250 Year Old STONE Fireplace DISCOVERED in our farmhouse
250 Year Old STONE Fireplace DISCOVERED in our farmhouse
Join us for a jam-packed day of homestead adventures as Rob kicks off the morning with a special bank holiday breakfast for Clare, setting the tone for a day filled with DIY endeavors and unexpected discoveries. However, his attempts at plastering and mud and taping hit a snag, proving that even the best-laid plans can go awry.
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I wet down my paper before i put on the wall , for the corners of the ceiling put the mud into a bag, put a hole on the corner … make sure to fan out the mud 😊
Clare’s slug soup is the equivalent of sticking the heads of her enemies on polls in the garden. 😂 Rob, more water and constantly stir the mud for your plaster. Looking awesome though everyone! 💚
You can use the mesh tape on all your flat drywall seams, and paper tape for the corners. You’re doing a great job 😃
Clare with the sledge hammer is always fun to watch! Cheers, Kindle in B.C. 🇨🇦
He passed the baton to Clare!
Love your videos! Is there any way I can convince you to purchase premixed mud? Add a little water
To it in the pan and sluice the knife back and forth to create a smooth paste (about mayonnaise consistency) put this on your joints then place your presoaked paper tape on the mud. Slide your tape over tape and mud bed “burying” the tape. Dry overnight and then put another “skim” coat over the buried tape with a 12”taping knife.smoothing the mud as much as possible. After a bit of practice these two coats are quite thin and shallow. Finally put on a very thin and wide finish coat with a 18” taping knife.
This method has worked for me for years and years as a general contractor here in America. You will become an expert mudder after a room or two.
Pro tip: smooth the pre mixed mud as much as possible with plenty of water.
I have a question was there any reason you guys didn’t use the bags of plaster already mixed. That’s all we use here
You guys are doing great Claire is becoming the real Cracker Jack at the plastering. I love the bees wish I had some, I don’t know if anyone has bees here in Newfoundland dough. Anyway your doing wonderful job guys, oh by the way I use egg shells and I don’t have any issues with slugs so far. Keep it up guys❤️☘️☘️
I have giggled all the way through thank you so much for making my day, your all awesome ❤
Love your videos, you make a fantastic team too ❤️🇬🇧
Shelf on the supports will give you obviously additional space and will stiffen the whole table. No Eurovision, Im in New Zealand.
Awesome video.. in Australia we only mud with tape, don’t do mud all the plaster board, once mud is sanded, we slap on the paint. Do you have chickens? They will love the slugs for brekkie 😊we get in the garden at night with head lamps and collect the little buggers. Nice job on the work bench… can’t get my head around black pudding, I remember my Irish grandmother trying to get us kids to eat it, wasn’t a pretty sight 😂
What a fantastic video. From slug soup to FIN meals and shakshuka, and then to sharpening pencils, plastering and workshop bench, finishing with a 200 year old fireplace! Fantastic, keep up the great work. Pauline
How about a shelf under your worktable. Could be very handy for putting your tools. ❤❤ Claire you're a great worker. Himself isn't bad either. You're a good team. 😂😂😂hadn't realised your daughter is helping you. Good girl. ❤
We plaster like your doing in Australia
Definitely a jam packed video, it’s starting to feel like normal life is beginning to resume with all the bits and pieces going on alongside all the big stuff that has been achieved. You’re closing in on the finishing line with it being a home once again. Well done for pretty much always keeping the positivity going. You are inspiring! It’s going to be a very satisfying feeling when you’re cooking with all the stuff that you have grown yourselves.
Completely sympathise with you on jobs taking sooo much longer than your brain tells you it’s going to take, it’s a nightmare isn’t it?! Satisfying when it’s finally achieved though.😊
Soo cute with that little bee having a drink of the honey, I think its tongue could be a proboscis. I only know because back in England Lukas used to raise caterpillars from eggs to moths, so many a time we sat huddled around a saucer trying to get a newly “hatched” butterfly to drink some watered down honey. The things you do eh?!
Ooh nearly forgot the fireplace! Wow what an amazing find, Clare I could feel the excitement from you at having discovered it! Also well done to Ciara for the demolition work!
Enjoy your videos from Aus. There is a special tool for taping and muddying wall and ceiling corners,you are making hard work for yourself xx
Don't you tape prior to mudding? Just asking…..😅
Don’t they have pre mixed joint compound over there
If your bread gets hard, you can also wrap it in a damp paper towel and pop in the microwave for a very short time, and it will soften up again 😊
It's looking amazing 👏 👍
"We'll have to get a little stove!"
"I'm after blocking the roof!"
Lol!!!
What a great find.
That slug soup looks awful, but I'm glad it is working.
Bit by bit it's coming on grand, and it is great to see the other projects starting / continuing alongside the mammoth boarding task.
Great video – Thank you.
Awesome awesome awesome! 🥰🌻
You probably already know this but gyprock is gypsum so you can compost all the left over gyprock and use it in the garden to break down clay soils.
My only words of advice as a novice mudder is that less mud is better – you can add more -its slower but its less sanding which if you ask me is way better cause that sanding seems to go on for ever – I have watched hours of the vancouver carpenter who has a really good channel – i wish I could afford a gyprocker but they charge so much money so all I can say is that Im happy I have a wall even if its not finished! 🏚
Rob I'm half way through a bottle of merlot and now I'm starving 😅great video
Would love to hear the history of the cottage
Ye are so brave just knocking the blocks in the secret fireplace! I’m too scared to knock mine 😂
Ground up egg shells and old coffee grounds will help also.
No end to your talents big man 😂
Have you tried coffee grounds? I’m thinking of trying it to see 🤔
the inside hollow doors are called flush doors