Time for the Doorway! A New Challenge Begins | Old Stone Finca Restoration

Welcome back to the Finca, Sharon's back. I'm back. Is that your window? I love my window, it's looking excellent I just need to get these openings oiled now so that's a job for me. And pointing of course and as we said on the last video we're going to be starting on this. Yes. Horrific job which we're not looking forward to. Doorway. But first it's a beautiful end of October day. It is, gorgeous. Just over 20 degrees, the sun's shining and we've got a load of land out there that needs taming so we're going to do a bit of that first before we crack on with this. So this is the bit that Andy did earlier on in the year. And as you can see this is the rest of it. It's a real mess. It's got really overgrown over the summer and it's just been too hot to be out here trimming all day and I know there were comments on previous video that takes us so long to do anything but you know this is what we have to contend with as well and we've got the animals to look after. So yeah Andy's gonna get all this done. If you can see the olives on that little tree they're turning black already so they're gonna need harvesting pretty soon and Emilio kindly does it for us but he needs to get access to the trees so again another reason to get it all cleared. On the top of the land we've got all this wood. It's old vines that have been pulled up by the local farmer that we bought last year and we just never got round to chopping it all up. You can see in the distance a great big log there that needs to be chopped up. Likewise this here. So we've got loads and loads to do. So let's crack on. So that looks a bit better, doesn't it? Still got the two trees at the top to do but yeah it's looking a lot better and I need to cut that asparagus down now because that's finished for the year so cut it right down to the ground so that'll make that area look tidier as well. So yeah, good job well done. So back on the door on plan Y. I'm going to put the door in the centre there in between these two lintels. Same as the window but thinking about it if it when it opens it's not going to pass this wall here and there's going to be a lot of leverage on it and then potentially if we get a draft through and it smashes open or whatever it could potentially rip the hinges out of it. So what we're going to do we're going to put the door flush with this inside wall so it'll open right back there and put the top of The top of the door frame under this wooden There is a little layer which is obscured by my spirit level. I've put that up there level and because I want to take off these knots or where branches were so it gives it a much flatter surface. Coming in a bit if that makes sense. You can see here This one is protruding below my level and so is this bit a little bit and a bit of this bit here potentially so what I'm going to do I'm going to cut them off. So it's flat giving a much leveler surface a much more level thing for the frame to sit against. As always I'm trying to get the light on it, it will become clear as things go on it's so hard to film this because it's so bright outside and the camera just flares out like that so hence the difficulty but I hope that makes sense. So what I'm going to do you'll see the top of Sharon's head there. I'm just going to support the level of that end because it's just precarious. I'm just going to literally get a marker pen and draw a line along it for the bit that I need to cut off. So there we go, there's a line if you can make that out. How I'm going to cut it, I'm not sure yet. I don't think the circular saw is deep enough, maybe the saw is all the reciprocating saw, I don't know. Could take a while, that wood is rock hard. There we have it, that is so incredibly hard to say how old that that lintel is. It was so difficult but he's done it so carry on now. And that's from the other side probably got a better view there because the lights not flaring out and you can see underneath all that bark it's like new wood it's just incredible. Well best laid plans we've got the saw out we're going to cut the door frame to start getting that in but it's clouding up really quickly and we've got a hundred percent chance of rain this afternoon which means it probably won't rain so we're going to pass on that just for today. It's supposed to be sunny again tomorrow but we've still got plenty of land work to do which doesn't matter. So Andy's on with the strimming and I'm going to get these openers oiled, Thank you very much. something we can do without power really. So off to the workshop. Just get these masked off first, I don't want to get oil all over the glass. So I hope you can hear me, Emilio's tractoring out there this morning. For the first coat I'm going to use 50% turps and 50% linseed oil. It just helps it to absorb into the wood a bit better and dry quicker. Okay. And... Because we've got to get these back on if we can as soon as possible, just in case it rains. So... So that's 50, so I'll do even much for the first. A coat linseed oil it's a bit more done, it's looking better all the time, I've been busy detangling that pile of vine there, unfortunately when we got it all the wires that they used to tie the vines up were still embedded in the wood so it's a bit of a struggle trying to separate it all, but getting there slowly. Time for lunch I think! Well, if it transpires, we probably could have done the door. There's a couple of clouds about but generally it's warm and sunny. Terrible for the forecast up here. We have this silly little microclimate that is so difficult to get it right but you've got to kind of trust them haven't you? A bit. So there we go anyway at least we've got a load of strimming done. Well we made the right call, good decision. It is actually raining, not a lot but it's raining. It's a much better day today. However it is Sunday which is traditionally our day off but the rest of the forecast for the rest of the week is not great so I'm going to at least try and get these lengths cut today. Right so I've cut the header and I need 1900 millimeters minus 60 which is ahead of us That's 1,840mm in length, doesn't need to be straight, 1,840mm as you can see. This, if you can see, I can show you, this is touching there, well here, I've got a gap, I can sort of get the scissors under, not much of one, but I think by the time I've cut that to length, I'll have a straight bit, I've got another one of these in there that looks like it's got a straight bit, so we'll do that, there's quite a bit of waste on this, but you can't use banana or any wood to build door frames, so let's get it marked and get this one cut. Magic, that's one, that's pretty good actually, so I'll see if I can get another one out of the other one, out of the other length I've got, excellent, we've got two really nice straight pieces there, when they've all been planed down and they've got to be rebated out for the door as well, yeah, planed down and that set of them should look really nice, yeah glad I've got them cut at least, even if the weather's bad now with these kind of lengths I can work on them inside. It didn't actually rain as yet, it's gone very very dark out there but what I did manage to do outside without making a mess in here. Here we've now got two vertical halves of our door frame rebated for the door. It's absolutely fantastic, that's good. I don't know what to do now with the weather, just give it half an hour and see. Well now I need to do the top and bottoms, I can't do them on the saw because I'll show you when I've set all this up but um they need to be sort of sort of stepped out so I'm gonna have to do them with the router I think. We seem to be banging our heads against the wall at the minute yeah the weather's dreadful it keeps raining then it stops raining and the power is not great as you know we're off grid so. It's not the best power for the power tools that we need but we're gonna use the time constructively. We need to get wood to build our door for here and I also built a door for Emilio, hello Tilly, not long ago and he's very very happy with it and he's now commissioned me to do some more doors for him so we're gonna make the best use of the time and go and get some wood. Absolutely. Everything takes a day here, that's today gone. Yeah, so on that note guys we're going to call it a video. 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