Olive leafs are great for high blood pressure. And the small branches are great for barbeques or log fires . But even better for cooking utensils and cutting boards. Thanks for your content!
Loving the progress so far guys, really great work. Might be too late for this, but your morar needs (more?) plasticiser through it, make it more workable, this will help the bricks go down much easier. Could even use washing up liquid! If there's already some through it, then I apologise... but if not, it'll make that job a lot easier in the future. Much love from Scotland ❤
Well done, moving forward nicely, as an English couple without much building experience to start with and doing it in Spain! A totally different culture, language and climate to what you grew up in. From the outside looking in it appears to me that you’re doing a great job! A funny thing but the name of the storm wasn’t “DANA” but “DANA” is the type of storm (I can’t read spainish but it’s a high altitude, high pressure front) and they do happen fairly regularly in that region but are becoming more frequent and more intense, sad to see the loss of life and destruction, but good for the supply of water! Best Andy. UK
Oooh interesting. I just read some more into it. I hadn’t realised it was an acronym. Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos (isolated depression at high altitudes). Seen some pretty impressive footage of the “cold drop” from cloud level. We feel very lucky to have not been too badly affected. The footage in this video was some heavy rain the week before the storm actually hit. We’ve had it a bit worse since, but nothing close to the devastation in Valencia.
Many thanks for this video, it is always nice to see how you progressing in your projects and sharing your experience. I am not the builder but I saw at one point when someone was building a higher structure next to the wall they used some sort of metal hooks to attach it to the wall to make the structure more steady - it is just a thought but it may not be needed in your case. Stay safe and enjoy the rest of the weekend:)
You're doing great work. It istedious but having it all levelled and nicely done will give you a perfect surface fir your counters. Can't wait to see next week's reveal. Those beams are looking amazing!
Having crammed your entire series last week, am glad to see you guys weren't affected greatly by the weather (only positive news which contradicts the news) an excellent channel makes me truly jealous- great to see you are making such progress
Wow, that’s some good going.. there are a fair few videos 😅 We’re glad you’re enjoying following along and we’re glad to say we’re all safe and well ☺️
I do not know if anyone has told you this, but those bricks are known by few names on the Continent, including "Porotherm" or "vertically perforated bricks". The later name should indicate that you installed them incorrectly (by an angle of 90 degrees). The holes are suppose to go vertically. This orientation is for many reasons, but mainly for structural strength. The way you installed them, each circle now has a vertical radius at the top and bottom, which just a little material at that point. Downward pressure on those weak points at the apex of that radius can cause cracking and failure of the brick. But wait... you may be saying, if I put them in with the holes up, then all the mortar will just slip down in the holes! Yes, that is correct. But you do not use normal brick mortar to install these. You use a type of modified tile adhesive (Skill Builder did a bit on this, in a post called "Why Haven't We Warmed to Porotherm in the UK?"). That is you can not import UK solid brick laying logic to these European bricks. Also, these porotherm bricks come in many sizes and lengths. To build your counter pillars, if you wanted a 60cm long pillar (standard counter depth), it would have been better to get 50 cm long bricks, and then used 10 cm brick to allow alternating the pattern so no seams were vertical (you do not need to grout between the vertical faces between each brick). In fact, these little bricks are sold intentionally to be used as such fillers to limit having to cut the longer bricks. You may have found using longer bricks and proper joint compound would have resulted in a much easier ability to make vertical walls. Did you compromise your construction? Probably not. A kitchen counter will unlikely cause significant vertical load to damage the pillars as installed. But if you ever use such bricks in the future, especially for a load bearing wall, I hope my comment helps you do it better. After all, life is a learning process.
Very interesting and a helpful share of information. Thank you. We had seen larger versions of these bricks being used in the other orientation, like you described, but only to build tall internal walls. We struggled to find any examples of them being used to build anything resembling a kitchen where it wasn’t fixed between a floor and a ceiling, and so ended up (as many DIYers do) kind of making it up as we go along 🤣 Albeit having spoken to some builder friends and relatives to check we weren’t completely nuts doing it this way. It feels incredibly strong and secure so I’m not worried about it’s integrity for the kitchen, but it’s interesting to read more info for if we are to use these bricks for anything else. Thanks for sharing. I’m sure it will be useful to some others reading, too.
Olive leafs are great for high blood pressure. And the small branches are great for barbeques or log fires . But even better for cooking utensils and cutting boards. Thanks for your content!
Loving the progress so far guys, really great work. Might be too late for this, but your morar needs (more?) plasticiser through it, make it more workable, this will help the bricks go down much easier. Could even use washing up liquid! If there's already some through it, then I apologise... but if not, it'll make that job a lot easier in the future. Much love from Scotland ❤
Ah thanks. We’ll look into it 👍🏻💚
My Partner gave me some of those Pruners for Christmas last year (Not that brand as we are in Aus but great all the same)..... - Best EVER gift!!!
Game changer!
@@SmithsdaleFarm They sure are!
Well done, moving forward nicely, as an English couple without much building experience to start with and doing it in Spain! A totally different culture, language and climate to what you grew up in. From the outside looking in it appears to me that you’re doing a great job! A funny thing but the name of the storm wasn’t “DANA” but “DANA” is the type of storm (I can’t read spainish but it’s a high altitude, high pressure front) and they do happen fairly regularly in that region but are becoming more frequent and more intense, sad to see the loss of life and destruction, but good for the supply of water! Best Andy. UK
Oooh interesting. I just read some more into it. I hadn’t realised it was an acronym. Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos (isolated depression at high altitudes). Seen some pretty impressive footage of the “cold drop” from cloud level.
We feel very lucky to have not been too badly affected. The footage in this video was some heavy rain the week before the storm actually hit. We’ve had it a bit worse since, but nothing close to the devastation in Valencia.
Many thanks for this video, it is always nice to see how you progressing in your projects and sharing your experience. I am not the builder but I saw at one point when someone was building a higher structure next to the wall they used some sort of metal hooks to attach it to the wall to make the structure more steady - it is just a thought but it may not be needed in your case. Stay safe and enjoy the rest of the weekend:)
Thank you. And thanks for sharing that info. We’ll have a look into that 💚
Great progress! Lovely to see the winter veggies starting to grow well, too. Well done 👏🏻
Thanks. Hopefully they’ll do well enough to actually eat some! 🤞🏻🤣
You're doing great work. It istedious but having it all levelled and nicely done will give you a perfect surface fir your counters.
Can't wait to see next week's reveal. Those beams are looking amazing!
Thank you! Hopefully it will all be worth it in the end! 🤞🏻
Awesome job. The garden is looking vibrant with the rain.😊
Having crammed your entire series last week, am glad to see you guys weren't affected greatly by the weather (only positive news which contradicts the news) an excellent channel makes me truly jealous- great to see you are making such progress
Wow, that’s some good going.. there are a fair few videos 😅
We’re glad you’re enjoying following along and we’re glad to say we’re all safe and well ☺️
I need that new tool!
It’s so good!
Beautiful little girl!
Thank you 🥰
Good work, it's coming along nicely ❤❤
Thanks 💚😁
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I do not know if anyone has told you this, but those bricks are known by few names on the Continent, including "Porotherm" or "vertically perforated bricks". The later name should indicate that you installed them incorrectly (by an angle of 90 degrees). The holes are suppose to go vertically. This orientation is for many reasons, but mainly for structural strength. The way you installed them, each circle now has a vertical radius at the top and bottom, which just a little material at that point. Downward pressure on those weak points at the apex of that radius can cause cracking and failure of the brick. But wait... you may be saying, if I put them in with the holes up, then all the mortar will just slip down in the holes! Yes, that is correct. But you do not use normal brick mortar to install these. You use a type of modified tile adhesive (Skill Builder did a bit on this, in a post called "Why Haven't We Warmed to Porotherm in the UK?"). That is you can not import UK solid brick laying logic to these European bricks.
Also, these porotherm bricks come in many sizes and lengths. To build your counter pillars, if you wanted a 60cm long pillar (standard counter depth), it would have been better to get 50 cm long bricks, and then used 10 cm brick to allow alternating the pattern so no seams were vertical (you do not need to grout between the vertical faces between each brick). In fact, these little bricks are sold intentionally to be used as such fillers to limit having to cut the longer bricks. You may have found using longer bricks and proper joint compound would have resulted in a much easier ability to make vertical walls.
Did you compromise your construction? Probably not. A kitchen counter will unlikely cause significant vertical load to damage the pillars as installed. But if you ever use such bricks in the future, especially for a load bearing wall, I hope my comment helps you do it better. After all, life is a learning process.
Very interesting and a helpful share of information. Thank you.
We had seen larger versions of these bricks being used in the other orientation, like you described, but only to build tall internal walls. We struggled to find any examples of them being used to build anything resembling a kitchen where it wasn’t fixed between a floor and a ceiling, and so ended up (as many DIYers do) kind of making it up as we go along 🤣 Albeit having spoken to some builder friends and relatives to check we weren’t completely nuts doing it this way.
It feels incredibly strong and secure so I’m not worried about it’s integrity for the kitchen, but it’s interesting to read more info for if we are to use these bricks for anything else. Thanks for sharing. I’m sure it will be useful to some others reading, too.
Lovely
Thank you 😁
The oven will create an amount of heath. Do you make ventilation holes?
You really need air flow around your oven.
It is a fan oven designed to be built in like this ☺️
Please use knee pads 😊