House update: More smashing

Great to see more progress on the house David! Messy work indeed, in a heat wave - good on you!

Loving the timelapses and updates David! Keep them coming if you can!!! 👍🏻

Wow you've been busy since the last update - so much going on in every room! 😮 I know you have a cellar under the living room floor, do you feel much cold/draft coming through now that the floorboards are exposed? With the price of gas going up as fast as it is that big old house needs to be insulated from every direction.

I'm glad you know the correct procedure for asbestos testing, the builder who did our house years ago showed me how to test for lead paint by tasting the chips, and live wires by licking a finger, he was gonna show me how to test for gas leaks with a box of matches but there was a sudden inexplicable explosion and he never finished explaining.... Pro tip: clean the sealing area of those masks with anti bacterial wipes before use. You don't want to end up like me using one for a couple of days only to end up with an infected pore on my nose where the seal sat that took 6 months to heal up and is still a prominent "spider web" scar 25 years later!

A good plasterer should be able to repair that moulding to a reasonable level.

It's looking so good!!

i thought that in the more built up town areas where there was a lack of horses, they recycled Merkins donated by the local street workers.

The beading is also called quadrant.

Thanks, have a couple of beers!

You're doing great. Take care David!

You could make a cupboard rather than box the pipe in could be handy for spare bedding for winter/summer

Yay!

I hope you will be selling that surround as I'm sure some of the reclaimers years will want it! Seal the wall with pva, glue the plaster back and carefully fill the gap and remodel with more plaster.

there is some antiglue chemistry which solves the glue issue which will make the sanding easier. But if that is not a very valueable wood on the floor it is a lot faster and usually cheaper to lay a new wooden floor yourself. The wood does not look so valueable and usually would be a lot harder if it is of value. We had done a floor most recently and that was done in a day and not so expensive less than 30€ per m² 25:00 what a messy wall , have not seen that kind of dry wall. I guess you will work there for another 2 - 3 years at least. Soooo many rooms , so many walls ad far too many corners that all want a little bit more of love and care and lot of paint. But progress was quite great .

You've got a lot of high ceilings. Do yourself a favor and get a work platform so you can reach long stretches of high spots without having to constantly move the ladder. We in the US would probably be SOL with that broken plaster piece, but I have to imagine someone in the UK will be able to repair that. If plasterboard is the same as what we call drywall in the US, for long cuts you score the paper along where you want the cut and then snap it in two. Smaller cuts can be made with a drywall (plasterboard?) knife by hand or a blade for a jigsaw/reciprocating saw/multitool/whatever you got. Best of luck!

You have nice amount of work .and you are doing most by yourself, well done.

Dave, please, please wear a filter mask anytime you are tearing up walls, floors, or any other dust producing items. I am a respiratory therapist and believe me---you do not want to breath what you are kicking up. Most of which you don't even see.

Ooh long video! ❤

I wonder if calling the video "David Watts, Stripper" is to much click bait!

The time was 16:03, not 16:30 :)