Video summary
The video documents a comprehensive renovation project undertaken at a property in Forb, where the team is systematically replacing deteriorating lintels and addressing various structural issues in preparation for full external rendering. The primary focus of the day's work involves removing a severely rusted and failing lintel that has begun to lift and blow out due to corrosion. During the extraction process, the narrator highlights the challenges posed by disintegrated concrete trays and weathered bricks, noting that while the brickwork itself remains solid, the surrounding materials have degraded significantly. The team discusses potential solutions for a specific design flaw involving thermite blocks set back from the render frame, debating whether to remove thermal lights or adjust the rendering strategy to prevent cracking at joints.
To replace the removed components, the crew employs a mix of manual tools and machinery, utilizing angle grinders and chisels to carefully cut out old materials while managing dust and debris. A significant portion of the video is dedicated to the installation of new lintels, which are secured with packers to prevent flexing before being covered by brickwork. The narrator explains that they will rebuild the cavity wall using bricks rather than blocks because the rendering is not scheduled for up to two years; this method provides superior waterproofing compared to fiber blocks. They also source specific London stock bricks from a local supplier in Southport to match the original aesthetic, ensuring the temporary structure remains weatherproof during the long wait for the final render.
Throughout the process, the team addresses practical on-site issues such as cold bridging caused by poor original design and manages damp patches above vents to prevent water ingress. The video also captures a lighthearted moment regarding their dress code, specifically debating whether t-shirts with collars are acceptable work attire, before shifting focus back to the technical aspects of sealing new trays with silicone and securing them with nails. The narrator reflects on the evolution of their cleaning methods, moving from dry raking to wet wiping techniques to handle the disintegrated concrete without damaging the solid brickwork underneath.
The project concludes with the successful installation of the first new lintel and the preparation for subsequent courses, leaving the cavity ready for future insulation and rendering. The team plans to revisit the site in a few weeks to complete the brick blocking and apply the render, ensuring the house is fully protected from the elements. Despite the messy nature of demolition work involving rusted metal and crumbling concrete, the crew maintains a positive attitude, emphasizing their commitment to high-quality craftsmanship and attention to detail even when dealing with substandard original construction. The video ends with the narrator expressing satisfaction at having completed the first major section of the job, ready to move on to the next phase of repairs.
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Monday, 29th of June. [bell] I'm going
to try and keep this short, shorter than
normal.
We're in Forb, which is our nice place
in the world. It's a bit of a trek for
us, but you know, hey ho,
we're on a lint job. There's I think all
the lints are being done on this house
bit by bit. It's a bit of a project.
It's
>> a bit of everything, isn't it, isn't it?
Everything's being done on this house.
Yeah, bricking doors up. That's getting
bricked up, blocked up because it's
going to be fully K rendered the whole
lot. There's boot lintils at on the
upstairs which need removing or changing
or altering. This is today's job. 1500
lintil. You can see where it's I just
pop that off. There's the trim and a
little thing here. And then there's the
link inside. Obviously rusted. Started
to rust. Started to put
started to blow and lift.
So it's just a quick whip it out. Put a
new angle line in. All the usual
gobbins. This is all getting removed.
All this paneling. That window is being
reduced. Lint in there. And that brick
blocked up. I'm pretty sure
it's thermite block set back about 60
mil there, which is a bit of a weird
detail. We'll have to speak to the
customer about that. Maybe take the
thermal lights out and bring them
forward or it can be I don't know what
you do about render
frame it out and put a party back on or
something but that I don't that will
crack or anything having joints in it.
Anyway, so like I say there's stuff on
every elevation there's doors to come
out inside. Um bit of a fireplace to
block up water building the garage
was telling me off pointing at the
walls.
Yeah, you can see that this has gone a
bit. It's gone that way.
And London bricks. Probably the best
thing to do with this is render it cuz
it's awful. It's quite well weathered.
Obviously, you get the uh you get the
Sierra. You get the Sierra out here.
That was a phone call off um next door
neighbor of a customer who just
repointed and they like the repointing
that much. They want theirs doing
exactly the same. So, we'll have a look
at that on the way home. All right.
Yeah, enough waffle. We're a bit tight
for space here. So, as you can see,
we're on a bit of an angle, but um
yeah,
I'm guessing it's going to be tough
having a little go at it with the uh
raking out pick. So, it's the evolution
today, not the saw off. So, let's get
cracking. [music]
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>> Right. The um evolution is always the
last resort for doing this kind of thing
because of the dust it makes
and obviously a bit more tidying up
whereas the saws all makes very well
makes all the dust but it drops to the
floor and then we've lost a few teeth on
that one that needs chopping.
So there you go.
Imagine that nowadays with the with the
uh cleaning cavities out with wet wipes.
So the um bit chiming tray is completely
disintegrated
and even with saw walls struggling
because the the craps that high up it's
not it's bouncing off it and um
the actual brick work solid though
sander cement rock sander cement that's
not budging that
um
yeah we just carry on clean up on
snapper but it doesn't matter it's
rendered So, we can manage. So, I'm just
going to nip to the toilet, get the rest
of these out, and then probably have a
break.
>> I'm ready to attack the weaker ahead.
There you go. Chop the uh toothless bit
off down there. So, we've got all teeth
now revitalized. So, I can chop along
here now without it bouncing off all the
snots.
Speed things up a little bit. So,
another lattes of air. So, a quick
break. I'll see you after break.
You know that kind of
doubt about that year.
Be honest with you.
supposed to say
Christmas.
Wow, that is a good clip. And one thing
I noticed, I think, one thing I noticed,
Chloe, you might have noticed this as
well. Gentlemen, we're wearing a
t-shirt, college short. Did you see
that?
>> Yeah. See, now I I do believe that some
of the clothing dress regulations for
the gentleman is it has to have a
collar. I'm not sure. Don't quote me. I
just think that when was the last time
there was that phase of granddad callers
at the tennis
but I don't know those just
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I need to put it back.
Why not? Some people
because because some people forget the
kit, don't they? So people arrive to the
court's quite nice.
I'm going to steal this one.
is one farm that produces the
strawberries for Wimbledon. It's a
single operator and their whole job
throughout the year is to provide
strawberries for Wimbledon. They don't
come from here, there, and everywhere.
It's one that has been selected in the
UK.
There you go.
Also, we should credit the BBC Wi-Fi.
I want to know what love
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Now that's bad, but it looks immaculate
compared to the last few we've taken
out.
>> Yeah,
>> there's still paint on that one. It's
just blown. The last three are
absolutely disintegrated.
So there's our rusty window top.
Good bit of film. You always lob in
concrete lintle.
Completely useless spitin tray which is
completely full up of this.
Let's get some insulation in there.
I don't like this stuff.
This mering stuff
in it, but it's a million times better
than loose polystyrene balls. We still
got them in the van and on the drive and
pretty much everywhere they've been with
us.
All right. So, this brick or this broken
brick, this brick, a couple of breakers.
I think I'm either going to get some
more bricks from Fairwoods at Southport
or just get about four or five blocks
and just block it up.
I haven't decided yet, but let's get
exposed. Now, the brick [music] work is
absolutely solid. Again,
um we haven't propped it cuz it's
absolutely solid. There's no loose
bricks whatsoever.
So in we might just put one up
like temporary. We haven't we forgot the
strong boys. So we just put it straight
from the brick. So let's get these last
two out and get all cleaned out.
behind.
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It was a wet part the other day, Friday.
Can't see the picture on Instagram, but
um for the real
YouTube it drainage.
and we got flooded out by a
thunderstorm. There you go. That brick
work solid. No need to prop it. So, it's
just a matter of cleaning up and getting
ready to insert the lintle. And either
go and pick a few brick up or a few
block. We'll see what happens.
Yes.
Perfect.
Job
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Plus 75 each end. So 1950.
Okay. I've got a D.
>> Okay.
That's me telling you Alex at the same
time. He's just finished off the bricks.
>> What was it? 1850.
>> 1950.
>> 1850.
Obviously, we got three snappers, but if
it was face brick, we could we could get
these brick. We can get them, but it's
always uh not very good when you snap
them. And they did frog up over the
lintil and then frog down the rest of
the wall. See, they fog down. The frogs
are still full of water there, which is
easy for us. Just point it back in.
Lintle sits back far enough against that
lint at the back. They straight at the
back.
this lint at the back. Don't know why it
sticks into the cavity.
We just go against that. Shame about the
cold bridging, but that can't be helped.
Poor design. Again,
cold bridging wasn't even invented back
when this house was built. That's just
something that's been made up recently.
So, um, quite a bit to go in there. It
took quite a bit extra out. Plenty of
room to mess around with the tray. I'm
going to nail the tray up into this
course
here and probably stick it down as well.
Silicon it on.
Yeah, plenty of room. Plenty of room to
mess about with it. That's how I took
the extra course out.
Right, back to town. That's how you
fiddle around with this lot.
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>> Can silicon please.
>> See if there's any no nails amongst it.
>> There is none.
>> Right. There's the tray in. As you can
see, it's just nailed into the purpose
at the moment. I'm just going to run a
bead of silicon across the top. Not that
it's needed cuz the water doesn't run
around the inside. It's skin. It runs
down the outside skin and that's what
the tray is for to catch it. That's just
to secure it. It would be better under
the original tray like we used to, but
that's lower than that. So, we've had to
come above that onto a nice straight
brick work. Upstand
upstand new lentil. Just need a couple
of packers in stop it flexing,
deflecting while we build over it. And
we can put it all back. As I say, we're
going to put it back in brick work cuz
it's going to be it could be up to 2
years before it's rendered. So, it's
probably better putting the brick work
back in and it's more waterproof than
fiber like blocks.
Um, stop saying um yeah, so mix is done.
All bricks are loaded except for three
that broke. So, I'm going to get the
first course in, get it all set out, and
then I'm going to hop on the van, go to
Fairwoods at Southport, which is about
10 15 minutes down the road.
We should have picked some up from
picked some up from well anywhere.
Couple of bricks. Grabbed them forwards
this morning at Berska when we got the
Limples, but we didn't know we were
going to get some snappers. So, here's
the silicon seal top. And I'm going to
get a line up and get this first co in.
This is what we try and use by the way.
Grab a piece of just the cheap stuff
from um Home and Bargain. It's about
probably two quid, maybe less than two
quid, maybe a bit more, but very cheap.
when you're talking for the expensive
stuff like 8 9 12 quid for like Obi-Wan
and CT1 and that. But it's just purely
to grab hold of that to stop it
slipping. Not that it's going to slip
cuz it's got a little nails in it. So,
um yeah,
there goes me nozzle
somewhere.
So, I'll get this sorted and then um
crack on.
Right. Just changed the battery. Just
spent about 15 minutes trying to get all
the all the silicon. Had a couple of
burst burst tubes where it's gone up the
tube instead of out the nozzle.
All go up there into the so working nice
now. Some of the uh fux things that we
did we actually bought bought this down
at Lemington from MK Building Supplies
with Tony the lad just caught my eye. I
thought it been quite good. Not the
best, but
not bad for ox.
Not many ox things left now. Got a
couple of these. Three of these. They're
ox. Paid for all them. Probably the only
thing we've got left that's ox that we
didn't pay for that got sent is the
bucket trail.
That is our pride and joy of that troll.
It's still going. I think Ox Ox is
2021 maybe. So one of our first one of
our first sponsor
basically used to send us free stuff.
Never we never paid for anything. Just
send free gear. Still got a few t-shirts
left as well. Those t-shirts were
excellent. Anyway, get back to the job.
Let's get this.
No.
Yeah. No radio at the moment. Sun Veron.
And as of next week, we won't be
listening to the uh breakfast show
anymore cuz Sox starts.
We'll miss Gary. Gary Davis. He's been
brilliant.
You probably Yeah.
complain about radio too. No Gary Davis
isn't done. I complain about radio full
stop. That's why uh it was blessed when
you were at home with your hair if I had
no radio
and the days went quicker cuz I wanted
reminded every hour what time it was.
>> Yeah.
was talking to myself.
It's
>> better talking to yourself sometimes cuz
you're you're listening.
Sometimes you exp
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was the airport looking like a barrel
corn. She was as as wide as she was long
and she had a little phone from an
oldest person
and he was my kids love my first lovely
boys. It's all about ghost work.
I have to have a great work ethic. Did
that rub off on you?
>> I think so. seeing your mom. I mean, I
think my work ethic definitely comes
from my mom cuz once we left the farm,
my parents had both six or seven and me
and my sister we went and little came to
life over the years and I was as a
drive from the farm. So I was up the
farm loads cuz the little corny was
there right one over
the um vents work nicely. I've put them
in. Well, supposed to be loose. Still
slide in and out.
They are a bit tight, but they love
coming out.
And there's a bit of damp co over the
top. So, the water won't drop in and
trap them.
So, they could end up being just yanked
out and rendered over. I don't know.
But, um,
we'll see. Well, we'll see in a long
time when the rendering gets done. So,
I've got me line up. Second course going
in. And then I'm going to nip off and
get some get this three extra bricks.
And then Alex can carry on while I'm
away. And you can also do the tighten
up. That looks horrible, but it doesn't
have to look nice in the cavity, but
it's sealed. It's pushed up and then
rubbed in. So, it's all nice and sealed.
Doesn't need sealing, but
I like to go the extra mile.
So, right, back on time lapse and let's
get this next course in.
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we are. Just done a quick dash to um
Hughes Gray up the road. Got um got some
London brick out of steel. The real
deal, which is probably the only place
in the Northwest that stocks them.
Weren't bad price here. I think about
150 each including that which is pretty
good for a London. I've paid over two I
think about 250 at the worst paid for
them. So [snorts] um there's no need for
them to be bricks. We could have done
that in block but this way it's two it's
tied in at each end and it's
weatherproof cuz it could be like the
customer said it could be up to two
years before it gets rendered.
So, we've gone for over the top of your
leg. Um,
we've took the vents out so we can reuse
them, but we'll bring some others and
just push them back in there or even put
a bit of insulation and keep um keep any
critters out the cavity.
So, um yeah, we're going to have a look
down here now, see what's behind this
block work. Pretty sure we need to take
the timber off, strip the block work out
and pull it forward. So, we'll get this
this lot dropped and while Alex is
tidying up, I'll have a look. I'll get
the saws all in this hole and gouge your
a hole out and have a look.
So, there you go. Le number one on this
job done and dusted.