Thank you! This one took like 15hr to edit. I am really proud so far of the consistency, doing a video a week for the past 21 weeks straight has been a great challenge, and I've grown quick for sure!
Thats 40 hectares of land for 3.5k??? So thats less that $90 per hectare. We just sold some arable farm land in Poland a year ago for around $28k PER hectare. So 311 times more expensive. Whole different part of the world but still the inflation or apreciation in price is insane.
Yeah, or simply "Fraktur" (Gothic Print). Cant read all words, but it seems to be about a "shop owner" something "who himself lives in a backroom while he was" something second.
An old friend of mine had a sign in his room when he was a kid. It said "Work fascinates me... I can sit and watch it for hours..." That's pretty much what I'm doing here isn't it... 😆
I hope you're saving those two panel doors. Even if you don't use them, I can guarantee somebody would appreciate you donating them to a habitat for humanity. I was happy to snag up seven of those from my local habitat because my home has an addition and it has different doors than the original build. And obviously the two panel doors have more character than the standard hollow cores that the addition has
It's the 'boing' for me! Our home is 100 years younger than yours. We renovated the bathroom and kitchen 8 years ago and were thrilled to find all sorts of 'debris' under the old cabinets. A calender from a mechanic workshop, a xmas card, a plastic bead bracelet, and a few business cards. From the bathroom floor we pulled up a beer box, that was odd and had us scratching our heads. We also found evidence of a fire under the bathroom floor. More scratching of brainbox. Excellent production, as always. Thanks, Chris. Every episode is amazing.
Regarding proper tools: have you considered looking into whether Philadelphia has a tool library? Baltimore has one. Proper tools can make jobs far less painful and so much faster. It would be soooo worth it to join during a home renovation project (and definitely worth continuing to support beyond)
I love that you're saving some of the original materials that are still good and usable. It really irks me how people nowadays just throw out everything, even if still in great usable condition, and it all just ends up in the dump for no reason. If anything, you can sell those old bricks to someone who's looking for something like that if you don't end up using it.
When we gutted and renovated our Victorian house in Montreal, we found newspaper in the walls as well. I sorted through them and had a selection arranged and framed. I really like it and it's a bit of the history of the house on display.
This whole project is giving me flashbacks to gutting and renovating our 1910 home in the Philly suburbs. It's a ton of work to take down to the studs, but knowing there isn't any knob & tube behind the walls, termites, mold, etc. gives a lot of piece of mind. It's worth it in the long run. There are a few rooms where we retained the original plaster walls, etc. and honestly I regret not doing them while we were in demo mode.
When you were taking apart the enclosure, camera angles and shadows (and not paying attention) made it seem a solid wood floor - a closet, basically. When you started descending through the floor my mind was blown. A lot of great progress, thanks again for sharing!
Hey Chris, this might be a late suggestion, but buy a wheelbarrow to haul all that debris around. They make 2 wheeled ones that are balanced in a way that you don't feel the load weight when lifting it to move it around. You can find them for less than 100 bucks if you search around. Also, it hurts to hear what you paid for the home considering what it's going to cost to remodel it. However, you can't buy the education you will get with hands on experience on fully remodeling a home from scratch. Think of it as more education. After you're done, you're going to be a General Contractor with experience under your belt, which will open up opportunities for more work, and you can film that work and upload it to UA-cam, making money twice on it. See you next week, brother!
When I gutted my house in creston bc Canada I found newspaper from 1930. When I changed the water line I found 2 beer bottles, a whiskey bottle and a ketchup bottle from 1938. I also discovered it had been a one room cabin originally. The fun part of renovations. The designing was fun too
Really enjoying your thought processes as you adapt to change. Well done! We had a crew tear out half our unused 1913 chimney. It was holding up floor joists on the second floor, so we had to leave a lot. The space is used for hvac now.
Glad you’re salvaging the doors. I def get it about the radiators. In theory it’s nice to think about keeping them to reflect the history of the house. But, in reality they take up a lot of space and all the plumbing running everywhere gets in the way as well. Thanks for sharing your evolving perspective on home buying. Live and learn is a good mantra. That’s life on Earth right? Just a continuous stream of experiments. Some work out as expected. Some don’t. Others fall somewhere in between. You have a good attitude about it. Keep going. We’re all rooting for you!
The backstory on those demo guys would be amusing all by itself! Fond memories rekindled by this video of demo'ing my sister's row house.Thrills! Chills! Finding out that the lathe was a stressed structural member that, once removed, allowed the whole house to sway...
You may not want to use those bricks in reconstruction, but you could lay a really nice patio floor with them. Nicer than concrete. Or something to hide the chainlink fence. Demo is so much fun.
Just rebuilding a porch was a daunting amount of work for me. Doing a whole house is a massive job for one (plus some help) person. I like that you illustrate your thought process in making and revising decisions. I look forward to seeing your choices from design to structure and finish work.
First point, the intro- excellent summation, nice visual Second- the editing is really solid and it feels like you've developed a visual style As for the paper fragment, it looks like prewar German.
Thanks for your support! It feels good to improve the editing week over week, and find my voice. The consistent videos have been great practice, and I'm proud to have stuck to the goal of weekly updates so far!
Bless your heart, you are such a hard worker! You practically peeled that dry wall off, sorted and swept and sorted again! You’re doing great, honest video of a very messy project. Best wishes for a good week.
These videos are really coming along! Great stuff. Liked the intro. I've been trying to get my wife to watch these with me since the beginning and I think that's what finally pulled her in. The preview for next week was a great addition too
You are on the right track! Architecture school is great for a wholistic understanding of how buildings are made. Hope you can learn a thing or two from my project!
It's so enjoyable watching all of that dirty work taking place from the comfort of my living room. That crew definitely worked hard for their pay, especially pulling down that old cast exhaust pipe up on the roof! Your camera placement and your editing work have been fantastic, making it that much more enjoyable to watch. Wishing you a Happy New Year, Chris.
Yea for Jordan, lol for Boing noises and yup, it's a German Newspaper. A bunch of Lutheran (mostly farmers) fleeing religious wars (1618-1648) in what's now Northern Germany in the late 17th century and arrived in PA mostly as indentured servants, who were auctioned off to established landholders. A bunch more arrived later including the Amish, Dunkards, Mennonites (often from Switzerland) and Moravians. I only know about these groups because I researched my nephew's awesome architect wife's family tree (and lol, we're related via Early Settlers of MA, boo it's thru the Witch Trials). Meanwhile, there's another bunch of Germans who migrated in the mid 19th century, some fleeing the failed Revolution of 1848, others later fleeing famine. I suspect that the Philadelphia Historical Society could match your newspaper bits, and likely has maps and pictures of your street. If the city has the names of former owners, the Historical Society could tell you who they were and from where they came. I wouldn't be surprised if an old German Lutheran family once lived there. ;)
It was one of the first weeks that I had a solid 5 days of work on the house, now that most of the logistical work is done (permitting and plan drawing) I have more time to work!
Man, it feels like once you got those permits, things just started happening! Hang on to your bricks - you can do a patio (as others have mentioned) and also you'll have a supply of "native" bricks if you run into any issues if/when you have to repoint the brick walls. If you find some damaged or too-worn bricks, you'll have a ready supply of replacements that match. In my neighborhood, it's kind of obvious where repointing happened with "new" bricks next to the existing ones. Or worse--when people in the 60s and 70s decided that bricking up those grand old arched window openings and replacing the windows with smaller ones was the thing to do to save on heating. Also love the "boing" sound from the light fixture and hope it was a near-miss and not an actual clobber to your nugget! I love the way you're structuring the videos to show both your progress and your thought processes--it helps to see that you've had to backtrack and re-think things as you go (so many reno vids don't show this and it's sad because we love to see someone who's not only renovating, but responding to what the house is telling them, and a lot of people don't seem to get that second part).
Sad to see the old radiators go but forced air just makes sense, especially with all the walls open anyways, and with the addition of AC. Plus I'd never rest easy knowing all those old radiators could spring a leak and cause major damage.
The little foreign scrap is common German newspaper print in "Schwabacher" font. Before the entry of the US into WW1 there have been a lot of German newspapers, schools and even universities, who were forced to shut down (in some regions they even burned the books from German libraries). It's about an accident with two people mortally wounded, obviously the family of one of them lived at 1001 ?????? Avenue, where they had a shop, living in the backroom. Then there is mentioned a house where part of it is rented out to others. On the left side are parts of a long sentence with words like condition, representative, indicated, king. Just try to photograph it with as little dust as possible. The cheap paper (out of wood) is very delicate because of the high amount of remaining lignin.
I love following this project. I felt bad to see the radiators removed as well, but it makes sense especially since you’re drastically altering the footprint of the home. And with your new system, you’ll get air conditioning as well as heat.
Great seeing the demolition come along. I'm personally glad you got rid of the radiators, because they could have leaks or other issues, and also take up some (even if insignificant) valuable square footage.
Watching young 20-something Chris go crazy re-doing a whole house is such a pleasure. (That youthful creative energy thing is a joy to behold!) Such a reminder since 65 year old me did a similar thing... several times. Didn't know anywhere near as much as I should have diving in, learned a shitload along the way, and did it better the next time. I envy you this - I'm past the point of taking on such a project. Enjoy it - you'll remember it for the rest of your life. Moreover, you're going to make a crapload of mistakes and hopefully learn from them. One of them I learned.... the hard way... don't neglect the roof framing and the roof. You're going far enough with this thing that you might as well make sure the roof is as fully renewed and up to modern standards as the rest of the building. PS: Buy yourself an SDS hammer drill and a chisel and spike bit for it the next time you have to take out a bunch of brick.
@@ChrisHytha During the early 1920's, there were 20 foreign language newspapers in Pittsburgh, many of them published daily. No doubt Philly had even more.
7:43 -- $3500 for a $6000 farm seems like a great deal (whenever and wherever that newspaper was published). But I can hardly fathom the current value of such a farm, especially on Mondays, when those cows might hear a notification bell and watch a Hytha rowhome demolition video. 🐄 🐄 laktierende Kühe!
It's funny, I've always known radiators were modular/sectional, but I've never seen them actually come apart. And if that metal grate is anything like the tech used later, it's for "draining" ashes into a void under the fireplace to be collected from another port at the bottom of that section at a later time. Conjecture; I guess when fireburning fell out of favor as the way to actually heat your home, you made less ash and people were okay with scooping it out manually.
On thing id like to add when doing all this brick demo work. wear a hard hat, it will be annoying but you will not regret it when one falls. had it happen when my buddy was redoing his house and a brick fell and hit someone helping out and was a mess. i wanna see this finished. stay safe.
@@ChrisHytha all good brotha. i think for him he had insurance on the site but not on the person helping out and they ended up suing and cost him like $50k+ for your safety too yeah but also for your bank for anyone helping out.
When saving the two doors of the cupboard, save the trimmings, And those of the doors You're replacing too. They are remnants of the original design and You will reuse them and they are easyly to replicate.
@ I'm sure there are some left on the doors You didn't remove jet. Just draw the profile with measurements and keep it. They are really easy to replicate and You will be happy to once put them on again when You install old or replicated doors.
11:22 - washer and dryer can now be obtained in a single machine; there are pluses and minuses with them of course. They are combo units that use a “condensing dryer” - moisture is turned into steam, then condensed, then pumped down the drain. It eliminates the need for an exhaust vent opening. I own one in one of my rentals; they cost a bit more to buy, but if you need one or more of the pluses they do exist.
Your videos continue to be fun; thanks for posting! I used to go to the dump with my Dad when we lived in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. I have vague memories of the pit we used to back the station wagon up to, and the cranes pulling things from the pit and putting them... I have no idea where. I suspect there's a fair chance you are at the same location since your house isn't too far from where I was born.
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My man, the editing, your new comfortability infront of the camera. You’re growing and I love it!! Keep it up Chris!
Thank you! This one took like 15hr to edit. I am really proud so far of the consistency, doing a video a week for the past 21 weeks straight has been a great challenge, and I've grown quick for sure!
And humor: Keeping the tie rack and it tuns out-stairs are tiring!
@@dmwi1549 Lol that was an unintentional pun
13:17 ok, I don’t know why but that BOING sound effect when the light fixture fell, had me rolling!! 🤣
I really went all out with the sound effects (:
Same here 😂 don't hold back on sound effects in the future either!! 😊
@@aioni77 Good to know, more to come!
I did some research on the ad “$6000 Farm For $3500”. It ran in the Philadelphia newspaper back in November, 1910.
Very cool! My suspicions were correct!
Thats 40 hectares of land for 3.5k??? So thats less that $90 per hectare.
We just sold some arable farm land in Poland a year ago for around $28k PER hectare. So 311 times more expensive.
Whole different part of the world but still the inflation or apreciation in price is insane.
yes that small piece of newspaper is german and the typeface is Breitkopf Fraktur if I'm not wrong, which was used until 1941
Thanks for the insight!
cool that you know the typeface :D
Yeap definitely German. So called “Altdeutsch”
Yeah, or simply "Fraktur" (Gothic Print). Cant read all words, but it seems to be about a "shop owner" something "who himself lives in a backroom while he was" something second.
This is German. If you scan these in, I and lots of others will be able to give you a translation of the text.
The sound effect for the light falling out of the ceiling made my whole day.
Had to do it
I was just gonna say that too
An old friend of mine had a sign in his room when he was a kid. It said "Work fascinates me... I can sit and watch it for hours..." That's pretty much what I'm doing here isn't it... 😆
Hahaha Thats how I feel too when I'm just filming a crew working and trying to stay out of the way
Yeah, I don't know what it is about watching others work. I can watch people in the trades all day and never get bored.
I saw this on another channel: three things that people can watch all day long: water moving, fire burning, and someone else working.
I hope you're saving those two panel doors. Even if you don't use them, I can guarantee somebody would appreciate you donating them to a habitat for humanity. I was happy to snag up seven of those from my local habitat because my home has an addition and it has different doors than the original build. And obviously the two panel doors have more character than the standard hollow cores that the addition has
I kept all the old solid core wood doors! I hope to strip the paint off and use them again!
@@ChrisHytha whoops, just see your answer to my "hope". That's great!
A brick patio in the backyard would be awesome. Also you could have some brick planters on the patio
You better put in your own piece of newspaper too! Keep that tradition going :)
Tradition says to put a coin dated when the renovation takes place in the wall also :-) If I had a dollar for all the coins I've installed LOL
It's the 'boing' for me!
Our home is 100 years younger than yours. We renovated the bathroom and kitchen 8 years ago and were thrilled to find all sorts of 'debris' under the old cabinets. A calender from a mechanic workshop, a xmas card, a plastic bead bracelet, and a few business cards. From the bathroom floor we pulled up a beer box, that was odd and had us scratching our heads. We also found evidence of a fire under the bathroom floor. More scratching of brainbox.
Excellent production, as always. Thanks, Chris. Every episode is amazing.
Thanks for your support! Thanks for sharing your findings. Always cool to see what is hidden in these houses
Regarding proper tools: have you considered looking into whether Philadelphia has a tool library? Baltimore has one. Proper tools can make jobs far less painful and so much faster. It would be soooo worth it to join during a home renovation project (and definitely worth continuing to support beyond)
They do! West Philly Tool Library
I love that you're saving some of the original materials that are still good and usable. It really irks me how people nowadays just throw out everything, even if still in great usable condition, and it all just ends up in the dump for no reason. If anything, you can sell those old bricks to someone who's looking for something like that if you don't end up using it.
My back hurt watching this and I wasn't even the one hauling bricks!
When we gutted and renovated our Victorian house in Montreal, we found newspaper in the walls as well. I sorted through them and had a selection arranged and framed. I really like it and it's a bit of the history of the house on display.
It is such a cool slice of life from a very different time. Thanks for sharing
Enjoying the transformation. Can't wait for next week.
Thanks for following along!
Ive been renovating my old 1800s townhome in Lancaster, PA this has been inspiring to watch and learn from! Thanks for all the episodes so far!
Good luck on your project!
Can you make a video on your house?
I could work like that in my 20’s, 30’s and early 40’s but man did I get exhausted just watching you work. 47 now amazing what just a few years does.
I think you arrived at the right answer for demo. Trim, framing and misc systems are good to go but doors/bricks will be valuable in the end
Cheers, glad you agree
This whole project is giving me flashbacks to gutting and renovating our 1910 home in the Philly suburbs. It's a ton of work to take down to the studs, but knowing there isn't any knob & tube behind the walls, termites, mold, etc. gives a lot of piece of mind. It's worth it in the long run. There are a few rooms where we retained the original plaster walls, etc. and honestly I regret not doing them while we were in demo mode.
When you were taking apart the enclosure, camera angles and shadows (and not paying attention) made it seem a solid wood floor - a closet, basically. When you started descending through the floor my mind was blown. A lot of great progress, thanks again for sharing!
It was my best magic trick. Thanks for watching!
Loved the “boinggg” when the ceiling light fixture dropped 😂
Its the little things (:
Your productions are getting better every week. Keep it up.
I bet it feels good to see some VISUAL progress happening, haha.
Thank you! It has been great practice forcing myself to do these weekly updates, definitely improving my editing process!
Hey Chris, this might be a late suggestion, but buy a wheelbarrow to haul all that debris around. They make 2 wheeled ones that are balanced in a way that you don't feel the load weight when lifting it to move it around. You can find them for less than 100 bucks if you search around.
Also, it hurts to hear what you paid for the home considering what it's going to cost to remodel it. However, you can't buy the education you will get with hands on experience on fully remodeling a home from scratch. Think of it as more education. After you're done, you're going to be a General Contractor with experience under your belt, which will open up opportunities for more work, and you can film that work and upload it to UA-cam, making money twice on it. See you next week, brother!
Yup! Also the value of this UA-cam channel factors into the equation. I don't regret it!
When I gutted my house in creston bc Canada I found newspaper from 1930. When I changed the water line I found 2 beer bottles, a whiskey bottle and a ketchup bottle from 1938. I also discovered it had been a one room cabin originally. The fun part of renovations. The designing was fun too
Thanks for sharing, I love piecing together the history of an old place like this
Cheers from Abbotsford!
Really enjoying your thought processes as you adapt to change. Well done! We had a crew tear out half our unused 1913 chimney. It was holding up floor joists on the second floor, so we had to leave a lot. The space is used for hvac now.
So glad to hear you are salvaging the doors from the built-in!
Dude you are making a huge physical contribution to this project!
Doing my best! Saved about $1,000 by doing the chimney myself
Been loving this series so much! Really excited for everything that's coming :)
Thanks for your support!! Just got off the phone with the lumber yard, and soon we will be rebuilding! Can't wait
Glad you’re salvaging the doors. I def get it about the radiators. In theory it’s nice to think about keeping them to reflect the history of the house. But, in reality they take up a lot of space and all the plumbing running everywhere gets in the way as well. Thanks for sharing your evolving perspective on home buying. Live and learn is a good mantra. That’s life on Earth right? Just a continuous stream of experiments. Some work out as expected. Some don’t. Others fall somewhere in between. You have a good attitude about it. Keep going. We’re all rooting for you!
The backstory on those demo guys would be amusing all by itself! Fond memories rekindled by this video of demo'ing my sister's row house.Thrills! Chills! Finding out that the lathe was a stressed structural member that, once removed, allowed the whole house to sway...
You may not want to use those bricks in reconstruction, but you could lay a really nice patio floor with them. Nicer than concrete. Or something to hide the chainlink fence. Demo is so much fun.
That is what I'm thinking regarding brick
Just rebuilding a porch was a daunting amount of work for me. Doing a whole house is a massive job for one (plus some help) person. I like that you illustrate your thought process in making and revising decisions. I look forward to seeing your choices from design to structure and finish work.
There’s something very therapeutic watching those demo guys go to town removing all that stuff
Loved the karate back kick method of removing that bit of wall!
Learned that one in architecture school
First point, the intro- excellent summation, nice visual
Second- the editing is really solid and it feels like you've developed a visual style
As for the paper fragment, it looks like prewar German.
Thanks for your support! It feels good to improve the editing week over week, and find my voice. The consistent videos have been great practice, and I'm proud to have stuck to the goal of weekly updates so far!
Bless your heart, you are such a hard worker!
You practically peeled that dry wall off, sorted and swept and sorted again! You’re doing great, honest video of a very messy project. Best wishes for a good week.
Slips, trips, and falls. 🎉 Gotta do a safetymeeting, you'd be surprised. 😂 Demo, gotta love it❣️ Great vlog, G.C. Chris.
Cheers, thank you!
I'm looking forward to next week's adventure!
Thanks for following along!
SHOUTOUT TO JORDAN!!!🥳
Good friend Jordan being a good friend
These videos are really coming along! Great stuff. Liked the intro. I've been trying to get my wife to watch these with me since the beginning and I think that's what finally pulled her in. The preview for next week was a great addition too
Glad to hear you got her on board! Any plans for a Reno project of your own?
Just love your videos every week. They inspire me to get moving on my own projects. I can’t wait to see your house start to take shape. Nice work!
Thanks for your support!
I’ve been watching since the start, I want to do this type of stuff when I’m older, im going to be going to school for architecture next year
You are on the right track! Architecture school is great for a wholistic understanding of how buildings are made. Hope you can learn a thing or two from my project!
Taking down drywall is such a dream after plaster!
It really is a treat
Great way to save some money Chris! A little manual labor never hurt anyone and I’m sure it felt great when you were done.
Omg the old newspapers so cool
It's so enjoyable watching all of that dirty work taking place from the comfort of my living room. That crew definitely worked hard for their pay, especially pulling down that old cast exhaust pipe up on the roof! Your camera placement and your editing work have been fantastic, making it that much more enjoyable to watch. Wishing you a Happy New Year, Chris.
Thanks for your support! Happy holidays (:
Omg, I didn’t even realize that was the same room you started taking the chimney down in! They demolished that area. I’m impressed.😳
Coming along nicely
Nice progress! Happy New Year and Cheers to the adventures to come.😻
Thanks for following along!
Yea for Jordan, lol for Boing noises and yup, it's a German Newspaper. A bunch of Lutheran (mostly farmers) fleeing religious wars (1618-1648) in what's now Northern Germany in the late 17th century and arrived in PA mostly as indentured servants, who were auctioned off to established landholders. A bunch more arrived later including the Amish, Dunkards, Mennonites (often from Switzerland) and Moravians. I only know about these groups because I researched my nephew's awesome architect wife's family tree (and lol, we're related via Early Settlers of MA, boo it's thru the Witch Trials). Meanwhile, there's another bunch of Germans who migrated in the mid 19th century, some fleeing the failed Revolution of 1848, others later fleeing famine. I suspect that the Philadelphia Historical Society could match your newspaper bits, and likely has maps and pictures of your street. If the city has the names of former owners, the Historical Society could tell you who they were and from where they came. I wouldn't be surprised if an old German Lutheran family once lived there. ;)
9:28 Dude...that deep exhale, I felt that lol! Great work.
It was one of the first weeks that I had a solid 5 days of work on the house, now that most of the logistical work is done (permitting and plan drawing) I have more time to work!
Man, it feels like once you got those permits, things just started happening! Hang on to your bricks - you can do a patio (as others have mentioned) and also you'll have a supply of "native" bricks if you run into any issues if/when you have to repoint the brick walls. If you find some damaged or too-worn bricks, you'll have a ready supply of replacements that match. In my neighborhood, it's kind of obvious where repointing happened with "new" bricks next to the existing ones. Or worse--when people in the 60s and 70s decided that bricking up those grand old arched window openings and replacing the windows with smaller ones was the thing to do to save on heating.
Also love the "boing" sound from the light fixture and hope it was a near-miss and not an actual clobber to your nugget! I love the way you're structuring the videos to show both your progress and your thought processes--it helps to see that you've had to backtrack and re-think things as you go (so many reno vids don't show this and it's sad because we love to see someone who's not only renovating, but responding to what the house is telling them, and a lot of people don't seem to get that second part).
Sad to see the old radiators go but forced air just makes sense, especially with all the walls open anyways, and with the addition of AC. Plus I'd never rest easy knowing all those old radiators could spring a leak and cause major damage.
It has been great watching this journey thus far! Thankyou for sharing!
Thanks for your support!
Hello from Christchurch New Zealand 👋
You’ll be glad you kept those bricks!
Montage getting better and better! I'm cracking up at the boiniunoing at 13:16
Haha happy to see you invested in extra buckets for the bricks. It felt like doing 1 bucket at the time was slightly inefficient
The demo crew was nice enough to leave some for me! Really sped things up
Uge progress ! Can’t wait to see the next videos 😊
on a jobsite slacking off watching another guy live in his jobsite 😎
This is the way
So nice to follow your big little project! (Impressive demolition crew, as well!)
Cheers, thanks for following along!
Damn Chris, that wore me out. I'm going to go take a nap now. See you next week.
It was a loooooong week
The little foreign scrap is common German newspaper print in "Schwabacher" font. Before the entry of the US into WW1 there have been a lot of German newspapers, schools and even universities, who were forced to shut down (in some regions they even burned the books from German libraries).
It's about an accident with two people mortally wounded, obviously the family of one of them lived at 1001 ?????? Avenue, where they had a shop, living in the backroom. Then there is mentioned a house where part of it is rented out to others.
On the left side are parts of a long sentence with words like condition, representative, indicated, king.
Just try to photograph it with as little dust as possible. The cheap paper (out of wood) is very delicate because of the high amount of remaining lignin.
Happy New Year from South Australia, Chris! 🎉
I'm helping. When I hold my finger on the screen, you work twice as fast.
Glad I can live my demo of old house and redo it though your videos. :) great job.
Thanks for watching!!
Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.
I genuinely have never seen a house as dusty as yours! So crazy lol 😅 great progress
Wildly dusty indeed
I love following this project. I felt bad to see the radiators removed as well, but it makes sense especially since you’re drastically altering the footprint of the home. And with your new system, you’ll get air conditioning as well as heat.
Glad you understand!
Shout out to those tough buckets!! Great work!
And shout out to the demo guys for gifting me these extra buckets!
Love seeing Jordan in the Eagles shirt again to reiterate the fact that he is, in fact, not a Cowboys fan
Come on, lad! Let's keep moving forward and never give up!
Cheers!
I love those double doors next to the chimney you are removing. I hope that you can reuse them :)
They will make for a nice closet somewhere in the house! I hope to strip the paint off too and refinish them
Great seeing the demolition come along. I'm personally glad you got rid of the radiators, because they could have leaks or other issues, and also take up some (even if insignificant) valuable square footage.
In a small house, with the 7 radiators it is pretty significant space savings!
@@ChrisHytha I definitely think you made the right choice.
that orange sweater guys is a beast
Saws all, chain saw, small jack hammer. Nothing beats iced and cheap tools for demo.
Watching young 20-something Chris go crazy re-doing a whole house is such a pleasure. (That youthful creative energy thing is a joy to behold!) Such a reminder since 65 year old me did a similar thing... several times. Didn't know anywhere near as much as I should have diving in, learned a shitload along the way, and did it better the next time. I envy you this - I'm past the point of taking on such a project. Enjoy it - you'll remember it for the rest of your life. Moreover, you're going to make a crapload of mistakes and hopefully learn from them. One of them I learned.... the hard way... don't neglect the roof framing and the roof. You're going far enough with this thing that you might as well make sure the roof is as fully renewed and up to modern standards as the rest of the building.
PS: Buy yourself an SDS hammer drill and a chisel and spike bit for it the next time you have to take out a bunch of brick.
Thanks for your support! Ordering a hammer drill shortly!
6:41 Wow! Chris, this is incredible. I hope you keep these newspaper findings and frame them or make some sort of cool art out of this.
I definitely will! They are a cool piece of the story here!
@@ChrisHytha During the early 1920's, there were 20 foreign language newspapers in Pittsburgh, many of them published daily. No doubt Philly had even more.
7:43 -- $3500 for a $6000 farm seems like a great deal (whenever and wherever that newspaper was published).
But I can hardly fathom the current value of such a farm, especially on Mondays, when those cows might hear a notification bell and watch a Hytha rowhome demolition video.
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These videos are great. What a ton of work you got done .I’ll bet you find some great uses for those bricks in time.Old bricks are beautiful.
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Really progressing fast now. Btw I did end up getting your book for Christmas and it's really awesome! Have it on display in our living room.
Thanks for your support! Love to hear that you are enjoying the book (:
Thank God for friends!
Awesome finds!
Great job dude, very interesting renovation project
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Thanks Chris! Happy New Year. Looking forward to the great content 2025 has in store for us. 🥳🤠
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It's funny, I've always known radiators were modular/sectional, but I've never seen them actually come apart.
And if that metal grate is anything like the tech used later, it's for "draining" ashes into a void under the fireplace to be collected from another port at the bottom of that section at a later time. Conjecture; I guess when fireburning fell out of favor as the way to actually heat your home, you made less ash and people were okay with scooping it out manually.
Keep rocking!!!
But if you bought the house demo’d already you wouldnt have any this juicy content
It's all about the story arc after all
God you took out all the charm that makes these historical buildings what they are.
what a travesty.
Trust me, I love historic details. Saving what I can. The house has bad termite damage, and even some of the historic trim was eaten through
Interesting. I appreciate your cost analysis on the project!
On thing id like to add when doing all this brick demo work. wear a hard hat, it will be annoying but you will not regret it when one falls. had it happen when my buddy was redoing his house and a brick fell and hit someone helping out and was a mess. i wanna see this finished. stay safe.
Thanks for the word of caution, I had hardhats on the site, should have worn them!
@@ChrisHytha all good brotha. i think for him he had insurance on the site but not on the person helping out and they ended up suing and cost him like $50k+
for your safety too yeah but also for your bank for anyone helping out.
Great progress this week!! Just about rebuild time... I can't wait to see the progress!!
I'm coordinating the full tear down now! Happening the first week of the new year
@@ChrisHytha@ChrisHytha, Just think how nice it will be to have that new structure to work with... Straight and Strong!!!
Those bricks would look way better than the concrete as a ground cover on your backyard. Eventually, of course. Just a thought...
That's what I'm thinking
Looking forward to your new projects...Happy New Year!!
Cheers! Thanks for following along
When saving the two doors of the cupboard, save the trimmings, And those of the doors You're replacing too.
They are remnants of the original design and You will reuse them and they are easyly to replicate.
Unfortunately the trim is already gone
@ I'm sure there are some left on the doors You didn't remove jet. Just draw the profile with measurements and keep it. They are really easy to replicate and You will be happy to once put them on again when You install old or replicated doors.
This is so exciting! I'm looking forward to next weeks progress
11:22 - washer and dryer can now be obtained in a single machine; there are pluses and minuses with them of course.
They are combo units that use a “condensing dryer” - moisture is turned into steam, then condensed, then pumped down the drain. It eliminates the need for an exhaust vent opening.
I own one in one of my rentals; they cost a bit more to buy, but if you need one or more of the pluses they do exist.
Renovating our 1930s house revealed a newspaper from 1936 and under some lino flooring, complete newspapers from the mid 1960s. It's a lot of fun.
Always cool to see what these houses are hiding
4:37 THIS WAS SO SATISFYING!
Your videos continue to be fun; thanks for posting! I used to go to the dump with my Dad when we lived in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. I have vague memories of the pit we used to back the station wagon up to, and the cranes pulling things from the pit and putting them... I have no idea where. I suspect there's a fair chance you are at the same location since your house isn't too far from where I was born.
It is always a cool sight at the dump
love the videos man keep them up i wish you the best of luck