NEARING 10,000 SUBSCRIBERS! We PLOT The Tower RECONSTRUCTION! S4E40
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- We investigate the trouble with the tower from the inside!
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#historicpreservation #abandonedplaces #restoration
This is another restoration video of our historic house. We saw this historic house for sale that had wonderful stone masonry and was mostly a brick house. The Romanesque architecture was amazing for this cheap house. With the slate roof and the masonry repair we had to do it was a great renovating house. We have to cope with termites damage and termite repair. The stained glass and fireplace mantels were amazing. If you are looking for abandoned historic homes or abandoned places look no further. We don't have any scary stories but a virtual house tour of the Mooreland House aka Mooreland Mansion aka Harrodsburg Castle aka Ashfeld Manor is a great place to follow.
Our DIY historic preservation videos are not necessarily how to videos. We get a lot of inspiration from some of our favorite channels like Wild Wonderful Off Grid, Pure Living for Life, Onboard Lifestyles, Mike Haduck Masonry and many more. We love our little castle on the hill.
Frank, the king of diy masonary and Carrie, the queen of diy hot lime mortar. When you two get the tower completed you will both be certified.
Yeah, by the time we are done we will be true masons. =)
A monumental task! .. If anyone can tackle this, it is you! .... Your determination is phenomenal.. keep looking forward!
Somehow it doesn't seem as scary as the first time we took down a big wall. At least this time we are starting with some experience and better equipment.
It’s just a couple of brick walls and a few stones. You’ll have them taken down and rebuilt in no time. Y’all got this!!!
Ha! Thanks for the confidence boost. =)
🦘🦘🦘Frank and Carrie I can’t tell you both how much I admire your spirit. Love Sunday nights here in Australia when you pop up with a post 🦘🦘🦘
Thanks for spending part of your Sunday night with us!
Hello Frank and Carrie, I love your blogs and I admire your commitment and energy you both give week after week keep going I’d love to see you finish
Thanks!
I think you are both very brave to take on the work this home needs. If not for people like you, these buildings would be lost to history. Well done to you both. Huge effort. Great reward.
The whole idea was to save this old house. We think we did it.
It’s a good thing you love restoring this old house because that tower looks like a LOT of work.
It is a lot of work but it is satisfying work. =)
You are both going to have a LOT of fun! You are amazing!🎉🎉🎉
Yes we are!
Since you guys do this for fun, I’m so happy for you. You will have a lot lot lot LOT of fun in the tower!!! I can’t wait for the slew of dad jokes that will surely accompany this work too!😂❤
Hopefully they will be new dad jokes and not just recycled ones. =)
@@moorelandhouse Is it recycled though if I’ve forgotten you’ve told it before? The world may never know?😳
True!
I'm all caught up on my 1-4 season binge. Now I have to wait a week for the next exciting action packed, edge of your seat episode! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the tower. Thank you so much for sharing your work and progress. It has been fun to watch.
Congratulations!
awesome video the tower will be a huge task
It is but it is attainable.
Well as you said the house tells your where to focus. We know you will get it done. You inspire me and others to take on challenges. Looking forward to the next video, where you start tackling the tower. 😊❤
Yes, the house is definitely pointing to the tower rebuild. =)
Let the fun begin. It's going to take a lot of work to restore this tower -- but, boy, the satisfaction when it's done.
Yes. It will be very satisfying.
Pretty tough looking, I think you've got this, looking forward to seeing how you tackle this beast of a tower! 😊👍
We have been semi planning this for almost 4 years. Nice to be getting to it.
Frank, you sure have a hard job ahead of you. I'm hoping you have the strength to do all the repairs, I know you have the courage. Please be careful. Blessings to you both. Kathy Mphs
It isn't really a hard job but it is going to have a difficult element with the height and monotony of brickwork.
Watched your tower video yesterday on my tv. and had to get on my computer to ask you to please be careful on this next job of yours. All those loose bricks and rotten boards looks dangerous! Don't take any chances and make sure the braces are in for support. As you mentioned you might take the roof tower off and work your way down I think would be your best option. Praying for you two !
Of course we will be careful. We have been working with the same type of rotten boards and loose brick for almost 4 years. We now have better equipment and more experience. Thanks for worrying about us but we will be okay.
This is certainly a substantial repair. It maybe the biggest and most hazardous repair you have undertaken on this house. However, you have both shown you are more than capable of undertaking unusual situations that have occurred before during your restoration of this grand old lady. Do it .
Thanks for the confidence. It is the biggest repair for sure and of course it could be dangerous. We will try to be safe.
Onward and Upward! LOL love watching you two tackle difficult jobs not to mention saving a grand old lady!
It will be onward and downward for a little while. =)
Thank you for sharing your vision for the restoration of the house with us. I enjoy your videos.
You're welcome! Thank you for being here on the journey.
Hey, yall are already certified crazy! Lol. But also you've gained so much experience with taking down, repairing, mapping, mixing, masonry work . ...this will go so much faster than you think.
You all, also have awesome organizational skills that make the job easier. Crack on! ( As Billy Petherick says!)
We also have better equipment this time. The boom lift is going to make a huge difference.
Happy Sunday!
Thanks! We can always count on your most welcome comment. =)
this looks like a huge job! but I have no doubt y'all will get it done, and have a good bit of content to boot. Surely this tower chapter will get y'all to 10,000, I'm surprised the number isn't higher!!
It is definitely a huge job but we will just take it a step at a time like usual. Nothing more than removing bricks and stones one at a time and then putting them right back where they should be. =)
One stone, one brickat, one day at a time! You"ve got this!
Exactly how we are going to handle it. Thanks!
Redoing the tower roof in the original style is certainly going to be interesting. I would be curious to know what happened to the original roof that made then have to redo it badly.
We have often wondered the same thing. We might find a few answers when we start taking down the top bricks.
For sure I would love to be part of your journey in person, but we are very grateful that you led us be there with you through your videos.
We will be with you every step of the way!
We enjoy sharing the journey and are glad you are here with us.
Thanks for the video!
You're very welcome!
It's a huge undertaking, but once you get it done, that will be a BIG check off on the to-do list. You've got this.
Yes, it is one of the biggies.
Love your show and followed since beginning. Oy would suggest taking the tower down to 2nd floor. It's really not worth the overall expense.
Since we do it all ourselves... the only expense is sand. We can afford that.
A joyful thing you are doing.
It really does bring us joy.
Near 10,000, to be expected, when you 2 are the Greatest here.. Like some one once told me, the fun part of a house, never boring, always something,, Saw the outside of the tower, now the inside, Yep planning time.. Just to add, checked email, re 'tower talk', reminded me of favorite Gene Pitney song, 'Tower Tall'...
Aw, you made us blush. =) We will have to look up that song.
You guys amaze me how you take everything in strides be safe and i hope we all can see the end result God willing. Keep going
This project would have kicked our butts a long time ago if we couldn't roll with the punches. It makes it easier to put a lot of it into God's hands.
Welcome👋. Congratulations on the increasing number of subscribers to your channel, I am glad you are appreciated.... The tower is in a really bad state and it's a good idea to rebuild it now, I'm not worried about this project as I know you can rebuild it and I know you know how to do it, so I look forward to the video of the work. Warm regards to Kerrie and Frank , and the wonderful cats, see you next week.
This one has been on the back burner for quite a while. Glad to finally be getting to it.
Wow just wow. The safety element of repairing the tower is the biggest hurdle. I like the rachet strap idea and some external buttressing. If would be nice to repair the middle first without removing every brick and stone above. I like the concrete ring beams you employed in the wall restoration but how to get them in and support the weight above. Challenging but i have seen facades supported with whole building removal - it just took a mountain of steel I am an aerospace engineer and out of my element but i think steel will be in your plan
It's going to be an interesting project to be sure. Pretty sure there is a famous quote about No plan survives first contact with the enemy. That will apply here. =)
That is a daunting and dangerous task ahead. I have faith in your skills and safety but as always sending prayers all goes well. When you did the front of the house and the stone and brick work I knew you could save her.
We always are encouraged by prayers. Thanks!
Always excited to see you on Sundays! 😊
And we enjoy getting your comments!
You know, the leak in the roof-At timestamp, 4:24 it looks like a little seam where it meets the wall is pulled out- might be an optical illusion. Probably more likely where it's got the wrinkle in the liner. Also I noticed the liner moved when Frank stepped on it.
That roof covering is actually supposed to be the base for torch down rubber roofing. There are a few wrinkles in it and some of the thin plastic sheet is free to flop in the breeze. The roof deck is only 1/2 inch plywood so there is some flex in it when stepped on.
Вы такие молодцы. Всегда с удовольствием смотрю Ваши видое. Успехов Вам в спасении дома. С любовью из России.
Ух ты! Вы первый зритель из России. Спасибо за просмотр.
Congratulations on a well deserved 10,000 subscribers. I have really been looking forward to the tower restoration so can't wait for next week.
We aren't there yet... about 120 to go. Maybe before next week.
U all funny too. LifeLock . Ha ha ha!!!!! 👍👍👍👍
Not sure if it was the correct service but it still made the same point. =)
That’s going to be a huge job but it will be gorgeous in the end! When I watch you guys using Bertha and the other equipment it amazes me that this home was built without conveniences such as those! Keep on keeping on!! ❤
They must have had quite a bit of lumber in scaffolding by the time they got the place built.
Fun times full steam ahead ... steady as she goes. 😊 How’s Kitten doing? 💝
Kerry said that Kitten was no longer with them in a reply to a comment on one of their videos a few months back. She didn't say what happened.
Kitten was the best stray cat we ever knew. She did pass away at the end of last year. We don't plan on addressing it in a video but we do let the people know that ask about her in the comments. We all miss her.
Sorry to hear Kitten has passed away. What happened? Did you find her?@@moorelandhouse
Great video
Thanks!
I can't wait for this to commence. I know you can do this because you went to school on the first tower. Which is just as well becuase that would scare the wotsits out of me. I hope the heater wasn't on, otherwise you'll have a roasted kitty cat, or a singed moggy, at best. 😂 Thanks for sharing.
Oh, the cats fight over who gets to sleep next to that heater when it is on. You are correct. We learned a lot from our first wall experience and expect this one to go even better.
WOW! That’s gonna be ALOT of fun. Makes our work look like a slow ride to grandmas house.
Yeah, some projects seem to be bigger than others. =)
I find this tower project overwhelming! It will be very interesting to watch you tackle this one for sure. To me, it seems it needs so much dismantling. It just appears to be so fragile to the point of collapse in some areas. Sending prayers of safety, please be careful even on your aerial lifts.
We will be careful. We will just take it like everything else, one step at a time.
Brings new meaning to ‘March madness’!!! So, will you start on the roof, then work your way down the outside? I wish I could do something like this…. It looks so interesting and fun! 😊❤
We will have to figure out the best way to hold up the roof. If we have to take it off, we will.
I am glad we are back at some joistsssists😊good luck
We are happy it is almost Spring and back to building season for us.
Wow, just wow. This task seems tougher than tough. I know you spend a lot of time preparing for the job. But this one seems like a lot more planning would need to happen. Be careful. God bless you. And thanks for sharing the journey with all of us.
This time we at least have more experience and better equipment. Thanks for looking out for us.
Frank and Kerry, Your videos are very inspiring with a positive message. Keep them going. Maybe we will drive by on our way to “Sun-n-Fun” in April. All the best. Dave
Thanks Dave! Hope you are enjoying your retirement.
The attic ceiling height is unreal, it’s so huge up there.
Yeah, it's a 20 foot high ceiling.
@@moorelandhouse it’s remarkable ☺️
U all want to scare us to death. Bunch of daredevils. 😮😮😮😮❤
Sorry. We just do what needs to be done.
Oh man you have a challenge this almost seams more dangerous than the front wall dormer was. Remember several people have told you that you should never take down the walls just point them lol. I think given the current state of the roof I might just remove it completely as a first step than you are going to have to take down at least 2 floors on 3 sides luckily 2 of them have big windows so that's less brick work. My big worry would be how you support the remaining walls while removing and rebuilding the bad ones. We know what your doing for fun this summer and fall.
We don't think the remaining walls are really at any peril. They are solid and 12 inches thick without any cracks or bad mortar. We just picture those old castles that have a single wall standing out in a field for 100 years and they don't fall down. We will find out more though as we start dismantling.
Question...can you continue to use a form of your current gutter bypass system & reinstall the old box gutter facades... Essentially reinstalling the box gutter architectural element while creating a system to redirect water coming off the roof to a lower maintenance method. The box gutters are a cool element, but seem to require more work to keep them healthy.
We are still trying to resolve the box gutter issue. We will figure it out soon.
Rebuild it.
That's the plan!
Man, that gives me anxiety seeing you two up in that tower knowing now how unstable it is. Go slow and please be careful!! I noticed at the beginning when you were standing at the tower base, you can see how dark the front porch is because of the cement mortar they used. It also looks like the side porch is dark too. Did they also use it there and will that have to be replaced with lime mortar as well?
We are not sure about the status of the porticoes. We haven't done any in depth discovery yet.
sad for you both ... many many hours of work ahead......
Well, since we enjoy it, it is great for us. =)
Kerry my friend watches all your videos from Lexington on his TV. He asked me to ask what has happened to Kitten. He hasn't seen it in the past several videos he says.
Kitten was the best stray cat we ever knew. She passed away at the end of last year. We don't plan on addressing it in a video but we do let the people know that ask about her in the comments. We all miss her.
@@moorelandhouse ooh, my friend is going to be sad to know. Thank you so much. 😞
We all feel the loss of Kitten. I had a stray kitty that became my house cat for 8 yrs. She went over the rainbow bridge a year ago on our 47th wedding anniversary. Our kitty was ill and her passing that day wasn't a complete surprise. I am so so sorry for your loss. I know how hard it is to lose an animal friend. I hope she is buried on the property in a nice spot still watching over the Castle she loved so much.
I've been looking forward to the tower work. Do you plan on pouring the walls like you did with the bay window?
We will have to make that determination once we find out how much of the tower we have to take down. It would make it a lot stronger to figure out a way to pour a band all the way around the tower at some point.
I kept thinking about the "rubble course" after you told me what it was. It is beautiful. To my mind, I can see where it may have been a good way to use any and all stone pieces. As a craftsman though, it would have been so time consuming to create. For you folks....it seems next to impossible because you have to record where each piece is so it can be returned. How does one do that?? I guess I'll find out!!!!
Last time we just took a picture and printed out a copy. We etched every stone with a number and wrote the corresponding number on the printed out photo.
... as others have stated... if any one can, it is you... after rebuilding the towers, this is minor.. there is faith in you.
Thanks for boosting our confidence. =)
I keep thinking about the problem of the tower. If you took the tower down two floors and caped it there with a roof how would the house look? This would take the weight of the bricks and stone off the rest of the floors. By starting there and rebuilding upwards it might prove easier. As you can see I am not a builder just a housekeeper.
We are doing an historic restoration. We will put it back like it was originally. The floors will just need to be held up while the walls get redone.
How will you go about rebuilding the tower? Do you start at the bottom or do you start at the top and work down? I’m looking forward to finding out how you do it. You guys have this!
We will be taking down the brick and stone until it is to a point that is solid. After that, we just start putting it right back like it was originally.
Jinga 😂
Yes, one big Jenga puzzle.
Wow, that's going to be a lot of work! Just curious, what kind of airplane does Frank fly?
Frank flies the Boeing 767.
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Your mission on this tower reminds me of the Six Million Dollar Man intro: "Gentlemen, we can rebuild it, we have the technology, we have the capability to make the world's first bionic house. Harrodsburg Castle will be that house, better than it was before, better, stronger, faster (leak proof)" 😂
We might never get to leak proof. We will be happy with leak resistant. =)
How high are you from the ground in the tower attic? Love the videos
In the attic of the tower, we are standing about 55 feet off of the ground.
Looking forward to watching you guys work your magic!
Remember it’s your hobby and that’s why you do this. 😅. It will be awesome when you are done. When it’s all done what are your plans for it?
We try to remind ourselves of that all the time. We plan on living it it eventually.
It's looking like you need to take the roof off and redo the walls down to the worst part that way you know it is done right.
Agreed! That is exactly the plan.
The condition of the tower is questionable enough, that I don’t think I would do very much interior exploration demo. Scary to think that 1x might be currently doing some structural duties as the rest of the wall disintegrates.
Yes the tower is a beautiful ruin, that needs a total rebuild.
I am impressed that the tower endures, a testament to the workmanship of the original craftsman and the quality of materials used.
Yes, a few months ago we were working on the top floor of the tower and quit taking down the wood paneling and trim around the windows for that very reason. We realized that the trim might be holding the whole thing together.
How do start from the bottom up or top to bottom?😮😮
Start from the top. Too many loose rocks and bricks to work under.
@@moorelandhouse would it fell when you get to tge bottom?
We have to start taking down the loose stone and brick from the top until it isn't in danger of falling anymore. Then it will be rebuilt from the bottom up.@@lindastarr6569
Definitely Stabilize the tower and possibly buttress, tie and repoint the good walls giving it shear strength because taking out the damaged wall could cause the remaining walls to separate and peal back like a big brick banana..this might sound crazy but you can use a bunch of high capacity ratchet straps which you can wrap around the tower and ratchet tight which will provide butressing stability and will keep the remaining walls from wanting to fall away.... take it slow and be careful...
Also, between the straps you can put up sheets of plywood, steel or 2×4s laterally running between the gaps of the horizontal straps staggered the 2x4s which should provide the stability needed especially if you have internal supports. Also, wood will protect the ratchet straps from being damaged by the stone.... just my observation
Not sure exactly how we are going to do it yet but there will be ratchet straps and lumber involved. You are correct about the remaining tower needing some stability while we take the decayed part down.
the non interlaced line. interesting information. made me wonder this. warm [sun shine on] side versus cold side.
is there seam line built into the tower to handle the expansion difference?
need to do some homework myself. do people use thicker amount of lime mortar to "handle expansion"?
found few references. Mostly says expansion control depended on sand (within the lime mortar matrix) to handle the expansion (not thicker).
Few indicating adding bit more sand (seems state less than 1/2 part sand) to normal lime mixture and mortaring the "target" bricks'; creating "expansion wall-stack-lines". They also say strongly forbid non-breathable equivalent materials [aka concrete] over those target bricks.
so translating my research; is the lime mortar on that suspect area more "rougher" (sand-ier) than remainder of the lime mortar?
Interesting. Thanks for doing that homework for us. We will have to look a little closer at it and see if there is a difference.
If the front porch is dried out how come the stones are still discolored ? will it take a bleaching process to make it look like the rest of the façade stones?
The water is trapped in the stones by the cement mortar so they never have a chance to dry out. The front portico was rebuilt with cement mortar in the mid 2000s.
At least you’ll be able to see where you’ve been with the tower project. Enjoy!
Very true!
I have no doubt you will do a rebuild of the tower. It will be beautiful but I wish you didn’t have to do it. Will be speaking to all the gods wishing you well..
Life would be boring if we didn't have a tower to rebuild. =)
How is Miss Kitten doing?
Kitten was the best stray cat we ever knew. She passed away at the end of last year. We don't plan on addressing it in a video but we do let the people know that ask about her in the comments. We all miss her.
i would remove two floors of the tower
That is probably how far down we will have to go to start the rebuilding process. Hopefully you aren't suggesting to take them down and not put them back up. That wouldn't be much of an historic restoration.
"Some people will say 'why in the world do you just walk around looking at stuff?' " Those people need to go back and watch you from the beginning to see what all you have done to restore this place 😂 It's called making a good plan instead of going in sledgehammers hitting hoping for the best. That's how the can of worms gets open 😉
Absolutely! The 7 "Ps". Proper Prior Planning Prevents Pitifully Poor Performance. =)
@@moorelandhouse truth ❤
Best wishes .
Thanks!
С любовью из России.
Спасибо!
I'm curious as to why someone would ask why do you just walk around looking at things if they knew anything it's that if you don't look you don't find all of the issues and why wouldn't you find all of the issues first instead of constantly making repairs if you don't deal with all issues then there will be a money pit because of one issue that wasn't found and dealt with if I had the cash I would try to tent the whole house then start at the top of the Tower and completely deconstruct all stone work and brick work then put a larger concrete base down for the tower then reconstruct everything
By the time we are done, we will have taken down about half of the stone and put it back on. You are not far off.
You do you 😅
Wilco!
Soapy water
Interesting. Never tried to find a roof leak with soapy water before.
I “say rebuild it like the other one.
Yep, that's what we plan to do.
Frankly I think the entire top of the tower is badly compromised. It looks like part of it could collapse. What is the value of the top anyway? I would take down the top floors to the attic roof level and create a turret style roof that would architecturally look correct. With all the tin facade rusted or rotted away...how to replicate that? You have no heating system or plumbing. Scrap the tower and restore the basic home! Do ever want it finished and live there??❤
We aren't sure anyone would pick you to do an historical restoration. =)
Count me in as a subscriber to help you reach that goal.
Thanks!
Remove top two floors
No.
This tower job requires several people on site, not a one man job.
Well, good thing we are doing it with 2 people. =)
Yes, I have assessed your leaking temp roof, I suggest a layer of heavy plastic with duct tape 😂😅, not a professional, just being silly, your welcome 😁
Ha! We have done that before. =)
Don’t use box cutters anymore get something else to go around the building or water runoff or decoration.
We will have to use box gutters still but we will figure out a better way to maintain them so they never destroy the house again.
Frank you really should be waring a mask. The video shows lots of terrible dust yur inhaling.
We knew we would get at least one mask comment. We just pulled off a few boards and then left the area while the dust settled. We didn't breath much.
rebuild it
That's the plan!