In this week’s video I’m investigating if I can bring the tiny house stone work back to it’s former glory.
We’re also harvesting our olives (whilst having fun along the way!) and Victoria attempts to make some olive oil!
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Ricky x
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Thar was fun to watch. I learned something new today. Hoping the best for your tiny home walls. Knowing you, you'll figure it out Ricky. Don't beat yourself up over it. Good harvesting you two.
Sounds like it's not a year for olives. I just watched The Newbies channel & their olives had little holes in them, the Olive Fruit Fly ruined their crop. Good luck next year!
Love your channel! Theo got help from Nick of “Project Portugal”. Nick was a mason in England. He probably would be a good source of advice. Also Kiley and Guy from “ Make Do Grow” are working on their house, they use lime plaster for their house and just did a lime/hemp plaster room in their house. Good luck on your project!
Is it perhaps also possible to use a sandblaster to get rid of the old cement? ❤👍
Didn't look very appetising the truth is in the tasting…we live in the middle of olive groves they have just been harvesting them there seemed to be alot x
Highly enjoyable as usual!
Good intentions were there 😁
Could not weaken things up with brick acid?
Well that was fun. It’s a shame about the concrete on the stone walls, but will that be used as accommodation? If so, just keep part of a wall as a feature and cover the rest? Really lovely video again. Cant wait for the next one. 🌸🌈🐨
had something similar in an old house in France, the wire brush your using with the drill will not work. if you want to go down that avenue you will need to get the heavy duty one for an angle grinder and attack the stubborn stuff with a sds plus attachement for your big drill. Personally I would cover all the internal walls with a lime mortar. this will actually breath and you won't get signs of damp
Hope you find a solution to your walls 👍🤞🏻 haha sorry your oil didn’t work out 🙈😂 yep leave it with the professionals but you gave it a go 😁
have you though of chipping the branches instead of burning them. If they are healthy, you would have nice free mulch-compost 😊
Congratulations on your creative approach to your videos that differentuate you from what has become a crowded space – the Portugal off-grid/homestead/farm community. I do love many of the other aforementioned channels too, but many doing the same take on just about everything is getting a bit tedious – with some notable exceptions.
Damn about that careless concreting of the beautiful stone walls in your tiny house. I hope you find a workable solution. It would be sooooo sad to have to cover them all up.
How Victoria gamed you with the house olive was brilliant. So much fun.
Having fun along the way is what its all about !! great video ! I wonder with the wall if you put up studding and boarded it out if you cut picture frames to reveal some of the original stone work ! if you get what I mean !!
HAHAHAHAHA Victoria is amazing hahahahaha
Needlescaler to remove the cement . Usually air operated .
I would suggest not giving up on the pointed stone feature wall. It adds texture to otherwise bland space if it is all rendered. If you continue with the cleaning and repointing in between stones it will look much better. Over time you can slowly continue to chip away at the worst of the old sloppy cement spots. When it is satisfactory you can paint it with pva glue (wood glue) diluted 5:1 or so which will keep the surface cleaner and lock in the particles of stone that would shed otherwise. Test first. I have similar granite stone walls I'm working on, and the rogue cement spots are not terrible when the rest is neat and pointed.
Hey, Ricky – looks like a job for an SDS+ drill with a chisel bit, set on 'roto stop'…..!!
…and ear defenders……!
ciao Ricky I think that granite is beautiful but it is also extremely closed to the passage of steam, so an interior plaster without a mixture of cement and hygroscopic can do a lot of good for the indoor environment. however, we have not yet isolated the wall. if we also want to improve the thermal insulation, we can work with thermo plaster or hygroscopic and capillary active panels (io penso che il granito sia bellissimo ma è anche estremamente chiuso al passaggio del vapore, quindi un intonaco interno senza miscele di cemento e igroscopico può fare molto bene all'ambiente interno. però ancora non abbiamo isolato la parete. se vogliamo anche migliorare l'isolamento termico, possiamo lavorare con termointonaco o pannelli igroscopici e attivi capillarmente)
Ricky , this was a great video from Dan at Escape to rural France on how to remove the mother from stone..🥰. https://youtu.be/ZPBAI2l1wTs
I watch another couple renovating their old stone barn near you. You might watch their channel or reach out to them for suggestions on how to get the filling out. They are the Indie Projects/Bee & Theo.
i used a routing tool in my drill which raked out the joints on my wall. I looks like a chubby reamer that you used in metalwork in school. Power washing might help the wall too
Hi Ricky,
I am originally from Sussex but now living on Turkeys south west med coast, we too have been
Olive harvesting these last few days in warm sunshine. What a wonderful life we now have, we also use the same harvesting tools.
Enjoy your harvest.
You too have such a great chemistry on camera. Looking forward to seeing your renovation on the tiny home.
Such a beautiful property. So nice to be able to take care of that shared olive oil press service.
Delighting in our visits to your home!
Loved your video, thanks for sharing, maybe next year harvest will be better.
Loving your channel. Regarding cleaning the stone work, maybe you can reach out to the channel ‘Project Portugal’ who is a builder from the UK. He may have some ideas on how to resolve your issue. Good Luck! Pauline from Sheffield UK.
Isn't there some kind of chemical that you can spray on to soften the concrete and then you can power wash the debris off? Or maybe you could use a sand blaster?
Fabulous video you two great folks, have a great week from South Africa 🇿🇦
Watching your videos is very relaxing and enjoyable.
Biting into an uncured olive is literally unforgettable!
Air powered needle gun and hydrochloric acid. Works wonders.
I absolutely love olives. yum yum
Thank you for including us in your experience.
This chocolate milkshake recipe looked a bit vile 🤣 loving the video though guys 👍😘
So nice to see both of you having some fun. Good on you, blessings Philippa Australia
Give your dog just under a quarter of an aspirin daily helps with the pain
Maybe Theo(Indie projects)can advise you on the wall cleaning? He's done a wonderful job on his barn conversion. We go to a restaurant on the canary island of La Palma called El Lagar and they have a beautiful big old olive press in the restaurant. Hope your oil comes back good. The two doggies looked very cute at the end of the video. Enjoyed watching.
Ricky I love the stone look even with concrete. It looks so… beautiful to me. When I was youngerI used to like everything perfect and no vintage. Now I appreciate the look of hard work like in stone work. Victoria is funny! Love her sense of humor. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Blessings