We got it FINALLY opened! / Renovating 1908 ABANDONED Belgian farm 

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Good work, there is still time to bury an extra "sleeve pipe" in that trench to use for power cable or low voltage wire in the future out to the street for doorbell, lights, electric drip system, or whatever. It's just too cheap not to run an extra 1" or preferably 2" sleeve of pvc after all that work digging and backfilling.

Bless your hearts! That plumbing maze to trace. All those valves, hoses, shutoffs and the digging, digging, digging! A man of many talents and strengths with the woman and supervisor (Annike) to help and keep the spirits up on what can only seem a never ending task.! Its going to be so beautiful!! And still, so many mysteries to be discovered there!🕊

Illia has a great amount of patience and perseverance. Drilling, cutting, hammering…time consuming! Glad you finally got a good look at the well. Hope the connection process goes smoothly. Another enjoyable video. The bees on the flowers and clover made a beautiful opening scene. Love it!

It's amazing how good the bricks look inside the well. True craftsmen back then to have it last this long. Keep smilin

I love watching Ilia solving a problem - he doesn’t give up!

Best wishes to you from South Australia. I really admire all your work, You set a high standard for cheerfulness and determination despite everything that is happening in the world. Much love to you all.

You could make a gazebo over the top of thewell and have glass in the foor of the gazebo

GREAT LOOK SEE, TELL EVERYBODY HELLO, SEE YOU ALL NEXT WEEK, GREAT VIDEO...

Однажды смотрела подобное видео.Радовалась за них,как все здорово у людей налаживается жизнь. Потом оказалось что люди работали по найму, а я так ждала продолжения истории.... Надеюсь что увижу как вы печете блинчики на своей кухне.Вы ребята молодцы.

You both work so hard and that's just the weekends, not counting your real jobs maybe. And yet you're so calm. I'd be throwing things if I had to deal with some of the stuff you have done.😍🌺🌼👍

All the things that come up in life seem to inhibit our progress. Progress is the journey to renewing our Dream!

You two deserve a beautiful home you are such hard workers xxx

I am guessing that the well is older than any of the current buildings on the property! Be careful! We love you guys. Thank you for sharing your adventure!

Digging (or cutting and drilling) through that concrete cover to the well looked like a very long and arduous job Illia!

Nice to see site growing to almost 85,000 subscribers. Go Go. Amazing content

Чекаю ваші сюжети. Бо це позитив в морі проблем. Лайк і вподобайка!

I think you need to name a new dance - the De Hoeve trench dance! 😁

LOL, I didn't expect to hear this! It's raining men, hallelujah Raining men, amen! You made me laugh, thank you!

Now Illia needs to repoint the bricks in the well. 🤪

Sehr schöne Arbeit geleistet und richtig schön gemacht einfach Spitze 👍😁😊😉🤗😇

Do you have to have your water checked? Your well is so close to farmers field, is there any concern about contamination from field fertilizer leaching into the water level? Love your videos, thank you for sharing.

That old well is so beautifully crafted isn’t it . You have worked so hard digging and delving and detecting. How great that you are nearing the end of the water works .

You have two pipes: I suppose that one of them is to extract the water from the well and the other must be the one that contains the wire to give energy to the pump.

Haha Marina that's one of my favorite songs, tough job this one and please you two be careful falling in hole x

The cat is the star of the video

That look on Marina's face when Ilia said she have to go down in there was priceless! How long did it take Ilia to cut through the concrete over the well?

in this video Marina is beautiful and radiant, the good Illia is a real barbarian, sinewy and tireless and Anneke is, as always, very sweet. We love you

Oh the labors of Hercules!!!💪🤗💜💙💛🍺

Hello all the way from waco Texas love your show, I look forward to all the new Episodes keep up the good work the house is looking beautiful can’t wait to see you when it’s done it’s gonna be stupendously beautiful

Progress!

headphone users beware :D Also, I personally would love it if you brought upp the well walls to make a proper old well. :) Use it for watering plants and whatnot :)

Greetings from sunny southern California. Wish that the rain would fall over here. Great video

My heart was in my mouth as Ilya was cutting the fourth side of the inspection hole whilst standing in the middle 🫣😳😬 I was waiting for it to give way an he would fall in 😂

The walls of your well are pretty, but you probably do NOT want sunlight getting down there, unless you want stuff to start growing in your well. However, if you're worried about having access to the well in future, I can suggest a method that's a lot less dusty than having to cut in every time: a two part lid. My parents' house has a cistern, the edge of which sticks up maybe 10-15 cm above ground level, and the lid is made in two parts. The first one is a cement cap that fits over the whole opening of the cistern, with a rim that keeps it from any kind of lateral motion if someone bumps into it with a car or something. However, set into the middle of that cap is a small PVC pipe with a screw cap, which can be opened for running a dipstick to test the depth or pouring a little water treatment in. For serious maintenance the heavy cover can still be lifted off, but most of the time all that's needed is to just open the small pipe. The whole thing sits close enough to ground level so it's not an eyesore, it pretty much just hides in the taller grass.

Watching Illya standing on that concrete while he hammer drills it reminds me of the chap who sat on a tree branch up in the air and sawed it off with the inevitable consequences !

Hello. Your videos are great. Never leave the hole open unattended. Animals could fall in. You are a great family👍 keep it up

The amount of hand digging is beyond imagination. You are an inspiration! The good thing is that you will know every inch of the foundation and original Workings of the farm. As you are carefully recording all the steps in your rebuilding process, this extra hand work will be important information for future generations as well as your own👍🏻👏🏻🥰

HEY. in the water, you should throw a big magnet and a rope to see if there's something on the bottom :)

Dawns here ☀️

Lovely to see you booth

That is a beautifully bricked well.

Please have a locked cover when you’re done. Children have an amazing ability to get in holes.

Illia and Mariana that was great thank you I really enjoyed it water is good now changing the old pipes you two are my heroes for saving the old house it would not matter how long it took to bring it up to modern I would do it thank you.

Great job you two keep at it always amazing to see how far you all have come.💕💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏

That's a lot of concrete debris going into your well water.

Oh yah!!! Water in the well ❤️

It is coming slowly but surely.

eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel vlog için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler👍👍👍👍👍

So happy to see you💚❤️🌷☮️🇺🇸

Een centrifugaalpomp moet opgegoten worden (schoepen moeten in water draaien) en de aanzuigbuis moet een voetklep (ook genoemd 'filter')op het einde in de put hebben opdat het water in het schoepenhuis niet zou weglopen. Aanzuigbuis een maatje groter nemen dan persbuis bv aanzuig 4/4 PU buis. Persbuis 3/4 PU buis. De waterput die jullie gevonden hebben noemt men een 'gemetste put'

That is an amazing looking well!

Panda Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old Grammy from Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼

By the looks of it, a very old well. As always these are the best.

The digging continues.

Well you could still put a reinforced glass slab/paving stone over the well, but €? I was not able to really hear Illia on this one but whatever was happening indoors with the levers buttons and pipes was still fascinating. I think you both need time off just for you and family to recharge your batteries. Best wishes

Good job your right the walls of the well are beautiful

That was a lot of hard work!

Ilia: blah, blah, blah, blah... Marina: WHAT? Me: 🤣🤣🤣

Well done keep up the good work👍🌞👍

Isn't it a good idea to explore the well with a magnet? Wells are a fantastic source of historic findings, since people used to throw high valued stuff in wells (especially during wartime)

💕PLEASE PUT A WEIGHTED TEMPORARY COVER OVER WELL SO CAT DOESN’T FALL DOWN THE WELL HOLE💕Is the well naturally spring fed💕

@7:40 Cat Inspector "Hey Humans, again break?!" 🤣🤣🤣..... This had me laughing all day 😹😹😹

😲Wow,ganz schön anstrengend.Hat der "Catspektor"sein O.K gegeben😊Aber das wird schon.Das Hauswaserwerk(die Pumpe)ist selbstansaugend,müsste also klappen.Nur noch den Filter sauber machen,dann könnt ihr das Brunnenwasser für den Garten nutzen.🥰Bleibt Gesund.Grüße aus Norddeutschland.Moin🍀🍀🍀

beuatiful farm video all the time

Cat indpector was acting as a spider web cleaner before Cat Inspector job started. Illia you are the most diligent digging man I have ever seen. Hope the plumbing goes more smoothly for you and the well inspection window works as you expect. Take care. Enjoyed this video. Good luck.

Доброго дня !У вас стоит хорошее реле на насосе .В нем есть защита от сухого хода ,когда нет воды.Изначально вы кнопкой включайте насос .он подхватывает воду.создает напор в системе .если есть расход и вода он качает.дальше вы закрываете кран ,проток заканчиваеться ,насос набирает давление и он автоматом выключаеться.Открыли кран давление сначала две секунды падает насос включаеться,и так по кругу.Не надо ни каких расширительных бачков с мембраной.

Point 1, I have never in my life seen a ceiling made of bricks until I started watching your videos. Point 2, If that was an Australian spider you wouldn't want to get that close.

Going in to any DIY job I started, I repeated over and over, "Nothing is easy"!

It’s a beautiful old water well 🥰😁

You show how much work has to be done just to make an old building structurally sound. Things that will never be seen but are the most important aspects of renovating. Would cost thousands of Euro's if you employed people to do the work ( llabour hours plus materials ). I admire you for taking on the work, even the cost of the required supplies would be expensive . Have watched you from the beginning and look forward to seeing you making your farm house a home. Also developing your courtyard and land into a garden.

Wish I understood what you were doing and why but I am still following your page…! Lol

😱 Marina...what? ouch! It is a good thing the catspector did not see that. 😂 Serious though, when you finish that pipe everything else will be a piece of cake 🍰! 😉

You are a wonderful couple 💞💞

You can rent a Big Concrete saw too...as this seems deep...thick..lol still faster than drilling..would be..and less work

Wow that well is amazing ❤️ you could still have a see-through lid. Maybe if a type of polycarbonate and a solar light pointing down inside it! Great work doing something most of us will never experience xxx

It would be lovely if the concrete top could be removed then using some of your old bricks, make a wall around the well then top it with toughened glass, but it looks like the people who layed that concrete did not want it to budge.😉 Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌻

Nice digging

You should get a magnet and see if anything been dropped down the well

What a beautiful well - many years old.

In case you want to use the water from the well for human or animal use, it is necessary for someone to get into the well and clean both its walls and the bottom.

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you guys.

glad no one heard the noise i made when he put his hand next to the spider lol, but yeah, cool well, i wonder what may have gotten in there over the years, my friends and i, years ago, found an old well with a small round cover, was filled with roaches, crickets, etc though

Well done🍻

Wait, did someone just start singing a rendition of It's Raining Men? lol. :-D :-D

Cierren ese pozo!!! Se puede caer la gatita!!!!!🙏🙏🙏

You can magnetic fishing on the well

Mulher pequena mas não tem medo do trabalho pesado. Parabéns , a maioria das mulheres de hoje não aguenta esse tipo de trabalho.

At least now you can find out the depth of the well, the amount of "flow" it has, the cleanliness of the water, replace the piping, and maybe add a pump in the well if it (the water quality) is good enough. Perhaps adding filtration will purify it enough for your needs. Good luck.

Hard work 👍👍🇩🇰🇩🇰☕️☕️😁🐕

You can get a Masonary blade for a Circular saw and cut through that concrete quickly and cleanly... it is dusty and noisy...lol a Wet saw is a better tool..but in this instance..a simple tool can be used...i cut a shallow first cut..then drop deeper each cut till it cuts through....you might hit metal rebar as you cut..use a grinder to cut through those and continue till done..

Wow...an actual hand-dug, old-timey well. I'm not sure what I was expecting. I guess I was expecting this, but to actually see it, is crazy. Here in the US, most wells are no longer those old type, but wells drilled sown into the aquafer, with steel pipe casing and a submersible pump at the bottom of the casing, attached to a smaller plastic (or the like) water pipe. The pump is wired up through the casing. I think, typically, the pump feeds a pressurized tank on the surface (often in a basement), which maintains enough pressure to provide the water to the service points. The pump kicks on when a certain amount of water is used and/or the pressure drops too low in the tank. This is beneficial in that it reduces the constant cycling of the pump, extending the pump's lifespan. When pumps do go bad, the wellhead (which is typically under a cover, not buried under, is opened, the old pump pulled up and replaced back down the well. At least that's how I seemed to remember the arrangement when I lived in the country. What I don't remember is that we had any filter, as the water from the aquafer has already filtered down through the earth and was, in our case, surprisingly clean, pure water. I can see where open well water like yours would likely need some sort of filter, at the very least.

Everything…I mean everything…is hard.

Stitch drilling the concrete? Illia, admirable tenacity, Stihl saw?

Call in the pro's.

Looks like a very old and very deep well! Better be carefull with it!

Please wear a respirator when cutting masonry and wet it down while cutting

It is my understanding that there are very real, even fatal, health hazards to breathing concrete dust. I wouldn't mention it if I thought this was going to be a one-off sort of thing. Be safe.

Спайдермен прийшов у гості)

I guess that concrete well cover was meant to stay unmoved for ever.