I hope it all works out for you on the job front and you can continue creating your dream home. Re the slug problem, DUCKS! There are a lot of misconceptions about chickens and other poultry/animals eating slugs and snails, but ducks really are great for this. They eat the adult and eggs of both molluscs. I had one duck that cleared my garden and all my neighbours used to chuck their molluscs over as well. After she went to a new home (they need company) my garden stayed pretty clear for about 18 months! Indian runners tend not to eat the shoots either so win/win. Or a small pond to encourage frogs and toads.
I would love ducks, but I am a bit nervous about taking them on until they have my full attention. I feel chickens are easy and can be added at anytime, but for ducks they need a bit more thought. But look I think they would be great for slugs and I had heard about the Indian runners being light footed on plants and shoots. Thank you for your comment 😊
When you said “I hate electric”, I was laughing so hard!! I totally understand and share your pain. Writing on each wire what it is, was very smart. I Enjoy watching your show.
Loss of jobs sounds like a real opportunity guys! You can focus fully on your renovation and food self-sufficiency. Doing this work part-time while still employed was really tough for you both. Hopefully now it will be less stressful as long as, I guess, you can get by financially. I get a sense it will be fine! Kxx
The saying when one door closes another opens springs to mind. You will survive and enjoy your new home and the opportunities that will come. Best wishes.
I know the uncertainty of the job situation isn’t great on the face of it but to be able to focus your full attention on being able to just work on the house full time it might just be a blessing in disguise for you all. Fingers crossed it gives you the opportunity to be able to have the summer ‘off’ from the craziness that has been the last year for you both. What a beautiful area that you live in too, so close to the coast like that, I can see why you chose where you did. Wow Clare look at all of your crops! So exciting, everything is coming on sooo well! So far we just have a few little seedlings on their way that Lukas has planted, but it is a start. Ooh nearly forgot…..great haircut Rob! I’m sure everything will work out just the way it is supposed to for you all. I was going to say embrace and enjoy the time away from work….but you’ll have lots of other work in a different form but I hope you enjoy the freedom of all the hours to work on the house.❤
Thanks Dawn and Ben! Yes hoping this gives us the space needed to focus fully on the house. I have no idea what will end up growing that tunnel, I did spy a little seed tray on your counter top the other day, how exciting! Well done Lukas! Rob is supporting his Spring/Summer look, this is a yearly event, much needed 🤣
Love watching the 2 of you working together. Everything will turn out OK because you are people that get in and work. Neither of you stands around twiddling you thumbs and talking about working. You just do it. Keep it up, and I wait for your videos each Sunday. Love to the both of you. Pat from Australia ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You look younger with the short hair, looks good. Wiring and drywalling, hate them both. I admire your courage and determination. You are both doing a great job, fear not, opportunities for paid work will arrive.
Thanks for another great video. It was lovely to wander down to the beach with you, enjoying some well deserved time out away from wiring, plaster boarding, and building generally. Take this well earned break from ‘paid work’, all will be good, as only good things will come the way of good people and my goodness you appear to fit the bill. Fabulous haircut. Pauline
Thanks Pauline, we are starting to very slowly explore our surroundings, so it's lovely to be able to share them with you. Yes Robs haircut was necessary, it's his Spring/Summer look 🤣
Dont stress about the garden Claire get what u can out of it this year and you can change/improve it next year.You have the structure and I'm so jealous of your chipper.Gorgeous landscape ❤. I'm sure everything will work out.
That's the plan! Love the chipper, hopefully things work out. Sorry for the delay, I just realised that we had quite a few comments in "held in review"
Aw, you guys. We don't support you. YOU support US! We get to live vicariously through your efforts and hopefully (in my case anyway) learn loads and eventually follow a trail you've blazed as a family. Keep on keeping on. We've got great faith in yis both! Thank you for a great video.
I really hope it works out for you guys. Fingers and toes crossed Clare and Robin. Life always throws up curved balls. Love watching the progress. Keep the faith. All the very best. X
I hope everything works out for you. I enjoy watching your progress and of course I love the kitty cats. Hang in there I know it’s all going to work out for you. ❤
We’ve been watching two other RU-vid Irish Renovation shows for nearly a year, and only found you guys recently. We love watching your progress! (We went back and watched many of your past videos). Best of luck with your big push coming up on the kitchen and upstairs bedrooms. And on the job hunt (we’ll hope it’s nearby or remote) - watching from Seattle❤️
I'm new to your channel, and wanted you to know I love your kitchen windows!!!. I'm not watching forward, I know this is three months ago but I will just video binge forward!!
Thanks so much! 😊 Delighted to have you with us and delighted you love our windows. They are the only thing we didn't want to scrimp on or do ourselves but we were nervous how they would work out! But they did good and we love em more than we thought!
Hope things work out for you. A big thank you for what you have both done. It will be a brillaint resource for DIYers in the future. You have done it in all types of weather, using ordinary tools, survived numerous set backs, all delivered with good humour and the occasional joke. Well done to both of you. Compliments aside, what is the noise levels off the steel roof in heavy rain?
Thank you so much for your lovely comment🙂 At the moment when it rains we hear every drop in the kitchen as it is yet to be insulated. However in our bedroom, we cannot hear anything since the insulation and plasterboard has gone up. Such a difference.
Definitely an opportunity. You may not know how you’ll manage but I feel it will work out. Claire I agree that you’ll see big changes with you both focused on the house. More bees do you can sell honey? You’re both so resourceful I have every confidence. If nothing else, the kids really don’t need school😂. Just kidding ofc though not too long ago that would’ve been the reality. Ash is shaking in his boots right now but he doesn’t know why. Congratulations. You’re so close to 4k subs. That’s great. You have my support ✌️💚
Thanks Trish, Ash would love the idea of no school🤣 I'm sure it will all come together I hope, but this does give us an opportunity to really hit the house hard.
I love your positivity and I know it will work out. Please take care of yourselves while you work there so hard and apply for jobs. So hard to find the right words here, knowing what it means to have or not have a job. But know we are all sending positive thoughts, wishes and prayers out for you! ;-)
omg i absolutley love watchin what u 2 do ,i hope you can continue and things get better fro you both and wish u best wishes i=on new jobs and stay livin in ur dream home u are buildingxxx
Put lager in pie pans or plates to attract the slugs (I don't know if stout/darker beers work but I'm sure it will) . Slugs are attracted and will drown in it. Sorry about your tooth pain Mr. Rob. There's just nothing worse! Feel better! Cheers from North Carolina USA
Yes I will be on serious slug control over the next few weeks. I picked up 52 last night, so maybe night time slug patrol is necessary. Thank you though I will try the lager route too 🙂
Beautiful places on the beach.hope you guys don’t leave your doing perfect job, by the way tell rob awesome hair cut. Keep your chins up cant wait for next one👍👍
Your time health and family come first , you have put so much time into this projectt . I hope yous can continue , finish and live the dream i pray it works and you can complete
Thank you for your kind words. We hope to continue of course and that this is just space to allow us to really make a dent in the work that we still have to do.
I really hope everything works out for you, folks. I really enjoy your videos. You're almost at 4k subs. Hopefully, a few companies will start reaching out to you for sponsorships soon.
Change can be scary sometimes due to uncertainty, but if you look on the bright side, it gives you guys more time to finish within the time for the bank grant! Everything happens for a reason, and as your RU-vid channel grows, that’ll also give you more opportunities! I wish I could join your patreon, but I’m a stay home mom and my husband said I’m not allowed to contribute financially till I go back to work, then I can spend my own money on strangers on the internet. 😂 So until then, I’m gonna keep watching, liking, commenting and sharing to help you guys out. Love you and keep up the great work! 😊💚
Thank you for your lovely comment. Never feel like you have to join our patreon, we have only decided to do this because of the donations we get from watchers. You are like you mentioned supporting us by watching, commenting and by being a subscriber, and we appreciate this do much x
You're doing a great job and watching all your projects, I'm inspired to get things done at our place! 😄 Hope a perfect remote work opportunity pops up for you!
Geeat project been bunge watching since i found your vlog. On the gardening side of things,cardboard ist is definitely the way when making new beds. As for the mulch,it may be better to either add it to compost heaps with other compostable materials or make separate piles and let it rot down then use as a mulch,reason being fresh wood chippings can rob the soil of nitrogen.
Sending support and sunshine for both of you and your family. Hopefully everything turns out well with the job situation. The videos are always interesting and show the struggles and wins with what the both of you are accomplishing. Thank you. Take care.
I put Broken eggshell in the soil and around the plants it's a bit hit and miss also slugs don't like copper, rob I feel your pain with the tooth I got 2 broken teeth with roots exposed got another week to wait , I wish you luck on the job hunt. The house is coming on you have done so much keep your chin up .❤
Ahh yes egg shells, that's worth a try. I went out this evening and picked off 52 of the little blitters, so I'm going to try many methods together and surely we'll get there. Tooth or lack off tooth is still painful for Rob, thanks for commenting 🙂
We had slugs in out strawberries, We took some small tins- like tuna or catfood size tins- put some beer in them and put them in the garden. Some of them did crawl in, get drunk, and died. Didn't completely get rid of them but got some of them.
Amazing work accomplished! I live in an area that hedges and fences at every opportunity. It helps with wind, safety and beauty. Is it on your list anywhere to add a hedge or fence along the back of your property so the highway isn’t visible? There are self-replanting shrubs that aren’t costly. Also, how many acres do you have to tend? Hat’s off!🎉
Hi guys a bit of advice on the spot lights. You need an air gap around them which I did when fitting my spot lights but found living in the house there were serious drafts comming down from them them. I I had to go back and place a terracotta flower pot on top of each to provide the air gap and it’s fire proof. To seal I foamed around the outside of them. Massive saving on heating. Keep going folks it’s hard but push on. I got a book 20 years ago call home electrics. It was the best buy ever still use it even though the internet is hand but can’t beat the book.
Thanks for the tip! I think we will be putting in LED's which should not give off any heat, however I do remember the old spots, so i know what you mean.
Moving on but what are you going to do with the lumpy old render -are you going to chip all that off? Are you considering putting in a bed for flowers for the bees?
We are not sure about the render on the outside or inside for the moment as it is just not a priority for the grant. But over time we may chip it off, but I'm happy to live with it for now. Yes plenty of flower being propagated for the bees !
i would love to be a patron and have more info from you both ,but im not wrkin as i gave my job up and cant afford to sign up guys ,i love watchin all ur updates too , i dont wanna miss out on ur videos x
Regarding your tooth extraction. If it was an upper rear molar you had extracted your illness may be caused by a sinus infection caused by bacteria getting into your sinus cavity from the site of the removed tooth. Sometimes upper molars intrude into the sinus cavity, when the tooth is removed a hole/passageway remains which connects the 2 areas together. Resulting in a nasty infection which is extremely hard to resolve without a small operation to close up the hole. I had this horrible infection which mimicked flu like/sinus infection symptoms problems 2 years ago. I went to and from the dentist, with the concering sinus infection issue, who performed the extraction for 6 months, before I changed dentists. I was diagnosed with a serious sinus infection problem caused by bacteria from the molar cavity which required emergency surgery. If it was an upper molar you had removed I'd strongly recommend you go back to your dentist and request an x-ray or scan to see what's going on
Thank you so much. We will try to ensure that this is the case with the ducting. I think perhaps for the heat recovery we would need a rigid duct, so I have a feeling this may be revisited in the future.
Curious, you said you did planning. But it seems you don't get into a room and finish it before moving on to the next. Completing a room would give you some positivity going forward. Not trying to be critical, just speaking from.personal experience.
You are right, but we tend to finish a job rather than room. Like plasterboard the whole ground floor before taping etc. or concreting the floors. Only hiccup to that was when the kids wanted a room for Xmas, then we paused the build to get them a halfway decent, but unfonished space each. We hope to finish the kitchen and downstairs bedroom completely and then go back up to the kids rooms. It's been hectic as we are on a tight timeline from the government, but after the deadline we can slowdown and get more focused and take our time.
I love your positivity. I hope you find a job that lets you continue working remotely. Also, why did you cut your hair??? Of course, I'm an old hippie, and I think guys look better with longer hair.
oh gosh -- really enjoyed this video but i am sad at the prospect of you all moving away from your homestead. For what it's worth, during my career i've moved several times -- small moves and big moves-- all within the US-- and looking back over 30 years -- for my family -- moving was not worth it-- not the benefit i thought it would be vs the disruption and losing a sense of place. I am sure you will make the best decision for your family-- and everyone is different and reacts differently to things like moving. just sharing my thoughts. Also, Rob, with your makeover -- the world is your oyster!
Thank you for such a encouraging words. We hope that we will continue as we are with this space now giving us time to truly focus on the house. Rob is very impressed with the amount of people who noticed his new look 🤣
How lovely to hear that your mum was from Kerry and collected seaweed. Funnily enough that is exactly what I did two days ago. I created a seaweed wall around the newly planted lettuce however the slugs just waltzed on by and ignored the seaweed to start chomping🙄 I am determined to find a method of riding them, so stay tuned 😊
