Off-Grid in Sweden, working on the dining room

[@mauricebrown9094]

Your really doing a hell of a job pal. Keep it up. Great video's just had to subscribe..

[@noorderling]

Thank you 🙂

[@joancarles1904]

Really beautiful woodworking!

[@noorderling]

Thank you ! 😊

[@AndersNyqvist]

Congratulations! By Swedish standards, you have found a beautiful house and the traditional construction with logs makes it very repairable. I will be happy to follow your project, enjoying your sense of humour and combination of humility with competence. Good luck!

[@noorderling]

Thank you for the kind words

[@maggiemay7479]

I really enjoy your dry sense of humour! Great channel.

[@noorderling]

Thank you 😊

[@Rosemarie04921]

I enjoy your videos and love your sons of humor!

[@noorderling]

Thank you ☺

[@hugobergman9950]

Jag läser min master i arkitektur just nu med fokus på återbruk/restaurering och dina videos inspirerar mig väldigt mycket! Ser fram emot fler videos och händiga lösningar :)

[@noorderling]

Så trevligt att du gillar videorna. Tack för ditt bidrag. Det kommer säkert att komma många fler videor att komma, eftersom det fortfarande är mycket arbete

[@piotrjan1153]

Renovating an old house is a nightmare. Since 2018 I've been doing it on my own and I know perfectly all the hardships of this process. I don't want to repeat that anytime in the future. Great job and good luck! 👍

[@AlphaChungus]

The narration and filming got me interested, your humor made me keep watching. I really enjoy this series, i know nothing about carpentry and i am very impressed with how much you can accomplish just putting your mind to it. I'm sure this will be an adventure with an amazing ending and prize. Keep up the spirit!

[@noorderling]

Thank you for the feedback, I am glad you like the video's.

[@joakimhedbrant316]

Nice work and a contemplative mood, makes me appreciate my country more when you take your everyday surroundings for granted. Looking forward to coming videos

[@noorderling]

Thanks for the nice comment 👍

[@algreenwood4114]

So much work to be done but also accomplished! You have so much more light in the house now. Can’t wait to see what you do next

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

I found old newspapers as well from the 1890s when we renovated mom’s house when I was a teen. Funny to see it here as well. I guess it was common back then.

[@xlgodboglx]

Första kanalen jag har hittat som ens är i närheten av vad jag själv går igenom sedan snart 2år. Otroligt kul och intressant att få följa någon som går igenom samma pyssel haha. Tack för fantastiska klipp! Mvh, Össagård.

[@Jelly_Bean87]

Hej hej! I mina ögon så lever och utövar du drömmen i mitt liv 🙏 fantastiska videor du gör, ge aldrig upp det är en riktig juvel du har och när allt fallit på plats och blivit gjort så kommer du ha ditt eget paradis på jorden ❤ lycka till och önskar dej allt det bästa! Med varma hälsningar Jenny 🙏

[@noorderling]

Tack så mycket för ditt svar. Glad att du gillar videorna

[@comix5281]

My grandmother told me about the trolls. I enjoy your channel and your great sense of humor. ☺

[@noorderling]

Thank you ☺

[@pepija]

Ni gör ett fantastiskt jobb och ni kommer få ett drömhus!

[@MrJol420]

Glad its picking up

[@noorderling]

Me too.

[@susanhamilton1822]

Love your sense of humour. I will definitely watch more. :)

[@noorderling]

Happy you enjoyed the video !

[@hanneketimmermans4664]

GREAT, respect for you. I enjoy watching.

[@noorderling]

Thank you ☺

[@villagrahn]

Great that this old house found you! Nice to follow your good work 👏

[@joshwadley6521]

Nice video, I enjoy watching you deal with the sawdust. Glad it's not me 😅

[@martinuso7446]

Toptip: maak een wat groter hakblok en schroef er een autoband op. Zet daar je hout in, zoveel blokken als past en hak ze allemaal terwijl je rond de band loopt, in partjes. Nooit meer bukken..

[@ramonag8496]

Another lovely video. 😊

[@noorderling]

@@ramonag8496 thank you 😊

[@joafog]

Nice house! The only thing missing is a miniature dachshound! ;-) Miki & Jocke

[@noorderling]

Hi you guys! I hope you're doing well. You are right! But luckily I have a nice neighbour sometimes visiting with the sweetest dachshund you can imagine. So that's a good alternative

[@Jon.Alexander]

Very happy to follow along. And I wouldn't mind more footage of the building/renovation process, even if it's just raw footage of making holes in the wall or hammering. Take care 🙂

[@noorderling]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will certainly take it in to account 👍

[@sabineundmichael4033]

Na das sieht ja schon richtig gemütlich aus, am Ende 😄. Wieder ein großartiges Video, wir freuen uns zu sehen, wie es weitergeht! 🤗

[@noorderling]

Hey du ! Es freut mich sehr, dass dir das Video gefällt.

[@vk8202]

That fire looks blissful. 😍

[@oleolle]

Toilett tips!! Chech up Separett Tiny, a good one whit Urineseparation and recyceble bags,

[@noorderling]

Thanks for the tip! Really appreciate it

[@japio8955]

Wat een werk!

[@rapalaron6348]

Gebed zonder einde helaas.

[@DriftWorn]

Always love your videos - DID YOU SEE THOSE TROLLS THROWING THE LOGS!!!! That was nice of them :)

[@noorderling]

@@DriftWorn 🙂

[@noobkaka567]

nice work, what are you worried about come winter? I imagine you will need to have the house atleast insulated by then, do you think you are in a hurry? No more bad suprises I hope.

[@noorderling]

The house will not be ready for living in this coming winter, so we will stay somewhere else

[@Snusmumrikus]

I've heard that sawdust is great for keeping mice out because they can't really dig tunnels in it. Not sure how much truth there is to that though.

[@noorderling]

I've heard the same thing. Some goes for insects. Also it wicks away moisture and can dry out again. So there are many benefits for using it. It is also very dusty and seemingly does not insulate that good.

[@KenthGustafsson300]

will wait for the new video...

[@marcussebastian1437]

Lekker bezig. Waar zit je ergens, Västerbotten of Norrbotten? Groeten vanuit Kramfors kommun.

[@noorderling]

Hi Marcus, We zitten op de grens met Västerbotten, onder Dorothea

[@evalu3369]

You really have your work cut out for you. The biggest cost in a project like this is time and patience. The names of the rooms is a bit different in the type of house you reside in. The house is a TORP, the kitchen is SPISRUMMET / KÖKET, the "dining room" is KAMMAREN and the "living room" is called SALEN. This is a part of the history of these kind of houses, in the middle of nowhere, in now days rural parts of Sweden.

[@noorderling]

Hi, thank you for the info, I really appreciate it.

[@bean7750]

Je moet alles maar als een kans zien. Een kans om het huis goed aan te pakken en helemaal naar je eigen hand te zetten. Uiteindelijk kan je volmondig zeggen dat het jouw huis is geworden.

[@GerdLinden]

In Germany you pay mostly for the property, where it is situated, not for the house. If its situated at lake you can pay very very much - or likely you couldnt afford it. The house dosen´t matter. Its just important that there is a house. Otherwise you can´t build one there beside a lake (as it is in sweden too as far as I know) So you can see it from this side. How much did you pay for it?

[@noorderling]

I think in Sweden it is not very different. My experience is that you pay for location, view , property size and then the house. How much all together is dependent on where it all is situated.

[@cyh6092]

I never knew Sweden was one of the poorest countries. 1906, around the time my great grand parents immigrated to the US.

[@noorderling]

@@cyh6092 I've read somewhere that 1,2 miljon Swedes left the country to go to the US around that time to escape poverty in the homeland. Maybe they did some work on my house before they left! Wouldn't that be a great story!

[@rapalaron6348]

Do you know why the old roof has been leaking in many years? It's because it was nailed with "special" nails with a rubber a seal that should tighten the nail hole. By years of expansion and crimping from the metal roof by the heat of the sun the nails worked themselves loose and water run under the rubber seal straight into the wood. The new screws don't have that issue. The pre-owner did know and should have told you about the walls and not covered it with paint. Beware that rotten wood is paradise for those big ants/ Hästmyror and will eat up all beams from the inside.

[@noorderling]

That could certainly be the cause of the problem. The plans is to get all the rotten wood out of the house before too long to prevent insects from getting in it.

[@olsa76]

The papers are from the same year, because that's when they "insulated" that wall.

[@noorderling]

@@olsa76 that is also what my wife said 🙂 But I guess they were too poor for a subscription to the newspaper. So I wonder how they got them. And if so, when. But maybe it is not that complicated and they did have a subscription.

[@clubkid666]

@@noorderling I guess they could get like week-old newspapers for free maybe..

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

I don’t think it was that uncommon to have the newspaper back then. From what information I can find newspapers become common in the second half of the 19th century due to more efficient printing and abundance of paper. It was also your only source of news before radio existed so most people would have paid to get the newspaper back then. Also 1906 was a few decades after the really bad times in the mid 19th century. People were staring to become richer even if they still were poor by modern standards of course.

[@noorderling]

@@wertywerrtyson5529 good point

[@carlholmberg7303]

It was common to move these “torps” after changes to the land were made or a family needed a new home (like a soldier coming back from war, a farm worker starting a family or one of the children starting a new family). After the logs were moved to the new foundation insulation and wind barriers would be added so the newspapers coming from the same year is quite common. Also the year for these torps are often set to 1910 even though they could be 1-200 years older because there weren’t any records of when the initially were built (and also if you move and rebuild it does it count as a new building?). I think the majority of our older houses are “built in 1910” according to the records. Our torp was initially built in the 1730:s but has been rebuilt a few times since then (according to the maps and the stories about who lived there we’ve uncovered) and the year in the records is 1910.

[@jonasemanuelsson3146]

The paper is more to stop draft then actual insulation ..

[@noorderling]

Thanks for the info. Really appreciate it

[@teamswix]

Use a fullface mask with p3 filter when renovating miceinfested rotten houses and u will add some years to life

[@noorderling]

Will do. Thanks for the tip.