We sold everything to move our family to a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps. We are now renovating this historic stone house as a family, completely DIY. Join us every week as we adapt to a new life in Italy and work to renovate our dream home in the mountains.
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Brady you are incredible! God bless you for your commitment, strength and all your dedication. I have never in my life seen anyone work as hard as you do! I have been following you since you started, and I just know that your home is going to be beautiful! I can’t wait to see when it’s finished! Stay safe and good luck!❤️
You take to tackling all sorts of issues and challenges so well and solving them top speed ! When the morning comes and you four wake up for the first time in your finished home with nothing construction wise to do will be AWESOME !!!! Really looking forwad to video of completion party 🎉🎸🎶💃
Hoping that the beauty of your surroundings will help with the setbacks you and your family have dealt with. Despite the piles of stone and debris, the house is beautiful. ❤
I am wondering if you changed your mic setup. The rock hitting the wheelbarrow, any engine/motor sounds and music is VERY loud but the voice volume is very low. I tried many different volume settings and in the end got tired of adjusting my controls and did not finish watching. Disappointed.
What happens if, when it rains, the water infiltrates through the stone wall, behind the plastic? Then you have trapped the water in the French drain, whose capacity may be overburdened by the fact that no water can disperse up (because of the plastic barrier) and slide down the mountain. Will the water not just accumulate and infiltrate into the house, or underneath the underpinning?
You said more than once not a usual french drain. It is a surface catchment graded drain with a catchment basin/barrel/hole on the downward side. This system is not designed to catch deep water percolation or seepage from the terraces behind the house. A normal french drain would have: The back wall dug down to the foundation stones. The wall exterior would be concrete parged. Any major gaps filled in or repaired. Next an exterior oil/tar coating is applied. Then the dimpled membrane is attached to the wall and the sheathed perforated pipe is laid and covered in 1 to 3 in gravel. Water can run off the side, or to a sewer or to a gray water collection system. Backfill and compact the graded pipe up to the terrace grade. Allow 2 to 4 inches to be added for concrete or asphalt as a covering material. So it will be very interesting to see how much surface water is diverted vs run off from the lower foundation area. It is tough, back breaking, manual work. You also have air circulating to minimize condensation, mold, dehumidify the air.
I remember the first time you put the big key in the lock and opened the door. This has been a Herculean Task and your whole family has done their share in making this house your Home. I love that the Locals are teaching you the ancient knowledge (and improving on your Italian!) of how these houses were built in the first place. You have a great Team with you. It's been such back-breaking work at times and you all keep pushing through. I'm so excited to see the corner being turned and almost time to hang drywall!
Just loooove your wheelbarrow lift 😅 What a clever contraption. Your progress against all the unforeseen odds is totally amazing. Routing for you all the way ❤
I have loved watching your progress and am impressed by your tenacity and quality. The windows and doorways are particularly excellent. The only downside is leaving all the machine and tool noise at full volume. It’s not a major criticism but a relief when music took over the sound track. As a builder I’ve had to learn to protect my ears and lungs for the long haul. Congratulations on your beautiful outcome!
Wow, what a huge undertaking to complete the French drain plus all the other things to prevent water from Seeping into the home. This house should last another couple hundred years or longer when done.
Hey you’re doing so good with all the answers to make good your home. I think you need a day off and to be pampered. You need conditioner on your hair and a proper men’s hairdresser to cut it properly. You deserve it, you work so hard. Tomorrow is another day for doing more work on the house. You’re such a nice family… take care of you… thanks for sharing all :)
Your castle in the sky i have never seen anyone work the way you do hats of to you you have brought that house to life i am amazed at your resolve looking forward to when you and your family finally move into your beautiful home 💗
Always such a hard job with obstacles and heavy lifting. Not sure how you keep at it. A labor of love for sure. Bravo to you and your amazing skills. You’re brilliant and incredibly innovative for sure. With all the heavy lifting I expect you’ll look like the Hulk before you’re done.
It looks like rich dark soil you are digging up from back of house. You guys should have an amazing garden somewhere when you guys get the house complete.
I am doing a similar project in Italy. The concrete cover at the back of the building with a built in gutter directing the water around the house worked for me
I kept wanting to say, look up at your beautiful view when you were raising and lowering the wheelbarrow, lol. I guess by this point though it’s easy to take it for granted. I get the general idea of what a French drain does, but I’ve never really understood *how* it does it. How does one pipe take away enough water to make any difference to the dampness of a building? Especially when you have a whole mountain behind you?! It seems like the proverbial Dutch boy putting his finger in a hole in the Dyke. 🤷♀️😄 I wish you luck with it in any event.
Brady, I'm willing to bet you have muscles where very few others have them, and sleep well at night!😀 I've been with you since you started filming this venture, and like everyone else, will be glad to see you and your family finally get to enjoy the hard labor of your hands and BACK! God bless you, from Nova Scotia!
Omg, your home is coming to life. Brady, you work so hard and your home will be beautiful because of it. So excited to watch it be finished. Your vlogs are amazing. Love your beautiful family as well. 🎉❤
You are too busy to be doing June’s Journey ads 😂 why didn’t you have your wife and daughters do the ad? I can’t imagine going through all this. This house will be a lasting legacy in your family ❤
Love what your doing, looks great. Thank goodness for your help through this. Miss seeing Heather and the girls. Are bet your finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. See ya next Sunday
Have you considered a Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) system before you finish the interior? Love your channel and abilities. You are making a beautiful home.
They started installing that system on this week's video on Make Do Grow. They explained it very well and gave the name of the Spanish company who supply it. Sounds a great idea.
I admire your tenacity and commitment. You are working towards a goal and it will pay off in spades.😊 And that view is so stunning, especially when the sun is shining!
Brady, watching you going up and down the stairs all day made me think if it would be a good idea to attach a firemen pole/rod to your wheelbarrow crane all rhe way down to the ground. You could slide down and save having to walk down the stairs.
