Good thing you will have a video of taking down the greenhouse so when it's time to assemble it again you will know where everything goes. You guys are doing great. Thanks for sharing with us.
I was about to make a similar comment. Greenhouses like that are terribly expensive nowadays. It would be nice reassembled with some plants a potting table & a lounge chair to sit & relax during a summer rain shower.
At first it looked there were plants inside still...but no, the plants from outside had pushed their way in. Your whole space at the station will look so much larger once you've cleared the areas you talked about. Being able to see the bridge will be great!
Thank you, they are really enjoying their new home and all the space they have to play in. And the chickens have settled really well, lots of eggs being laid 🍳 😃
@@theoldstationrenovation It's an extraordinary location for all of you (and all of us). Yummy to the home grown eggs. I'd come all the way from Australia to have a drink in the cabin-pub. 😂🧡💚❤
@@theoldstationrenovation I noticed that the chickens have eaten all the grass in their area, now what? Will you move the pen before the cabin moves in? Sorry I changed threads but I have heard that sub threads help the algorithm stuff for these brilliant content providers. Hey I'm just trying to do my part for solid folks.
@@philippaking1732 heck who needs to wait for the pub? Just show up with a case of pints. I dunno if that's what you say in England, here we say a case a beer.
We have had some great suggestions for names so far, maybe we will put it out there for everyone to make suggestions when we have finished building it.
Ooh.. hope you can relocate the greenhouse, great to have for garden, or maybe winter home for chickens.. store the potting table etc, will come in handy later on, once garden work starts :) great progress.. love whenever you post, … 😍
A garden pub?? Cool !! It woud be way cooler if that garden pub was in an old Brit Rail/DB car body or covered goods wagon (boxcar) on concrete blocks. That path and view to the bridge are great now and will be even better once the invasive trees and vegitation are cleared away. Be safe and press on.
@@theoldstationrenovation Perhaps a maintenance of way carbody or a covered goods wagon wagon (boxcar) would work. At least an enclosed freight wagon would be a clean canvas for your imagination and ton cheaper than a passenger rail car. I'd check out scrappers in your area that may accomodate you. Still all very cool.
You could always make reuse of the Greenhouse. Build against a wall. Make it long ways. Just imagine: and there you have it. Nice team work. And finding so gems 💎. Regards from South Africa 🇿🇦.
Gil certainly works quickly!! lol My dad was a railroad engineer here in Maryland. I'm living my dream through you! Have always wanted to do exactly what you're doing. So exciting to watch it all unfold! Keep at it!
The outside areas have tremendous potential. If you still have your bulldozer/digger clear your section of all extraneous grass, weeds, shrubs, trees and create a blank canvas for a serene garden. Once the humus and detritus is removed you will have a better idea of how you may want to divide up and utilise the available space, and the house (once restored) will fit and sit more attractively on the site. When the external aesthetics of the house and the clean garden design balance and harmonise, you will reap its reward: peace, pleasure, and the deepest contentment. Also, the stone bridge would make an outstanding backdrop for your garden.
Fantastic work by Gil. And good that you have both short and long term plans for the cabin you're going to build. Must be so nice being able to move on with actual station stuff instead of just getting the mobile home situated and set-up.
It really is! We were so naïve coming in the scale of the preparation we’d need to do just didn’t register! Really I’m glad it didn’t or we may have chickened out! 🐓
Great job Gill. All you have to do now is find a new site and reverse the video. Simples. Unless of course you have a set of instructions to slow you down. 👍. I am enjoying the channel
Well it seemed not yo take much time to tske the green house down, my suggestion for a name for the pub is, Ye Old Platform Pub, perhaps I could stay in the pub when I visit😃 great work from you both, bext regards from a Kiwi living in Australia
That seems like an odd place for a greenhouse anyway since it's so shady there. You may eventually want a greenhouse again, but not there. I was hoping your little cabin would be listed on Airbnb!!
I have seen those Victorian drain pipe headers in use on buildings not dissimilar to yours in the past. When you have refurbished them they will look very grand under the eaves at the front. I enjoyed that little dismantling.
Great job on the greenhouse disassembly. It would likely cost a small fortune to build it new today with same quality materials, new glass and aluminum are very very expensive. Now for a pub name, how about "The Right Of Way" or "Up line - down the hatch" ? 8^) Cheers!
Glass like that at any time -- present or past -- would be expensive. Even if you don't have an immediate need, it might be worth something in a trade for needed items.
you should buy the dog one of those automatic ball throwers he looks so sad waiting for someone to throw the ball lol. great video as usual cant wait to see it all finished. :)
I have a greenhouse that is half the size of the one you’ve taken down. It keeps us in tomatoes for half the year and cucumbers for approx 4/5 months, I suggest you put it back up in a sunnier spot as you can’t beat homegrown produce.
I agree, we have done a small amount of tomatoes in our old garden for the past few years as well as courgettes and sweetcorn. So much better when grown at home.
That was fast work in one go to dismantle an old greenhouse without breaking a single pane of slippery glass! Too bad the railroad ministry did not leave short stretches of twin train track in their original position below grade so that you could convert a restored vintage rail passenger car into the office/pub. But I guess since the below-grade location in-filling later caused the pond to form due to lack of egress/drainage. Then again, after watching that one BBC program on that "Time Train" project in which restorer teams had 6 months to restore rotting and forgotten railcars (including the only other Royal Queen Victoria coach) to near pristine shape, that would cost a ton of money to hire craftsmen like that. (You can ride those cars on various Heritage trainlines).
That greenhouse looks very similar to the one my Dad used to have years ago. I remember helping to dismantle it, (as he'd finished with it and wanted to sell it on), and it took longer than expected to take it all apart. The metal clips that held the glass in were quite finicky, as I remember, and you had to be careful handling the glass panes. Once they were all out and stored somewhere safe, the aluminium frame was relatively easy to take apart. I was kind of sad to see it go, as it had been there for about 15-20 years previously, through part of my childhood and youth.
Those drainpipe hoppers will definitely bring back some of the original style 👍 Are you planning trips to reclamation yards to get enough to do the whole station 😉
Would love to see a drawing of the original site configuration. Where the tracks were located and how the station was used. I've watched all the videos and don't recall that.
The fact you did it and getting on with it is good as the more you do the easier it gets recycle the aluminium at a scrap yard and get some cash back win win situation
The rain water guttering heads look very much original cast iron if so take care of them they could be worth some money, have a word with someone in the antique world. They may have been cast in the foundry within a local locomotive works.
Heh -- I don't relish the idea of putting that greenhouse back together, especially with at least some of the screws missing :) It's so much fun to watch this project unfold.
It would have been a great greenhouse if it actually had exposure to sunlight. Didn't all those trees block the light? I'm surprised falling branches from the wind didn't break the glass panels. I expect you're protected from the wind by those banks of earth. Gil, you're a handy man to have around! I like those seeding tables. Are they worth saving to put pots on out in the sun?
Yes in summer all the trees blocked the sunlight! I am also surprised it hadn't broken, one tree branch was resting on the top. Almost all the panels were in tact.
Hello -- hope all is well with the project. Have you ever thought about converting the long 1-story outbuilding structure into the bedroom wing? You would have to build a connection from the old train station proper to the outbuilding, and would probably also need a windowed hallway to connect the various rooms planned along the length of the outbuilding, but this could work out provided there were the funds to do it. This would alleviate all the intrinsic issues with building a 2nd floor within the old train station and having to work around the windows. Then, the interior of the old train station could really be planned freely and would have grand, vaulted interior spaces showing the exposed truss beams at the ceiling. You would be living like royalty then. But the true advantage would be avoiding all the problems with how to plan the 2nd floor space -- it would probably always feel cramped and somewhat odd. Of course, costs are always a factor, but it may pencil out to be not that much more all things considered. Just a thought.
Those tops to the drainage are really called snow boxes I was a School Caretaker for over 40 years (the idea of them is to prevent slit dropping and have a grill in boxes) being a school caretaker I learnt heck a on Victorian buildings
Excited to see the cabin. The breaking apart of the greenhouse seemed to be a lot of work but he got through it without breaking one pane of glass. Winston and Buddie were seen walking around in the background - so sweet. Winston had his ball in some shots, I suspect he's rarely without it, is he?
@@theoldstationrenovation Oh that's right, I forgot that Buddie often steals his ball haha. You and I chatted about this a few vids ago when I teased that my little Buddie would never steal it haha. Sweet dogs. You all take care.
Thanks for confirming the chicken noises, i thought you'd bought in some soprano turkeys. 😆 I didn't see Gil collecting any of the glass clips or frame screws, are you goung to be rummaging through the scrub to collect them all up? I love the idea of a garden pub, perhaps add a pergola over a solar powered hot tub?
How about “Old Station Halt”? A halt is a name used for where a train might stop but it wasn’t a full station. Could you use the potting table as the bar?
Great suggestion, that’s going on the list! 🍻 The potting tables look a lot more solid than they are, they seem to be very light, I suspect maybe a bit rotten.
The Chickens at twice speed almost sound like Turkeys, LOL, So no growing Tomatoes or Strawberries this summer? Or will you place the greenhouse somewhere else? Winston loves a ball being thrown, drops it and waits, poor thing. Those old gutter collectors would look great if fitted again. Would you consider making the canopy glass like the original one over the platform side over that lean to you currently have? Midweek video also you're spoiling us, keep up the good work, looking forward to the progress.
Thank you! The chickens are quite fun in fast speed, noisy that day. I am not sure we will be able to reconstruct the green house. The glass is in good condition but the metal not so much. We have debated putting some glass in the canopy, it isn't in the plans currently but there is always room to change our minds about something like that.
So how bad was the frame of the GH? It looked like the glass was mostly okay. Recycle and reuse eh? 😊 Looks great 👍 keep up the great work and videos 😊.
Nothing wrong with the greenhouse what a shame would have been ideal for growing salad crops and tomato hope someone can make use of it all it needs is the bolts that tossed away can't understand some people must have more money than sense hope it's not been scrapped
I did try saving the first few screws but too much trouble as they kept falling in the weeds. I’m sure it’ll be pennies to replace them. Apart from being a bit rickety it seemed to be fine and I was careful with the glass so maybe someone can put it back together and use it again.
used to have one of those greenhouses, they are really strong and robust. I fitted an automatic window opener in mine that made a heck of a difference. Can I ask in future posts that you turn on the CC please. I am quite deaf (miss spent youth and work noise) and although I am fairly good now at lip reading and you pronounce your words very well so I got most of what you said but not everything. I know that you usually turn them on and not much was said. How did you get on with the hole? Have I missed that post? Anyway thanks for posting
Thanks, We have checked the CC, it is on it just takes a few days sometimes for RU-vid to process the audio into subtitles. We will see what we can do to make it quicker, thank you for letting us know.
@@theoldstationrenovation On doing some more research, it seems that it just this one video that dose not have the CC, so don't fret about it and because you speak very clearly you make it easy to lip read. I am impressed with the speed of your reply and thank you again for all the other videos that did have CC on.
If you need to put the greenhouse back up, or sell it on to some else they will need to watch your "disassembly" video, as I recently helped a mate of mine re-erect the exact same model he bought off someone, and without instructions it was an absolute bu**er!!!
