Home Real Estate Laying (Yet Another) Limecrete Floor – Portugal Renovation Project #030

Laying (Yet Another) Limecrete Floor – Portugal Renovation Project #030

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Laying (Yet Another) Limecrete Floor – Portugal Renovation Project #030

The end is in sight, we’ve got two small rooms left that need the limecrete floor treatment. These last two rooms are the FIRST two we dug out over a year ago. Now, after a slight detour of installing guttering, drainage, the beginnings of a rain water and grey water harvesting system and a bunch of underground pipe, we’re ready to put down our insulated sub-floor in the final part of the house.

Of course, not everything goes to plan so stick around to see what happens!

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47 COMMENTS

  1. Do your neighbours ever come to checkout what you are doing ?? I hope you both have a good osteopath or chiropractor ??? I understand your pain and the effort invovled and jobs tak along as they take. People who tell tell you just do Ha, ha ha.

  2. Hi, I love the videos guys thanks for making them, I can’t help but think it may have been simpler to have a ramp for your wheel barrow to bring in the limecrete rather than the buckets, even though I guess that they are more precise at dropping them where you need them.

  3. Why didn't you take the bloody door off the hinges and cover it with plywood while it dried all that opening and closing the door seemed like it added to the work. Would have been a lot cooler.

  4. Congratulations you finished the floors! Blimey Guy, I think the floor finally broke Kiely, I hope you had a suitably large beverage that evening?!🍻🍻🍻🍸🍸🌸🌸🌸

  5. It's not that is cheaper or not. Every pipe has a purpose look for the markings on the pipe.
    It goes from PN4 (usual for not presure water like waist water) PN6, PN8… the more you go the thicker the wall of pipe and the more presure they can stand (so better the fittings).
    This go for that kind of pipes (grey) as for any king of pipe like drink water, irrigation water!

    Keep the good work

  6. Many years ago I was hod carrying with a group of Australian's and I always ended up with thick end of the work load they used to call me Digger , " This was apparently a big compliment and in reference to the Aussie 1st world war troops in the trenches " . So by way of a compliment Kylie is definitely a Digger .

  7. Just think, the ancients made their own homes. They had to. And you are both doing this also, with painstaking care because you are creating shelter that will protect you in this your "forever" home! A thought inspired by the tension building time lapse music for Kylie's work in the last room. Very happy for you with this milestone.

  8. In the USA there are are two expanding rubber plugs to stop waste pipes before covering. Water lines must be pressure tested in areas requiring code inspection and waste pipes are plugged and filled with water for a period of time specified by the inspector.

    Are you going to be able to use the water in your well?

  9. Halle-fricken-lujah!!! Congratulations for getting that part of the project behind you! I bet that "week off" will be that much sweeter knowing you don't have to return to doing any more of that. LOL. A well deserved break is yours!

  10. Nice work indeed. Sertã area, wonderful choice, land of D. Nuno Álvares Pereira and 'maranhos' food 👍

    (Btw you need a portuguese Palaçoulo knife instead of bending that branch a fine cut will do it…💪)

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