Revealing And Removing History From Our Homestead & Farmhouse
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Welcome to our channel! In this video, we take you along on a journey of revealing and removing the history from our homestead and farmhouse.
We are nearing the final stages of clearing the homestead at the top of the land. It has been hard work digging by hand, raking back the soil and moving large stone. In todays episode, the Homestead reveals a huge, hidden puddle of water from beneath one of the 200 year old farm buildings. The ditch is certainly the way to go with the endless flowing water. We begin to dig a pathway at the rear of the ancient stone outbuilding so we can access the stonework which is badly in need of repairs which will be repointing with lime mortar.
Moving into the house we begin to remove the Victorian, tiled, cast iron fire surround and discover an amazing hidden secret of the fireplace in readiness for the stainless steel flue liner to be fitted. We now have a dilemma on our hands.
Watch the entire video to get up to speed and discover everything we have in the last two days.
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The amount of work you two have done without machinery is incredible! Well done! Amazing progress guys!
Thank you so much for saying so. We are quite proud of ourselves to be honesty. At times a digger would have been lovely, but we just keep going and going and realise we don't really need one now. We have also learned so much about the land, especially the top section.
Thank you again. Have a lovely weekend :-)
One of those stone buildings looks like a church. The wet ground is quite hard to manage. Which county is this? There appears to be many Alder trees.
How awesome is it that your previous neighbours can follow and keep in touch. Great progress again, can't wait to see what the builder says about your fireplace.❤
Funnily enough, one of the "girls" that lived here came around today. We love them popping in to see us and to see our progress. We think they are pleased haha.
Thanks for the comments Neuton, each one helps the channel a little bit more. You being a Channel Member helps us no end, so thank you :-)
What a discovery day! Days like this make all the endless hours of hard work worthwhile. Cant believe how everything is slowly coming alive.
Good evening Glenys, we hope you are well and thank you for watching and commenting.
It does indeed. A hard day finishing with a lovely surprise with the fireplace. Each day is a little more exciting as we get close to "finishing" that portion of the land and the living room is closer to having heat.
Thank you for watching and commenting tonight. Have a nice weekend :-)
I'm so pleased you removed the old fireplace to reveal that fantastic arch which will look amazing with a stove, so much better! I really did share your excitement. I am totally in awe of the way you both work so darn hard in all weather, you just keep on going! ❤
Good evening Pat, hope you are well.
I am pleased our excitement showed as we really were excited and surprised all at the same time. And then we realised we still need to record things haha.
The weather is just the weather. I can do any weather except the cold, I hate being cold. Dawn on the other hand overheats in seconds. The rain isn't an issue and it also means we can carry on and keep pushing on to get to the end of the job in hand... or it just draaaaaags on lol.
Have a great weekend ahead :-)
Your garden is shaping up to be a beautiful sanctuary one day! And that fireplace! What an incredible surprise that wonderful arch was! It would be gorgeous with tiles around it and just a mantle on top! Whatever you do with it will be awesome!
Hopefully it will be lovely. News about the chimney liner in tomorrow (Wednedays) video.
Thank you for replying :-)
I love it that you get sidetracked when events happen ( like heavy rain) just like I do. I think that it was actually a good move to make a start on the drainage issue.
The best time for us to deal with drainage is when it is raining, as obvious as that sounds. Once the rain stops and soaks away, it is just nice soil again. We do like a bit of a change now and then, but it is all part of the bigger picture.
Thanks for watching and commenting this evening. Have a nice weekend :-)
How amazing it would be for y’all to restore it back to its original state! Exciting discovery.
It really would. The downside is we aren't sure of it's original state as it is older than the people we know. An update in Wednesdays video :-)
Thanks for commenting Susan :-)
Love the idea of creating a channel into the ditch. I have land issues I’m on a steep hill many natural springs, all was okay until a tractor came into the field to help with land maintenance. This caused a seep which flowed pretty fast and soaked the garden!!! Your water table is high so the more drainage you can add the better. Amazing job
Oh I would love just one natural spring let alone many. We completely understand with the tractor, we still have the dent in the soil from last August. But, with that said, by doing all of this by hand, we now know the bad drainage is due to the bedrock only being below the surface of the dirt / grass. This gives us knowledge of how to fix the issue. We do think there will be quite a few channels dug around the place, bedrock allowing.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Enjoy your weekend :-)
Dawn and Ben well done on the drainage you have achieved around the outbuildings and getting a waterway
along the side of your land.All by manual labour which is some feat in itself. Very well done. You have solved the smoke problem in the bedroom and you are doing the safest thing by putting in a flue liner.It would be impossible to fill in all the holes in the chimney. Glad the surround came out intact.Take care and God Bless you both xx
Thank you Colette, fingers crossed once we get that little bit cleared in between the outbuildings we should be sorted for that part of the land and then just a bit to finish outside of the house and we should be set for drainage.
It’s been a labour of love for sure with clearing the land, lot of hard work but definitely worth every minute to see how the land and drainage work together.
Yes, we think the same as you with it’s safer to put the flue in. We can fix the bits within the fireplace but to be able to get to the rest of the chimney is pretty much impossible unless we start pulling the house apart and we’d rather not do that if we don’t have to lol Yes, we’re very glad that came out as well as it did. We’d like to be able to put it back once we get a stove but we will see how that goes once we see what sort of stove would be good for us. Take care and ‘see’ you soon. Xx
Taking the fireplace out adds so much character and history to the house. It makes it feel so much older.👍
It does make it look older oddly. We are in a bit of a dilemma now with what sor of fireplace we will end up with. Exposed, original surround... watch this space.
Love the shape of the fireplace, a burner would look incredible in there and you’ll know it’s safe from smoke leaks
Oh we have already been looking. Once we discovered the smoke upstairs we know a wood stove was the way forward. The leaking could be maybe be fixed, but what about 12 months time half way up the chimney, so we completely agree with you, a flue liner and stove is the way forwards.
Thank you Sam for watching and commenting :-) Have a nice evening.
Wonderful you two! Sending good vibes your way!
Wow thank you Elysia. We watched your Firewood storage build recently for inspiration as well as many of your other videos, I don't think there is anything you haven't done. You channel is great.
Thank you for the good vibes. We hope you have a lovely weekend.
That pathway between the buildings is going to be a game changer like you say, perfect for getting the water away from your buildings.👍
It really will. Dawn did a great job with the small channels getting the water down the side of the house so all we need to do now is join it all together. As sad as it sounds, it is all coming together and getting exciting :-)
Thanks Neuton, have a nice weekend :-)
A lovely little stream with a bridge will be so nice.You are doing a great job.Thanks for posting.
No, thank YOU Lilly for watching and commenting.
I did hope there would be a natural stream somewhere on the land but sadly we have ditches which trickle, but with the bedrock exposed and a little bridge, (I am thinking little like "Forth Bridge" hahaha) I am sure I could cobble up some sort of stream.
Thank you again, have a nice weekend :-)
Do you have a neighbor who would exchange computers services for backhoe work in order to put in a French drain? Is there a stream to the one side of your property. You guys are hard workers!
Hi Ellen.
I haven't shared my line of work with many people as we needed to focus the time on the last 12 months. Maybe in the future I can use it to barter with :-)
It is a ditch which carries the water from the top of the land right down to the bottom. This is where the water from around the house will end up in the future. A French drain, although our initial plan won't be so simple and the house is built on a giant rock formation which in various place sticks out of the ground. Dawn just discovered a massive lump at the front of the house a couple of days ago, and if you have seen the electricity pole being installed, you will see the size of the breaker they needed to smash through the rock. So drainage will be a case of doing what we can.
Thank you for watching and commenting Ellen :-)
Dawn and Ben you are grafters, you put so much of your passion into your videos, the fireplace is going to be gorgeous, well done you both 😊hope your having a lovely weekend xx❤
Good afternoon Marion, how are you on this sunny afternoon.
Thank you very much. We like getting as much done as we can so it doesn't drag on and on and also like to share our progress, even the boring stuff with you. The fireplace was super exciting though and we are really looking forward to starting on it.
We have had a nice weekend thank you. A little bit of work Saturday but not much. Friday & Sunday we have been flat out.
Thank you for always watching and commenting. See you tomorrow :-)
Incredible work the two of you accomplished. Huge changes already!
Hi Cathy, thank you for watching and commenting today.
We are really pleased with everything we have done and I think we sometimes get rewarded with a surprise, like the fireplace.
Have a lovely weekend :-)
Very interesting that old fireplace. As lovely as it is, a wood stove will give you a lot more heat,and burn much less wood.
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Good evening Cynthia, how are you?
Yes this will definitely happen, the bigger the better to finally get some real heat in the room. The question is do we use the existing surround or make the "new" fireplace a feature?
Thank you for joining us, as always, Cynthia. Have a lovely weekend :-)
Well, what an exciting episode, the drainage into the ditch that Dawn uncovered and got flowing was a huge step forward. Then for that to be followed by the amazing g unveiling of the arched fireplace, incredible, 😮 🎉 you deserve to be discovering treasure after the graft you have put in with great care. Thrilled for you both here x
Aww thank you Ellen. When you put it all like that, you make it sound like we know what we are doing.
The drainage is working really well and we couldn't have had better weather to test it out. And the fireplace, well, what a lovely surprise for us. We were a little baffled when it first moved until we realised what the arch actually was. It looks great, even as an empty space.
Have a great weekend. See you Monday hopefully. Thank you :-)
Hi folks, some fantastic work with the ditches and I think the changed format to less but longer filming is also working well. Now I have to mention this but while you were both busying with the fireplace the two little cats chasing a plastic roller stole the show!😂😂. Anyway take care and enjoy.
The ditches are working well now, it is surprising what a little clean can do to help the water flow.
The cats are little buggers. Alan always wants to be outside, until his paws get wet. Steve has no idea what is happening most of the time and Peaches the mum greets either Dawn or myself when we come in for the day by jumping on our shoulders. It is a bit of a mad house really haha.
Thank you for watching, commenting and the feedback on the 3 day a week videos.
Have a good weekend :)
How beautiful is that fireplace you have both worked so hard
We were really shocked to find the arch. It will be pride and place of the living room :-)
It's amazing how much you've improved this land from where you were just 6 or 7 weeks ago, and all by hand too. I don't know where you get the bloomin energy.
Nor are we Chicken Lady, we get up in the morning, look at each other and sigh, laugh and then go out the door for another day. Everyday is a new day and we are loving it.
Have a great weekend and thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Makes my day when you post a video. Everything is slowly coming together!! You probably feel like you are just slogging along, but in reality you are getting much accomplished. The fireplace project is going to be interesting. Still wonder about the wonky one upstairs. Wonder who thought that was a good idea? An older house I lived in was built by a man named Fred. When I lived there Fred was long deceased, but no matter I carried on long one-sided conversations with Fred, wondering aloud about his reasoning behind some of his curious placement of light fixtures, no room for sink in bathroom, outlets........the list just kept growing. I hope to meet him one day when I leave this earth. Kinda fond of Fred. I've never had or wanted a new home. Old houses are just so much more interesting.
Bobbie, you make our day when we read your comments. I am sure Fred has good reason for the things he did and no doubt is looking forward to meeting you too, not too soon though eh!
Another commenter said it is a shame the fireplace can't talk. Can you imagine, we would have all of our wonky fireplace questions answered. The long and short with the wonky fireplace is it was built that way as the partitions were always in the house. The kitchen fireplace wasn't built wide enough to then have two flues go up, so, they bodged the bedroom fireplace making it wide enough.
So really we are stuck with the wonky fireplace. I am not a fan of that wonky fireplace, never have been. Oh well lol.
Have a great weekend and hopefully see you Monday. Give our love to Fred :-)
You've mentioned that the outbuildings might be 200 years old. Do you suppose that the building beside the lane which you don't own was at one time a cottage where people lived? If that were the case, they would have had a well somewhere nearby. You might be able to dig or drive a hand pump well near the bottom of the property. Would probably not be good for drinking but could be used for a vegetable garden or animals.
The fireplace removal has provided an opportunity to learn lime mortar repair :)
Always enjoy your videos and seeing the progress you make every day.
Good afternoon John, we hope you are well.
It is possible it was the house of this land area, there were so many buildings, John, maybe up to 10 shown on the old maps, maybe more.
There are two wells we know of. One is on the lane we filmed the primroses on but is lower than the ditch so is contaminated and a second, again according to the old maps is on the land to the left of the house as you look at it.
We are hoping to be able to find a source of water and maybe dig our own well type thing. At the moment though it is showers for everyone as we have LOADS of water. Ask me how it is going after a week of no rain though haha.
Thank you for always joining us John. Have a nice, and hopefully not too cold weekend :-)
Well hello there, on your intro, with you bringing the long piece of wood over to ditch, i thought oh the they are going to build a wonderful wonky wooden bridge over the ditch. Good job on the dotch by the way its great to see water draining away like that. Love the fireplace discovery. You could easily inset a stove into that space, save taken up more of the room. Congrats on the 4k, you should have many more. Hope you have a nice weekend.
Well Hello There!!
A wonky bridge, you have clearly watched my Solar Panel frame video to know I am not the best at making things hahaha.
We are pleased we were able to film the water coming from under the building before editing started as we were chuffed to bits. We know the water goes somewhere from the house but where??? Now we know... in one side and now out the other haha.
Chuffed to bits with the fireplace. I have a 8kw stove we are considering, that big for the size of room, but also torn with putting the old framing back in with the fire grate and hinged part removed.
Thanks, 4k is a HUGE amount for us and still climbing. Just under half a million views too in 9 months, which is nuts. This is just Dawn and myself, why would anyone watch is always our question. Not for answering, just our question to each other.
Have a great weekend and hopefully see you Monday :-)
I have had a home with an open fireplace and then converted with a liner to a wood stove and I can say that the wood stove was more efficient for heating than the open fireplace. The open fireplace seemed to take as much of the warm air up the flue as it did heat the room. Especially while you were letting the fire die out before you went to bed and could risk closing the damper on the fireplace.
Yes, a log burner is the way forward for us, also, with a flue liner of 6", we shouldn't have an open fire. The open fire in the bedroom is great when it is at it's hottest but the room soon cools down, as you say, when letting the fire go out. I don't know what percentage of heat is lost up the chimney but I would guess 70%.
The room size suggest up to 9Kw stoves, and I do like my heat, so an 8 or 9 it will probably be :-)
Have a great weekend and thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Gutters on those old buildings would help immensely too. At least the building you're working in front/behind of now. Since you've got the edge of that tin roof to use you can funnel all that roof water right to that ditch you dug. That will really help the wetness a lot in that bedrock field you are working in.So smart going digging that ditch.
On those backfields that you cleared some type of ditch running down the center of that field crossing under the wood chips so widthwise not lengthwise in the field. That would really help funnel water into that bigger ditch that you got and cleared. Then you could make a little stone bridge or something to go over the bridge. Which would look really quaint.
Hi Barbara, I think you have just typed our master plan hahaha.
The building will have a gutter and either go into the ditch or into a water tank for harvesting for the house, is it surprising how much water comes off the flat roof.
We have chatted about ditches across the width to join the ditches either side of the land, it should make a huge difference.
The bridge is a nice idea down there. I am looking forward to getting something done for up the top for when we dig out down to the bedrock.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Have a nice weekend :-)
The fireplace is a very old fireplace. So in the old days they had to have big pots in there. So they needed more headroom to reach into that fireplace I am sure. You're smart not using that fireplace with what's going on because the whole house could catch on fire. Never can be too careful with that kind of thing. You'll get so much more heat off of a wood stove. Anyways, it's a smart thing to do.
There will be an update with the liner in tomorrows video :-)
That fireplace is in the parlour which was rarely used. The fire in the kitchen is the big one. We will be opening that right back to how it was originally when the weather warms up. We are really looking forward to that.
Thank you for replying.
Great to see you have passed another milestone in subscribers! 🎉
Thank you Sharon and thank you for being one of them. 8 months a subscriber... now an old timer hahaha.
Thank you for always being here with us. Have a great weekend :-)
You've got a wee stream on your land! How cool is that - well done both for figuring out the water flow! All hard physical graft, but worth it! And the find behind the fire, what a surprise. Wonder if there was some kind of small range there once? Really enjoyed watching. Many thanks again! Kxx
Hi Kate and good evening to you.
We like to think of it as a little stream, and a big stream when it rains a lot haha, when there is no rain it is a slight trickle from land water.
Certainly worth it. We feel like we are getting on really well and getting closer to the end of this stage of the land, from there we can take it easier.
The surprise behind the fire was lovely, we are chuffed to bit. We don't think there has been anything behind it, just a fireplace until the cast iron one was fitted. We don't know if that was from day one or at a later date.
Have a lovely weekend. Thank you for watching, commenting and being one of our channel members :-)
Its always research, it is never procrastination ;)
I think if we are 100% honest, the research is short lived and procrastination them comes in to play haha :-)
Hope you are well.
In Ireland, it's called a dyke that the water runs through a ditch is a mount of land separating fields
Ahh ok thank you ☺️ So many new things to learn. I’ve heard the farmers call them something else too but I can’t remember what it is now 🤔
Certainly looks like the original fireplace. I like originality but a liner solves the smoke issue and a multifuel stove is vastly more efficient. Cleaning the interior and repointing the stone and having a free standing stove would look great. Could you re-use the cast iron fireplace upstairs if fireplace opening suitable/wide enough?
Good evening James.
Yes, we think it was built that way and was either going to be used like that or was waiting for the fire that we just removed.
We have to go with a liner really as even if we re-lime and fix the smoke issue, what is saying in 1 months times limes breaks down somewhere else up the chimney. A stove is the way forward for us and probably in the newly found fireplace with the stones exposed. Heat is a must in the house on the cold days and a stove is the answer.
Not sure if we could fit the fire elsewhere as we haven't measured, but I think we would need to widen both of the fireplaces upstairs. I could be wrong though.
Thanks for watching and commenting tonight :-)
I love your cats! We cat-sit a big orange boy occasionally and love him to bits. Orange cats are said to be the most, hmmm, adventurous (trouble makers) 😂 I will likely never have advice for you or share any fabulous knowledge but I like to comment nonsense here and there to show my appreciation to you two.
Orange cats are definitely a different kind of cat! 🤣 we love them, we have had the pleasure of owning 7 orange cats now over the years and they are always such great but weird little things! Very loving especially the boy cats.
We are absolutely fine with you just commenting what you do, your comments have put a smile on my face and heart many a time. We very much appreciate it. It is definitely not nonsense to us at all ❤️ It’s like chatting to a friend. So thank you. 🤩
It’s all looking fantastic. Great job, you two!
Thank you very much PaxPixie. We love you profile picture :-)
No ! I love the victorian mantle ,with its odd paintjob i would never remove it! Don t think the house is much older, it s really original
Aww I know I love it too…soo torn with it but we were told by the builder that to have an open fire we would have to have a flue liner that is too big for the chimney that we have. 😔 so we’re going to go with getting a wood stove because it will cost us far less in fuel to run and will heat the room a lot better than an open fire could.
Ok , but couldnt you have a new woodstove and the mantle too? If the stove sits a bit more in front of it, wouldnt it be possible? Or even put the pipe through the old insert?
You both are great workers digging out trenches and uncovering a beautiful fireplace
Thank you Annie. It’s been hard going with the digging but we are pretty much at the end of most of the hard digging! Yay! 🥳
Fireplace was such a beautiful bonus especially as I really like the existing one and had hoped to keep it as an open fire, so to see that appear made it feel not so bad.
Your wife is one go getter❤ she reminds me of myself you go girl🎉
Dawn is a force to be reckoned with Cindy. Once she says she is going to do it, she won't stop until it is done. Not a bad thing as she keeps me on my toes as I don't have the drive Dawn does.
Thanks for commenting :-)
I started watching just recently, as you were clearing all that land, which has been EPIC! This episode got me more interested in your house. I'll have to go back and catch up! 😁I also love watching the kitties. One of them stole the show there for a bit behind your back, chasing that toy. 😸
Hahaha someone else said about the cats, Ben edits and I haven’t had a chance to watch back over it so I will have to have a look what they’re up to! They’re always about somewhere it’s hilarious watching them! Aww we’re really glad you liked the house stuff too, please excuse the poor sound and video at the very beginning! Luckily we have gotten better over the months. 🥳😘
Hello Dawn and Ben, that arched fireplace is amazing! If you keep it, maybe you could raise the height of the fire surround so you could still use it x
Hi Karen, thank you for watching this evening :-)
We're excited with the discovery of the fireplace and need to give it some thought on what we do. Ah, extending it is a good idea. We will have to have a play and see how it looks.
Thank you again, have a nice weekend :-)
So much work getting done ye are both brilliant! The water on the land is so hard to manage at times!
Hiya
Yes, the back of the house is a pain but with the ditch nearly clear all the way up we can work towards getting rid of the water. You will get yours sorted. There is no rush, take your time and enjoy it all.
Have a lovely weekend :-)
Hobbit tracks all over the back garden (teasing). In the trench that you dug out at the base of the outbuilding line either side with stone and put stone slabs overtop to make a path with a drain tunnel underneath to the ditch. You can do the same thing between the outbuildings so that you can still walk between the buildings with the drain tunnel under the path. Amazing job outside!! The fireplace removal is wonderful too. fill some of those holes inside the fireplace to keep critters out even if you use the flue liner / chimney pipe. I am curious what your chimney guy will say about being able to repair it without a chimney pipe? Never hurts to look at options. If you take a look around some antique shops or recycle places you might be able to find a stone/marble fireplace and mantle surround that would be better than the wooden one you took off. I wonder what the original fireplace looked like or if that insert was the original? Did you find a date or the Iron workers business operation dates? You know I love a good rabbit hole
Good morning Janie, how are you this morning?
Teasing aside, out two feet together only add up to a mans foot so I think you could be right with the hobbit tracks haha.
A little spoiler before you get us doing more work.... Digging yesterday revealed the old generation had already thought of the stones at the bottom as Dawn found them at the exact level we were digging too. Some larger flat stones and then some cobbles in the gaps. Sadly they aren't all the way along but there are a good few. It is raining today so hopefully it will help wash them off a bit. So you clearly right with your advice, thank you :-)
The fireplace is a great discovery. We are now torn though, do we go fireplace bake in without the old grate or expose it all for a big feature. You know Dawn, it will be clean enough to eat your dinner off and limed to death with all the holes gone. He might have some input on the fire but probably not, he is very laid back with everything and takes it all in his stride. We will certainly be asking him though. Good idea with the second hand places. It would be nice to keep it all as original as possible but looking doesn't hurt does it and then we have more options too.
Dawn did read the name of the manufacturer but the editing removed it. It is the same company as the other two grates upstairs I think, but Dawn will recap on this when we do the fire. I can't remember which bedroom video says the name of those grates but we will make a point of putting it in.
Nothing like a rabbit hole haha.
Thank you as always Janie, have a lovely weekend :-)
You are amazing hard workers Kate
Thank you Kate 😘
Your doing amazing so interesting every episode ❤
Hi There , The stream is an exciting development ! Nice work :)
Thank you Sissy. We call it a stream, farmers call it a ditch, but stream, ditch, we love it either way. Everyday is exciting for us.
Thanks for joining us today. Have a nice weekend :-)
I hope the woodworm treatment and then wood hardener works and you can save the mantle.
Fingers crossed. At the moment we are not sure if it will go back unless we can raise it somehow as we are going to keep the arched fireplace.
Thank you for watching and commenting (again - it all helps the channel grow)
I see a proper french drain in your future. Maybe piping part of the drainage in the front of the property to divert into the stream--which can double as both diversion to manage the land as well as a lovely feature. There is a fair amount of running water there--without having the rest of the property managed yet. But, it is Ireland--so water, water, everywhere. Hopefully you will not need to have a rebuild of the fireplace. I had to do that before the new liner could be placed. But TBH, as mad as I was at my surprise, I did feel safer when all was done. Looking forward to Bob the Builder doing his magic .
Ooh I do hope we don’t have to rebuild anything to do with the fireplace, fingers crossed just some repointing of what we can see and get to. Hopefully the missing mortar doesn’t go any further up.
We would love a proper French drain around the house but we think we will have to settle for not much more than what we’ve already done around the house as we sit on a huge rock and to cut through it will be nigh on impossible lol. So for now we have scraped some small channels all around the house that run to the ditch on one side and the other side still needs channeling across to end up at the ditch too. This has worked very well so far. We’re hoping that once we do it properly it will have the desired effect in keeping the water away from the house.
Many people during the 16th 17th and 18th centuries died of carbon monoxide poisoning from smoky fires. I would go with the flue liner and reduce your risk of fire and and poisoning and I think your builder would agree with me. Open fires are also notorious for not providing much warmth.
Hi Jean, thank you for commenting and your advice.
We will be having the flue liner not matter what and although an open fire is lovely to look at, a wood stove will be the way forward, as like you say, open fires aren't efficient and do give out smoke. A stove will be able to heat the room, which is much needed to dry out the walls, in no time. It is deciding what look we will go for which is the hard part. Use the original fire or keep the "new" fireplace exposed.
Thank you again for watching and commenting :-)
What an amazing discovery hidden behind the fireplace. I do hope y’all can restore most of it. On the channel Sean’s World, he did work on an old fireplace. Good luck to you both.
Hi Susan, we will have to have a watch of Sean's World again as I don't think we have seen that one.
We will be torn for a little while with the best way forward with a fire for us, heat output etc and so on, but it was really exciting to see it appear like that when we thought it was just going to be a square hole.
Thank you for joining us this evening. Hope you have a nice weekend :-)
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A few episodes:
“Rescue or Start Over? The chimney is falling to pieces”, and “The Chimney is Rendered!! Collapsing Chimney Fix” both, 1 month ago
and “Rendering the Fireplace Begins” 2wks ago. I love how Sean explains the process. He is a very smart man.
It appears that the Victorian insert has bolts on the back of it. Depending on the size of the log burner you plan to use, it might be that you could remove the log grate section and re-use the iron surround with the tiles whilst inserting the new burner where the grate was? Just a thought. Great discovery of the arch, though!
Hi Adam, you are spot on and this is one of the options that we will be struggling with when fitting a stove. Do we keep, as you suggested or do we dress the "new" fireplace, expose it and make it a new feature. But, we are going to need plenty of WD40 to loosen those screws / bolts. Isn't it exciting :-)
Thanks for watching and commenting (reading our minds). Have a nice weekend Adam :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject So many options. So hard to choose! Very exciting indeed! Applying heat might be a good option as well if the WD40 doesn't help. Thank you and likewise :-)
Thanks for the tips :-)
Wow that fireplace is😍,maybe your builder will have local knowledge of it.maybe was used for cooking in originally? If only it could talk 😊.
Oh wouldn't it be lovely if it could talk. The house would be shouting telling us everything we want to know or wonder about.
We think, although really it is only from seeing it first hand, that it has only ever had that fire in it. It is as if it was built as a hole waiting for the fire to be fitted. There are lots of options with it now though.
If we find out anything new though you will be the first to know, maybe at the same time as a couple of other people lol.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting Rita. Have a nice weekend :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject and you ,hope the rain stays off🙂
Thank you Rita, we did :-)
oh wow the fireplace. I would go with the arch and find somewhere else for the iron/tile fireplace that was there. Even if it is a fake fireplace in a room to give a focal point. I'd still go with the flue, but wire brush the stones and repoint them and all round the front edge too. Congrats on the 4k mark.
I know! It’s beautiful isn’t it? I’m so torn with not putting it back though as I feel like we are losing all the bits we really liked about the house…we will see what we think once we decide what we will put back in there. Yeah I must admit I am really looking forward to,getting those stones cleaned up and repointing them. Thank you 🤩 we are chuffed to bits with the subscriber numbers! It’s amazing isn’t it? ❤️
Wow! Could you not expose the stone bricks around the fireplace? I love the arch, what a surprise. And this post has over 1k likes, you're becoming celebrities!
I know! It’s lovely is it?! I must admit it has crossed my mind to take the plaster off above the arch and see what it looks like!
Haha how cool eh?! In the last 10 days or so it has been going really well and we’re chuffed to bits! 🥳😁 xx
Yes, I vote take the plaster off, more rustic looking with exposed stone.
I’ve only started watching you, but I keep yelling “ you need a tractor “!!! So much easier work and so much quicker!! Good luck 🍀
Haha, a tractor would be lovely. It would have destroyed the wet boggy land but it would be quicker than a wheel barrow.
Thank you for joining us Kathleen :-)
have a restfully weekend both
You too Alan :-)
It would look good if u take stones while u have the back dug and leveled and make u a big stone patio for a table! U can also put a roof on the end building and open the back up and use it for a table grill sink just a nice out side place. I've seen several channels do that! Watch One Turet short of a Chateau she fixed a beautiful place In 1 of there out buildings get used tin off marketplace and any building materials u might need to roof it and u2 can build a table or find 1 at a 2nd hand shop..Go look at there's 1 side is open and out where the dirt is put a stone patio ❤😊
Yeah we will get round to getting a roof on the outbuilding. Once we’ve fixed the walls. I will have a look for the video of the stone patio though, because we are planning on that part of the land being our garden area, so that’s a great idea. Might have to wait until we’ve fixed the outbuildings with the stones first though…but having said that we do have an abundance of stones! I do love marketplace too…sooo many bargains! Our kitchen table and dresser came from there! ❤️😘
I just love ur channel and see so many possibilities I guess from watching other channels but I only support yall because to me yall feel safe..Do u have a Amazon channels wish list or a post box address in case someone wants to send u something? Yes I do believe that high part would make a great garden with flowers around the edges and veggies in the center if u have a post box I will help u on bulbs and seeds if u tell me what u like..Or set up a Amazon wish list most channels have them..put what u would like to have and people can get them for u..😊
That really is such a lovely thing to read, thank you very much indeed.
We don't have an amazon wish list but a few people have said about one so maybe we need to sort one.
Thank you again. See you Wednesday.
as long as the chimney isen,t leaking smoke or fume,s into the house, you don,t need a flue liner,
Oh it leaks Michael and in some order. We were so pleased when the chimney was opened up and we could finally use the open fire to get heat in that side of the house to start warming and drying it out. It was after a week or so we realised smoke appeared in the bedroom above each time the fire was lit.
We may be able to lime it and hope for the best, but a liner is the safest option going forward.
Thanks for the advice though, it is always good to know for the future.
Have a nice evening :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject hi, again after 3 month since last time i messaged, you,ve prob already installed a wood burner in your living room by now, but if you ever wanted to put the fireplace back in that you took out, or any other open fire, you can buy a thing called a smoke gatherer, its basicly an upside down sqaure funnel that connects to the flue liner at the top & you can buy them ready made, or have one made to measure..by contacting the people that sell them on ebay, & you then build it into & just above the fire opening, i thought it maybe handy for you to know for maybe any other fireplace you wanted to use that mite have smoke coming out,! when i bought my house back in 2001 i knocked the plaster off the chimney breast & opened up the original fire opening after removing a gas fire, & you could see that it had originaly had a victorian built in open range with oven & back boiler etc, so i managed to get a range off ebay that would fit, & i put it in. Which looks lovely & it heats more hot water than i can use & the oven also works if i wanted to use it , which i sometimes do in winter when the fire is lit every day, ( last winter i burned 3 ton of coal & about 60 or 70 bags of logs, the coal now has to be smokeless but i still have a good bit of ordinary house coal in various grades that i have had since before they gov banned it, leading up to the ban ( 1st may 2023) i bought quite a lot, cos the gov said, what people already have after that date, they can still use, but they cant buy any more after that date, so because i knew after it was banned, i wouldn,t be able to ever get the chance to buy any again, i bought quite a lot, & although the smokeless stuff is better than what i expected, which is called (burnwell smokeless) you still get a bit of flame with it. But when i want a nice lively roaring fire, on them nights in winter when its blowing a gale & pouring with rain, like it does quite a lot in north of england, i put a couple shovels of the old fashoned stuff on & stalk it right up, but then i had the same problem as you,ve had, & one night i went upstairs & i could smell smoke & on closer inspection after removing a few floor boards, it was coming from the part of the chimney that obvs..ly has no plaster on, which is between the floor boards & the down stair,s ceiling, so i made a bucket full of watery sand & cement & with my hand, i rubbed it all around this area, & a bit where a joist was about an inch off the wall. I poured watery cement up to the top & behind it, & touch wood, its been ok, at some point my chimney on the roof needs taken down past the roof level & rebuilt, at a cost of about 2 or 3 grand, but anyway, sorry about such a long msg, i,ve watched all of your video,s & enjoyed them all & the work your doing is great, & the house & land is getting better at everything you do to it, & one of them out buildings would eventuly make a good fuel store for plenty of coal & logs, esp if you get snow in that area, in ireland in winter, & the coal or log people mite struggle to get to you, also a large chest freezer is handy aswell in a building outside, when your in the countryside, anyway good luck with the rest of the renovations, thanks,
A mixed bag of jobs, and an interesting video, glad you gave us a look up the chimney, I kept thinking give us a look-up. and also a little tip, work outside when it is dry, and vice versa.😁🥰 love you. xxx❤
Yeah it was really lol. We only found out a couple of days ago that the builder bloke was going to come and do the chimney so we had to get to it quickly 😂 spoiler alert he couldn’t make it and is now coming Tuesday instead but at least its done now! We’re just really wanting to get the land sorted and don’t want it dragging on anymore than it has to, it’s only a little rain and a lot of mud😂 Nearly done though Pa so we can take a step back on it which is nice! Love you too ❤️❤️xxx
Lots of work done this week watch your backs and toes i'd put some extra thought into that fireplace for a finish lots of potential there.
We do ache a little tonight Billy lol. Yes, we will take our time on what we decide as it does have huge potential.
Have a great weekend and thank you for watching and commenting :-)
More great progress if u get time look up these tools by spear and Jackson. Traditional Irish spade and a long tail shovel. Also a pick axe. These tools are proper for doing ground work. Builders suppliers and Agri suppliers always stock theses. These tooos even feel good and are well balanced. Get us an update on the D2 algicide from a few weeks back
Hi Marcus. I think our small rake is Spear and Jackson as is the spade, lovely tools. We will sure have a look for those. We were going to get a pick axe, but when we realised there was no chance of getting through the rock to dig a trench for the ESB, we stuck with the mattock.
Dawn said she will sort an update for you on Mondays video. We have a few spots tested now.
Thanks for your comments with advice. Have a nice weekend :-)
Amazing find with the fireplace. Do you still plan to put the other fire back now you have discovered this. A nice cast iron fire basket would look amazing. Well done on the drainage/ditch. Had to be done to get the water away from the house. Have a great weekend and look forward to your next video
Hi Angela, we are really chuffed with the fireplace. Do we still pan on keeping it.... that is the question, we don't know yet as the "new" fireplace is a real feature, so we are and will be torn for a little while and won't rush in to anything.
The drainage is working really well now and even better after Dawn day out there today. You will see that on Monday.
You too have a nice weekend and thank you :-)
Wow what a wonderful find, have a great weekend too, love and blessings from Scotland xx
We are really pleased with our find, it is all exciting now hahaha.
You have a good weekend too. Thanks for the love, blessings and comment :-)
wow what a wonderful find behind your fireplace. You need a small boy to go up the chimney to see the condition or could you hire a snake camera ? I know you love paddling in mud but I would suggest you prioritise the ditch and your drainage channels that way the land will be much drier and easier to move. Have a good weekend XX
Hahahaha, just pop yourself up there and shout down if you see anything dodgy..... like a small boy hahahaha.
We are chuffed to bits with the fireplace find, it really has thrown a curve ball with what we decide in the end though. Stove in tiles fireplace, stove in hole... open fire, probably not the open fire.
We had a good day today with the rest of the walkway and due rain later so we will get to see how well it works now it is dug out.
Have a lovely weekend too Carol :-) xx
Amazing discovery
It was a real surprise to us Charlene, we really had no idea the arched fireplace was there. It will look lovely once finished, I say finished, it could be a while before we start it haha.
Thank you for watching and commenting and also becoming a subscriber :-)
Could that have been the first original fireplace, and the fancy Edwardian one put in later?
Hi Diane, thanks for always joining us and commenting :-)
Well...... we don't think it was used before the Edwardian one went in. We wonder if it is a case of the arch is stronger than a flat piece of steel but was never intended to be used without the Edwardian fire. Sadly I don't think we will ever know the truth, but we do know it is exciting haha.
Thanks again Diane, have a nice weekend :)
Probably best to install a French drain at the base of that out building to facilitate better drainage. Crack on!
Good evening :-)
We were only discussing that today. After digging out the rest of that area today and rain due tomorrow, we will get an idea of what water goes where. I am not sure how far down we could go with a drain due to the bedrock so hopefully with the "walkway" dug, it will find it's way to the ditch.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Have a nice weekend :-)
Beside that Dawn must have Duch ancestors Digging ditches en canal water… have you thought of a woodburner were you see fire and wat heats your water system? They are amazing and have and have a 90% efficiency burning wood. We had one and will build a new one in our new old house.
I can’t deny I like a bit of digging! lol the ditches are sooo satisfying too because you get to see the standing water start to trickle and flow.
Wood burner is probably going to be the way we go with as open fires like you say aren’t very fuel efficient and we really need some decent heat on that side of the house. We will go with a range for the kitchen with a back boiler so that we can heat the water and the house with radiators at some point too. 😊
Great video and great work.Lovely fireplace great ebd to busy day.
Thank you Anne. Yes, a really nice end to the day, a long day but a really good one.
Have a lovely weekend :-)
Congratulations on hitting 4K subscribers, and the drainage ditch is coming along nicely! We actually got a bit of rain today which is rare for us, but much appreciated! 😊 Love you guys! 💚
Thank you, 4k is amazing and climbing and you are one of those so thank you :-)
The ditch is getting there and working better each time Dawn does something with it. It has made the world of difference already with the back of outbuilding.
Will the bit of rain you had make any difference? I am picturing something like a wildlife programme where is has been dry for 6 months and with a single rain droplet there is an acre of green appearing, am I over imagining do you think? haha.
Thank you so much for always being here and we hope everything is well with you :-)
Respect to both your crocs 👌👌👌👌🤣
Exactly! Best footwear in the world! Not the best for moving a cast iron fireplace topped off with lots of stones but still….we were comfy! 🤣
That was so cool. I love watching the property come back!
Thank you! Yeah we have missed doing stuff to the house whilst we’ve been doing bits on the land, it’s nice to see it reveal new things and we were so surprised to see that sort of chimney place opening! We think it will look great cleaned up, repointed and a stove in there.
Great!
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Looks like you need to use an a tree felling saw to cut that stump into a manageable size.
It is certainly a heavy, waterfilled, but of rotten tree trunk. We quite like it where it is now and also hoping the water will begin to dry out now it isn't stuck in the ditch.
Thank you Robert for watching and commenting today :-)
I love following these projects especially the old Irish home restorations and yours is a beauty… well done so far on all you’ve achieved, you guys are amazing and so inspiring. I would definitely do this if I had someone to share the dream 👌✨
Wow thank you that’s so lovely of you! It is a lovely house and we love it and all its little quirks! I hope that one day you get to do this, because although it’s hard going at times…it is also an amazing thing to do and so rewarding when you stand back and see what you have achieved! ❤️
Hello, you are really working hard, and achieving a hell of a lot , 👍👍the blogs are so good 😁
Aww thank you! We really happy you like them and it means so much! 😘
I think all the soot would have to be scrubbed off for it to be rendered to block holes. So liner would make sense. But losing the open fire😢.
I know it is very 😢 I really had hoped we could keep that, but don’t want to chance there being holes further up that we can’t get to.
Oh yes, it’s going to be a dirty job getting those stones cleaned…I love a good cleaning challenge! 😮
I love watching you two! I know it's hard work but all your progress looks so good. Keep up the good work 😊
Thank you Linda. It is hard work, we are feeling it this evening, maybe we will go a bit slower tomorrow lol.
Have a nice weekend and thank you for commenting :-)
A good video, really enjoyed it. Much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie 🇺🇸💖 PS oh my gosh the fireplace fine is fantastic. Now can you guys have an open fire? Yeah I bet you're going to need a steel flue put up there because when you have to line the whole thing because all the bricks up where I bet have cracks in them? Man, Ben cleaned up that fireplace mess up super fast 😂 And his face at the end lol 🤣 Mary Poppins
Aww thanks Jackie! Glad you liked it. Fireplace is great isn’t it? We really weren’t expecting to find that and it was a bit wow to see it! We’re probably going to get a wood burning stove to go in there, if we were to get a inset stove we could put most of the original fireplace back but we’re not sure whether we will do that or go for a freestanding one yet, will have to have a think once the flue liner is in. Yeah we suspect there will be missing mortar further up the chimney too so going to be difficult to get that done without a lot of work needing to be done, so a flue liner will be the safer and less time consuming way forward.
Haha yeah he was really fast at cleaning that fireplace, it’s a shame we can’t put ourselves on Timelapse in real life and get every job done at that speed! lol 🤣 Mary Poppins! Chim, chimeney chim chim cheroo!
Have you looked into making a french drain around the house.
Good evening Marian. That was our plan when we bought the house, it was going to be so simple.... and then we found the bedrock sticking up and around the house and the electricity company needing a giant breaker to just get the pole in.
Once we have cleared all of the remaining soil and grass from around the house, we will have a better idea of what we can do, if anything. Getting down to the bottom of the outbuilding has been a good exercise though as it gives us an idea of what to expect when we do it around the house. It isn't everyday you start to expose the foundations of your house lol.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Have a nice weekend.
First, I’ve been so excited because yesterday we noticed that the tulip poplar were bursting with blossoms and so were the non-fruit baring pear…so, spring has hit Maryland. Ben I felt saw the dirt on your forehead, then the soot smudge on the side of your nose…definitely, signs you’ve been busy. Dawn, I don’t know too much about Victorian domestic, but I bet you’ve been googling like I have. Seems that arch was very common in Victorian houses. I’m wondering if there was a different hearth there and it was switched out to a smaller square one in the early 20th century. The style of the mantle and the tiles look more early 20th, than mid 19th, but again it’s out of my wheelhouse. Are you two planning to put a retaining wall to keep the “walkway” from getting filled up again? I was quite shocked how much water was coming out of your out buildings. Enjoy your weekend…I’m working on my kitchen garden tomorrow.
Fantastic news with Spring reaching you and your blossoms sound great. We are still waiting for the blossom on the apple trees, which might be sometime yet, but our hopes are high.
Ah, you fell for the "I have mud and soot on my face" prank... It really did look like I had been working hard didn't it hahahaha.
We think (guessing really) that is was built like that for strength and then the cast iron fireplace put in but we have no way of knowing for sure. It doesn't look like it was used prior to the Victorian / Edwardian fire, but again, it is only guessing really as we may never find out.
The pathway will have some sort of retaining thingy to stop it falling again. I would tell you our plans but that would spoil the surprise haha.
LOADS of water started coming out so we knew at that moment we were doing the right thing. Now that it is all dug out (Dawn working yesterday) the rain water is away from the wall which is a great step forwards.
As always Dory, thank you so much for joining us and sharing our adventure and have a great weekend, hopefully checking on your blossom :-)
Guys I love your little 'stream' I hope to do this on our land at some point soon. I know how hard it is to dig in the 'soil' here, so I totally respect you both for how much you have done by hand. 💪💪❤
Yeah the ditch is running and working well now and getting rid of water from around the buildings. The soil is lovely to dig as it is so soft, sadly it is all the stones and roots which takes the time.
@thecornerhouseproject that's brilliant, ours is clay mostly. Glad it's working well. Hopefully you will have a lovely fire going soon too. Minus the smoke! X
Well, too bad that you’re losing the open fire but having a wood burning stove venting to a steel liner will be very much better and, most importantly safer. Looking at that fireplace it may inspire some unique ideas.
Yes, I must admit I’m a bit sad about losing that. I liked the idea of a roaring open fire in the winter but it will be much safer with a liner and stove and more energy efficient than the open fire too. Like you say though with the shape and look of what we have there it could look really good. Will have to scour Pinterest for ideas!😉
Well Done. 4000 subscribers. Congradulations.
Thank you! 🤩 We’re so over the moon to have reached those dizzy heights!
The word I was looking for was Chin saw
That's the word :-)
Very hard work congrats✌✌✌✌ Ι feel a bit anxious watching a program with a cup of coffee in hand😇😇😇🙈🙈🙈 Love from Greece❤
Thank you very much. Don't feel bad with a coffee in hand, we do the same when we are watching UA-cam hahaha.
Thank you Anastasia for watching and commenting. Have a great weekend :-)
Nice work guys. Enjoy what you are doing lots of progress being made. Keep up the good work
Thank you William. We are enjoying it too, feeling it tonight, but enjoying it :-)
Have a nice weekend up in sunny Nairn :-)
The nice cast iron fire surround was manufactured by the Falkirk Iron Co. However for safety and efficiency reasons a wood burning stove is the better option. We initially had a similar cast iron fireplace in our stone farmhouse but replaced it with a stove. The stove installation is critical - flue should be lined with flexible liner and insulating infill.
Hi Tom. You are right with the manufacturer, it is the same as the other two open fires we have upstairs. Dawn did get to see what it was once we turned it around but sadly got edited out.
We will be going with a stove now that the liner is fitted. We had no alternative really due to the smoke escaping in the loft space above the bedroom.
Thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Ey up here is another subscriber.
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Thank you very much indeed Penny. Also, we really hope that Penny Lane is your real name as that is great.
Have a great weekend and thank you again :-)
Wow what an amazing discovery fireplace wise. When its all finished it will look proper good. Have loved this episode.
We were as surprised as you. We couldn't work out what the arch bit was when we started to pull the fireplace. But now it gives so much scope :-)
Thanks, it is nice to know when people enjoy a particular video. It was a long day :-)
Thank you as always :-)
Sooo much in today's video! I can't believe the lane belongs to the same house - and I kind of never believed you had that much land, it was so overgrown. When Ben said you'd reached your water storage goal, I thought to myself, "and another 5,000 gallons running through the lot." Once you get roofs back on the outbuildings you should be able to collect and store a lot more for your use and also cut down on the swamp conditions. It's amazing those buildings' footings aren't washed away.
You should have pretty loamy soil as it's just been left for leaves and plants to decay for so many years. It would be interesting to see, Ben, if the bedrock is only a few feet below the dirt all across the property. That would explain a lot about the water retention issues. I'd be tempted to plant some butternut squash seeds in that huge tree trunk this summer.
How exciting is that fireplace??? I have to admit that I wasn't a fan of the surround; I thought it was some 1930s-50s tile. If it's wood - now *that's* got potential! Exposing the original fireplace opening is so exciting! The lime mortar was falling off due to damp; and the mortar up the flue probably fell out due to the rain and damp over the years. If you can patch up as far as you can reach, just to stabilize the stone, you should be able to drop the liner and attach it to a lovely wood or pellet stove. You have plenty of room, now, for a nice sized one that can be a feature in the room and heat much of the ground floor. I'd mortar as much of the stone as I could reach and render over it, paint it white, and get a big wood stove. Even, if you could find it, one of the old enamel ones that have an oven and a hot plate on top so you can boil your tea water while you watch TV. 😉 Do you watch Sean's World on UA-cam (in your spare time)? He's a builder who worked with the Pethericks for years, but now has his own channel where he's renovating some cottages that are hundreds of years old. In the one where he lives, he has a gorgeous wood stove in the living room. The cottage he's renovating had exactly the same issue with smoke and deteriorated chimney mortar. He's patched what he can, for structural support, and dropping a flue liner.
I never cease to be impressed at the amount of hard graft you two put in in a day. I, for one, would turn tail and run in that rain! 😳 I'm beyond thrilled you are getting so many views on your channel. Every ad penny counts toward that kitchen stove!
WOW, that is what you call a comment, thank you so much.
We are just off out the door and your comments need a real reply, so we will be back with a full reply :-)
And I have just noticed you have become a Channel Member, thank you so so much. A big shout out will be coming your way.
Real reply coming when we get back :-)
Right, back... here we go lol.
The lane is public but that one building isn't on the side of our land. I say our land but that building sits on it's own bit of land, basically it's foot print.
Yes, today we officially hit 5000 litres of water and can't store anymore :-( We will have to decide on the best way forward with storage. More IBC tanks or large tank solutions keeping it all in one place. You are right with the gutters on the outbuildings, that is yet more water and needs more storage. We will get there. The outbuildings are mainly sat on the bedrock, which is great as that isn't ever being washed away. If it was all dirt we may have left digging alone.
The puddle Dawn showed on the previous video where the tractor had been has about 6" of water in surrounded by grass. With the bar I was able to push through the grass and some gravel to hit solid rock and you are right, this is exactly why it isn't draining. With some thought and some channels we should be able to sort the issue.
Butter nut squash.... as we are not gardeners, can you share why those and why that position please? For info, that position won't get any sun, maybe an hour at the height of summer in the mornings.
The fireplace, yes, isn't that great. We were amazed when we saw the arch appear at the top and we were a bit confused to start with until we saw what we had found. You are the second person not to be a fan of the fire, but we will be torn with keeping an original feature but with a stove in it or a fully exposed arch and stone. Decisions decisions... hmmmm. It will be limed as much as we can but on a whole it is looking quite good apart from the bottom area.
We have watched a few of Sean's World videos but will have to take another look as a lot of our watching for was reference and learning as we went. What is nice now is that although there is soooooo much work still to be done, we are comfortable in the house and hopefully we will be able to spend some time to relax a little between jobs and catch up on some bits and pieces.
It is enjoyable work though so is it really work? We just need to work on starting earlier in the day.
We are over the moon with 4k subscribers and still going up. You are so right, every view is one step closer to the range.
Thank you so much for ALSO becoming a channel member, you are very kind.
Have a lovely weekend and sorry the reply was a long time coming.
Regards
Ben
What a very productive day with exciting discovery’s. See you Monday.
It really was a productive one! See you Monday! 😘
You are both amazing. 😊
Thank you Karen ❤️
You both must be on good drugs as keep on going and working in the rain and that mud. Doing a fantastic job and now getting water to drain from under the out building , slow and small But its moving it.
Nice to see the inside of house again and that fireplace now removed and having a big space.
Old house with has to be many holes to let fumes through the wall and like the idea of a liner. This house of horrors or mysteries in DIY and getting it cleaned up is keeping your viewers on the edge of their seats.
Well done and get to have a Nice St. Patricks weekend with some green food and green Guinness.
I am pretty sure it will catch up with us at some point, the end of the days we ache but come the morning, it’s not so bad again, so we keep going lol yes it was nice to see that water start to run out. We learning a lot really do this ourselves because although we knew there was a lot of water around the place it hadn’t occurred to us because the outbuilding is filled with about a foot or so of soil you couldn’t tell. At least now it can run in and back out again until we sort the drainage properly around the house.
It will be lovely to start and do some more to the house again…we’ve held off a little because the stuff that needs doing is going to get pretty dusty and for that we need warmer weather for the doors and windows to be constantly open. So much that we’re itching to get started on!
Yeah we think a liner is the best option too, we can repoint the stones of the chimney as far as we can see and get to but we don’t know what else is happening higher up, so yep the liner will be a good thing. 😊
Happy St Patrick’s day to you Simon 😘
Thanks!
Mary, thank you so so much and if you have got to the end of the video, sorry we couldn't remember your name, it felt like a long day yesterday.
Thank you for your generosity, watching and commenting :-) Have a lovely weekend.
Also just noticed you have become a channel member, thank you so so much.
See you Monday :-)
Ohhh brilliant !!! Thoroughly enjoying the drain digging and excavation and then you move on to fireplaces !!!! A dog grate would be perfect in the open fireplace ,i can just imagine it but because of the smoke escaping you will need the liner. So a multifuel stove with 2 opening doors at the front ,and the exposed stone behind will be perfect !!!!......in my opinion 😂😂😂😂
Haha thought you might like a little fire action! We were sooo surprised to see that. I think we assumed we’d find the usual squared off fireplace not much bigger than the fire surround that went it, so it was amazing to see that appear and so much bigger! I love the sound of the 2 door stove, that sounds just perfect! So….i very much like your opinion! 😘
I have been following you since you lived in the tent. Hardworking team. Cannot wait to see what you accomplish next.
Oh wow! That feels like such a long time ago now! Actually didn’t mind living in the tent but I am sure that if we still lived in it, I might not be saying the same thing! Thank you so much for being with us all the way and still watching.
We’re almost done on the big stuff on the land, so now we need to decide what we will we do next!
Oooh marvelous finding the original fireplace. I confess that I never felt the hearth was original and wondered what was behind. After seeing a few other channels that have revealed fireplaces, it isn't unusual to find that the original width of the opening is only revealed after a vertical layer of side bricks (left and right of the opening) are removed. Do you think your opening could be wider or do you think that's the original width?
Good evening Tracy, how are you today?
We think it is originally that width and has only ever had that fire in it. Looking at the left and right sides it looks pretty final but we are always open to having a little dig about to see if it may be wider. Even if it is the final width, it could look lovely with a bit of lime and a nice wood stove in it. Or, we keep the surround with a nice wood stove in it.
It has been a lovely day here today, no rain. What is it like for you at the moment?
Have a lovely weekend and thank you :-)
It was a beautiful find and whatever you guys choose to do with it is going to be fantastic and exciting to watch. We're well, we had a real nice day yesterday for us to do a walk through the cemetery and saw snowdrops (thought about you Brits as those are popular over there) but I hesitate to get too "spring" excited as here in Ontario we don't put the snow shovel away until April 17th to be safe, haha.@@thecornerhouseproject
Awwww, we do like snowdrops. I would love some on that wall, maybe a few small patches.
Wow April 17th, why 17th? Hopefully our snow has finished now. Now it is just rain, but 5000 litres of it, love it :-)
See you tomorrow :-)
April 17th is when the snow shovel and winter boots get put away because here in Ontario I've seen snow on April 15th, so I always add a couple days later to be sure winter is gone for good, haha.@@thecornerhouseproject
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What a great video tonight. Loving the arch fireplace also kitty watching 👍 😂
Aww glad you and Lulu liked it Auntie Chris ❤️❤️
What a fantastic discovery, my parents found a beautiful arched brick fireplace about this size in their home many years ago, they pointed the bricks at the bottom put a flue and wood burning stove in, the heat from it was amazing, hope you don’t cover it up, it’s a lovely feature, you two are definitely hard working, garden is looking great!
Hi Jen, thank you for joining us and commenting.
Our kitchen fireplace has the arches bricks and we will be restoring that at some point, but the one in the living room may just be like that for strength. We will be looking at all options of what to do with it. It will definitely have a wood stove in it, but at the moment we don't know if it will all remain open or if the original fireplace will go around the stove. I bet your parents surround looks lovely which is why it will be a hard choice for us.
We don't stop when something needs doing and at the moment... everything needs doing haha.
Thank you again, have a nice weekend :)
What an improvement, this fireplace. The plaster around would probably hide a beautiful natural stone wall which needs to be repointed. Much more character now. Great find
Isn't it nice, we were really shocked, if a little confused at first, but once we realised what we had found we were over the moon. We plan on exposing some of the stones, repointing everything in the fireplace and then putting in a nice wood stove. It will heat the room much more than an open fire too.
Thank you for watching and commenting Wanda :-)
Do you think you could have an inglenook fireplace behind all that plaster?
Hi Anne, thank you for watching and commenting this evening.
We don't think so as the wall isn't very thick, unlike the kitchen. This fireplace is just built into a standard wall. The kitchen fireplace will be opened up at some point in the summer though, that is really exciting as we know what should be there. The living room fireplace was a lovely surprise and now we are excited about that too now hahaha.
Have a great weekend :-)
Undoubtedly the pair of you will have abs of steel with all that raking and pushing about. doubt you could seal the inner chimney safely, flue would be best and easier. However, I've seen flues attached to hoods of sorts that make an open firepit possible. someone a long while ago, assessed the lay of the land and designed drainage to flow to the bottom of it. Been loving the music and editing you have been doing Ben, and I think a lot as well. Love that your channel shares a bit of your lives and not just about project facts and acts like a lot of them. Crack on!
Hahaha yeah we probably will! It’s hurting in my shoulder muscles today I can tell you! Yeah it’s a shame with chimney but we can’t be sure there aren’t any holes elsewhere so a liner is probably the best and safest thing to do. That’s a good idea with the hood for a fire pit. I do think we will most likely go with a stove just to keep it all neat and contained.
It’s been great to do the land like we have done because we get to see the things that were put it place all those years ago. We love it because it’s like going out and solving little mysteries all the time!
He’s been doing a really good job on the editing and the music. We sometimes think “ooh not sure if we filmed enough to make a video” then Ben starts editing and adds music and it just ends up looking really good, he’s like a magician!
I don’t think we could leave ourselves and our lives out of the videos even if we tried lol it’s just not us! ❤️✨