Exciting work!

Could you flatten the bedrock and use it as a floor? It would look absolutely brilliant!

I give a Thombs up for all the hard work I see in all the English people you tubers working so hard to restore all these homes in that area where the Portuguese left behind and their children don,t want to live in the area anymore .Great job

Like the vlog! some project on your hands, be worth it in the end.. just a few things to consider, Damp is coming in at bedrock level, this is important, as the water/rain outside needs to be diverted away from the property. as you basically have bedrock bowl.. i wouldn't worry too much about insulation, for several reasons, if it does flood then the insulation will stay wet for a long time and it's insulation properties will disappear when wet.. just a bit of friendly advise.. love the place,

Sedimentary rock of some sort.

Enjoying the videos again! 🌀💚🌀Can not wait to see what you two do with this place… it is going to be beautiful!

Watching you both clear that floor was mesmerising! So many layers of detritus! Already looked so good after just a few days on it. Keep it up. x

Nice on amigos, superb vlog. If you need a hand with your concrete floor slab, let me know x

A confession: I know nothing so please don't take offence. Admire your commitment to the task & confident you will achieve your goal.
Question: have you thoroughly weighed up the economics of doing a complete knock down & rebuild?
I've done this in NZ & Aus and found it both cheaper & faster than attempting to fix up a ruin.
This is apparently not the route favoured by English people in Portugal. There is presumably a very good reason for this?

Great work 👏
You are putting in a French drain but what about the waste for the bathroom down there?

Wow that Milwaukee breaker is awesome.
Very traditionally in Europe animals were kept under the house, especially in winter and at night, as their heat, would rise and keep the upper floor warm and dry. (Old fashion central heating).
The raised platform could have been used to keep food and grain dry and above the bedrock height.

Nice score on the jackhammer. Looks like beam pockets for a floor that Sara pointed out. Ceiling height was usually much lower for animals so quietly like there was a wood floor in that area.

Wish I could come to Portugal and help you work on the place. Love ruin restoration!!

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Yes, definitely keep up the good work 🍻🇬🇧

Nice leggings ma ♥️♥️♥️

Could b a platform for grain or hay for animals

Enjoying your cascatas of hearts as you segue to each new segment 😊.

Great job! It’s going to be awesome!

Great job. The way to get it done is to just do it! Looking forward to following your progress. Best wishes from South Carolina.

Just finished watching your video, was excited to see you had posted another one. The plans you have for that ruin sounds great, and you two work so hard, and it is amazing what you accomplish. I really enjoy your sense of humor, as I have mentioned before. Happy y’all are back and looking forward to watching all your shows, videos, or is the correct word vlog, I have no idea but anyway I enjoy them.😀

Great garden compost material from the barns. Glad you were able to share it with your neighbors. And, what a good bit of luck that the stone of the floor breaks up so readily. Great to see your progress.

Good to see yall back in Portugal 🇵🇹

Looks like you got some work ahead of you bro. Have fun 👍

Very enjoyable once again , thanks guys 👍👍

Where you find hollows in the walls of old buildings they often are there from when the walls were constructed – as integral wood scaffolding would be made on site to allow the stonemasons or drywallers or roofers to reach the next levels. That scaffolding then gets removed once the upper floors or roofing is completed.
But of course in this case, yours are very low, and normally you see the same hollows much higher up the wall in a two floor building.
I guess another reason for them could be for an old false floor for some other function, such as raising wine barrels to a height where water or wine could flow or decant into smaller containers, in the wine making process.

Never owned any Milwaukee tools myself, but there are a lot of people who swear by them and won't use anything else. Think they are all American made.

Great work you have both done. Things will slowly start to happen. Great that you were able to redirect the compost to your neighbours. Do you still have your lovely car, we usually see it parked near the property, or have i just missed it. Till the next time.

I can't believe she didn't wear a mask with all that animal dung dust. Hope you don't get sick! The holes in the walls were for scaffolding to build the walls up higher.

Those holes were probably used for the sleeping platform for the animals 🙂 great video xx

Great effort, love your passion and enthusiasm. The rural Portugal needs more folks like you two. Well done Nick.

Definitely better than pick and shovel! Willy the wheelbarrow is fancy 😁. Enjoying to see you both back!

It is a beautiful stone building will be wonderful place to live. Great job! Looking forward to complation.

I would have thought that you would finish the main house before starting on the ruin

The Rock seems to be a shist . same as the walls . Similar to slate but not as compressed or as hard . holes in the walls ? something to store hay etc on to keep it dry . great video as always guys .

Looking forward to watching your progress.

These rooms are going to be great, no doubt! And also, send me one of your barrels to Costa Rica 😉 I am looking for one all over here but can't find any 😀 they don't produce wine here, hehe.

Get yourselves an electric wheelbarrow to get them stones to the top of your hill … Actually i cannot speak from experience but i just thought they ought to exist and turns out they do

Great update and what mighty workers you both are. Re the hassle of moving the dug up floor back up to your place, would it be worth using a pulley to lift filled buckets up to the floor above and then moving it outside ( less of a hill to walk). You could expand a hole where the floorboards above are already rotten. Just a thought and I appreciate it might not help. Anyway good luck with the rest of the dig.👍☘️

Fantastic video, I loved the way it was laid out. Accomplished a lot, explained just enough and we got to c the 2 of u working😁I can’t wait to c what u 2 do with these rooms

Hard to believe your first week back has whizzed by already! No wonder you hit the ground running as soon as you arrived. Love your plans to get the rental accommodations done soonest. I'll enjoy nesting there, er 😯😬😁… i mean, wise move forward 👩🏻‍🏫👍🏼. Awesome work, guys.

I imagined the rooms as you toured us about the ground floor which is indeed massive for a tiny guest house. Your build is sure to be very clever. 💖

Nick what you going to do too get light in the stone cottage

Very enjoyable seeing your growing barrel collection I was beginning to wonder if you are planning to start a brewery 😁. Then I watched your new breaker chew up the floor, tasty kit. You are going to be a very popular expat – immigrant. Going to have to find something to trade hehe 🙄🤑

Nick seeing your roll that barrel i now have the song roll out the barrel in my head lol

You could maybe ‘sister’ that old eucalyptus beam?

Cats like you, and they’ll make wonderful mousers and friends.

I’m glad you’re finally put your mask on. Take that organic matter and put around your fruit trees It still has a lot of fertilizer in that old soil And the granite has minerals also that will feed your fruit trees if it was me I would use all the loose stuff around my fruit trees And all the big stuff for the driveway

How exciting! And it's so wonderful to see you both back in Portugal.

Dare I ask what happened to Fraggle.

Love that beam, as well. Just glorious! That rubble would work well in the house basement( pool)😏. I’m sure you have a plan…great to have you back on the land. BTW how are your new trees doing?

Good to see you hard at work. Also good to see you and others wearing a face mask. I grew up on a farm and I clearly remember the result of not wearing a mask during dusty farm activities. For example blowing my nose for days afterwards would reveal more or less black snot. I hate to think of the damage we did to ourselves back then.