Fix Sanctuary Houses (Add Roofs, Walls & Doors): Fallout 4 Tips & Tricks Ep. 1 

8+ years later, and this is helping a whole new group of folks playing Fallout since the show aired!!

And here i been using paintings for plugging up the holes in the wall lol

I really wish that when fallout 4 was originally made, with sanctuary they would have added: 1) ability to delete all standing buildings in sanctuary 2) delete everything deletable at once 3) an undo function

I follow a couple other channels about building and repairing in Fallout 4 but sometimes they over complicate things. Your video was easy to follow, short and to the point. Thank you!

I like these repairs. I wish the game had building repair functions available considering one of the Minutemen quest lines is rebuilding Sanctuary.

To anyone confused why the floor doesn't snap to the 2nd floor, you need to select "shack upper floor" instead of "shack floor".

Finally Nate/Nora can live in their old house without fear of turning into a peoplesicle for Christmas.

7 years later I am still building Sanctuary in F4. Playing second time, now lot of building going on, lots of resources and different gameplay. 🙂👍🏻

7 years later and still been useful, thanks a lot!

Why there is no "fix houses" quest for some high amount of material, people (without work) and time as part of the vanilla game ?.... shame. Thank you for this. This is actually what i wanted to do but didnt know how :)

This is not the first video I've seen using this glitch; but it has some of, if not, the best demonstrations I have seen. They are methodical with ample explanations without being tedious. Also, it seems like a small thing, but it is nice for people on different platforms that you don't just name the buttons you mention what they are primarily used for. One last thing, I don't know if it is useful information or not. However on my first playthrough, before learning about all the various tricks and building glitches, I learned something while trying out different ideas to patch and/or build on top of the houses in Sanctuary Hills. If one climbs up on a roof or closely looks through some of the holes from inside there is a a metal frame in the roof for each house, and one right above the ceiling tiles separated by a space slightly higher than the thickness of the shack ground floor. Through experimentation I found each set of frames has its own collision mesh, so with a steady hand and *a lot* of patience, one can place thin objects and building pieces between them. That was also how my first character (made the first week after release, so everyone was still trying things out) fixed the roofs in Sanctuary and made all their interiors count as sheltered areas for beds, etc... I made rectangular sections out of the corrugated tin roofs in the wood set (they are the same as the ones used in the wooden pre-fabs) and then used the multi-select feature to more or less thread the section in that space so it would sit on the frame above the pre-existing ceiling panels. As stated I don't know how useful this is, as the method you showed is so much quicker and blocks the sunlight and the falling rain effect. better since, as demonstrated in the video, the floors can be stacked using the rug glitch. Still, I thought someone might find it interesting.

ive watched this information on 5 other channels but for some reason your video strikes me as the easiest to follow. thanks a lot

Great tutorial! As someone else commented, I was using paintings to cover holes. Never heard of the rug glitch, but I'll be using it tonight. Thanks for the great video! :)

one way to keep Preston out of my household.

YOU ARE SO HELPFUL THANK YOU. I know these are older videos but I have been totally hopeless with building lately and you've given me so much inspiration!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Trying to find a way to put doors on buildings has frustrated me beyond measure! (I'm new to the whole building settlements from ground up) this has been sooo helpful! Thank you, again. ❤️🙏

I'm glad I found this video again! I forgot how to do this and have been struggling with these houses. I think my OCs will be quite busy re-building for a while now, thankyou!

I just used the same method, to fix the roof on Taffington boathouse. Thank you!!!! I have been looking for a way to do this.

thank you! I was struggling with how to do this again. and your explanintion is straight forward no over complicating anything. Thank you!

Great video. Im happy to know theres a way to do this without mods. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

Revisiting this game over Christmas. The Vault Dweller has been sitting on the roof of the Workshop house with a drink beside him for five years. Thought I'd fix up the settlements. This is good info. Thanks

I’ve been playing this game for years and just gave up hope with the ceilings. This was easy to follow and holy crap worked first time. Thank you !

I'm really late I just started playing this and this really help me a lot thank you

Thank you Good Lady for a great video! I'm fixing the house that they (Shaun /family) lived before the world . especially the ceiling

Thanks for the video, you've explained it quite well.

Just liked and subscribed; incredibly helpful and will make my settlement so much cooler and wasteland dovahkiin is the perfect name

No one else has explained this well enough thank you

You're literally my superstar after starting Fallout 4. Tips, tricks and inspiration, and the best voice by far to complete the whole package 😋

I’ve always found it interesting that you can scrap glass but not fit any kind of windows

Not having the repair option in the game for holes in the ceilings and walls is aggravating. So this is nice to know. Thanks!

I know this video is a year old but I just wanted to leave a message to say u are honestly amazing are great I've played the game for almost three years and considered my self a pro then u come in teach me all of these new glitchs so thank u

You awesome I have been struggling withg with this eye sore for a while now !!! Thanks Hal

OH my, you can't imagine how glad I am I found your video. Clean, straight to the point, and you explain really well! Finally I can fix my ugly ass neighborhood lmao They should let you delete the "usable" houses too, like even the shacks look better lol So thanks a lot! *w*

thank you so much this is going to make my playthrough so much easier I hate spending hours building but I want my sanctuary to at least be ok for the few I have living there

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! Sanctuary will look a LOT better for me now haha

Very helpful. Thanks for making this.

Hmm I appreciate the video but for some reason I can't group the objects with the mat and I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right. Did they patch it out so it won't work anymore?

Thank you for this, saved me a lot of frustration!

That was great. All those messed up houses and not being able to fix them up in a game that encourages you to fix stuff up! With a building program in the vanilla game! Jeebus. Thank you much, this is so satisfying.

With your method and some time to measure things nicely, you can use the barn elements from the Far Harbor dlc to get roof done as well. Thanks for the nice video. I've got few hundreds hours in game, yet I've never used this exploit to repair my walls.

you have just made my day! thank you!!

Yo this video really helped a lot I used it to fix the main houses in sanctuary

Great video will definitely be trying this on my Settlements.

Thats really impressive . Thanks for the tip , cheers

Thanks for the video. I never minded the walls too much, but I did wish I could put in more doors, and make the roofs look like they'd actually be able to protect the interior from rain.

Very helpful thanks. I'll get to work on doing this

Great video, I know what I'll spend my next week doing

Ive been trying to figure out how to use the rug glitch and bro you solved it

nice. thanks for explaining how to fix the walls and roofs.

Thanks so much for this video! Works great on most houses, but for some reason the house to the left of that one the roof won't take. Tried sooo many times in different spots. Any tips? Wondering if it's fussy in every game or just mine :P

I love that your showing this with the x box controller, which is what I use. Also if you don’t know, the warehouse doors kinda work on the houses here and any other old houses I’ve found. They open and close although there’s still a bit of a gap I just tell myself my settlers aren’t good carpenters

I have to try this trick. I was trying to renovate Sanctuary last night and it is so frustrating with the busted houses. I gave up and went to the castle. lol Love the video!

Very good instruction! Thanks a lot!

Your creative, very smart:) Ty very much! I hope you continued with your content.

Your video was very helpful! Thank you! ^^

Thanks for the tips I cant stop playing this

awesome . just what I was looking for

Great tutorial, def doing this!

Really helped me a lot! Thank you!

this was an awesome vid, will be wasting hours tonight fixing up the town

thank you I like your video I found it very helpful please continue to make more

Very nice! Thanks for a great video!

Nice video, well eplained. Many thanks

you are awesome I have been trying to figure that out since I got the game

Genius, thank you.

WOW !!! THANK YOU FOR THE "RUG TIP". Now Imma go straighten ALL MY CROOKED HOUSES. HAHAHA

Great video. Thank you so much!!!

2022 this is still useful, thank you!!

Very useful tips...thnx! 🤘🏼

How do you slide in the pieces with pin point accuracy? I have the PC version and cannot zoom in close or follow the piece into the air and make it attractive. Would it be better to use the Steam Controller?

Just a point to make. I don’t know if it’s just an xbox feature but, i can manage fit a door in the existing door frame of the house. It actually clips to the frame.

Oh you're actually fixing the house I thought this was a mod spotlight. Still a pretty good video tho, keep goin.

This isn’t working for me, does anyone have any tips? I bring the parts in on the rug but it won’t let me place it, regardless of whether or not the space is clear for the rug

8 years later, and this is still getting mileage, thank you, trying to figure out how to fix the roofs was driving me mad.

Thanks very much appreciate this is very helpful

Thank you so much for this. I know how to put doors on but I can't figure out how to fix the roof or walls 😅❤

Great vid!

Hello again I'm having a lot of trouble installing the roof on my house. No problem with the build but moving it ,using the rub slip. Got any suggestion? I've watched your video many times to see where I'm making my mistake I've watch several more videos and they mentioned the floor mat glitch,,, I think my Fallout 4 upgrade ( 1.7 ) might have did away with that. Looking at plan "B"

Awesome video!! thank youuu!

Very nice. Thank you so much.

So what are the items that I should remove before doing the floors because for example the kitchen area I really wanna keep that Plus I'm struggling to do the any type of floor I thought there must be something in the way

One question, Why you put an extra floor over the floor rooftop that you made? it's necessary? I'm rebuilding Sanctuary and I really interested on these tutorials :)

Awesome tips !!!

Thank you 👍🏻

Wow thank you so much I really worries me when it storms on the rads get us and dam we have been living like cave men this is so better ty

Awesome! Thank you so much for the video. Unfortunately the workshop will no longer allow me to build anything in Sanctuary. Hopefully I can find a pc console to work around this so I can fix all the roofs.

Thank you!😁

When clearing out sanctuary there are items (couch, chair, lamp, etc) that can be stored in the workbench. Should I store them and use them later? As I won’t have to make them, or just scrap everything and build new? Thanks for the video, btw - great help!

Awesome! Thanks!

If the roof could be removed and salvaged, the connection points of your ceiling modification you do might allow a new roof if my thinking is correct. At least in theory, it would sure look better than the original rotten roof.

I need this man as my real estate agent 10/10 building sir

Thanks for properly explaining how to do this lol.. those houses do my head in so I can fix em now :)

If you're on PC (don't know about consoles) there's a mod called 'place everywhere' which allows you to basically build anything anywhere ;)

Great. Now how do you get Sturges to stop hamming while I'm trying to mod out my Power Armor?

Strange with door one I literally added a door where the frame was does that not work for all houses? Great video

Thanks! Wanted to live in my old house.

So, let me get this straight - the rug makes it possible to place the wall where it otherwise can't be placed? (in this case inside the existing broken wall panels?)

I can absolutely, positively, affirm that I have never heard the term "rug glitch". That's why I stopped by. As today is the Infamous Next Gen Update Day ( mark my words, it won't go well) I hope I have time to use this - those houses need more TLC than my real one. So far (in the fortnight I've had the game) I've been recuilding the houses I can clear in the Art Deco style, in concrete. I had to find a mod that gave me concrete, but I suspect mods will be locked out for a while.

Thank you 😊

Great stuff