Renovating the Home My Great Great Grandfather Built

48 thoughts on “Renovating the Home My Great Great Grandfather Built”

1. Nice, where can i find the second part. We are looking to build, can you provide me with a sketch drawing of the house?

2. What an incredible story! I cannot believe you did this by yourself. Wow!!!

3. ¡ Qué bonita casa! ¡Enhorabuena!

4. I think I smiled the entire time I watched this video. Even if the house is entirely replaced it still has the same soul. Your hard work paid off!

5. Another 100+ years to go… lovely ❤❤❤❤❤

6. 👍👍👍👍👍😁

7. I cannot IMAGINE taking on a project as big as this

8. Very impressive

9. I absolutely love it. I bought a little house that was built in 1900 you can see some logs underneath .

10. This is awesome. I'm working on my great great grandpa's house as well. I've also been told it would be better to tear it down. Some people don't understand the value in family heritage.

11. How’d you protect yourself while demo existing walls?

12. Just not a 105 year old home badly neglected!! This gives me hope and strength! Thanks for sharing!🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

13. You are obviously a very smart and talented man. What a great job! ❤❤❤

14. I love your respect for the original house and your improvements did not detract from it. Very nicely done. I would have liked more pictures of the process though.

15. I enjoyed, thank you

16. 13:20 Yes! The Ship of Theseus or the Theseus Paradox! Reminded me of it, too!
    You still did amazing work! A true Labor of Love.

17. I watched the video of Pete renovating his great great grandfather's house and got hooked. Been watching the farming videos since. I just wanted to watch a renovation video. Lol

18. Hi, I always wonder, watching other videos of beautiful houses left to rot, how this comes to be. Are they held up in legal limbo for decades because there was no will or do the relatives hold on to it for sentimental reasons then suddenly realize there is a big hole in the roof and no money to fix it? Yours was pretty far gone, how did that happen?

19. Looking forward to seeing part two 😍

20. You did your great great grandfather proud! The house is beautiful, and restored, not renovated. ♥

21. Wow! What determination! You basically built an entirely different house. How much money did you have into it? The labor was cheap! $0

22. I would loved to see an Inch of polyisocyanurate on the exterior OSB 😉

23. Sir, you are a Stud Horse to do all that hard work 👏 Mad respect 🙏

24. Wow, !! Beautiful

25. My brother rebuilt out Great grandfather's house it was in bad shape me and our dad helped him . He did an amazing job. He passed away a few years ago and now i own it and live there now .

26. so awesome. as a guy who has been in construction, my hat is off to you. and this is one instance where it's good you didn't know what lay ahead or you might not have done it! it looks absolutely wonderful.

27. lovely home

28. I clicked on this video because it looks SO much like a house that is down the road from my grandparents. That house is the original farmhouse for an area that unfortunately is now a subdivision. I dont remember the exact relation but it was built by my ancestors/closely related ancestors. Definitely not the same house though as the house I'm talking about is in south east Michigan.

29. Your home looks like the one my great great grandfather built in Conn. The cellar had a well in it and a dirt cellar and fieldstone foundation. The house was ripped down in 2010. I’m so sad it’s gone, but I have pictures and memories of going there as a child! It had an outhouse and barns with lots of land. My great grandfather grew tobacco in the early 1900s. My dad was born in that home as well! He loved the farm! Now going down the road in Wapping Ct you can’t recognize that was farm land but full of subdivisions.

30. You did a great job for someone who had no carpentry experience. 👍

31. The patience. The determination. The love. What a great story and man.

32. Gotta say it came out better than I'd expect. Though, I'm not sure how 2 stories of a 1400 sq/ft house is too small for a family. I live in a 1300 sq/ft ranch and while I only live with one other person, there is absolutely room for one kid, and I could sacrifice the guest bedroom for 2 kids.

33. Good (and very long) job.

34. Great video

35. As a former remoding contractor, I know this feeling, I had done a lot of work 20 years in the Boulder Colorado area, one that this reminds me of was the oruginal farm house at Jacobs farms east of Boulder, we had to rebuild porches, and we bought oversized lumber and milled it to exact replica dimensions used a shaping table, on porch looked a lot like this one and there was a inside corner porch off the kitchen, when we were done the elderly owner was in tears cause we rebuilt it, she said we reminded her of her grandpa and great uncle, the house was built in 1906, and the kitchen porch was a request to keep the weather off the door, she saw that porch built when she was 6 so 1912, such an accomplishment and for us to be a part of their family legacy gave a lot of satisfation and a cherished memory for all of us even a Walnut story for my 4 year old at the time. It does matter when you care about what you do! Even after you leave the job, I am the only surviving member of the crew they are all gone now, and I can share the story. 😊

36. This was a wonderfully told, authentic story. I love it. No special music or flashy clickbait, just a conversation.

37. My family owns the farm house built by my great great grandfather. But they didn't have any money, and the house is small and very simple. What's more cool is the property was deeded to my great x4 grandfather from the Republic of Texas.

38. I am slowly working on a 1930 house. If I can reuse or salvage things in the home to use in another spot, I do. It is part of the history and the character of the home.

39. Well done!

40. Wow,you look like him too! I think it’s wonderful that you are RESTORING & not destroying yourself,well done!👍

41. What a labor of love and tribute to your ancestors!1 God bless you!1 amazing job well done! Thank you for sharing.

42. Very interesting story thank you

43. I want to do this with my grandparents' house. It needs to be practically rebuilt. Definitely won't be DIY! But what a dream, to bring it back to life. 💚

44. The house of theseus! 😂 looks fantastic.

45. About to do this same thing with my husband's grandfather's property. Not sure what we are doing . 😂 But really want to keep family homes in the family.

46. I am so impressed

47. This is such a great story.

48. I finally found a week to drive up through Pennsylvania and New York last month. Never been before. So many beautiful old homes in need of renovation! Hope to retire very soon and buy my own project 🙏

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