We built a new floor! (Rescuing a 120 year old house) 

Awww. So bummed, Wanted to see you on Sesame Street. "Unfortunately, this video cannot be played. We ask for your understanding. Important: Content with geoblocking can only be accessed from Germany."

Laura! There is a ring on your finger! Congratulations! Also, welcome back and thanks for the great video. So glad to see the house coming along

I can't tell you how much it warms my heart seeing women working construction and not just be relocated to do the painting and choosing the colour of the curtains.

So encouraged that Laura isn’t great with math but she still does amazing work. I am very slowly following my dream of taking up woodworking and sewing but it’s a struggle with my math. Thank you, Laura!!

I understand the need to get going with this project. But I would highly suggest that you take the extra time to e.g. level the floors/ceilings before moving on. 1. You will probably gain the time back when the rest of the installations goes easy (instead of fighting crooked all the way) 2. You can avoid creaking floors which is only good for detecting burglars 3. Redoing this later is a HUGE pain compared to doing it now. Ohh and those insulation gravel thingies will compress a bit over time, so don't count on them supporting any floor connections.

That granular insulation looks kind of heavy for tongue and groove panels screwed up into beams. It may be fine, but in Australia we would be required to supply the maximum load calculations.

It took a train trip to Germany, but finally I could watch Sesamstrasse. That was so lovely to see!

"It will be crooked. I Love it." *eyes says FML*

sooo, based on your "every defect deserves respect", the Haus gets a whole HUGE Lot of Respect! Love the progress videos! I KNOW it will be awesome when you are done!!

My cat looked at the floor. The biggest Kitty bathroom he fever saw. Paradise.

I was cringing anytime Laura went up stairs or stepped funny, because of her knee. Crazy this was filmed on the 1 year anniversary of the surgery. Can't wait to see the basement workshop.

I was missing Felix. He has a great energy

Hi Laura. It's great to see you back on this project. What's happening is quite classic: delays after delays gets frustrating. However, I get a bit worried as I see you're starting to cut corners. By not wanting to lose a few hours, you might lose several days in the end, or have a creaking floor forever. Careful there, you don't want to have to redo this again, it's exhausting enough as it is.

I don't know if cedar shakes (shingles) are available in Germany. T hey are wide and tapered and easy to split the width of the beams you have in your cellar, usually by snapping them. Putiting the taper ends together the taper will be flat but as you push together, it get thicker. At the egde of the high ceiling beams, install 2, push together until the correct height then put the screw in and the wedges will be captured. In the states, pine wedges are available and are used to shim doorways and pre made windows in the rough opening. I suggested the cedar shakes as they would cost less but, the pine wedges will make a greater thickness, easier to use and more expensive. Hope this is a good suggestion but, you have the ceiling finished by now.

Laura is the biggest optimist I have had the pleasure to encounter.

Welcome to Project Management! So much depends on something else that depends on something else.

It's gonna be SO beautiful Laura and you and your team will be so proud of the work you've accomplished.

hey Laura to adjust die planks for the sealing i can recomend JAMO screws, these are made for works like this an the result will be a flat surface even if the beams are not leveled :)

The challenge is always inside Laura. You face those internal challenges so elegantly and practically. Bravo to you and the team. Bravo.

The endurance you and your team must have to work on something like this for two years is so cool. All of the creative problem solving and adapting, it makes me want to work harder too! ^^

The sand/gravel stuff in the joist bays seems really heavy for what it's sitting on. Will the ceiling underneath sag in time?

"Real-life Tetris" Great choice of words, Laura. That's a very accurate brief description of ALL construction projects, of ALL sizes, in ALL parts of the world.!

You know you have truely made it as a maker when you get to show off your maker skills on Sesame Street! Awesome, Laura!

Things are done so differently in Germany from here in the US. Very interesting to see the reasons why. No judgment from me (unlike so many others here 😒. I've worked on enough construction/repair projects on houses here, from very old to new, to know that we don't necessarily have good reason for criticism of the ways others do things. I'm fascinated by everything you're doing!

We use the “isolation” material you use, in the crawl space on top of earth, I’ve never seen it used in a subfloor, it seems pretty heavy

what happens if you want to put new lights in the ceiling??? won't all the insulation fall out when you drill some holes?

What are you going to do for heating? Because it would really only make sense to go for in floor heating, since you're redoing all the floors anyways and it'll be more efficient/comfortable in the end.

Curious if the segment at 17:36 was filmed in a different sequence, because they're discussing being out of insulation, but it looks like there are 12 bags sitting just outside the doorway when the OSB is coming in!

Instead of making the entire floor higher could you put steps in? just a thought. Awesome progress happy to see you happy and not finding any more damage you need to remove!! thanks for sharing!

I've been wondering the last few weeks if you had saved the foyer tile--and I got my answer today! I remember you saying how much you loved it when you did the first walk-through for us. It's coming along very well. You and your team do beautiful work!

Fantastic to see you motivated again on the house! I have loved seeing you uncover problems and solve them, and you really are brave!

Does code require that much weight in the floor. It would seem easy enough to insulate, lay osb, and then finish flooring on top of that. I was dumbstruck watching you demo a floated concrete floor.

Laura, es freut mich sehr daß du zurück bist, daß du wieder an Haus LiseLotte arbeitest. Home sweet home! Weiter sehe ich deinen Ring…gratuliere dich damit.

good to see you back at the house Laura "I Don't Need Eye Protection" Kampf

By the end of this excercise, Laura can compete in the body building championships. So much weight lifting.

My god at the beginning of the video, you looked kind of sad or tired, and then at 10:20, the smiling and positive Laura was back. I wish you the best of luck with this unbelivable house. Cant wait for the rest of the built.

Keep the faith...you'll get to enjoy your perseverance sooner than you imagine.

Glad to see progress on this old house-- I'm surprised you didn't stagger the joints of both sides of the floor/ceiling. Also-- NO other places for plumbing, electrical penetrations at other places along the edges? Just at the one side...

if you can place the skip further away from the house (on the side of the road maibe ) and are able to hire a transport belt you could still put the material in the skip , it be a little more work spreading the load in the skip that falls off the belt and moving the material to the belt without help of a backhoe to have the belt transport it to the skip but it should work , you could allso take down a lower section of the scaffols and wirk through the opening with a backhoe

😮 the 💍. Congrats Laura 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The house is looking *great*, Laura! Really good to see you back in Germany! That bit of countryside you drove through at the start looks *beautiful!* The kind of place I can imagine finding a tiny village with an awesome bakery and little pub! Keep up the great work - I love these videos!

Have to say I enjoyed hearing Felix's cheerful voice again. Happy new ceiling and floor start! Also, glad your knee is doing well throughout this video and that your enthusiasm is rebuilding. :-)

That thermafill (which I've never seen in the U.S_ seems very heavy like sand or small stones and I'm concerned the boards in the basement won't hold up all that weight. Why wasn't that wood stuff cubes used on the exterior, used to fill in the gaps between the piers?

It's so good and I'm sure a relief for you, to see progress on your house! Did you know? That little flower growing up through the holes in the metal is called 'Fox and Cubs' in UK, don't ask me why though. Good for bees and other insects😀 Congratulations to the three of you 💜💍🥂💐

Looking good! I say, take the scaffolding down until next year, get the skip and load it up for now! Just my thoughts! Ceiling looks great!

The real life Tetris is just always going to be there. Glad to see you back at work on this major project.

embrace the crooked (yet strong and safe) as old house character. Progress is looking great.

Your floor panels should meet on the joists, never over that loose fill. The panel joints should always be staggered also, never in lines.

Two things that struck me: 1. the ring on Laura's finger 🤗 and 2. aren't there a couple bags of this thermo stuff lying around at 17:36 ?

Indecision mode! My favorite.

Laura, congratulations to you and your lovely little family.

Can't wait to see the door😊

Ich hab wegen dir zum ersten Mal seit Jahren wieder Sesamstraße geschaut, und habs geliebt!

Nice to see you happily back on the tools & ticking things off Laura congratulations 🎉❤

Your ability to adapt to problems and keep moving forward is fantastic. Things are really coming together.

Love seeing you back in your natural habitat. LA scares me for you.

So great to see the gang back together, and I love the magic of putting in a floor a creating a usable space where there wasn't one.

"I have to let go of the perfectionism" - famous last words!

Good to see you progressing. I would not leave a but joint without support under it. The fact that your putting another floor on top helps. Don't know how wet it gets there but I hope the building exterior material is water resistant? Adapt an overcome. Are congratulations in order? LOL!

Great to see you back at your house. I will definitely have to watch Sesame Street! It was one of my favourite shows when I was growing up in Australia.

so glad your back working on the house nothing more rewarding than rescuing an old house!

I just realized we haven't seen Smudo in a while. I hope he's well.

Am I the only one that thinks Laura has been practising for years to be on Sesame Street with all those times working with Simone?🤣🤣❤❤

Always great to see some progress on the house! Keep at it, little by little it gets done. Thanks for sharing!

I really, really hoped that Brilliant sponsored this video at the end. It would've the PERFECT spot

What happens to that floor filler when the wood contracts when the weather changes? wont it still all fall out? I know its tongue and grove but its going to open gaps, and pry those open isnt it?

Interessantes Video. Hab einen ähnlichen Aufbau, aber ich hatte Bedenken dass der Rauspund den Gewicht des Blähton hält und einen Blindboden verbaut auf den dann Lehm kam.

I’m so happy to see you love your home again.

The house is just as straight as you are 😄♥️

You should probably have counter battened that basement ceiling. That way you could have gotten it dead true. I would have put the joints halfway on the timber floor joists as well. What thickness are those T+G boards? 25mm?

Laura I get tired just watching you work on your house. I totally get how exciting it is to make progress, even if there are some miscalculations.

If that was my drive to the hardware store every time I needed materials I would be so so happy. Love watching you save this house. 🤓

We have a company in the UK called 'Hippo Waste' who, rather than skips, will sell you bulk material type bagging into which you can place the materials you would ordinarily dispose of in a skip. This could work for you, in that you may be ablento place such bags onto your lawn, fill them up, then, hire a flatbed with an extendable crane to lift the sacks up off your lawn and take them onwards to a disposal facility. If you broke up the larger stuff to something more manageable, i could imagine this working quite well if the geography of your garden in relation to your road works out.

so happy to see you happy working on the house

So happy you're finding the joy of building Lieselotte again. 🥳 🤔With such a low basement ceiling, I'm surprised you didn't consider having light fixtures & wiring recessed between the floor joists or having exposed joists below since you have to raise the kitchen floor anyway. At any rate, looking forward to your next home rescue adventure that will (not 😉) go the way you planned! Cheers!

I love that the subtitles leave geil in German.

Great work young one,and no one fell thru floor,only dangled.Amazing the thing one learns when building, renovating an old home.Do you need inspectors at any point during rebuild,or do they sign off on it at the completion(and make you tear out any questions? ( Yikes, perish the thought!) Who would have thought the cutest wallpapered bungalow had so many stories to tell.Pesce and safety to you and yours always.

18:22 the sheets cant go anywhere, but all weight will be carried by the bottom planks (the screws holding them). always stagger and always land edges on a joist

Interesting material choice for the ceiling. That T&G looks more suitable for a floor than a ceiling. Is there a reason you didn’t use something else like plywood or OSB?

You need to put newspapers from the day you're working on it and put it in various places. Underfloorboards and behind walls and such

I've been hoping all the way that you'd be able to keep the tiles in the hallway. Glad to see they're still there! They're pretty much the only thing that hasn't been replaced by now. Fingers crossed nothing happens to them!

The next person to open up that ceiling is gonna have one hell of a surprise. :D

Every time I see you working on Lieselotte, I'm impressed by your patience and confidence that one day it will be finished and that it will be GOOD. That gives me the condifence to not give in on my own house-project. Thank you so much for your sweeping optimism.

The space you have left to get to your floorlevel looks ideal to use as a modular system for water and electricity.

First time seeing that type of floor insulation, looks heavy. I would of gone with "RockWool" (Stone wool); it's kind of stiff and easy to cut, and I'm guessing a lot lighter in weight. But that's just my opinion. As for the uneven ceiling, you could of run a string across the it and "sister" 1X2 on the side of the floor beams to the string line to even it out. Any comment on that???

I so enjoy watching your progress. It is so hard when you're continuously stalled. Doing an amazing job!

Your attitude is everything! Just stand back and say, “Thou shalt be crooked!”❤️🤗🐝

Love for you, your team, & the 120 year old house😊😊😊😊😊

I watched people get rid of concrete from inside a building to the outside using a conveyor belt. Don't know if they have that kind of thing in Germany. It seemed like a great idea.

You could have scribed the boards along the walls to get a closer fit.

It's cool you put in a new floor, as this week, incidentally, my parents' house got a new roof. I see all this and realize how important it is to know how to do things in this life. So I tip my hat to you.

Naja, du brauchst ja noch eine Bodenisolation und Estrich bevor du die Fliesen legen kannst. Oder vielleicht sogar noch eine Fußbodenheizung, dann brauchst die 7cm Luft.

I'm so glad that you are able to work with areas that are not in a straight line, it will certainly make life that less stressful. LOVE seeing these videos, as over the winter months, hopefully it will get me to working on my "old house" as well! Thanks for sharing!!

Great to have you back working at your house. I’d love to see a drone shot of your house and how it’s situated on the property. Cheers.

Glad to hear your enthusiasm is back! Its so hard to work through building foundations when you are a finisher! (Aka the fun part!)

Bet your glad to be home. With all that weight on the tunge and grove floor, you may want to put 2 screws instead of one per board per floor joyce.

Lovely peaceful joyous vid from you today. Kia Kaha to you all.

Did anyone calculate the load on the ceiling from the insulation?

You can just remove the scaffolding, no? It should pile together rather nicely, then you can get more done while you wait. You can fix the crookedness with a laser level and shims. In the US we have these paper/cardboard strips for doing just that with studs and walls, but regular shims work too -- just the strips are nice as they are very long and it's more flush.

Glad you are making good progress. In US, never saw that insulation you used on the floors. It seems really heavy. Hope not too much .