#26 Seeing our ruin for the first time (future kitchen) 

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Reuse idea: the broken tiles you swept out of the building can be broken up some more and then used as a hard wearing path material. You might need decent, permeable paths when the winter rains come and you don't want to sink into mud for several months!

If you have any intention to salvage the walls, I think you need to hire a structural engineer to look at it. Masonry collapses are nothing to play with. But the good news is that you can think of this as a large collection of resources that can be recycled. The foundation is probably okay and that big concrete patio is a great resource. So you definitely have a treasure hoard of materials there. You just have to determine the best way to use it.

As an interiordesigner I would say take down all the brick and roof. Rebuilding will be cheaper and safer.

Old brick building, suffered a fire, no support columns in the corners, window without lintel...seems a recipe to a future disaster...I would rebuild it..the floor seems sound but you can take it and do a wooden one with wood beams/joists..keep going with the wonderful work🥳

Having spent 10 years rebuilding & improving a house that was not even in as poor condition as this (because I was sure it was better to retrofit than kncok down!) I would hugely encourage you to dismantle carefully and start again. It will be quicker and less expensive, plus it will enable you to rebuild the most appropriate space for your needs. Now I'm finished, I feel more confident that it would have been more ecologically appropriate and sustainable to have dismantled and rebuilt. Of course, builders told me this at the beginning, but I didn't listen 🤣 Have fun 🙂

Put the soil from the house in a compost pile, it's already decomposed, where as it can be utilized now in the gardens

Check with local Camara on legality. The granite walls and concrete hardstanding look good, the rest will need taking down and rebuilding, chance to redesign. Recycle as much material as you can, either on the rebuild or elsewhere at Project Kamp.

I can help but think that a couple of hardhats might be a good investment - at least it looks that way from the safety of my armchair #armchairwarrior

You can take those green mimosa trees and weave them in between other trees making a natural pen for goats or animals. They make a great natural fence. Those left over roof tiles are great for lining a water source bottom or filling raised beds. Beautiful outbuilding with so much potential!

you can use these tiles along the way to patch holes just crush them

Hi guys. From what I can see, the upper floor was built with a very deficient concrete structure (if one can call it a structure at all by the way it is distributed); some of the brick masonry seems to be playing a structural role it's not design to perform. It would be advisable to demolish that part of the building and rebuild it. As for the ground floor, it appears to be a solid stone building and in reasonable shape, but you would benefit from inviting a structural engineer to check it. Don't forget to wear PPE while inside. Best wishes and goog luck!

All the charred wood beams, can theoretically be used as a soil amendment (bio char). Everywhere I look in this video I see lots of compostable material.

I think it's a great place for storage right now, even considering the poor state of the building. You can put a big tent over the concrete patio and use the cellar as fridge-like storage room

If there was a wooden structure in front of it before, maybe you are allowed to build one again without much paperwork. Would be a good thing to find out. It might be easier to build a room on the plate and tear down the upper level of the building and build a wider roof on top of everything.

This was a fun video. It will be great to watch you renovate the kitchen. Keep cutting down the Mimosa trees around it. Most of those young trees look like good useful poles that you can use later. Dry them in racks in the sun. It's an excellent hardwood just a little harder than pine but easier to work with. It's used for fence posts so don't burn it. It's an excellent resource as well as a damn weed.

I think your best bet is going to be take the top part down brick by brick and rebuild it with new mortar and then plop a better roof on. The bottom carved out of that granite is pretty much going no where but that top is way too structurally sketchy to just patch up and honestly it will just be faster to take to down and rebuild it straight and strong.

Getting a tarp on the roof and secured will help to start protect the inside and dry it out for when you are ready .

I saw some hand-forged nails in that burnt timber. You need to save them as they are so rare nowadays. Keep up the good work. :-)

Nice Job !!!!!!!!!! I love seeing patios flower beds sidewalks yards and fences brick walls being uncovered its fun to watch.

So satisfying to see a cleanup video! Great work

A lot of the stuff that looks like trash is actually valuable, especially things like the mimosa trunks, which could easily be used to make pole rafters for the new roof. Saving as many of the roofing tiles as you can is smart, of course, but also you can take the old broken ones and till them into your garden to improve soil quality and drainage. ALL of the brush, ANYTHING you cut really, can be raked into a pile and composted. Walk by and pee on the pile every once in awhile and it will go faster, but even without it will turn into beautiful "organic" potting soil in a year. This "new way of living" is actually the oldest way of living - the family farm. The difference is, you are CHOOSING your family, rather than being born into it. As an engineer, and former owner of an ancient damaged building, my bet is that a structural engineer will tell you the building is essentially fine if you fix the obvious flaws BECAUSE it has stood for a hundred years. If it was going to collapse, it would have. That is, as long as you're not trying to turn it into a modern house.

Totally in love with that big space of trees behind the house, so much potential for a cool hangout area

Great job guys, what a difference. I'm loving the concrete area beside the building, a good car parking space. Hang on to those old broken tiles, they will make great pathways when broken into smaller pieces. xxx

If there is a local tile or brick maker, you can take the broken roof tiles to them and they would crush them up into crog to mix in the new clay as a binder.

What an amazing journey thanks for filming

Tear down the top floor leaving the bottom floor. Roof it and use materials for other projects. Cheers. :)

Tear it down. The bricks are oriented in the wrong way, with horizontal instead of vertical channels.

excited to see how ya'll get this functional , keeping it up and usable for generations to come.

you guys are for sharing doing an amazing work ... thank you so much for sharing with us 😍 I am watching all your updates 😄

Just watched #1 to #26 and love what you are doing! keep up the adventure and sharing for us folks in other parts of the world.

The building can probably be saved by plastering over chicken (use a good grade well galvanized one - not plastic coated) mesh, I've done several burnt mud and stone buildings like this. Basically you roughly attach chicken mesh to to the outside of the building then plaster it, if you want it really strong you can do the inside as well but typically that is not necessary.

these videos always motivate me to work in my own garden! one thought: the roof tiles may be able to be reused. make sure to carefully save the ones that are not broken

Very interesting video, I have never seen anybody use a scrub bar in a up and down motion, I use one like a scythe and cover a lot of ground very quickly, time and nature has a lot to answer for, many thanks from Wairoa down under in New Zealand, keep safe and well

That "brick" construction is actually terracotta "Hollow Tile" It was used extensively in some parts of New Jersey / USA . The tiles last forever if not broken. One problem you will find is its hard to attach something. Unless you can cement it between the blocks (like that hinge), you will need to drill a hole and use an expanding "toggle bolt" or similar device. To finish the building, many stucco over the tile, to make a clean looking wall. Good luck! I just subscribed!

Good to see young people working together ,and no cell phones

This is a great channel. Informative and fun! Hope you reach 100k subscribers soon.

I'm really enjoying seeing the progress your group is making, and really commend your determination and enthusiasm. Not to sound like a party-pooper, but I think you do need to think about how you portray the process when it comes to safety. Even if you know what you're doing, some of your audience don't, so not wearing hard hats and other suitable PPE (on camera at least) makes you seem cavalier about safety (even if you are not). The last thing you need is an avoidable injury. Also, with so much bramble to clear, a pair of heavy-duty gauntlets is going to be a good investment. My guess is that the upper parts of the building were an unlicensed extension (given the build quality!), so for that reason alone you'll need to check with the local camara (town hall/planning for those not familiar with Portugal). Replacing those parts with a licensed structure would allow you to include some great 'eco' features, and the expensive part of the build - getting out of the ground - is already done for you. You have plenty of timber on site you can mill. Last thought - maybe your Patreons can help you buy a chipper/shredder? - the sooner you can accelerate your compost-building the better. Boa sorte, and stay hydrated! :D

Thanks for sharing. So much potential in that old building.

that is a very highly potential living space. Amazing what you discovered after cleaning it all up. Your very hard work paid off:)

It's great to see now its cleared . in the past , I've seen people smash the old roof tiles into peaces and use the rubble to make pathways . Cheers !, great video .

If you can save the roof tiles you can maybe make a roof for shade over the big concrete area you uncovered at the end. Since you probably wont reuse the tiles for the main roof, maybe they can be reused in another way

Oh guys, its so nice to see how much you get done in one day. I really really would like to help you!! So much positiv energy and i can feel how nice this place could be in a few years!! i mean its still such a nice peace of land. KEEP IT UP !!!

I would recommend to tear down the upper part, that had been on fire and rebuild - using the same bricks and fresh mortat on top of the existing cellar. the cellar looks sound. Make it a proper double layer wall and you should have a lot less to worry about.

hello from the Netherlands. I think that the soil in those cellars and the scraps of wood with the nails has been a kind of nursery, something that has to grow cool and moist, maybe even in the dark, something like mushrooms or chicory or something that is customary there. I think the wood and nails were planters in which she grew a crop . something that might otherwise not survive the sun? . By the way, have you ever thought about letting goats or something like that graze your land? that saves you maintenance again. you can throw those roof tiles into the holes in the road like rubble to fill them up . and maybe make a kind of ditch with the good roof tiles where the water has to go through instead of destroying the road

The concrete structure looks to me like an old feed trough, and with the timbers/Post buried in the ground, it was probably a corral of some type.

Dont know if it was just not visible in the shot (inside you can see it over your shoulder) or what but it looked like one of the windows does not have a lintel above. That is not a good thing! Please be careful and buy some hardhats. They are 10 bucks a piece.

Great work! I love seeing the lad transform.

That little lady has the most beautiful and contagious SMILE...lol...

Now, THÁT is a kitchen-house with a decent outdoor-kitchen! 😉 If the walls are bowed in the horizontal plane (as shown), but straight (plum) in the vertical plane, then they will hold the roof without problem. It will surely a difficult decision to find out if the structural integrity of the bricks in the wall is still solid (only then you can consider to patch the holes that were shown).. All the best, I'd love to see the structure saved! 😎

Absolutely love this channel, thank you for sharing with all of us.

The USDA has a free manual for "construction with surface bonding". It is a method that uses a fiber reinforced parge coat to make a structural wall from block. It may be a good way to reinforce the existing walls.

I've never seen bricks like those, usually the holes are top to bottom not side to side. I can't imagine they have much structural integrity like that even when they were new.

Wow what a difference! That concrete landing outside was an awesome extra discovery.

Also, there are government subsidies available in Portugal when you want to rebuild a structure damaged by fogos.

Ask the neighbor if they could come over to the building and explain how it looked back when they remember it. That would be interesting.

I was doing workaway and we did a project like this. It was so fun, brings me memories of Ireland (where I volunteered in something like this)

I've started watching from season one, this is literally the beginning of the solar punk era!

I was hoping you' find a well on that concrete platform..... Wow, all of you are hard workers. Good job, everything is looking better and better!!!

End result looked great. The building is very useful depending on what you want from it. Buy some timber, fit out the door windows and 1st floor. The outside can be plastered to make it look so much better. But it all depends on what you want from this building.

Something satisfying about the cleanup process… Looks like you won’t have any termites, but maybe you could use some Thermite. (Boom!)

Cartaibly looks like a project, but I’m sure it will turn out! Keep up the good work guys!

I would ask a professional to have a final answer. This building went through a fire and it seems like in poor conditions. Maybe the fire department can give you some ideas on how safe it still is

I would definitely take out all the tile and buy (possibly with the deal as to help the onwers to clear that out) another granite(and tile) ruin and dismantle that and then, build on this old granite with more old granite reused from the other ruin... Also I would probably use the bricks that keep whole to make a cooling patio for big outdoor eating (with that table you brought in the container) over that cement yard.. This project is just so interesting. I have to show this whole project to my father, an retired carpenter (of houses, not furniture) and a mason. will be a awesome re-watch together.

You guys need a good 'pedreiro' to give you advice about the house .Im sure it was made for keeping animals , and thats why the house is so badly done .You guys are going to have problems with those Mimosas for the rest of your life's , im sure your neighbours can tell that . In 4 years they re grow into trees . That specific species of Mimosas spread thru the roots , if you cut them they will re grow in no time !!!!! Down south ,Alentejo , in my homestead ,we had that problem for years and years , and it was a tiny area . Near a stone wall , we cut them , and they regrow and they made the wall unsafe , it took some potent weedkiller , and years and years to finally kill them .

Young people have so much energy and ability.

Suggestion for the moment.. the upper portion of the kitchen needs repairs.. you'd have to re-sit the tile walls build brick beam supports... and then install a roof with beams every 7 feet.. more the beams more heavy loads will be supported...then re-tile the roof.... this is going to be a long rebuild series. ofcourse you have to install a burner stove (gas) a kitchen sink with running water, a wood stove with a cast iron cook top (removable) and perhaps a pizza oven, 2 person seating area a counter to prep the meals and eat...and lastly light the place and an exhaust vent (solar on the patio outside) Stay safe GOD BLESS.

I love the granite cellar base. The rest is not good as all the guys have said..but keep it all in place til you've checked all the permits.. some places you lose the rebuild right if you demolish without the new permit in place.

A whole lot of potential for that building. A cool cellar type basement. And chance to make good use of the upper floors.

By the way, don't underestimate the sturdiness of those walls, I'm almost 40 and I've seen people living in houses looking like this for decades they were there before I was bon andd some are still there. The trick is to tap the walls and ear how it sounds if there is no damage they should sound high pitch if there's any damage or cracks it will definitely sound like a cracked ceramic pot. The roof definitely needs to come down and all wood most likely replaced but for what I could see the walls don't seem to be in any danger of falling. But if you have access to someone that has knowledge do follow his advice

I would love to see some sketches of what it looked like from the neighbours that remember it.

That water trough on the side there is good evidence of the possibility that the cellar was used for housing goats or cows. Possibly pigs.. And that's also a much more likely reason for the dirt on the floor. Animal manure and straw would break down into dirt much faster and easier than old wood.

Thanks for posting and sharing. Wow that was a lot of work!

Yep, you're going to have to get someone on site that has worked with those type bricks and knows what the hell they're talking about. You may just be able to salvage a few walls anyway. Cool looking building, would be a shame if if it all has to come down. Thanks for sharing.

Please, don't spend any more time in this building until you have a professional have a look at it. My suggestion is to re-use what you can and build a new building on the existing foundation.

Given safety. I don't think I would want to reuse the building as it is. Maybe you can reclaim the bricks for another project, but I would really want to start over with just the granite cellar as a foundation. That building really is not safe.

The lower levels has most likely been used as animal shelter, thus all the soil in there, its composted bedding material. You would not get that amount of compost from a decomposed wood floor.

Its not collapsing man.you have plenty of wood and you can easy rebuild the roof and it can be a nice house

Impressive great work good team work all the best get a builder volunteer there advise hopefully you can salvage it great start 👍😊👌🍀all the best from Ireland

You don’t need to be an engineer to see that the top part needs to be demolished. So please for safety take it down. No lintel, lose bricks in corners, curved walls. The only thing you have is a some sketchy brickwork and thats the cheapest part of the building. Rebuilding it will be cheaper and faster. With all the roof tiles and bricks you can also make good foundations for some roads 👍🏻 I really love this channel, always looking forward to the next episode! Great balance of talking and working!

Wow! That was a lot of work. Very satisfying video to watch.

The lower level would be a great root cellar. Thanks for sharing.

Good luck with this building and please be careful - it might not be as solid as it looks if it was in the fire (not that I understand how this all works).

I live in Portugal, and love watching this series. Then I thought I'd take a peek at the online community, but this Discord stuff - I have a hard time with it. I'm over 30, maybe that's the problem? Anyway, when I log in and click on the Project Kamp "server" emoji, all I get is a request to download Nitro, and pay up. I would give up, but I am thinking there may be other over-30s who have the same issue.

Wow! what a difference, well done.

Nice project, the most important thing is that you put the roof on, then start renovatnig.. when the renovation is finished the house will need about 3 years to fully dry as the walls are soaked amd the new material will add more water into the building.

This was very satisfying

I picture a deck off the front overlooking the big field. Nice!

what a fun episode! you're doing great work! keep it up. all the best

It's a shame about this building as it's in much rougher shape than your other ruin and I can understand why so many people are shocked by it and are saying it's a write off (although everyone loves the cellars!). The thing I'm wondering is if those floors are concrete because if they are it might be really good news. It should make the cellars more structurally stable and would mean that damage from rain would be more limited than it might be. The upstairs rear is severely damaged as it has had no roof. This means there is structural support missing. In spite of the repairs that have been made, the front of the building looks a lot more solid. Does the roof leak at all when it rains? Someone suggested covering the back with a tarp and while that was good advice I would suggest making some kind of temporary canopy. Perhaps something like your plastic roof tiles or some other thing to keep the rain from getting into the building and damaging it. You want to keep the rain away from the floor and even the damaged brickwork. This will protect the building till you can make proper repairs because although it's funky, a lot of it isn't as bad as people are making out especially if it is a concrete sandwich. I think people are shocked because the back of the upper floor is truly in shocking condition. They may be right that it would be better to carefully take down the rear of the building, where there are problems, brick by brick and rebuild it again with the reclaimed bricks but for the time being it needs to be protected. It's a fantastic area with the nice seating trough and the patio that might make a good foundation to build a outdoor kitchen like you already made on. Maybe use the upstairs to keep the solar equipment for a small solar setup in. The basements really might make a good root cellar and a place to keep drinks cool. You could have an ice cooler box and a couple of freezer packs in there. I hope you find a way to protect this building. It's still got a lot going for it.

Re-mortar the loose bricks. Cover with stainless Expanded metal and render inside and out. That should fix it👍👍👍

Really great job guys

Think I'd cut the trees back away from the building all the way round for a future fire break, open it up and see what is left of the building better and then decide what to do with it 🤔

Adoro os vossos sotaques tuga!

I say dive in head first and get'er done. If it goes bad during the process then rally, rethink it and keep on going.

Pure Awesome Sauce 🔥 Great find!

I am not a professional but here in Easter Europe we build many houses ourselves and I have been at many projects. I think that you should definitely tear down these walls, It seems like they have been poorly made (these bricks were certainly laid down incorrectly) and quite old and after a fire they are quite dangerous I would say. For the floor I would ask some professional to have a look at it, from the videos it seems to be solid, but it needs to be checked more into detail. The foundations from granite seems to be in good condition. To be honest I am quite impressed that somebody lived in this house :)

Wrap inside & outside with metal mesh like used to reinforce concrete floors. In a grid 1 m2 tie them together through walls & do a skim coat of concrete on either side. For corners run vertical rebar with horizontal bracing & tie together through wall & pour colllums both sides. Or build with cement block reinforced same way & fill voids with concrete.

you could totally make terra preta from the cut down trees, so that the carbon will go in the ground!

The broken roof tiles can be reused for pathways and the filling in the roads.