My $15K House - Ep. 17 - Prepping The Next Room

[@stevejohnstonbaugh9171]

Looking good! I think whitewash is the way to go on these walls rather than paint. The paint spalled off because it does not 'breathe'. So moisture got trapped between the conventional paint and the plaster. Trapped moisture caused the spalling. I like your plans for the room. You may want to put a few finishing nails through the face of the ceiling panels to flatten the sagging areas. Finish nails won't be visible after a coat of paint. It will be fun to see the wood beneath the brown paint. Best of luck! :)

[@carolegropl]

Love watching your videos, and your explanation of what you are doing and why. Thanks for sharing.😊

[@TheLivingBackyard]

I can't wait to see you fix the doors! I love old doors and fixing them 😁 The wall looks much better!

[@kindle7191]

I like that you are making your own home renovation products! Please enjoy the summer time. The fall is always a nice time to renovate.

[@sandracraig3070]

Great to see an 'easy' fix for the walls, love the way that paint peeled off on chunks! ❤ n best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@beverlymartin1414]

Great progress, good to see you

[@oinksfromiowa3755]

Always a joy!

[@rosalinezeno1427]

Always waiting for your next video! Be safe!! God bless you!

[@markburr6081]

Interesting house upgrading thanks!

[@bethloomis8961]

Thanks, JD, for letting us vicariously through your journey.

[@My15KHouse]

welcome :)

[@scrumpito]

House is looking good dude! Glad you're getting out and about too.

[@johnamstutz]

I use those gliders to move my furniture, really works well, especially on carpet.😊

[@markdecker2724]

Nice job. Hope you enjoy you Summer, take your time. See you on the next one.

[@seansaca]

Another great video. Thanks again.

[@patrickwiklund2039]

👍

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you JD 🙏 good work 👍😁.

[@cajsheen2594]

Great headway and lovely walk!!! ❤ XXX

[@almamartinez-quagliata439]

Great progress and it’s nice to see those little glimpses of your life there too 😊

[@philgower]

Keep up the good work!

[@alexvlachoulis1409]

Amazing progress! The house is going to be so lovely. Well Done!

[@My15KHouse]

Thanks!

[@barthanes1]

That's a really nice wardrobe.

[@My15KHouse]

came with the house! the mirror on the door is shattered but I think its fine without the door

[@MsCar2008]

Looking forward to next video. Thanks

[@kathyw7143]

I love the bead board ceiling.❤

[@My15KHouse]

me too

[@dianebaker5243]

Good job 👍🥰

[@My15KHouse]

thanks

[@Sypherz]

Thanks for showing the paint chunks coming off. It's oddly satisfying.

[@My15KHouse]

Yes I enjoyed it, I was hoping more would come off like that

[@BriefTransit]

Those slider things are great!

[@NicoletteEBedford]

What a gem of a cottage ! I suppose due to heat you are keeping shutters closed. Love those doors, wooden floor will look beautiful once varnished. Will you use the small room as a dressing room? I too had those Victorian strip ceilings. Underneath were beams and boards. So think about that as you have beastly woodworm in the ceiling and fascia boards and may rather remove them. Thanks for the walkabout!

[@ram1brn]

lol no it has a broken window thats why the shutters are closed

[@kbdefay]

Always enjoy my weekly ASMR with JD

[@My15KHouse]

:)

[@evilempire1808]

It seems that you are determined to restore the house without changing it much. There are some things that I would completely renovate. The electrical installation is one of them. Those cables are very old and that is dangerous. Especially if you have to leave the house closed for a while due to work... Good luck and enjoy the Portuguese summer.

[@My15KHouse]

Dont worry, I'm definitely going to completely update the electric, but I will wait for an electrician to do it when I know where everything will go

[@davidjeffersjeffers7918]

I think what you were peeling off the wall (you referred to it as paint) was the top coat of the plaster. The bigger issue is the incursion of moisture that caused all that damage. Have you looked into that and corrected the problem? What's on the other side of that wall?

[@ram1brn]

no its paint my house did the same thing. Where he applied what was left of the whitewash looks like it was a concrete patch job and someone used regular paint after their repair you can not paint adobe, plaster, gypsum block ,etc it will crack and come off in huge chunks like that

[@My15KHouse]

Its paint, theres no top coat just several layers of whitewash, which seems to be the style among the old houses here. Theres nothing that I can tell that would cause moisture issues but maybe there used to be something that isnt there anymore. The other side is a covered area next to the neighbors driveway

[@deranocasper]

Great to see you back just curious what will you be doing to the main front door and window shutters will you repair our get reclaimed window shutters and doors rooms are 😎

[@My15KHouse]

If I can find reclaimed doors and shutters I will do that but I havent found any the right size, so I will repair as much as I can, but a lot of the window area is a lost cause so it will have to be new.

[@odiliapereira7043]

❤❤❤❤

[@nadiahicham2635]

👍🏻🏡👏🏻

[@ludmilarazina8043]

good luck, JD

[@My15KHouse]

thanks

[@juliequinlan6564]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💙

[@anna-taniatransylove5762]

🙂

[@silviomartignago708]

😍😘

[@jeanettenicholas2863]

To get a modern look on dark furniture paint them a lighter colour. Good luck

[@lfuentes4098]

Removing the chipping paint is oddly satisfying.

[@My15KHouse]

It was, I kinda wished it was a bigger area lol

[@dweamy1]

PS: hard to hear your voice over the music. Great video and interesting to see how you restore your house 🙂

[@My15KHouse]

Yeah, tbh I forgot about that part when I added the music and since it was short it seemed the better option to just keep it than the hassle of redoing it

[@kathleentanner343]

Another great video ! are you going to put skirting boards in ?

[@My15KHouse]

I'm going to guess thats British for baseboards, in which case there is a small little strip already there that looks pretty good so I will keep it as it is, for now at least. The living room has full sized base boards so I could end up adding them for continuity

[@minenawabi8758]

This room has a damp problem on that part of the wall, which cannot be solved by painting. You must first remove the dampness and then paint, otherwise the paint will separate from the wall after a short while. And it is not good for health either.

[@My15KHouse]

Its a previous problem that isnt an issue anymore

[@enricodressler6001]

Thanks for this video. It’s great to see your progress. Do you envision yourself living there part of the year only or full time? Do you have friends in the area? Do you have hobbies? Good luck in all your efforts.

[@My15KHouse]

Its my full time house, if my visa allowed I would travel more but its pretty restrictive about time out of the country

[@julie-anneinga5534]

Is the wall suffering from rising damp?

[@bethloomis8961]

I wondered if that was the issue

[@My15KHouse]

I'm not sure what the issue is, theres nothing current that should cause that so it might have been something from previously that isnt there anymore

[@bethloomis8961]

@My15KHouse Read lots of English mysteries and rising damp is mentioned. With your posters talking about it, I guess it's a real thing. It sounds so cool, but for it ruining a building!

[@tessasinclair6315]

​@@My15KHouseI might be mistaken, but didn't you at one stage have some leakage/seepage from the same area (between your and the neighbour's wall)...? I somehow recall that one of the other rooms was affected by it - through the roof/ceiling. But, I could very well be confusing it with something else, I'd been watching! 😶 🙃 A nice recap video of where you first started, would be welcomed, too. Also, a look at the garden, even if it's a disaster zone; a look at how the streetside paint job, held up, would be a nice video filler, too. That country walk looked so peaceful and relaxing. Beautiful area you find yourself in.

[@My15KHouse]

Thats correct, the other bedroom had that problem mainly from the gutter overflowing from being full of stuff, it was a different wall though. I was going to do a garden update video setting up the compost bin the county was giving out but they ran out when they came here and so I have to go to the city hall 30 min away and havent gotten around to it yet, recap is in the works too but for some reason those take longer trying to find all the clips I want. I did actually film a bit for the outside paint after a year but forgot to include it so I'll work it in when I do the next painting video

[@annhopper6959]

Should find out if there is a reason for the paint peeling off like that. Maybe moisture? If it is you will have same problem again if you don’t fix that.

[@My15KHouse]

Pretty sure I figured it out and I cover it in the next video...but yes it would have been from moisture, which should now be resolved

[@ilonalehmann-bd9nn]

The most important thing is the roof. Are you worked on the roof? Good wishes from hambourg.

[@ilonalehmann-bd9nn]

Perharps the humidity in the wall came from the ground.?

[@My15KHouse]

The roof is in good condition, the moisture would have come from the ground but I think it is an old issue that isnt a problem anymore

[@mlaiuppa]

That doesn’t look like paint. It looks like the plaster finish coat.

[@My15KHouse]

the finish coat is paint (whitewash), theres no true finish coat like in modern stuff

[@arjanvogel6444]

Maybe shek your gutters the wall gets wet 😇

[@anietahurler4014]

🪱🪱wenn mal das Dach runter kommt weis du das es der Holzwurm war

[@My15KHouse]

das Dach ist ok

[@Annemarieke58]

Not a lot of progress.... Do you have anidea when you want to finish

[@melissaroth4467]

He was on a boat for a few months, working. He also has several fun events he attended. He's gotten several rooms habitable in spite of all that.

[@My15KHouse]

Yeah its been a busy time so progress has been slow. Ideally I'd like to finish by the end of the year but I dont have a strict time frame

[@CareyCollins-n8p]

I wish that you would tell us the price of the materials. How much did the insulation cost for example?

[@My15KHouse]

I always try to give the prices, but it wasnt relevant in this situation, otherwise i'd constantly be giving prices for everything in every video. I would have to look it up but I think it was around 20 euros/bag.

[@nadiahicham2635]

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