
I was there before they put the box around it, I never knew about the dissolving issue so let's just say I've been very confused every time I drove past it until this video came out.
I used to get easily confused. Then, one day, Google made a search engine.
@@TheErsatzMode In the guy's defense, even google gets confused if you ask it "Why is the house in my neighborhood wearing chainmail?"
I stumbled upon this video and I’m glad I did! What a amazing piece of engineering the “Box” is! The house itself is truly amazing, to say it was ahead of the times is damn near a understatement! I’ve seen modern houses that use the accents that this house had over 100 years ago, truly amazing!
About 20 years ago I was involved in a study looking at nominating Hill House and other CRM buildings as a world heritage site.... Lovely to see it being cared for
Scotland's best architect builds a house that dissolves in the rain. There's a joke in there somewhere. Monty Python could find it, no doubt.
Doesn't matter if it works just have to be a joy for the eyes. And always cost 3-5 times the budget 😄
Hey Tom, you might want to look into So-il Architects. They've been exploring chainmail meshes as a design strategy for open-air spaces between forms rather than just for preservation. Great video!
That was absolutely fascinating. It’s amazing what lengths we’ll go through to preserve something iconic.
There’s probably many features within the house of what you seen in modern architecture today. If you placed it within a brand new development, give it a new stucco exterior and paint it’d probably get lost within the neighborhood.
The only difference would prune it’s size.
If Only we were so keen to preserve our planet.
I've visited The Hill House years ago, before the box. It's spectacular. I visited again after the box had been built - and it adds a whole new perspective. Well worth a visit to support the conservation effort.
Being German, I had my troubles understanding Rachel Thompson speaking. I even had to turn the subtitles on. But I really think that her Scottish accent gives her presentation some flavour that otherwise would have been missing. I love to hear when people carry their home on their tongues. So thank you for challenging my listening comprehension, Mrs Thompson 💐
As an Canadian English native speaker, I found I really had to listen to her and focus on her words to understand everything, so you're not alone in having your comprehension challenged!
As a native Englishman I too have to listen very closely when the Scottish speak ;)
I've been around inebriated Glaswegians (in pubs), and that can be a challenge to understand the accent..
However, Rachel's accent isn't too strong and i find it rather pleasant.
Good thing Tom Scott provides subtitles with his videos. Many UA-camrs don't.
I only speak English. The accents from Ireland, Scotland and some parts of England are hard to understand, I have to focus 100% listening and lip reading . Good thing that Canada has preserved the English language for the rest of the civilized world. 🇨🇦 👍 😉
I'm German too. I don't know why, but I understood her almost as well as Tom. I found it very pleasant to listen to her.
As a Scot, it's mental seeing Tom talk about these different attractions that I've never even heard before despite living here my whole life!
These videos are definitely gonna add a few locations to go and visit for the bucket list!
A bheil Gàidhlig agad?
@@SauronsEye Nah, sorry mate.
Live in Edinburgh, I've got some family further up north so I've been meaning to learn it. But apart from the very basics, I dinnae know that much.
I really love to see an avatar like yours where they talk about something big in a box :)
They should have painted the box blue!
Same though I'm from England. Hmmmm maybe this might entice me to visit the land where I don't belong, but I don't have a chainmail suit. Maybe I need to find the armour
to come and visit? It would be nice to see how the Scots live but I don't think my liver (for the drinking) or my heart (for all the deep fried mars bars and pizza) could cope.
As one of Scottish heritage from the USA, I now really want to visit the old country including the Old Hill House on my tour!
Everybody talking about what a brilliant architect he was while the house he built is dissolving like a sugar cube in the rain.
"dissolving like a sugar cube in the rain" after 120 years you will be too. And besides, an architect is not a structural engineer, that's two separate jobs.
@@tissuepaper9962 My brick house is 140 years old. Still entirely undissolved in the rain (and snow! 🇨🇦).
@@tissuepaper9962 wood and stone house in the PNW myself, a place known for its rain. 135 years.
Shoddy craftsmanship. No other excuse.
@@imadequate3376 A building created for the sake of trying out new designs and materials and it lasted for 120 years? Definitely not a failed craftmanship. How many modern buildings nowadays can you guarantee to last more than 30 years without renovation not counting the ones that already existed generations ago.
@@Treiunrey probably most of them at only 39 years, but I get your point
They did a similar thing for the Himeji Castle in Japan. I was there for the start of the repair, and went back 3 years and then 7 years later. I saw some amazing angles during those visits.
But having it in a giant box for so long did still hurt tourism for the city. At least such a massive repair will not have to occur again in our lifetime.
I love Scottish accents. Thanks for taking the time to report on the Hill House Tom!
Oh I'm loving her accent.. 😦
Scrolled down to find a minded person. yes. Scottish and Kiwi are my all time fav. It's just so childish, innocent, pure, funny ... love it.
I'm just picturing someone going to an armorer and ordering a suit of chainmail for a house now. Really interesting in how they need to dry it out but not too fast. Here's hoping they can preserve it so it can be admired for many years to come.
oh, totally, and if they melt it down isnstead of selling re-enactors and LARP'ers pieces of "The largest sheet of chainmail ever" they're really missing a trick
So ahead of it's time that it reintroduced problems that were solved for over a thousand years!
Would've been cool if they talked about the long term fixes. Once dried out, what will they be doing to protect it when the box is finally removed?
I guess that's another major reason why the house is being dried slowly.
Repair the cracks and seal the plaster.
@@steini19o4 To have to time to figure out what to do? XD
Epoxy
Duct tape
When Tom said that the walls were made of chainmail, I was like "oh, I guess the stuff can be made in bulk by machines these days!" Then the lady said that it was hand-sown and I was like 😳😳😳😳😲😲😲😲
I wonder why they didn't just use modern porch screens? They are made for this purpose and must be hella cheaper way to go.
@@Wallyworld30 As it was said in the video, they need to let pollinating insects through.
I don't know a ton about this, but a quick google says porch screens are plastic. And considering Scotland is pushing for net zero and reduced plastic, it wouldn't look great for them if they used a cheaper alternative that harms the environment
Probably the best answers were given in the video.
1. The chainmail does a great job of promoting the house.
2. Steel is recyclable.
3. It was a labor of love.
If you're asking whether chainmail screens are cost effective, the answer is that they are not, which is why nobody else has them.
If it's supposed to stay up for 15 years (iirc?) you probably want something durable that'll last those 15 years and doesn't constantly need replacing/repairing. I'm not sure about plastic screens/nets in that regard. Considering the chainmail is mostly holes to let through quite a lot of air, if you had plastic of the same strength I'd guess it'd be prone to breaking, esp if "the elements" include freezing cold and heavy winds. My guess, could be wrong.
They did a similar thing at Himeji Castle when it underwent a 5 year restoration project, as it does every half a century or so.
They built a giant tent around the castle (which is giant even without the tent) with walkways and observation platforms that are not possible otherwise. Unique views of the rooftile works, a unique perspective on the gardens. And to my experience at least, helpful guides to answer any questions. Also they had elevators, which the castle itself cannot have (it being an original castle and whatall).
At the start of the restoration, visitor count "only" decreased to one-third, and doubled near the end of the restoration. After the tent was removed, visitor counts suddenly tripled. People from far and wide came to visit, including myself for the second time. They were also just in time for the cherry blossoms. No, the castle had definitely not been forgotten. Far from it.
I got a real lift out of seeing this video. How brilliant, how creative and good on the Scot's for protecting an important part of their latter day heritage. This vignette was a welcome relief from the disaster that's unfolding in Ukraine. Thanks.
"You wouldn't be watching this if it wasn't for the box" isn't true. If the video was titled "A 100 year old house growing like a sponge because of scottish rain" I would still be totally here watching this.
I'm a Helensburgh native who moved to Glasgow for its arid climate, so it was nice to hear someone as authoritative on facts as Tom confirm that it is indeed one of the wettest parts of Scotland.
Its really worth a visit. Im not particularly into that sort of thing, but found the design fascinating, and the colours and decor are surprisingly 'homely' for a house of its age. Walking above it just adds to the interest - so see it before they've fixed it and taken the box down!
This is just a really good UA-cam video. Never would’ve thought about such a thing but interesting as hell nonetheless. Really well shot, edited and presented. All around refreshing.
Imagine being a cat and hearing about a box so big there's an entire house inside of it
I imagine the cat would be thinking "I wonder if Dr Shrodinger lives in that house?"
@@IntrospectorGeneral Only one way to find out!
House inside a House? O.o
@@IntrospectorGeneral Ded 💀
A cat: Finally, a box that is the size of my ego.
And here was me saying Tom could make a 3 minute video on paint drying interesting, but a house that will toke 19 years to dry surely beats that. 🤪🏡
Well, the chainmail is certainly a much better solution than putting the house in rice!
@@useaol And air-drying _is_ enough if you've got a dry-enough environment for long enough.
(15 years*) This definitely beats watching paint dry, even if it was narrated by Tom Scott.
Next up, a video about grass growing. I'm sure there's got to be some interesting botany to talk about.
Really enjoyed watching this: lots of good photography really showing the design of the interior.
I hadn't realised they'd installed walkways and had it open to the public. Really need to visit it now, as I remember seeing the build from above being a great experience when Roslin Chapel was similarly undercover for repairs. (There's a slight theme to building repairs in Scottish weather...)
I’d never heard of this. Thanks for calling attention to it. Very cool!
Can't wait for the full platemail house knight
Fullmetal housechemist
Lothric house
@@Artem4egg_ This reply is now etched permanently in some small part of my brain, and I'm sure it'll come back to amuse me in the future. Thank you
@@Platitudinous9000 huh... wich... one...?
@@Artem4egg_ The only one you made obviously.
Such a shame chainmail is so hard to get a hold of because Zombies rarely drop it nowadays
It's a shame that you can't make it out of straight fire these days!
I mean, there are other options...
listening to scottish people speak is always such a delight, almost no matter the subject
in this case the subject was also interesting, which is a nice bonus
I would love to visit this house someday. I'm so glad the heritage organizations have a plan to preserve it.
Tom never fails to bring us something absurd yet strangely interesting.
Tom Scott, teaching the world awesome facts they never thought they needed to know for 15 years, keep it up Tom love the content always!
Hope you enjoyed Helensburgh Tom! A fantastic building and story, very near me so you know I’m not biased. 🏴🏴🏴
It's really a great project! The stairs and walkways around the structure is great for tourism, but the renovators can use pics from an i-Phone (or such) to map the layers of phases in the restructuring and renovations !!
Tom always finds something interesting to talk about. This time it is an architectural masterpiece that was so masterful that it is falling apart in the location's normal weather conditions.
120 years seems like a reasonable life expectancy for an experimental building.
It can be masterful in ways that don't include longevity of the exterior. Mackintosh was using new materials which, after a century, have deteriorated. Doesn't reflect on the importance of the house or its design
I've been there a few years ago and if not for the unusual box covering the house it probably would've been just a historical house for me (I've seen a lot of them). The box makes it unique and an unforgettable experience. It also helps that the houses shape is interesting so walking above and around it was very cool.
Absolutely loving Rachel's Scottish English variant, so nice and in her presentation easier to copy and reproduce, thanks!
scottish english variant... you mean accent ? dialect ?
I am having a difficult time understanding
Having lived there its just a normal Helensburgh accent my dude
I had to switch on CC for her.
@@jeebuschristos7978 Oh come on, it's not that hard to understand her.
The house 🏠 that needed a HOUSE 🏚 because it doesn't like the rain 🌦? BRILLIANT 👏!
My favorite thing about this is that they made the mail out of actual steel instead of plastic, like it seems everything else is. Even polymers resistant to solar rot would still eventually fail and pollute everything around it in the process.
i mean, the restoration is supposed to only take 15 years, so that probably wouldnt matter. i am more wondering just.. why not go for plastic sheets, instead of multiple tons of chainmail, or glass, if you must, and then just.. make the interior of the area sort of humid. or add sprinklers, if you must
@@AriesLR_ True. But why expensive chainmail and not chicken wire for example?
@@PR-cj8pd from what was said in the video, I assume chicken wire won't stop the rain from blowing in
@@AriesLR_ Always more structurally sound and durable
Hope it’s stainless or there have to build a plastic one around it to stop it rusting
I could listen to Rachel talking in that absolutely amazing accent for hours no matter the subject.
To me, the accent is just so much more expressive than regular english (I'm german, we have a ton of accents as well, but none that come close).
Ich dachte schon ich bin der Einzige der das denkt :)
I'm German too - and I just wanted to write the exact same thing.
I would buy any soundfile with her talking about literaly no matter what.
I would subscribe for a monthly fee.
Is that a german thing? Because, I too am fascinated by the scottish accent.
I'm Italian and I love her accent, but I can't understand a single word without subtitles!
I'm American, it's not just a German thing, her accent is music to my ears
The box design and the walkway were a really smart idea, kudos to the people who came up with it.
Quite interesting. I understand how the enclosure keeps the months of rain off of the house. What I don't understand, however, is how it will ever dry out for vapor pressure moves from the greater to the lesser so the house has to be at a greater vapor pressure than the outdoors so that moisture can flow from the house to the outdoors. Of course, with such high outdoor humidity, the estimated 15-years may be quite underestimated as the house continues to wick in water vapor. A simple test would have been to take a slice of bread placed on a rack on a table placed outdoors with an umbrella over it and see if the bread gets soggy or if it gets hard and dried out during the days of rains that come and go.
They don't want it to dry out too fast as that will do just as much damage. In some places drying it completely will make it shrink sink and collapse.
But it slowed down the weather damage while they water seal the outside or replace the outside material with a something that will not dissolve
Sorry boys, the conversation is off. We've got soggy bread on a plate
"dry" is always a relative term in Scotland.
10/10 title.
Hi my love
.. because concrete is concrete.. and concrete cracks
"Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
That was what I was thinking when they said Hill House... :-)
Once again Tom takes something that might just be a passing, "that's kind of neat" into a "wow. That's really interesting" in less than 4 minutes.
Very nicely presented and certainly an intriguing approach to preservation. Thanks for sharing this.
I wonder how they even came up with a chainmail box. Is this something that's been done before or is this a new idea?
I suspect it's a new application for it. Who has ever had to protect a house from the elements for 15 years but let the air in?
It reminds me of drying houses for fish, on a massively different scale. The net keeps animals out, but allows the air to do its job.
The Scottish accent is always lovely to hear too.
Can't understand more than half of it.
english is my second language and this is exhausting to follow
Very intriguing, have never heard of this house though the amount of care they are putting into is astounding.
Thank you Tom, you show me unique and interesting things that I will most likely never see in person.
I went there very recently when I was visiting family in Scotland! It really is amazing being able to walk up and over the whole house.
That’s one hell of a Scottish Accent
I'm from Glasgow and I went to the house once right before they began constructing the box, and again right after it was completed. Definitely a cool experience seeing the huge contrast!
Amazing! Thank you fo this highlight Tom! Very interesting.
Why is it always "This house was build by an incredibly influential architect and is world famous. Unfortunately it is made entirely of balsa and Wrigley's brand chewing gum and is located in a bog. The original family who owned the house complained of muskrats nesting in the foyer?"
If you're British and are willing to do 50-100 hours of research, full interviews, travelling Europe to film a few hours of something iconic, all of this to produce 3-10 minutes of pure gold, for free, then you can be Tom Scott.
Excellence is not a short order.
Not for free
Love this house and Mackintosh. Sad to hear of its problems, but what ingenuity from the team. Thanks for this Tom.
It seems so peaceful in the area outside the house and in the box. I love this.
I've been to this house a couple of times, over 10 years ago. I had no idea that they'd built this around the house!
With her pronunciation, all I heard was "hell house"...
love how it's just simple 4 in 1 weave. i have a real butted (as opposed to riveted) maille shirt that i tailored a few years ago, i whip it out every halloween party or say when my friends invite me to a metal show like happened last october. anyone who's intrigued by this video, maille is easy to make and honestly more like knitting that any other craft I've messed around with. give it a try, it's loads of fun
So forward thinking it was made to be disposable.
So...once the house is dried out, will the box ultimately be removed? If so, how are they going to prevent the house from being damaged by the rain again?
I have that question as well, but I guess we’ll have to go to their website to find our answers ;)
waterproofing has to be done AFTER the moisture is removed from the concrete
@@ihatecrackhead this 💯
A very good question that needs an answer. However, if numbers increase during this time then maybe they should keep it?
@@ihatecrackhead No use putting up a fence while the fox is still inside the henhouse, after all.
An elegant solution to a long term problem. Nicely done!
When I was young we went on a school trip there (we had a Charles Rennie Mackintosh topic) and being mesmerised by the architecture and scope of the house. Glad to see Tom covering it in a video like this.
I love all of these videos. I love learning about things that I would almost certainly have never otherwise known about. But, not gonna lie, I keep coming back to this one just to listen to Rachel.