The outside of our new window is FINALLY finished! After building the stone wall from the ground up and carefully constructing the stone reveals around the opening, we're getting closer to completing another big part of our old stone finca restoration here in rural Spain.
In this episode, I'm finishing the outside stonework, correcting a troublesome stone, fitting the final tile and using lime mortar to seal everything around the window. It's taken a lot of time and hard work, but seeing it completely sealed, with no daylight coming through from the inside, makes it all worthwhile!
Restoring an old stone finca is a slow process when it's just the two of us doing the work alongside our jobs, looking after the animals and keeping up with life on the land. But we're getting there, one stone at a time!
With the outside of the window now complete, the inside still needs attention, and next time we'll be moving on to the doorway.
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The creator provides an update on the progress of a window restoration project, addressing viewer comments regarding the pace of work. After explaining the challenges of balancing construction with full-time jobs and animal care, the creator completes the stone sealing and tile placement, successfully closing the window frame and preparing for the next project.
Welcome back to the thinker.
I'm in the courtyard still working on the window.
Just like to say we get quite a lot of comments on the videos
and I do try to
respond to all of them when possible.
It's not always possible. Apologize if I
didn't. We also got some pretty irritating ones. People say it's taking
you so long to do this and I watched
other people building a house from tiny
little stones wall by wall and it's flying up.
Well the difference is we're
We're just two people.
We don't have armies of people in the background that we don't show on
camera. It really is just us two.
We also have to work to fund all this. We're very
fortunate to be in this position
but we still have to go out and work. Plus we've
got all the animals to look after
and all the land and we've still got to fit
a normal life in in between. So apologies for me it's not very fast.
we've put all the time that we can into doing
this and it's not as much as we would like to
sometimes but other things get in the way and we've
also got to earn a living so that said no
more moaning let's crack
on we're gonna see if we get
this window completely
finished okay so a bit
later on we're just about there
and we've got a tiny little tiny little hole there it's no big deal
and we've got a tiny little hole in a tiny little hole there
but generally the main of the stones
The inside still needs doing but on the outside,
yep not too far out on a
little tiny little hole there.
I'll get those tomorrow once all this has gone off.
I've got this problem child here, I made a mistake when I put that
stone in, it's too high.
I need to take it off, it's been in a while now I might see
if I can whack it off with a chisel
because I want to get, I've got to get
these tiles in there as you can see.
It sits a bit high, so that needs to come off.
I might just hit it with the angle grinder to do that,
I don't know, but generally we're nearly closed in, nearly.
Looking from the inside you can sort of see.
The small holes, they look bigger
from the inside than they do from the outside.
Whatever, that's not a bother.
Everywhere that's not glass, in the centre here,
everywhere that's light, is where there's holes.
But yeah, I've got something to build
on now to fill those up completely.
So we'll pick that up in the morning.
We've got three hungry cats here,
and three others outside.
Are you hungry, baby? Are you hungry?
And that cat big eyes.
Say something then, you've
been whinging all afternoon for the last hour.
No, is that it? All quiet now.
Right, we'll get you fed.
We don't need to ask you to do it Tilly-Mint,
you're always hungry, aren't you?
Yeah.
Always hungry.
One
tile
in
here.
Nicely.
In there.
That's where I've got stuck in there.
I'll just clean that out.
Right, I'll just chip this bit off and then we'll get this one in.
Finally
a
bit
more.
There
we
go.
Perfect.
Right, let's get that stuck in.
There we go.
I've done a full mix, I'm going to have quite a bit left,
but I'm going to use that to pack up inside first.
Some of these joints partially filled in.
Of course the whole thing needs its final point in yet,
we'll get to that.
The main thing is that it's sealed.
Going to give this frame
a quick wipe down
with a damp cloth.
We knew we'd get stuff all over it,
but because it's had two coats of oil, it should just come off alright.
Once it's been oiled again,
you'll never know.
I'm not looking bad at all,
completely sealed, all the way around,
no daylight visible from
inside, which is fantastic,
so I'm going to end this video there, it's a good job well
done, it's taken a while,
but we've built the whole thing from the bottom up.
to the window not to mention knocking it out originally.
And there it is, moving my bench now I'm going
to take that inside because I'm
going to need it in there. So yeah on that note thank you so much
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on the next one where we'll be on with
I'm with that doorway.