You took the words right out of my mouth♥️ There’s nothing I don’t love about this channel. Everyone is the greatest example of humanity. Merry Christmas to all
One thing I really love about this channel is how Billy involves everybody, and encourages the different personalities to shine. It really does feel like proper teamwork.
oh, I agree Billie has a generousness about him that encourages everyone. Rare gift. This Petherick family have been gifted all three of the kids. They want to bring things back to life. Horses,old buildings & music. Laurie
Yannis is such a hard worker! He can out perform gentleman twice his size! He’s a force to be reckoned with! We all love to watch him get things done!!❤
Yanis is so amazing! He can do anything! I think it's high time you did a Q&A with Yanis! We see him working so hard every day. I would love to know a little more about him! He is such an important part of your team!😊🤩
We are closing (signing purchasing papers) on a summer cottage that has a library full of books and "stuff" the sellers are leaving. It was originally the doctor's house on this island, we are buying it from his daughter who is in her mid to late 70s. We can't wait to see what is there. After we go through it, anything useful will be donated to the island's museum. Anything we don't want but is still worth money will be donated to the island historical society, they run a re-sale shop to make money for the museum.
@@ThePethericksI have a hunch the library might just outshine the kitchen!❤ A visit to the convent is on my very short bucket list. At 72, I think a short bucket list is a good idea😅
@@ThePethericks I was just watching a video from a year ago where you showed the kitchen. I was thinking no way that's the kitchen... But sure enough you were there talking about pulling the closed section out of the fireplace. Sure does look great!
The library is going to be another jewel in this buildings crown. You're honestly turning this building into a tourist attraction not just a function building.
Billy, every time you pick up a sledgehammer, it reminds me of a story about my dad. He had a bit of a temper and, my younger brothers had to go to work for him, during summer vacation. He used his forklift to work up high and as he was working one day, he told my brother to THROW HIM the sledgehammer!! My brother said it wasn't a good idea, but dad yelled using some very "colourful" language to throw it! My brother, of course, complied. As you can imagine, the sledgehammer started rotating through the air and when my dad grabbed for it, he didn't get a grip, and it swung around and hit him in the head!! I have this vision with sound effects, 9f the hammer going swish, swish, swish BONK! My brother said that was exactly what happened!! Word to the wise for all of the viewers NEVER THROW A SLEDGEHAMMER 😂
Great work, what a team. 👍👏 Yanis is such an asset. Gets along with everyone and works so hard. The Kitchen looks amazing, and the organ looks as if it’s always been there a spectacular achievement. 😊
This is so exciting. One of my sisters and I have a library dream. Ib used to build little miniature libraries in boxes as a child and still cut out favorite books from magazines and make little books for my old woman dollhouse library. This project makes my heart feel young and excited! I hope someday to see it!
What an efficient demolisher Yannis is. Such a little tornado when it comes to ripping things out... but still care is taken to preserve the original workings of the Convent. What a wonderful team you have Billy.
Can I just say, Yanis is just "the best" !! He is some kind of worker, tireless, strong, and always willing and able to help in any way he can. Yanis is a true treasure. He is such a great part of team Patherick! Billy, your vision of what this beautiful antique building will be is just amazing when it gets finished. Crack On!
@@nadineswance2465 How old is the mud that grows the vegetables you eat and feeds the animals that graze on the ground. Arguably its cleaner than the mud that has all the modern waste and pesticides in it.
Not so I'm afraid, some compounds poison soil for lifetimes. We have a historic arsenic contaminated soil area, leached down to 2m deep, 4000sq m.on farmland.
Sunflowers absorb heavy metals as they grow and bloom. Harvesting them whole and disposing of them whole, can clean your garden of heavy metals over several seasons.
Way to go Yannis! Did everyone see Yannis, take down entire wall of plaster board in one go ! He may be small but he is incredibly strong.....and Billy, you are epitome of leadership. You invited Yannis to go with you, to drive Nick's home, after Nick's car broke down. Billy maded everyone feel a part of the team. 😊❤❤
I'm SOOOOO excited!!! Starting the Library!!! Yannis is adorable! A great help and some comic relief there with his untimely "Let's Crack On"! Haha. ❤ PS. Alex is an artist at heart with his cinematography! You've created a wonderful team Billy! BRAVO!
Great vlog Billy and start to the next stage. Yannis is a great help and very enthusiastic. I’m sure that beam is just settling down and still has 250 years left in it. The more you expose the more you will find. Stay well all.
Billy a big Thankyou to you and Gwendolyn for buying this convent and working so hard on it it must be costing a fortune so we need to get your channel to 400k to help you and Alex your filming and music is so good Thankyou this is such an enjoyable channel and the people who work for you are really good .💖🙏🕊💫🌟
We are absolutely excited about what the library will look like in time! One day when finished, this will be an extraordinary building of restoration and the history !!!
Billy, you should consider salvaging the ceiling light pendant shades they’re classic mid century opal one glass you can easily sell them as a job lot.
Or they might be used elsewhere as pendant lights over a work surface or reading area or??? In any case, hold on to for a while in case you find a use for them. Maybe over library reading tables? Made into lamps? As historical parts of the convent, it would be nice to salvage them for convent use.
Super excited to see the start of the Library project! I’ve watched you purchase the Convent, clear the courtyard, fix the bell, demo the kitchen storerooms, reno the kitchen, demo and prep the corridor entry, the organ (wow) and everything else in between. Love everything about this channel. Crack on indeed!
Yanis is such an eager worker! He wanted to “Crack on!” while Billy wanted to keep talking! Once he got to tear things apart, he turned into a beast! We should start calling him Destructo-man! He’s like a superhero, taking down huge sections of wall three times his size! This was a fun video to watch! Great videography too!
So excited to watch as the library starts! I started watching the Convent videos in order about 3 weeks ago, and after watching them all I've arrived at today, and the start of the new room! It's a mammoth project, but so satisfying to watch. 🇨🇦
Yanis always the hard worker, he's a very valuable person. Yanis needs to wear protective eyewear too. Billy you'll have those wall gone in no time and your Library done. Awesome 👍. Lots of love from Florida.
I so enjoy seeing you peel back the modern layers to reveal the beautiful old ones. It's always so exiting to see what's underneath, and how it was originally intended.
Excellent episode! Amazing progress! Thank you all very much for making and sharing this 💜 beautiful video! Fabulous work all! Be well, stay safe all. 🥰💖💕👍💜
I hope you can add a bottom wood to the doors and cover it with metal kick plates to make the doors tall again. The doors are beautiful and would look pretty with brass kick plates if you can’t match the wood look and color. Such beautiful doors. Once you take out all the fill that has been added to the floors it shouldn’t take a lot to restore the doors to a proper height. Love this video. Yanis is such a treasure to have on your team.
What a start to an amazing project! With Yannis in the team things move fast, he’s such a hard worker. Congrats Billy on reusing all the old wood and separating the debris for using in the garden or taking to the skip. Really excited to come along in building a dream of a library! 📚🧡
In addition to making brilliant videos your cinematographer uses great music appropriate for the moment. Brilliant! Way to go Alex! Also, as an organist I really enjoyed watching you reassemble that magnificent instrument. The little mouse may very well begin a series of its own! He's under the organ planning it now!!
As it comes piece by piece, she’s coming back together, not as she once was, but brought into the present times, with a complete overhaul, and outcome, with a few side notes,🎶 📚 etc, only Billie’s imagination will tell us eventually ❣️👍💋🥰😉
Taking the plaster board/cardboard down sure added some dimension to that room about 2-3 inches in every direction wider. WOW!!! Love the music in the back ground too. Billy I do believe that you have a new family member in Yannis, he has been great during this transformation as well. Hopefully you will find where the water leaked to and it did not cause too much damage. Let's Crack On and have a wonderful day
I really hope Billy puts in some sort of a secret room/man-cave that can only be unlocked with a certain book tilting combination. Loving that Alex is back too and as always Yanis is an incredibly hard worker!
Great transformation of that room. Team work with Yannis! Also hats off to the nuns for leaving the original elements in the rooms in the late 60's/early 70's. The dilemma for anyone who's renovating is always what to keep and what to strip out. The way the nuns did it back in the day made sure that the rooms could easily be stripped back to their former glory (as this video demonstrates).
Yanis is such an eager worker. Great job Alex doing the filming. You may have an uptick in the nun's activity during demolition. Looking forward to the progress.
The library project will be just as exciting as the kitchen. I have no doubt it will be just as stunning. Yanis is such a hard worker, strong and all around good man. Once again, Alex shows his mastery of filmmaking/editing. (Hope he has a hard hat on during filming as well) Maine USA
Billy. I don't remember how many rooms are being torn out for the library. But how wonderful and gorgeous it would be to incorporate the wood from the doors, frames and baseboards into the creation of the shelving and the surrounds. ❤
Dang, Yannis is a dynamo! Great work gentlemen! Uncovering elements of a 250 year old building is like an Easter egg hunt. Hopefully the beam is salvageable. So looking forward to more reveals and ultimately the beautiful library! Happy Holidays to the Pethericks and all of their extended family!!!
Another exciting transformation begins!! Billy you have a skill at gathering the best of the best to be part of your projects!! Cannot wait to see all the progress as we go into 2024!!
Working on old houses- 100- 200 years old- I was always fascinated with the materials. Many were built much as your abby- started with a hand adzed timbers cut from stands likely very near there. The "insulating cocoon" lumber was as you said , was extraordinary- fine, more tightly grained and much of it looked without warp. On your "banana" problem; don't write it off till you have seen all of it and put it all to the test of the ruler; one of the reasons the "built with greenwood" was that buildings settled and changed shape, and greenwood would settle into a "complimentary" shape- and their timbering was overbuilt. But please crack on and keep slowly peeling back the stories of the builders and keepers of this treasure. I hope you find more floors like that one- I believe you may be correct and it is chestnut. Just cleaned, yarned to kill the leaks, and oiled it would be a spectacular room with as many windows. If you are exposing the bottom, you can inject glue between the flooring and the beams which will cut sown on the squeaking.
On the subject of the organ,, I have a rocker friend who tunes pianos and plays guitar. In a little town down river from Pittsburgh, my best bud and his wife found this guys Mother , an English lady well into her years. They were trying to help her get home, she had missed the bus. During this effort, she kept telling them about her friend, the Queen. They chalked it up to an old woman musing about nonsense, and concentrated on their mission. They got her home safe, and in talking to our piano tuning friend,. they mentioned her musings of her friend, the Queen. "Oh,, yes, my Mother served in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) with the Queen. They were friends!" I love this story and it reminds me that somethings are remembered forever.
A dump trailer out the window would save a lot of time. The chutes could go straight into the dump-trailer :) I love your videos and all your restoration. You all are awesome.
Exciting indeed! Cannot wrap my head around the fact that it's time to start another major project. Wow! It looks like mold underneath the window. Not surprising. I bet you run into it a lot. Would you please tell us how you get rid of it and prevent it in the future? (not bleach, as you probably know) Many do no realize how deadly it is (not just an allergy) so could use some education on the subject. Thanks.
