Couple creating epic custom built outdoor living space | Portugal Homestead Rescue

it really is a huge week on the farm this week and welcome back to all of you I've just arrived at the deck for what is our very first day of building together old hop along over here has got some help from his wife today um I can't because of my shoulder um actually more than just my shoulder because of Tamara and a whole bunch of you guys out there telling me that I should stop the work so the shoulder is still a little bit funky not really enjoying that at the moment um which means Tara is here to help me today um just help just to like take over completely okay pencil gone the Tara's just been up to get me some peas yeah so who out there has ever gone to work with their wife before so yesterday was a really difficult day for me or their husband did it end up well for you it was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be love to hear the comments below maybe that wallpapering job that painting job you know the one that didn't quite go in the straight lines I broke the saw another highlight um what other kind of jobs could baking have you ever baked it could all go horribly wrong it could all go horribly wrong but as long and darling as long as you do exactly what you're told will be just fine [Music] and so it begins you get harder to speak you got the smile that is wider than the fun but every matching will come true whatever You Wish Upon a Star will do and there is only one thing you should really love it is [Music] time to get back to feeling so fine selling my darling what's the plan well I think the first thing we should do is finish some of these jobs that you've started and haven't finished it begins we've only been going for two minutes and it's already started start what you finished John that's what she's really saying isn't she she'll start talking about the chicken coop in a minute I know it this is the Homestead of Unfinished jobs okay all right so we're gonna go with the Box seat and we're going to finish that off right yeah okay no I put it in there okay so what are you gonna do with that piece okay all right so the plan is I think we we don't do what you're thinking of doing straight away okay um the first thing I think we want to do is just finish these um this is the most difficult bit by the way you need to do this bit first so that everything fits inside it look I'll show you over here Okay so we've got that front bit we've got the back bit over here the back bit is already in place okay so we need to make the frame if you like of the seat before we can put the inside bit in thank you all right thank you so the first thing to do is to get the wood so for example we want to put that there might be okay to start off with I think and then draw draw what it's supposed to look like okay think there's a pencil up there I left it next to your job great all right so um first things first I think we probably just want to draw it pain bit like this and like that okay so that'll be that line we don't cut um the two outside lines we cut okay um yeah the easiest way to cut that so I've been using the jigsaw previously okay but I think actually um it'd be easier with uh it'll be easier with the um circular saw let's just clamp it in okay so we plug this in Andy having electrics up here isn't it yeah new plugs okay let's do it all right I don't know how to work it so um squeeze that okay push the button hey chriso how you doing buddy what are you up to hi I'm missing you really much yeah Daddy's working not really much because Daddy's not allowed to work but Mommy's working really a lot last week you would have seen that my cousin Nicole who is cruso's godmother um has flown in from South Africa she thankfully is here to help us with the boys while we crack on with work because without having somebody to kind of keep the boys entertained and away from here it's really hard to work together I think she's probably trying to put Sawyer down for a nap which is why we've got little Mr cruso come for a visit but it is so nice to have him here because he's such a huge part of all the builds and what we do so um it's weird to not have him around but it's really hard to do stuff when they're both here and we're here really hard I mean impossible very grateful for the help we've coined her belovedly oh we're not Nanny that's true because she's not a nanny yeah thankfully loves our boys as much as we do and here to help us which I don't know what we do without you tinks let me take cruso away oh wow okay you're leaving me [Music] as you were doing here just to let you know you were up like this and an angle what you want to do is try to make sure it's flat so as you're pushing it along [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] um hahaha [Applause] [Music] [Music] I can see why you like me starting I all finished all finished say Well done mama takes off yeah let's go see where it fits shall we we got that like that so now we've got this in place roughly okay so can you leave it there for me please buddy thank you Tara's just been up to get me some peas do you know I started this day with quite a lot of trepidation I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it but okay is it checks and power tools guys [Music] so it's definitely not perfect is it um let's have a look do you want to draw make some marks on it where it needs to be changed slightly I think it needs to come in here take that off okay as well yeah all right let's do it what do you what's the easiest tool for that jigs in jigsaw again okay clamp it and let's do it how's it now yeah it's much better isn't it well it's better all right here's what I reckon still need to do this bit to think isn't it yeah and just clean up that corner I think it yeah I think we need to go like that don't we a little bit more off of that is it in the right place so yeah it's gone a bit funky all right um let's get some let's get another piece of wood and get the wood ready for this bit here as well for the for the seat bits okay okay um shouldn't take too long maybe we just have another go at that we've got a really good template there now sometimes it takes two or three ghosts to get it right yeah let's do that and we can also think about putting the cutting these big pieces of wood okay to shape as well you could probably cut those big pieces of wood to shape straight away you know and then it starts to feel a little bit more like we're getting something done yeah yeah that's it there's no I want I really want I don't want this to take like a billion times longer because me which is going to but like and I'm thinking about this roof today as well we can get something really get something quite quickly moving on that okay foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] all right darling that's a nice job [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you let's just put that like that tidy that up a little bit later but we've got the when we when we put the pieces of wood together we can sort of make that look nice okay and then always when you're cutting pencil gone pencil is gone sorry okay did you manage to make the drawer first good yeah okay grusoe no doubt we'll find that okay um I would always cut the smallest piece off first here and then go for the big piece okay let's pop that into place both of them now isn't it yeah there's the other one [Music] what's up buddy okay come in yeah yeah okay how's that not good no sorry I cut that too short didn't I how are you my lovey Daddy is it yeah lots of flies hey yeah sorry that's frustrating that was meant to be the end good lunch nice that's nice yeah that's great isn't it look at that when you bounce it on it how does that feel yeah yeah nice and strong hey I am top huh we're sitting there mommy made a wrong cut [Music] sorry yeah I think um I think that's done love yeah I tell you what I'm gonna put my feet up what a day iPhone okay you fix it fix it every time I sit down here I think oh I lovely space your lovely lovely space cool all right hey Chris has lunch ready [Music] thank you foreign [Music] difficult day for me um not because I'm working with Tara I loved working with Tara it was really great fun and it's magical to be able to spend time together what was really hard was knowing what needs to be done um and really not being able to do it we're going to do it again today um and I hope I really hope that we can get more than one two three four five six seven pieces of wood fitted in what was probably about five hours worth of work yesterday um the end result was Tara of course learning a whole bunch of new stuff but we broke us all um and we everything was so slow it's to be expected um it was so frustrating I really just want to get on and do stuff a new day yesterday was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be I don't know in my head this is going to be super fun and it was just going to be like well we'll just come down and I'll do it and it'll just be done and then we'll have our deck finished and it'll just be like when John's doing it and we'll get loads of content so that the YouTube channel will carry on without any stress and we'll have a lot of fun doing it together we did have a lot of fun doing it together and I personally really enjoyed learning how to use the new tools and I felt like I accomplished something yesterday because they're new skills for me but I could really sense John's frustration I could really see how kind of fed up he is but not being able to work himself and also kind of having to watch how slow things are going so by the afternoon the mood had kind of I don't know it was good to know um it's tough I don't know what the way forward is we're going to crack on like we are and I'm sure we'll get there but I think it would be remiss for us not to share that this is really stressful and a lot of stuff really hangs in the balance we just kind of have to keep trying foreign 's on his way back so let's crack on it's a bit of a gloomy day today it's really cloudy it's actually quite cold it's about 13 degrees which is really weird but it is perfect for working we've left Nicole with the boys kind of playing they've got Play-Doh out they've got paints they're having breakfast they're super happy so hopefully we're gonna get a good couple of hours in of solid work because it's they're kind of stopping and starting for the boys that also you're not used to are you darling what's that having to stop and start when I was having to rush off yesterday with the kids to put them to bed to wake them up to whatever so let's try and get a good couple of hours in before nap time start and all the rest of it brings the Rhythm a little bit okay so I've got a plan today I think what would be really cool is that we do something that is visually rewarding okay and fairly easy to put together cool they say it's fairly easy so far it's my third go yep um but I think I got a better plan for the roof and I think if we we can start looking at putting a structure up for that roof it'll be hopefully quite rewarding to think that we've managed to achieve something by the end of today that's taken me a lot of thinking about okay we're going to start off over in this corner here where I cut a piece of wood well it seems too short now but let's stop chit chatting let's just crack on and build something and see where we are at the end of the day Perfect all right I'm up for it very good let's do it oh well done I broke the saw another highlight yeah yeah this may be what you're already really think about it yeah enjoying that one okay and then you have a roof that goes up like this has a little flat bit here and then goes down so it's really quite wide if we do something like this okay okay we head off in that direction all right perfect yeah so we bring that down like this okay and then across like this okay at an angle what would you prefer I just awesome foreign [Music] I think we can do it can't we okay so from here yeah I think what we need to do is is this is this high enough love because it's like just you can walk underneath it it's not as far above my head please tell me you're the one that might hit your head people get crossed by hitting their heads they do good point we should lift it shouldn't we at least for that yeah how are we going to do that over there yeah so do we do we have this one coming off at that kind of an angle like that who sees it I see it you see it okay let's take it all down okay never see these things you just have to trust folks for those of you like me who can't see it just trust carefully it's always worked out for me just fine in the end at the end of this episode we're gonna have a room right out the way completely yeah trying to keep them straight from push from the top [Applause] good I do like handsaw this is a really beautiful piece of wood this one it's got some interesting scars down the side of it yeah we just have to decide which way around it goes now like that yeah yeah or like that where you want the scars I think looking into the space though yeah okay [Music] oh it is a gloomy day isn't it okay um okay I see one two that's such a beautiful knot man wow perfect I've seen them so clearly before grew fast actually okay try and go smack in the middle that's it and straight down and up okay oh all right now we remember which way it goes because we had that on the inside okay it fits perfectly hey my boy you're gonna come and help ful okay ready when I was born ready darling are they in the right place yes yeah now if we wanted to acknowledge a mistake um I'm just maybe slide something in here that's a little bit thinner if we don't want to acknowledge the mistake we can knock that down really far yeah and then put a piece of wood around it oh like a frame to hide the frame to hide the Gap it'll also look lovely your preference I quite like the idea of just knocking it down and framing it up yeah I agreed nice okay this is exciting right next job we want to get a beam and also let's just pop that on top of there now darling let me lift it yeah it's okay I'll put it on the other side so that's plenty high enough there right it's great it's much better we put this it's not here yeah it's still low so I think the next thing we need to do is build a beam that's long enough to go all the way across and then we can screw it in from here across to there okay let me come and get it leave the heavy lifting to you stand there and have a look all right hello Sawyer hey buddy [Music] that looks okay [Music] all right okay now do it so this end is square okay this end will be the end that goes up against that okay up against what we've just put in yeah okay foreign okay it's really annoying when you get a piece of wood from the shop I think but the Sawmill didn't cut it square um but I think it's quite common most pieces of wood are like that if we try to butt this this end of the wood up against that that'd be that'd be like a big gap between so what we want to do we've done it on that one we just want to take in this instance I'm going to take a whole bunch off because there's a crack at the end again now just this leather saw do the work and then then you'll be fine there's your finger this finger yeah put it there and then it'll be really easy to control so Tara is a rower or was a rower when she was at school and what she what you're doing there is you're rowing you want to be cutting so I would come I would have the angle of my saw like that I've used my index finger because that's it yeah let me show you so you're doing really well so here's the reason why it would be important like that your index finger there will help keep this where it needs to be right so if you cut like this your blade every time you pull back has the opportunity to do this if you cut down it's a lot easier and also as you're cutting you you put on the down and and just roll back up on the up so it's down and roll back up put this down roll back up like that once again was it easier on those last few Strokes was it yeah thanks foreign what's up all the way around two we need to tidy it up and make it stronger but that's easy to do yeah I think so yeah yeah well that's really important isn't it that's always been important I think yeah that's true um that's very true but I think it'll be just fine yeah no quite right and those ice packs um tomorrow are really they are really helping um we don't we haven't we we haven't we haven't written bump bag on our peas but um we we've definitely separated them out so we know which bag it is that's it all right that was good wasn't it yeah so we just got off the phone to Tamara um a couple of episodes ago uh you guys heard um she was giving us some back advice and neck advice yeah um she's really healthy she's really really helping it's amazing to I don't know it's not my I'm not in your body but to feel equipped with the knowledge of what's going on with your neck and your vertebra and why that's causing some needles and what you need to do to look after it and to have just a few tools to be able to feel like we're moving towards a position of healing is important yeah it's true so um tomorrow I said that Tara's got to massage me daily for half an hour to 45 minutes she did not [Music] all right yeah [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] well if we were to build it like that idea it looked quite fun on the inside isn't it yeah I'm going to want to do something I think with the end bits definitely I'm going to want to do something with that part there in tiles um I I guess the area is so small it doesn't matter really nice because of it like there's no hindrance on your view okay so I like that I don't like that bit yet we've got to work on that there's something just not quite right about it um let's go get something to eat and drink nice and so much yeah good are you happy yeah good morning's work well the it starts to feel like it it's got some idea of how it's going to look right

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Length: 41min 25sec (2485 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 16 2023