Disguising the history of the old stone farmhouse - Restoring a 150 year old Spanish Finca

is [Music] that's set right [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome to thinker live we're Sharon and Andy just two people with a dream and a vision of restoring our traditional stone-built farmhouse in southern Spain transforming it into a beautiful off-grid home and sharing our journey with you welcome back welcome back to the F we've got a cloudy day so ideal for carrying on with this wall yes nor it's in the full on Sun at this time yeah so we've just hoisted up our bucket full of stones yes cuz I'm going through hundreds of them up there fortunately we've got a big pile here which probably can't see so we've got plenty to keep us going but uh yeah it's getting them up there so we've done it everything's up there ready so ready to crack on get a mix on let's do it so what I'm doing in the first instance there's lots of big holes in the wall um that's up the top same down here there's big holes you can see like right in the center there all the way down um so what I want to do initially is um some over there by that lint as well is get them filled in I've done some around this window get them all filled in um rather than try and point it up in one go um so let's get on with it out it's coming along I've got the very very top done um I'm going to drop this Tower down now to a single level make it a lot easier to get up and down and work off I only needed it up there just to do that very top so let's do it [Music] full the water careful yeah got it I got it [Music] okay just P two pull them lower down you can stick it in that one if you want horizontal across what [Music] [Music] and the other side [Music] there you go you can see how little we've done now from there um so I'm just going to carry on working our way down I got a bit more done yesterday and then last night it rained and we didn't get a lot but it battered down on three separate occasions I was a bit concerned because it was actually coming from the East which is that way as well but it survived all right um I'm going to carry on working down if I can find my hammer and I've got a bit of a hole there this is a hammer he's not too far in up to there this one here I can almost get the whole hammer in there's another one here which is similar half a hammer so I'm going to get these filled up first and then carry on facing it up working me way down I'm actually managing to point it and finish it as a go which Sav me coming back up and doing it again in a bit so we'll get it wet down I've got a mix here and um Carry On I can't quite get my hand in that one to get it all the way to the back so I'm just going to fill it up and then shove stones and fill up what I can at the front and hopefully that'll shove the mot back as it goes it's bigger inside than it is on the outside not so bad there we go and you go good out and carry on as you know we spend a lot of time and effort TR to uncover the history of this whole building um in this case I'm actually disguising it and we' got this vertical line here you can see where the stonework is not keyed in and reason I want to just disguise it because I don't like it and it be it's much better if at least the front stones are keying much better for the longevity of the building I've put some in here already which is's now losing that line um I'm just going to carry on work down this bit and just carry on in general we got quite a fair bit done there I was hoping to get down to the level of the top of the window it's not happening the vertical line if you can see it there is um now disappeared up there so that's working rather well I think what we want to do is get down and get round this this window get the window fitted um because we're going to have to work from both sides of it it's quite a small opening so at least having a big hole over there where the door is and we be to get in and out to get to both sides of it to work on both sides of it at the same time um but all when that's going to be I don't know cuz this is just taking as always twice as long as you're expected to do and um all we can do is carry on St over there I get over here stick it out the way what sh don't stick well it's looking fabulous this morning we moved the tower out of the way um I was going to carry on I can't actually reach this off me little me little step back bench um but we've been well we've got a yellow warning for potentially Heavy Rain um but it might not so but I can't risk it with the lime so what I want to do is try and get this window um sorted out basically get that sort of in place and then we can work to fill up around it if it does rain it won't matter um Shaman's already oil it so it'll be good let's have a look then we've also changed our minds again you'll be surprised know um I was going to put I've got a big Stone like we put in the the other windows on the newer part of the building I was going to put one in here but we decided not to for two reasons one because I'm going to have to take out these big stones to fit it in just a little bit I don't they want to do that and B because it's kind of not original um this this sill had um clay tiles On It originally um so I think we're POS probably going to go with putting clay tiles back on it and the same with that one we're trying to figure out how to put that massive Stone the huge stone that we moved before um I'm not going to put that in either simply because it kind of detracts from the original a bit and we want to try and preserve as much as the original character as possible even though it never had um double glaz windows in it initially but you know you got to bring them into lines and modernization so I think we're going to go with that this is the Big Stone in question um but we will however use it for something in the future for sure um that's the other window we got stones in these in that one around the other side just the same which is one of us contemplating putting in there so but this is a much newer part of the building anyway so I think we're going to stick with the original um we should have some more clay tiles in the in the ruin that's falling down next door there so we'll have a look in a bit we've got three that I can see from here already so I get get this window sorted let have a go anyway so while Andy's preparing to get that window frame in I thought i' give you a quick update on the garden you remember two videos ago I took out all the tomato plants cuz they were past their best and planted some peas ready for our winter veg and these two are doing marvelously tiny little one here is not looking so good um but not so worried because if it doesn't survive then I can put another one in that will come a bit later than these so so that we've got um a bit more spread out um Harvest uh carrots are coming up well in this little drill here we've had a few Rogue Tomatoes popping up and I've Got a Feeling those two could be Tomatoes as well but till they get the second leaves I'm not sure so I'm going to leave them for now um I think what happens cuz obviously we had the tomatoes here um in the summer I think they've perhaps a couple of them dropped off and they've rotted down and the old seeds have started to pop up so we've got rid of those because we don't want them to take over as tomato plants tend to do um but yeah so hopefully we'll have some nice carrots and peas hello gires hello girlies the hens are all doing really well we've actually had five eggs in one day for the first time a couple of days ago and we've had four already this morning so it seems that they all seem to be laying now cuz before it was one two at maximum three a day so that's good news but they're all healthy and um yeah happy so around the back of the chicken CP um you may remember we planted some brussel sprouts and some red potatoes so potato potatoes are started to pop up there another one there um and a couple of the Sprouts I think I put SE six seeds in so two in each hole um and at the moment we've got just the two but again not worried because if the others don't pop up then I'll put some more in and they'll be slightly later developing and so we won't have a load of Brussel sprouts all at once and eat Brussels for every single meal um it should work out better um they take about four to 5 months anyway and they they best eaten after a frost so that'll take us to January and we should certainly have had a frost by January so that should work out perfectly our spinach that's self-seeded we just left it um it's coming up very nicely now soon be time to pick some of that we can have a nice Curry cuz we like a sag and over there potato again just popped up from nowhere must have been left over in the compost from last year's um we know there's definitely potatoes in there cuz we've had to Mound them up so Happy Days these are our tomatoes that were in that bath that I just showed you that had just popped up again self-seeded so we transplanted them these aren't looking so good has got flowers on there but whether we'll get anything I'm not sure that one at the end is looking healthy this one we've got a few tomatoes on it um and our melons are still going strong we got a baby one there and where's the other one there one here somewhere another one there if you can see that and so we've had we've eaten two at the moment we've got another two over there um so yeah we saved the seeds the very first one we ate was quite a decent sized one we've saved the seeds dried them put them in a pot we're hoping that if we use those seeds next year they're already used to this um terrain if you like the the weather and the um the soil here so they should get stronger every year that's our Theory anyway we'll see we'll let you know keep you posted on that one there's another melon on the way there that's bigger than those but smaller than the other two peppers are still producing we took a load off last week gave some to amelo and uh we've been eating them like they're going out of fashion but we still got loads on here um so they're very funny shape one there I don't know what's going on with that one but uh yeah so got loads got five plants we probably won't need to plant anymore next year if we can keep these over the winter we'll see fingers crossed yes a Happy Days the first thing I've done is um set up the laser level cuz I kind of want these two windows at the same height so to check I'm going to set this one up and what I don't want is the window touching the lint really um it'll all be revealed in the future but the wood it moves so much you w believe how much it does actually expand and contract um so I want to leave a gap but I'm going to pack that with stones just un even as you can see the L's all wonking all over the place anyway um I've got enough clearance at that side with it as it is so um I'll get the window and see what we can do with it right so we've got our window I've got an assortment of different sizes of pieces of wood I want to try and get it wedged in place um the reason I want to do it that way is and I can then build the storw up around it to face up to the front of it the back needs to be flush with the with the wall because the window opens out if it isn't it won't open fully which it probably won't anyway because of this um so so we go okay yeah hang on hang on hang on okay go on I say right it there you got it yeah down a fraction oh right shove up on it there now lovely I need to make sure that it's in line with the thing in so need to come over this way a bit not easy L it up it it that doesn't look doesn't look bad to me too bad will do well you it there yeah can let go no moved again now all right let that move I don't think I'll get two in there will I under that there we go try that okay right that's a start what I've done I've put one of the the old Barrel wedges hammered it in the top under that lole um it's level that way yeah that will do nicely with the stones at the bottom it's good across the stone work that way um need to make sure it's level that way not quite and what I'm going to do now I'm going to go outside and look through to see if it's sort of in the center of me stones and then we'll make minor as necessary might have improvised um absolutely solid though so we're going to I'm going to work I'm going to improve on this now um check it again it's perfect looking out that way and looking in um so yeah Happy Days right so say here's the view from the outside um what I want to do next is get some of these get this wall faced off around the blocks of wood um then I can sort of stick the window in place so as always the quest now is to find flat Stones we spend half our lives looking for flat Stones I found some lovely ones I just want this one um so go in up there where there's a big hole it's a fraction too big so we just see if we can modify [Music] it so going let's try that try that other way up yeah I want him to set up there like that but I would need him a be do you know what I think that'll be good there I'm trying to find ones with straight edges as well that will sit against the the window right we'll go with that I've got a lovely one that'll sitting there just have to chip a little bit of this away but it should sit nicely you did sort of like that I think yeah that's pretty good and then this one will go above it hopefully so I'll get them in first so first job is always give it a good soaking doesn't need vacuum in and the wind is on a pretty good job he pretty busty today so that's all right I'm going to start over this side all right then not forgetting to wet the stone as well I think it goes that way got a really nice flat Edge on it there no it didn't did it went that way that's it right stick him in lovely this wood should come out without disturbing it it's not even touching it get that M off the wood we don't want to stick that to it right first one's in let carry on right now so I've got quite a bit of that side done couple of bits in this side coming around she coming around couple of bits in there done um can't do anything now until they're gone off so we'll let them dry time for a nice cold beer so we've got a window it's very exciting looks a bit mad at the moment I didn't touch anything cuz something found fall off um but we're going to leave it there now because we've obviously got to let all of this go off before we can move all these props so thank you so much for watching thank you to all our subscribers thank you to all our patreons everybody that's supported us a coffee or a nice cold beer which we're incidentally going to have right now and we'll see you next time [Music] h [Music]