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The woodwork is gorgeous. The difference in their quality of life in the new home is not just the safety it brings but also the beauty it brings into their every day lives. Priceless
I think you miss what maybe interesting for us to watch and listening to the conversation about the planning that is needed for the duct work. Putting in the ductwork is more than just laying out the tubbing, there is a lot of planning that is needed. Some may not realize what is all involved.
So much planning 😀 We actually bought the system about a year ago so that we could plan where all the ductwork goes and ensure we made the right size holes in walls (where the ducting has to pass through our 50mm thick stone walls), as well as working out how much we had to drop ceilings, and build in the service cavity to run the ductwork from the loft to ground floor. This project is worse than Tetris sometimes 😂🤣😂
We have the same colour staining coming through one of our walls. We lime rendered the outside of that wall last year. I wonder if it's the amount of moisture that we have put into our wall during the rendering process? Coincidence that you have the same thing happening? I'm no expert either.😂
Yep, I definitely think residual moisture is playing a part. One of the first walls we did, which we successfully limewashed now also has a similar stain. I suspect that’s some winter moisture coming through
Have you thought of using an air to air heat exchanger for your ventilation system? Or is it already in your plans? You used many acronyms so it wasn't clear what you are planing. The advantage of a heat exchanger is that in winter you use the heat of the outgoing air to warm up the incoming cold air. In this process the cooling of the outgoing air may produce condensate that has to be disposed of. The incoming air is warmed up so that it will be dryer than before. In some extreme cases you might use water sprayers to adjust the humidity. In summer the cool outgoing air is used to cool down the incoming air where a lot of condensate appears that is disposed of, which is what you are aiming for. Since you already have fans for your system you only need the heat exchangers but bear in mind that the fans have to push the air thru the heat exchanger which means more powerful fans and somewhat higher energy costs for the ventilation system with the advantage that you don't loose energy pumping hot air out in winter or need air conditioning for hot air in summer.
We’re on the same wavelength… the ventilation system has an inbuilt heat exchanger 😀 One of the acronyms, MVHR, stands for Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery
Wow! What a difference! Not sure I noticed a difference between the square mic and the small mic, but both are miles ahead of the old mic, and the fuzzy wind cover worked great too. Bye!
Couldn't tell the difference - but I did think that the idea of making the mikes look like novelty bow-ties was worth mentioning, just in case anyone else tries to convince you it is worth trying out. Please don't do it, it isn't. I also considered 'Medallion Man' from the 1980s 'Three of a kind' providing a way to disguise the mike make the mikes look like a gold medallion - an even worse idea. So what if they stand out....? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z1DjqELlIvg.html
Well, that was an interesting one, a mic test and a very good one I might say. Quality of sound is most excellent and no background noice or noice coming from the wind. Lime-paint looks great!!! Have a great week!!! Cheers Bert
Apparently cow dung is the traditional solution to stop the lime sucking stains out of everything it can and bringing it to the surface. Could be an interesting video if you can find it in Portugal. Good luck.
Do you know what I didn't notice any difference. That might be the fact that I am a tad deaf and rely on totally on the CC that you turn on for each video. Thank you for that and thanks for posting "a day in the life"
The mikes are great! As for the discoloration, we had the same ( renovating with like, meteorite stone house in France),in our case is down to rising damp in the walls, salpetre building up too, even with natural lime mortar on it it still happening, dries off in the summer a little more. Even after the french drain, redirecting rain water and so on,we still have it on outside walls, mainly because our house is on a slope about 150 from the river in a wet winter spring and autumn . Back them the stone walls were built with compact dirt system so it absorbs all the water.
Great sound quality - well done! And I found it interesting to hear how you're planning not only the next building project in this highly complex renovation saga but also envision the video sets already in advance to make them interesting for us lot - so many levels of action to keep in mind! Thank you - I admire your work and work ethic so much! You're awesome 👌 😊
Great sound! Very clear, and I don't hear the wind or you breathing . Oops I forgot my earing aid this morning! However, I can still hear you really well over the sound of the hose . Whatever you video you make will be interesting. What make it really good are the things you say, the humour as well as the work itself. I'm 71 and will never do anything remotely like what you're doing. I'm learning all kinds of thing that I know I'll never get to use, but it's still interesting and I love it and am always looking forward to your posts. I'm living vicariously through you and a few other utubers. Love you guys!
Disclaimer.....I know nothing about limewash. Just a thought about the marks you mentioned. The walls where the marks coming through, are they outside walls?
Quick question ...can paint pigment be added to lime wash? Maybe white pigment would make the lime wash more opaque, or maybe if you want to paint a feature wall...? Your new mic's are pretty darn OK by the way 👍 😊🎉 and love your conversational style of vlogging. 🎉
Perhaps the discoloration is coming from the original stone ? Could be iron oxide leaching from some of the stone ?I noticed that some of the stone work seemed quite iron oxide rich . Iron oxide can be quite a strong dying agent .Just a thought.
so this is like the car, no point A/C on with the windows open ?.... i think the staining is the nature of lime wash to take the stain from the base material brick,mortar stone maybe
