Mejor cemento!!

Lime or Cement ? I have had the same question ! The locals prefer cement but the imported wisdom is lime. I have found a good compromise is to mix 3 parts sand, 1/2 part cement, 1 part lime. But be careful Osher, Lime BURNS 🔥 your skin, and splashes in the eyes need a good eye bath to hand. Wear goggles. 🧡☮️✡️♑️

Carnt you use both ? Cement and limestone.. another couple in utube who live in Portugal have done this.. you are now a Womble like myself. I collect litter on my estate where I live and a friend called me a Womble lols 😂 it’s a childrens tv program back in the 70s uk

Ok. Read all the comments. Most of you giving wrong advice… OK… NHL 5.0 THAT'S FIVE, not 3.-3 is too soft for this type of rock… NHL 5.0 + (castle mix) + Course sand (Not fine sand)-COURSE.. + small amount of granite dust.. a cup… Hardens….(For binding goat hair or course horse hair)(sterilized)(after it cools, not hot) in Correct proportions. OK… NHL 3, is for softer applications.. (Never the white powder stuff) Ok? White is for lime wash… STEEL BUCKETS OR MIXERS.. Further this stuff has exothermic reaction, you don't need that much water… Small amounts of water…. The NHL will draw water from the sand

NEVER, NEVER- EVER-CEMENT….. NOT EVEN A LITTLE… TRAPS WATER. OK???

Remember this stuff is caustic and exothermic, so if you throw water on it, it can fly up and burn you severly and blind you… ANY contact with skin will burn you… So, you need to have full face mask… with air filters.. The dust contains silica… destroys lungs, don't breathe any of it.. and
not on clothes.. ALL Exposed skin, covered…. GLOVES, MASK-FULL MASK, RESPIRATOR, EYE PROTECTION…. FULL MASK…. Don't breathe it in.. Old clothes, hair, everything covered…
Even after mixing and during application.. It takes days to semi harden, then months to cure..
ALSO— make sure you wet the surface so it bonds… do not apply to dry surface…

And you want to use narrow thin trowel to shove to the back of every rock and compact it in…. Like crush it in until it fills the voids..And then exterior…

And…. Main problem is that the rock is badly placed, cracks all way down and seams…
So just slopping cement will ruin everything… or render…. It won't fix structural problems….

Hey, I just want the guy to succeed and get everything he wants out of life…
I want him to have great house he is happy about. that is all….

From watching other YouTubers in Portugal I’d say limestone.

OH!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR PRICE LIST@!! Needed that bad! Super… Love that…
Osher you have the right attitude.. God will show you the way… Don't stress brother….
The right way will present itself…. You are building for a lifetime…

I AM A MASON…. THE OPTIMAL WAY…. KNOCK IT ALL DOWN… ALL OF IT.. THE HOUSE IS TINY… The walls are not built correct…. They will fail….If it was a bigger house, then other methods, but this house is TINY….. They did not build the wall correctly…. Built wrong.
Take it all down, completely…. Start from the foundation… You share walls. You have to put
separation between your walls and their walls.. Vents, perhaps brick with vents, to keep their water out from your walls. Also to breathe, stop mold and water…. At the foundation. FRENCH DRAINS ALL AROUND, UNDER FLOOR DRAINS… DRAINS OUTSIDE TO KEEP HUGE RAIN, AND
CHANNEL WATER AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE… you are on downslope… HUGE OVERHANGING ROOF and GUTTERS… with drain pipes that funnel away from house and down the hill.
Square off the Stone foundations. Make them perfectly flat with jackhammer…
REBUILD WALLS ( you got 2 or more walls that are wrong and stone is wrong)(Structurally unstable)…By the time you take those walls down, then you might as well do it all correct..
LAYER NEW WALL Correctly, No vertical seams… STAGGER, Fill stone. Mortar + REBAR…
just like the walls you did in france.. You guys did excellent job…. That is how you do it right..
Perfect job…. SO repeat again……. you want horizontal rebar, mortar, not cement, then VERTICAL
rebar too.. inside….. Capped by ring cement wrap at top…. Structural CONCRETE SUPPORT BEAMS in middle of house that go below ground and have flaired caps on bottom with rebar…
then you can make your floors out of cement block and beam floor.. With cement floors….
the beams are all rotted an need to come out anyway….
THE WAY YOU DID THE WALL IN FRANCE, IS MOST EXCELLENT AND CORRECT WAY….
DO IT HERE ONLY WITH MORTAR AND SUPPORTING FILL ROCK, THAT IS ALL.
WATER IS YOUR ENEMY… CHANNEL IT AWAY….. and AIR BEHIND WALLS. VENTS

IF you go the cement route… Then remove it all… Use cement block. Steel beams. Cement floors,
and then use the stone, as a facade and veneer….. and that will give you the look of stone, an whole house is cement from top to bottom…..
I have yet to know how you plan to route the septic system, since you have no back yard.
You neighbors wall is behind your wall… where is there space for septic… It has not drain field.
Unless you put it a tank under your porch and have a pump truck come and drain it.. there is
no place to drain it out……

Whoever built this house, did a TERRIBLE JOB… the way they layed an stacked the stones, is not correct…. they layed them in series… and this leaves a seam….. All the pressure builds on the seams and then it cracks all the way to the foundaton… And in certain situation such as an earthquake the whole house can crack and fall on your head.. There is a specific way to lay stone so they over lap and then you have cross stones, with smaller stone, so they relieve the pressure and lock one stone on another and make it imobile… they didn't do any of that, then they just shoved lime in between, and not the correct lime on top of that.. the calcium stuff, not true mortar…… and the result is you have sever cracks all the way down, and no structural support. Eventuall this house would have fallen on its own… And I suspect that is why the roof became bowed and then cracked, then water got in and now you have failure..
So the only way…… Take the whole house down to the foundations….
Put channels, french drains, Behind wall drains…. AIR VENTS…. Flat, correct foundation,
Then slowly rebuild the walls, Mortar… Fill stones, rebar… More vents… Lateral beams
and compact it….cross stones all the way up. Then ring Around top and new roof, like your
neighbor……. Otherwise….. under floor drains, drains and channel on outside, and under floor
to keep everything tight and dry…….. It would cost too much money to do it wrong…
It costs far less to do it right….. and peace mind… Either way, you got to remove the stones
to fix it….. you STILL have to remove it to fix it……. Its small enough, so you might as well do it
right………. OR, you can just slop it all together with cement an hope for the best….
What can I tell you……… I know what I would do….

We have spoken on many occasions…. Ok.. Now I got closer look. Please let us see the whole structure, from all sides, point camera over all the walls and from all angles. That would be very helpful….. As you know I am a mason, electrican, plumber and carpenter… I studied and have professional licenses… You got many problems. FIRST.. NEVER use concrete.. At least not to fill in, concrete has its uses with stone, but not like that… The concrete will rot the stone… It literally crumbles it, disintegrates it and turns it to powder.. And it decomposes the stone, especially if water is involved…. The guy is correct, the lime will crumble and turn to powder and fall apart..
Its not good too…. And weak…. So, what to do… You have to USE A COMBINATION…. LIME MORTAR… and course sand mix, with HYDRAULIC Lime, not powder lime… Its mixes, and bonds the sand and turns it LIKE cement, but not cement… the most important thing is it breathes and lets water pass without degrading the rock, and then dries….. Its strong enough to build castles out of the stuff…and lasts hundreds if not thousands of years…. But pure lime will fall apart almost immediately…it turns yellow and it has binding agents in it… Now in certain areas YES,
you will need cement.. On top to form the ring layer for the roof… Also in structural Columns…
But you must use REBAR in the concrete, and vibrate to remove all Air bubbles with vibrating tool.
The structural elements will not hold with mortar…… BUT, you should use hydraulic cement, with additives for extra strength….
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ++ the rocks are not placed correctly… Whoever did it or repaired it, just
threw the rocks and shoved them there without thinking….. A properly built rock house, can last for thousands of years… this one is just a mess and that is why you are having compression issues… then I can see they just shoved wrong lime in there pure and no support and then the water washed it away and the rocks came crashing down.. And now you got a mess, because you have very heavy rocks pressing down and out, on the walls……. NO SUPPORT, and rest of
lime will eventually give way……. SO WHAT TO DO??
HOW TO FIX IT…….. You are not going to like it…..
You must remove the rocks from the top, move to the side and rebuild the wall from the base on
up…. Placing the rock in correct place, putting rebar as you go up, and then lime mortar, and fill rocks in correct order…. same as you did in France when you built that wall….
ITS THE ONLY WAY…. Otherwise the walls will collapse under pressure and weight of structures and roof…Beams and roof will collapse, same as they did before……
OR ++ option 2 is to take it all down… Use cement, then rock on top of the cement block to make it look like a rock house… Veneer…. and build entirely of cement……
THE ROCKS HAVE NO SUPPORT, THE CORNERS ARE GONE, ALSO MIDDLE OF WALLS..
ITS NOT STABLE….. GOOD NEWS IS, YOU GOT ALL YOUR MATERIALS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU…. TO DO IT RIGHT TAKES A MUCH TIME AND EFFORT AS THE SAME TIME TO DO IT WRONG…. After all we are talking about tiny house…. My suggestion is to take it all apart,
and down to the rock foundation… USE jackhammer to square off the base foudation and make it square… flat surface.. Not take the whole rock out… But just chip off the rock with jackhammer
and make it flat, then rebuild the walls up again…..
WHY TAKE IT DOWN… Number 1–SAFETY…. Small house. You want it right.
If you remove the middle rocks trying to save them, it willl only make it worse and unstable.
and STILL doesn't fix the adjoining problem… Because all the other rocks have wrong lime….
Number 2—WATER… You haven't dealt with the problem of water…. you said you have water moving through the rock and into the basement…. you must deal with that or it will undermine
everything…… You have to create a drainage field and channels to funnel from outside behind the
walls and through the house to the outside, so the water does not enter the house.
the only way to do that is to take it down….. So you will deal with 2 things at once……

IF you put cement on it… The cement soaks the water, and you end up with future damage,
and black mold……and destruction of rocks.. All those rocks have to be filled with mortar,
not lime and squeezed between the rocks, dry, and then rendered , also rendered on the outside….. You don't want water running down the wall…. Or entering from the street level..
And you are below grade, so all the water runs down the alley, down the stair, behind the rock
and into your house or behind the walls.. You must create channels to push that water away
and further water coming off the roof too…. Large eaves….. and gutters to channel it away
and down the valley……

Hi Osher, I love your videos and the location of your lovely stone house. You have an incredible view. I have been reading the comments and I think you already have it figured out. It seems as if your house will require a little of both, cement to make it stronger structurally, and limestone on the rest as it breathes. I believe Alex & his dad will be good builders to talk with as they are renovating pretty much the same kind of structure. Your house is going to be beautiful, charming and full of character. All the best to you and continued success.

Consult a structural engineer. You have a big project, and you want to build a safe and strong structure. I'm rooting for you!

Even if I don’t want to love your videos I have to!!!! You put the Portuguese anthem and wave to Portuguese flag? You drink Super Bock beer?? You’re my hero, that’s it! Now I will always watch your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️

If you have water coming into your shower through the stone you could put a plant in the wall to live🤣 it won't hurt the shower! You love the Mistress and She trusts you. You are not Funked lol! You will take very good care of her I know. No need to tell you how to fix it. You need to find a Portuguese wife as beautiful as you. You should go sit on the beach and have a nice cool beer before you go back to work Osher. Thx for the video ✌💚💪

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

Osher, I'm really enjoying your storytelling and look forward to more.
I'm also enjoying discovering new music, so thanks for that!

Hello dear, check out Project Portugal for concrete or lime

Like your video's 😁👍🏻💪🏻🤠

A concrete beam or lintel here n there will help support in certain places…but those old stones are whisperin
'Osher…..Lime mortar…LIME MORTAR!' 🥰💞🤣💜 You know this makes sense…breathable, flexible, less potential damp, lower carbon footprint, antibacterial….it is shouting your name…..
🥰😁💞.

I would contact Nick at Project Portugal and talk to him about concrete VS limestone

Don't use cement. Use NHL 5 , natural hidraulic lime.you should get that in Portugal. Have a look at the YouTubers make.do.grow. cement will get moldy. Lime gets strong…it just needs more time to harden.

You are very amiable and positive, your dream will come. Great editing skills too 🙂

My honest opinion! not as bad as you think on the walls! many of the gaps are from old cob/mud falling out! similar to how the used to build here in Cornwall! they would mud, clay and horse hair.. over the years many creatures like this mud wasps being one and rodents being another!.. eventually leaving no cob holding the walls together.. the crack doesn't look like the wall has moved that much and could be tied back together with cement and the odd stone bridging the crack.. the corner might need either pulling prtly down or could try old style wall ties that would go from outside through the whole house and tightened, imagine a 2 inch bolt going thought the house and a big plate on either side and tightened pulling the wall back together! then you fill all the gates creating a solid wall!.. should check out Alex farms Portugal!, he has just done his wall on his old barn.. they winched a wall into position! and old wall is bit like a jigsaw puzzle you just have to start, and it sort of just happens.. worth brushing down between joints when finished!.. good luck andyour a lucky bugger lol .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ypBpfP4T1g&t

You are a good guy osher – can you think about stopping smoking please!! It’s so bad for your lungs. We want you to stay healthy to live a long life in your new home x

I'm not a builder but have been watching similar channels. Check out Finca Life and Alex farms off grid. Both on YouTube and two different takes on the same thing you are doing! Love your videos! Keep Pushing Forward 💪 😀

Thank you for the video! Decisions, decisions… you'll take the best ones under the circumstances. I don't think there are perfect choices, only better ones (or ones you regret less). I see lots of people left comments, some of these are far more experienced and qualified than me, so that's a good start. Good luck!

My friend you have a lot of work to do on those walls make those strong then you will need to do the roof then it will be water proof and cooler to work on the interior.

Those walls will outlast you for another two hundred years people don't realize that they have already been around longer than you have

you can do structural repairs with cement and do the pointing of the walls with lime mortor…

lime mortor…….you want the walls to breath………………..

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I love the pool ! is it on yoour property? so nice of friends to come help you with the hard work of renovating ! so sweet that you want to clean up around the village, a good neighbor for sure, You will be so welcome by your neighbors.! I love seeing the progress on your house. Any chance you can do one panel of cement tthen one of limecrete maybe some rebar buried into the limecrete. .I hate to see you have to deal with mold and water leaking into your house.

I would use a strong cement mix. Using sharp sand instead of builders sand. You could also get some steel bar and bend it into the joints before jointing you and it will tie it together where you have straight joints. It’ll be as strong as houses 👌🏻