I found a Victorian fireplace in a 150 year old house I bought. In this video I bring it back to its former glory! #Restoration #HouseRenovation #TheRetroFuture
It’s so nice seeing such old (antique!) pieces being restored and still being used in the same Building they have been in from the very beginning. I‘m sure it’s a lot of work and effort to renovate an old house but features like these that show the age are such nice accents and I‘m sure it will pay off once everything is finished.
That anti-rust paint looks a lot like what I see on submarines, planes, trains and tanks in museums. They probably use a similar paint to preserve these old vehicles. (Maybe some even used to be coated this way?)
All this projects are so overwelming... Watching a thing that's our being built, having some of our blood, sweat and tears, is so gratifying! I'm about to start a (much smaller) project like yours, recovering a house for me and my girlfriend to call our home. Inspired by you, I'll go so much more motivated! Thanks!
Looking good! For the one which didn't survive, maybe try looking for a similar one at a local reclamation yard? Or maybe putting a wood burner in its place? Would look really good and be super cosy in the winter!
I love this kind of content. It's funny to see how differently in the different countries the building styles are. Here most houses have all walls made out of stone. Also inner walls.
A lot of houses like these started out as just an upstairs room and a downstairs room. The inner walls are added later, so it's cheaper and easier to just use wood and plaster! My house is the same. It still has the original trim around the ceiling... Which has since been cut in half when they divided the upstairs to make an indoor bathroom 😅
@@ActualCharky it's not that we use here brick walls but autoclaved aerated concrete (aac) blocks for inner walls . They are light weighted and cheap here. Benefit of this type of blocks is that you can hang more weight on the wall(you don't have to measure to get it into the wooden beam) and they have heat and acoustic isolation properties. But again, it's just that it is interesting that they do it on a complete different way, but having the same result.
Really nice job on the spray painting! Seen many people doing it wrong and just spray until it's opaque, but thats just wrong. How you did it, light coat, drying, another coat, probably drying and another coat again, that gets u the best results! Thank you for doing a great job and not making me cringe like many other people already have! :)
I love how this channel turned from gameboy reviews to gameboy and fireplace restoration! Really like your videos and wish you luck with the renovations
Thats what in talking about👌🏾 you need to do make a Home improvements channel where people call you to restore parts of their home, that would be cool. Thanks for the share👍🏾
Great idea, there's something homely and rustic about having a fire place and as a feature functional or not. Sure you can use it as a candle holder if anything else
That looks great! Loving how the house is coming together! Hopefully you can move in soon enough so you don't have to keep paying on the current place.
it looks lovely, and it is great that your retaining them. I would not have painted it at all mind. the paint at the rear and the undercoat are not heat resistant. Also many stove paints are not meant to be subjected to open flame. It would have been better to use Black lead (grate polish). it would have achieved the look you desired on the cast iron whilst also making it much easier to convert to a working fire place in the future should you, or a future homeowner, decide to do so. Either way, good on you for keeping them in place :)
I like it, Im currently trying to restore a house in the US from the 1800s, we have found some interesting gems too, but nothing as cool as that Fireplace.
Most high heat paints need actual heat to finish the curing process. If the paint isn't fully cured, it can flake off or just simply rub off. Check your cans to see if it has such a requirement.
You should do a video on how much ad revenue you will have made from the house Reno series. Food for thought. It’s like our watch time is helping to pay for the repairs
Did your builders advise your about your flaps? Most chimneys have in them a flap for use in the summer to stop birds and rodents ingressing, I remember my grandfather the first lighting up of the year he would open the flap and all manner of departed small creatures would flop into the fireplace. A shame about the original range, a shame the front couldn't be salvaged and used as a feature piece but if its gone its gone and unless you have your own foundry to hand... its off to the big range heaven it goes. You don't even need to have the upstairs fireplaces working with real fire but you can buy very good and efficient faux fires that put out a lot of heat and look like the real thing but are electric. I notice you haven't got a central heating system so winter heat will be an issue although in my growing up years all we had was a front room gas fire and my father saying if we were cold put a jumper on which we did.
