Loved your video, thanks for sharing, maybe next year harvest will be better.

Delighting in our visits to your home!

Such a beautiful property. So nice to be able to take care of that shared olive oil press service.

You too have such a great chemistry on camera. Looking forward to seeing your renovation on the tiny home.

Hi Ricky,
I am originally from Sussex but now living on Turkeys south west med coast, we too have been
Olive harvesting these last few days in warm sunshine. What a wonderful life we now have, we also use the same harvesting tools.
Enjoy your harvest.

i used a routing tool in my drill which raked out the joints on my wall. I looks like a chubby reamer that you used in metalwork in school. Power washing might help the wall too

I watch another couple renovating their old stone barn near you. You might watch their channel or reach out to them for suggestions on how to get the filling out. They are the Indie Projects/Bee & Theo.

Ricky , this was a great video from Dan at Escape to rural France on how to remove the mother from stone..🥰. https://youtu.be/ZPBAI2l1wTs

ciao Ricky I think that granite is beautiful but it is also extremely closed to the passage of steam, so an interior plaster without a mixture of cement and hygroscopic can do a lot of good for the indoor environment. however, we have not yet isolated the wall. if we also want to improve the thermal insulation, we can work with thermo plaster or hygroscopic and capillary active panels (io penso che il granito sia bellissimo ma è anche estremamente chiuso al passaggio del vapore, quindi un intonaco interno senza miscele di cemento e igroscopico può fare molto bene all'ambiente interno. però ancora non abbiamo isolato la parete. se vogliamo anche migliorare l'isolamento termico, possiamo lavorare con termointonaco o pannelli igroscopici e attivi capillarmente)

Hey, Ricky – looks like a job for an SDS+ drill with a chisel bit, set on 'roto stop'…..!!
…and ear defenders……!

I would suggest not giving up on the pointed stone feature wall. It adds texture to otherwise bland space if it is all rendered. If you continue with the cleaning and repointing in between stones it will look much better. Over time you can slowly continue to chip away at the worst of the old sloppy cement spots. When it is satisfactory you can paint it with pva glue (wood glue) diluted 5:1 or so which will keep the surface cleaner and lock in the particles of stone that would shed otherwise. Test first. I have similar granite stone walls I'm working on, and the rogue cement spots are not terrible when the rest is neat and pointed.

Needlescaler to remove the cement . Usually air operated .

HAHAHAHAHA Victoria is amazing hahahahaha

Having fun along the way is what its all about !! great video ! I wonder with the wall if you put up studding and boarded it out if you cut picture frames to reveal some of the original stone work ! if you get what I mean !!

How Victoria gamed you with the house olive was brilliant. So much fun.

Congratulations on your creative approach to your videos that differentuate you from what has become a crowded space – the Portugal off-grid/homestead/farm community. I do love many of the other aforementioned channels too, but many doing the same take on just about everything is getting a bit tedious – with some notable exceptions.
Damn about that careless concreting of the beautiful stone walls in your tiny house. I hope you find a workable solution. It would be sooooo sad to have to cover them all up.

have you though of chipping the branches instead of burning them. If they are healthy, you would have nice free mulch-compost 😊

Hope you find a solution to your walls 👍🤞🏻 haha sorry your oil didn’t work out 🙈😂 yep leave it with the professionals but you gave it a go 😁

had something similar in an old house in France, the wire brush your using with the drill will not work. if you want to go down that avenue you will need to get the heavy duty one for an angle grinder and attack the stubborn stuff with a sds plus attachement for your big drill. Personally I would cover all the internal walls with a lime mortar. this will actually breath and you won't get signs of damp

Well that was fun. It’s a shame about the concrete on the stone walls, but will that be used as accommodation? If so, just keep part of a wall as a feature and cover the rest? Really lovely video again. Cant wait for the next one. 🌸🌈🐨

Could not weaken things up with brick acid?

Good intentions were there 😁

Highly enjoyable as usual!

Didn't look very appetising the truth is in the tasting…we live in the middle of olive groves they have just been harvesting them there seemed to be alot x

Is it perhaps also possible to use a sandblaster to get rid of the old cement? ❤👍

Love your channel! Theo got help from Nick of “Project Portugal”. Nick was a mason in England. He probably would be a good source of advice. Also Kiley and Guy from “ Make Do Grow” are working on their house, they use lime plaster for their house and just did a lime/hemp plaster room in their house. Good luck on your project!

Sounds like it's not a year for olives. I just watched The Newbies channel & their olives had little holes in them, the Olive Fruit Fly ruined their crop. Good luck next year!

Thar was fun to watch. I learned something new today. Hoping the best for your tiny home walls. Knowing you, you'll figure it out Ricky. Don't beat yourself up over it. Good harvesting you two.

Spray one small area at a time with a 10-20% mixture of acid and water. Leave that about 10 minutes to soften the cement then brush it or hit it with a pressure washer. The acid will dissolve the cement but not the stone.
Love your work 👍

Ricky what does the outside of your small house feature wall look like? 🇨🇦