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DEALING WITH PROBLEMS on our OFF GRID HOMESTEAD

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DEALING WITH PROBLEMS on our OFF GRID HOMESTEAD

What has felt like never ending rain here in Portugal has caused us a few problems on our off grid homestead. Join us as we build a rain shelter for our off grid generator, try to tackle the tough concrete mortar on the tiny house with muriatic acid & then create an access track to the tiny stone cottage (with a BIG headache along the way!).

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Ricky & Victoria x
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Hi I’m Ricky 👋

I moved from the rat race of the UK to a more peaceful life in Portugal with my girlfriend (& dog) & we bought a 3 acre off-grid farm.

Follow my journey as I document our life here in Central Portugal & the MANY DIY projects that I’ll be tackling including renovating the 2 stone buildings on our property & converting a 30,000 litre water tank into a swimming pool!

#offgrid #offgridliving #tinyhouse

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  1. Any acid, in enough quantity, will dissolve cement. Vinegar, or even lemon juice, will dissolve it, eventually. Just remember the Grand Canyon was made by water alone. Try a 10% solution of your muriatic acid with water. Apply it, wait a few minutes, hit it with your pressure washer. Repeat until it’s clean.

  2. Wow… I was appalled to see you spraying that acid without a respirator 😳 We have used it before to clean up stones and know it is horrible stuff to breathe. Glad you ran out and are reconsidering the proper PPE! 😥 That new track looks amazing – congratulations on all that hard work!

  3. Persistence… you have it in spades… thinking of you and Victoria in the coming days trying to sort that track… Hope you have had an awesome Christmas and much love for the new year… you guys rock! You need to call in a favour maybe with Theo and Bee and get their all terrain vehicle to give you a hand… just a thought… Blessings…

  4. What a great mud adventure. This is something to tell by an open fire. I bet every body will laugh than. But you've worked so hard on the gravel, they never understand how hard it was

  5. So glad you got your van out, the rain has been relentless, as I sit it's raining again!!
    You guys have wonderful piece of land, looks lush and green, plenty of work to keep you busy. Hope your Christmas Day has been as relaxed and peaceful as ours.
    Looking forward to the video, Elaine 👍

  6. Winter. The bain of our off grid lives. 😳 Our generator gets used during winter as well. That’s just the way it is. 🤷🏻‍♂️😊 good idea for a shelter for the genny. Think I need to build one too. 👍🏻

  7. There's someone else, here at home, now following your videos: my wife. After watching this video, now she wants to see all of your videos. Translated by me. She is also fascinated by your perseverance and enthusiasm. It's a privilege to have nice people like you living in this country. Cheers!

  8. Omg, I built that exact shelter the other day. It's summer in New Zealand but I built the shelter for winter. I built mine with number 3 round fence posts and old corrugated iron and just painted it grey

  9. Hi Ricky, first of all I want to tell you that you are incredible and I love watching your videos. The best thing that can be in this world is people who work to make their dreams come true, as you are doing with your beautiful wife.
    The second thing I would like to tell you is that muriatic acid is highly toxic to breathe, so I beg you to be very careful and wear a mask. I also recommend (if you allow me) that you use only a hammer and chisel, manual or electric, to remove the cement from the joints between the rocks of the wall. I tried it in a barn that I transformed into a loft in Ibiza, it worked but it took me a long time, so I decided to cover the wall completely with cement, leaving irregularities on the surface, keeping it rustic.
    Many hugs and Merry Christmas.

  10. Hi. I would wait and see how the road path you put in works out before improving it. On sloping hills water going downhill builds up momentum and gouges out tracks, making ravines on the straight down roadways. It is better to meander down in a series of Ss. And have lots of swale runoffs to clear water well away from the roadway. Any roadway lower than the adjacent soil is going to have water dammed ….. ie in your tyre track ruts …… and as an unwelcome bonus your gravel and top soil will be washed down the slope by the fast flowing rainwater. My advice is build up the roadway, meander levelly across the slope before turning and dropping to the next level meander, repeat, and have flow off drains at each drop bend that direct the water away from the road. The swales would have the added bonus of retaining water for improved slow seepage watering below the swale.

  11. i recommend sandblasting. i sandblasted for 10 years and every time we used chemicals the stone broke or cracked. or you have an ugly haze over the stone.
    or you can use an industrial pressure washer. not the ones you buy at the hardware store.

  12. Well…
    First of all…
    Good morning everybody…
    Greetings from Germany… merry Christmas 🎄

    Looks like you’re productive… and still fun to watch your progress…
    Keep goin 👍
    Stay safe everybody 👋

  13. Hi you two. Good to see you on film again. The shelter worked well for the genny – a good quick fix, well done. Crikey, there's never a dull moment re the van. Glad you got her out ok. I had to smile at Victoria punching the air when you drove up the hill. I do hope you enjoy your Christmas break and that maybe you have some more sunshine over where you are. All the very best to you both. Looking forward to the next video x

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