Destroying my garden with a digger!

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Alec Steele Blacksmith 2019

[@bartolomeumalfeitor965]

welcome to the 2nd out of 1000 ep of me reforging my house

[@mrfriedchicken5162]

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[@Case2_0]

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[@T-800..]

No one's forcing you to watch it.

[@joepiejaapie]

The big question is, will Will be handsanding everything?

[@emuhlbauer1190]

Me: *goes looking for Steele's Shitty Kitchens* darn, not real

[@ryuuxdxdsomeone1521]

So i was not the only one looking XDDDDDDDD

[@godsguy207]

Same - just went looking for it. Was very disappointed to find it doesn't exist. Yet.

[@Rorywalks23]

Me checking the show notes to see if he put the @ for the second channel….🤦🏻‍♂️

[@carlkiehne3423]

I went looking too. 100% would watch.

[@b3ardedbarbarian]

Yeah me too 🤣 😭

[@Sam_995]

Alec must have looked at the garden and thought that it was the one thing which he hadn’t destroyed yet

[@jeremiec8014]

Living vicariously through people who can actually find houses they can afford that aren't already sold.

[@hanvyj2]

I love how he says the grass area is "quite limited"!

[@fattox4189]

1 like is one cry

[@TurinAlexander]

I'm pretty sure the reason he was able to buy it was the shear amount of work it needs. Also, I have no idea what the housing market is like in the UK, so I could be completely wrong.

[@hanvyj2]

@@TurinAlexander even with the work this kind of property around the location it presumably is, is worth a hell of a lot. UK housing market is nuts.

[@SpacewolfDan]

@@TurinAlexander its worth alot guys. even dump holes. idont know why

[@Dragonited]

Great progress though the gardening work were a bit sad to see as a gardener. That area was definatley not shrubs they were beautiful flowering plants and bushes that someone had done over many years. They might not be flowering now but they certainly does in the spring and summer. Saw some dahlias, peonies, lily, Agapantus, caprifols and more. I hope you at least looked up some of the plants and planted them somewhere else.

[@The_Keeper]

With the way he butchered that beautiful fireplace? Don't count on it.

[@quinnlamb559]

I'm living in a place where i can actually attempt to start a flower meadow, what he destroyed is wicked goals of mine.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Not everyone likes to garden.

[@thomhollyer4102]

Agreed Martin, a real shame as that whole bed looked to be a great habitat for wildlife and good biodiversity, now it's just going to be a lawn 😭

[@cleverusername9369]

In fairness he does have several dogs that would love the big yard to play in

[@iandavis9425]

I saw Mrs. Steeler’s T Slim. I myself have a really close friend who’s a type 1 diabetic and I applaud you guys!

[@TheFriendOfLucifer]

He looked so happy with the digger. Like genuine bliss.

[@Dave_1966]

Great to see you getting your house sorted out, can’t say I’m impressed with the amount of waste you are creating when so much could have gone to salvage I.e. the glass wood etc. and you could probably have saved on a couple of skips as well.

[@geoffcapper5025]

Spot on! Gleeful destruction of perfectly good material like those windows really sours it. So many inspiring people on this platform making amazing things out of salvage, I guess he's not watching the right channels.

[@Wolfmancrawley]

Those windows are old and not worth salvaging. The double glazing in them was most likely in need of replacement too

[@geoffcapper5025]

@@Wolfmancrawley It's obviously a completely different worldview. Re-use for houses is only one of many options for salvage, and just because you can't see a use doesn't mean no-one else would. I've restored much worse looking things, and good panes of glass (as one example) are great for cold frames and glass houses. He destroyed four or five perfectly serviceable pieces of glass for no good reason.

[@jakobvanklinken]

remodeling a house like that is an ass-ton of work as is. It would take three times as much to disassemble everything neatly, add on top of that the work of advertising it online,, storing it until someone comes to get it, and then the hassle of finding enough people to get rid of every single thing! I dont think its reasonable to expect someone to do all that when he already has so much work to do.

[@dh2032]

I, have to remember when you don't put your recycling in the right bin

[@spamspace6878]

In the US, we have huge water towers that provide enough pressure in cities, and in rural areas, we have wells and pumps. I have never even heard of tanks in the attic/loft

[@CanalGabrielCoelho]

after the third unbroken glass I'd be so impressed that I'd save them somewhere for a future project! Quite impressive, those pannels!

[@mzaite]

Or at least note down the manufacturer.

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

After being a Glaziers mate for all of 3 weeks, it's incredible what punishment old windows can take... but then also not take. I've seen an aglet (metal bit on your shoe lace) shatter a window as someone walked by it, and I've seen a 4lb hammer bounce off one. From the same house. Nutty.

[@chrisosh9574]

The hearth in an old British house like that was always called a 'Lump' because it would be a huge piece of high density cast concrete or even stone in really old places . A lot of old places had fireplaces in the upper floors too sharing a chimney breast with the lower floor, quite often house owners would get a surprise when removing the lower floor chimney breast to add space, the lump hearth stone from the upper floor would suddenly drop into the room having not been removed when the upper chimney breast was taken out some time before, a whole half a ton of it.

[@nicolasbaldwin2367]

the tear down of the fireplace broke my soul

[@Ybalrid]

the water storage thing for the hot water is a very UK thing as far as I know. This is also why you have those separated faucets going on

[@jaycobgoodliffe8781]

I didn't realise you guys in England had our autumn weather, 30⁰c is a warm autumn day here in Australia

[@EdgarFroes]

I wish I could get my hands on all those glass panels. They would be very useful to me.

[@beebait1464]

In the US we either have city water, which uses a city tank stored high up near a neighborhood, or well water, which just has an insulated metal tank stored in a pump house to act as a buffer for high demand of cold water. Then we have a water heater which stores hot water. I remember a different youtuber from the UK make a video on the history of why hot and cold faucets are separated in the UK and not in the US. In the UK hot water from the storage tanks used to be non potable sources, like alec mentions, and should not be mixed with cold. Now in the city in UK where both are safe they are kept separate out of habit and general distrust. In the US we don't have this distrust of mixed faucets since we don't have a history of questionable hot water storage so there are almost no separated hot and cold water faucets.

[@philpullan8595]

They're cold water storage tanks which feed the hot water cylinder when some hot is drawn off... There will be one that serves the central heating system that's separate to those that feed the hot water. ..

[@sethbaldwin6050]

These videos are super refreshing! It’s exciting to see this come together see your range of skills!

[@othellow]

When I first saw the jackhammer I thought that make a great mobile power hammer for your shop. Set up some controls you just like move it wherever you want in the shop. This way you don't have to move the hot steel, the hammer will come to it.

[@l0ne851]

"The actual green space we have..." *gestures to the FIELD around him* "...is quite limited"

[@Zunip182]

MOAR!!! I love the house videos! Give us weekly videos on the house! You Rock!

[@marka4891]

Alec: Says, "Scorching 85 degrees" in English. Me: Says, "Confused" in Texan.

[@LuinTathren]

Floridian here, I thought the same thing. That sounds like a nice day.

[@Secretlycat31]

That is fantastic progress as well as running your channel at the same time. Its starting to look really good and just waiting for improvement

[@gotrekandslixem4882]

When Alec started shoveling in his garden and that music started, I thought I had started a Clownfish TV video.

[@alexfalcone8963]

I know exactly what you mean lol

[@malkmuslistener5459]

i checked to see if anyone else made this comment, lol

[@darenallisonyoung8568]

I'm envious of your youthful energy!

[@Gigglezzz]

We have a central heating system. this operates the central heating and water. and there is enough pressure to shower all day. (Ps, we have 15mm tube running to our shower) in Holland the water company uses large water silos en electric pomp’s to raise the pressure. We use the bottom to purified drinking water. treatment plant. first stored in reservoirs. in short we do not, it’s al taken care. We even drink hot or cold water directly from the tap.

[@PabloCimadevila]

Alec loves hammers 🤣❤

[@oniminus]

This is such a great fresh breath for the channel. Don't get me wrong, your metal works and adventures are fantastic, but have to say that I do like seeing your take on something like this.

[@TaterTot11]

Alec: gets a hold of heavy equipment with a jackhammer attachment, eyes go reeeeee. Mrs. Steele: oh no, not again! I can hear her holding her breath all the way over here in America.

[@nickbryslan8904]

"Industrial Gardening"... Love it!

[@jamesbaumann1180]

Can't wait to see the 1/2 plate steel walls go in!👍👍

[@johannsens]

It's a shrubbery!! And one that looks nice. And not too expensive!

[@red96fb]

Who else wants to see Alex blacksmith some Damascus steel door handles and other stuff for the house?

[@Creep3rM4n]

9:50 "If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid" xD

[@alexscott782]

i cant wait to see what you do to your house lol i love how you jump from one thing to another lol :) are you enjoying it must be great fun to rip apart a house and rebuild it exactly how you want it :)

[@Hefekuchen96]

1:50 I've been waiting for this and was not disappointed :D

[@bencowles2105]

love the video it is great to see the progress you are making on the house.

[@jdw1407]

Need more home reno videos!!

[@GiladBarad]

Alec I dare you to make a sword without any Power tools

[@saginawdan]

Or just make another sword or anything with a blade.

[@Wingspan_5]

You have an open plastic tank in the attic to store water that feeds the boiler? That's insane.

[@simonroebuck7145]

I hear ya about the cold water tanks, but the wall in the kitchen says 'combi boiler ', and im not sure either of those systems are best for ya. You want an unvented system really. Also, you not keeping the fireplace? Would look nice, but gonna get that done soon, regs are a changing.

[@adrianmellor9704]

Completely agree. I wouldn't put a combi in a house that size, which will no doubt have multiple bathrooms when it's finished. System boiler and unvented cylinder all the way!

[@nexx3397]

I really wish he'd post more than just one episode a week. It's cool watching him do all this

[@joemomma45]

“It’s scorching hot today. It’s like 85 degrees.” Oh man 😂😂😂

[@rustyrazor2851]

Trust me when I say there’s nothing like 85f in the uk, it just hits different 😂😂

[@ryanivester5042]

Cant wait for the episode where you create a Damascus front door and engrave the walls and set jewels in it. :)

[@chikendrumstick]

Alec: It’s scorching hot out! Like 85°F! Me: *Laughs in Florida*

[@braylon3233]

cries in Michigan

[@StephenHughesJelen]

Laughs in SoCal...

[@strafehelix]

Laughs In Cairo

[@therealsourc3]

Cries in Norway

[@prappsy3028]

Believe me, the heat in the UK feels way worse than the temperature says. The high humidity and lack of any air conditioning make it hellish. I've known Aussies and Americans come over and scoff at our 'hot weather' then experience it themselves and hate it.

[@12345NoNamesLeft]

I'd watch more of the reno antics

[@Digephil]

So are y'all just playing a game of "Find the load bearing wall" with a sledge hammer? Or is there some undocumented research phase in this teardown?

[@jackryall4910]

a game of whack f*ck with the walls

[@Zonkotron]

In a good, older European house, anything wood/cardboard/drywall is non load bearing....

[@thesaltycabbage]

Probably looked from above to check beforehand

[@thomascase4070]

@@Zonkotron In an American house any of those things are structural

[@maxportellichadwick261]

When you buy a house in the uk, you get a survey and a set of plans. These plans contain the load bearing and non load bearing walls.

[@julianzahra1993]

Hello Australian here, those tanks are by far the strangest thing I've learnt about the UK in quite sometime

[@trollingmodeactivated2500]

I really wished that you maybe couldwe made glass/metal/wood decors out of them for the house and even furnitures since they were incredibly strong glass panels

[@Larry-vi3hm]

Just a question... why not put the dumpster or trash can outside the window then throw stuff into it instead of make a pile then put the pile in the trash

[@mcseforsale]

Interesting....if you're getting rid of shrubbery, I think there's some knights over in Ni that could use them

[@DymoPolska]

I was looking for this comment! 😂

[@ez08gundam]

Very nice work, your wife has good taste in insulin pumps as a tandem owner myself it's a great choice.

[@Zonkotron]

wtf, has a nice fireplace and a magnificent garden....tears it out. I am a fan of no solution solutions....leave it alone...fixed.

[@artor9175]

I expect to see a *very* nice fireplace in the future. If you have something perfectly good, but it's not what you want, is it really that good?

[@Zonkotron]

@@artor9175 Hmm, hmmm.Not really. Uncomfortable, dangerous and unuseable stuff is another story. That fireplace may be in that category for a couple of reasons - first and foremost that open fires are almost useless at actually heating, most of the heat gets drawn up the stack with the bypass air you need to permit to ensure proper removal of flue gas. But wild Gardens are great, takes years to grow a good one.....im more of a old, half abandoned factory kind of guy than refurb house till squeaking clean....

[@Peachyt82]

@Alec Steele love you'r videos they are very intresting and im really loving the house renovation videos please keep these coming as well as metal work and house renovations is what intrest me deeply in life. lol I know im an Odd Ball.

[@CodockDraconin]

Ok... The water storage tank thing is scary as hell. I've never seen something like that here in the U.S.. That set up falls under my category as... janky. And maybe unsanitary. I also cried a bit inside at the removal of that fireplace... Nice house Alec, I wish you the best at getting it all sorted to Mrs. Steele's specifications.

[@mzaite]

It's very unsanitary. That's why they still run two taps to keep the horrible Hot water poison from mixing with the regular mains water. You never drink or cook from the hot water. To be honest though, The water tanks on the roofs in new york are as or more terrifying. Instead of dead bats you have Jimmy Hoffa rotting in your water.

[@richdvs]

Miss watching Forged with Steel, wondered where you had disappeared to, back on home soil I see, will you be staying in the UK 🇬🇧and when will you be back heating and beating Steel !

[@HalcyonAcorn]

That poor garden!! I’d rather have beds and plants, less to mow!! A lot of work went into that fireplace, shame to remove it, but if it doesn’t fit your plans, so be it. Can’t wait to see the end result.

[@redlionforge9173]

I really like the style of that house.

[@cwuzii]

No one else impressed that he lifted that bucket?!?! They’re insanely heavy!

[@jernejarko965]

Um if you know the car fits trough the garage door, don't look at both sides constantly to get the mirrors trough, pick one mirror usually the drivers side and get it trough by a hair, by default the other must fit.

[@lucpet95]

30 degrees C is considered a mild summer here and we'd kill for it to be only 30 hahahahahha

[@mgreene1409]

It's not the wrong two for the job if it works!

[@kevingade5615]

Yup, been there done that. Tore the mirror off my new truck, then realized they were power retracting. DOH!

[@tech7349]

haha funny. "i love this house! lets buy it"....completely demolishes everything lol

[@thorzyan]

I'm amazed that amount of work is allowed without a permit in the U.K. Good for you guys!

[@awideman5981]

i was like, "oh, miss steele looks lovely in her pink sweater and shorts..." oh, wait that's Alec hahahaha

[@awolfalone2006]

I expect to see a lot of forged/fabricated furniture in the future.

[@dicdougall]

For our US viewers, the hot water tanks is the reason we have two taps in the UK.

[@JOHNJKNAPP]

Hey KZbin peeps… is Alec not coming back to Montana? Didn’t realize his “visit” to England was so permanent.

[@cleverusername9369]

I believe his intention is to have workshops and a home both in England and Montana but due to covid travel restrictions he's been stuck in England longer than intended.

[@Ganseru]

please make forged railings for those stairs

[@RoninDiety]

love how Mrs Steele cheersed with a bottle of Johnnie Walker

[@jessicasouthall7043]

I love this house stuff looks like so much fun

[@idontknowu6422]

I couldnt find your second channel, can u put a link in the discription

[@00Gizmo]

It's only ever the wrong tool for the job if it doesn't work. And it clearly did work. May not have been the "correct" tool, but it wasn't the "wrong" tool.

[@Paradiso.21]

I was SO expecting a Harry Potter joke when you uncovered that space below the stairs xD

[@KartsAgainstHumanity]

7:05 Apple and Raspberry is obviously superior :P

[@nickkirkpatrick396]

Shoutout Mrs. Steele’s pump!

[@birk2488]

Im so happy for u both

[@iamalimuhammad]

eagerly waiting for next part

[@hoytoutdoors]

This is probably going to be my all-time favorite series you do

[@HMABH]

the warranty card is maybe the best joke i've seen in years ...

[@tayo9848]

just get a pressure tank as the first thing in your line. you can then put it anywhere

[@henriknielsen1982]

Are there not any more house renovation videos?

[@markoconnell804]

This is a fun event to watch.

[@doubledarefan]

The real reason Alec tore up the garden: He is getting ready to build steele-and-concrete bunker, connected to the house with a tunnel. Featuring a collaboration with a certain crazy dude.

[@philrobson7976]

Any asbestos issues? And what happens to drywall (Sheetrock, plasterboard) in UK? Very expensive to dispose of in Vancouver.

[@ericlewandowskivlogs]

I'm on city water, getting over 60PSI at the meter. In America.

[@NozNK]

I love that at the end you can see that they've just left the jackhammer stuck in the ground...LMAO

[@TimothyHall13]

Oh Yeah! Thanks Alec!

[@luckyphil45]

That border could have been so great with some TLC

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Is there going to be any house left when you're done ? 😂

[@hinterhof5655]

Firepalce was cool

[@leadingseamanphilbillingto100]

Watching Alec hit that path a BFH, really highlights just how weird blacksmiths swing technique is.

[@VolatileBullfrog]

It greatly pleases me that the jackhammer attachment was still driven into the garden at the end of the vid! haha

[@ThatThereWesty]

At least yours were already plastic! the one in my loft was asbestos and when i had it replaced they had to leave it up there for safety reasons

[@lewistremonti7827]

Love your usual content but think I prefer the house referb better!

[@9ryder]

That house needs so much work! I hope that the foundation is solid and not like solid mess as everything else seems to be.

[@Hacksaw37]

We had a bird in our tank. Dad made the profound comment of "I think I'll put a lid on that".

[@cocodojo]

I was thinking Alec was going to take out the fireplace and build a forge in its place instead... then I remember he's got to live in the house... but he'd probably still replace the fireplace with a forge.