Building an American front porch on a wooden house in Sweden.
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Restoring an abandoned 1950's house destroyed by years of Arctic winters to allow the original owners son to move back with his family. Last year we reinstated the important infrastructure, this year we build back the front porch in the owners style of choice and it looks fantastic.
Thank you.
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All houses should have a Porch like this🤠 Great job Simon!
A full day of light helps a lot in a job like this💪
I agree on both counts. Thank you
First rate work. Always fun to watch someone who takes pride in their work. The half round front posts definitely make the look. Also not hard with your care and attention to see why the locals hire you to take care of their cabins.
Thank you, for as long as trust exists I can help. I also enjoy it.
Simon. You're a true craftsman and a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing your time and wealth of knowledge. I hope you're having a great day and have a better tomorrow!
Thank you very much!
Thanks Simon, you did a great job. You deserve some R and R.
Glad you enjoyed it Mark, already in the middle of my next project.
🤠👍 This was pure entertainment!
A really skilled performance.
Take care, stay safe!
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Fantastic!.......More long videos please..........xxx
More to come!
Howdy Simon- what a fantastic video! The beginning of the video was anything but boring. You did an excellent job explaining your procedures for doing what you did. You seem to have the ability to make me feel as if I’m there with you helping some and getting in the way some. I certainly understand what you were up against building back to something that isn’t level,square, or plumb. It can be a frustrating task, but it can be done as you were able to show. Anyway, another awesome job done because of your skills. Take care my friend. God bless
Thank you my friend, you humble me and of course I approve. You know how it is just doing the think. I decided to leave in all the bits I normally cut out to see if y'all like it. I am taking the comments as a yes so thank you Paul. Have a great weekend.
Fine job on the porch design and construction! Especially when working alone! Looks great!
Thanks Monte, hope your all well.
@@arctic-rebel Thanks! Doing fine, just enjoying the summer weather!
Thanks Simon This Was Another Fantastic Video I Just Love To Watch You Put Things Together The Way You Cut The Wood The Way You Get Around Difficult Corners The Way You Use Your Knowledge at All Times Hope You a Your Family Are Well a Happy A Casper Please Take Care A Keep Up The Great Work Look Forward To Seeing You Soon From Your Mate Blue
You are very welcome Blue, thank you and have a great weekend my friend.
Hi Simon and family.I like your humour.you know if you didn’t explain yourself some people will say what.you’re going to save yourself loads of time and time is money.great job 😊😊
Thanks 👍
Yet again Simon ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! Impeccable craftsmanship!!! Love it, love it, love it! And I’d also agree to the said rocking chair etc. you have got to be really proud of that porch turn out. As you mentioned it’s the behind stuff and structural calculations and being able to right or work with the existing structure…..absolutely beautiful and I love the shade of the stain. Loves to your good self and the family.❤️🇦🇺🇸🇪
Thank you Anne, I am so pleased you sorted out whatever problem you have, great to have you back. I agree with the behind stuff also LOL. You both have a great weekend.
You just made from a barn looking a nice warm house! Great job! Casper will be glad to join a bike ride 👍
Thank you, he loves running with the bikes
Proper job Simon. Came out very nice. Cheers for the upload.
Thank you
AWESOME HOUSE!
Thank you!
Nice job Simon! That is a lot of work for one guy. I know cause I did the same job at my cabin 20 years ago. I bought all the lumber right from a saw mill in the area. It was all rough cut hemlock. Only different thing I did was put braces at the top of the posts to the roof beam ( V ) to help make it more rigid.👍👍
Thanks Robert, this will have some too, just run out of time. They will be on before winter.
Nothing is square, nothing is level.. everything...AHA!! is that why it's called Swedish?? Everything is ish.. square..ish, level.. ish Just kidding, I've had the pleasure to work with a Swedish carpenter and timber worker, a genuine genius when it came to finding great solutions when things were ish, like most buildings from both before and after WWII were.. but thinking about what they had to work with, they did a pretty good job of it as you said. Great job Simon👍👍
Thank you, I am not sure many, if any notice the anomalies with the buildings here and because of the very shori construction season everything would have gone up super fast with many hands on deck.
Fek Simon... stunning! When you started "rabbiting" in the beginning about the sanity of the way you planned to do this job, I fully got it. Fortunately you had the timber so that helped! I was imagining the hassle of you doing it bit by bit! Somehow, I'm of the opinion you saved yourself a large heap of trouble and money too!
Anyway... what a great advertisement for your skills, attention to detail and pride in your work... soon, you'll have no rest at all. I'm envisaging requests for you to build more porches... in winter!! Haha!
Just btw... I was also thinking of camping out there on the porch... then you said that's what you would do! But, I don't think I would be cheeky enough to have the barbie up there... just in case a coal drops and burns a hole in the decking!🔥🥴
Great, great job... and yes... rabbit on... we love it!!
Happy weekend you there - all of you!
Much love AJ, thank you so much for being a loyal and loving friend. Never worry about the hot coals, it is wood and can be fixed! Just make sure you have water to put the fire out! I am glad I left in all the stuff I normally cut out it would seem everyone got it and that is what I wanted. You know when you are editing and your own voice drones on and on and then you just cut it out, you know. Well this time I just tidied it up. Anyway thanks and you all have a great weekend.
Simon, What an excellent job considering all the Problems you encountered, and I really admire your motivation , a lot of contractors in this country would have about three guys on the job and still not finish it in the time you took . I have also found it is worth paying the extra to get a good Stain and preservative that soaks well into the wood and apply several coats.
That crane you have is invaluable in allowing you to safely work as a lone worker.. It was a pleasure watching the video
Thank you John, I used to own a large timber construction company and know how many men and how many hours and at what cost. All very nice but I started by myself and ironically ended by myself and everything in the middle was just noise. I am pleased to have entertained, now time for fishing so have a great day.
looks great 👍🌼
Thank you 😊
Awesome shop . The only thing id do different is once all cut and ready to go is stain it all then load and go. First rate carpentry work . Jelious of your mad skills lol .
Done that on a few jobs but had no time on this one.
Really nice result and nice video to watch. I wondered why you didn't put the posts on top off the concrete footings. But in the end I noticed they are not on equal distances. I miss a gutter. Thanks for the video!
Thank you, thus the strengthening of the beams on top of the posts. The posts could have been just bad workmanship or a short measuring stick but most likely huge boulders that sit just below ground level.
Hello sir
verry nice adition. You doubled the value of this house. Is much more usable.
Maybe a litle steeper roof could help with high snow moving down.
Did you need some permits for that?
I hope not.
Best wishes and
greetings 👍💪
No Permit needed was just putting back what was there, only better.
Beauty is you have the mill and work shop
Yes, but all that still has to be paid for and has been agreed.
Nice work Simon
Thank you.
well done!
Thank you.
One more comment.a little plump no wrinkles ❤😊
LOL Thanks
The porch came out great Simon. I hate trying to do work on things that a not square or plum .
Hi Heith, I have learned to just roll with it. No point in getting myself stressed anymore.
@@arctic-rebel indeed . Some shit is just not worth it
Awsome job!
Thank you
@arctic-rebel I wish you were around me to use your craftsmanship. Are you moving to upstate New York, Finger Lakes? No, I would much rather be up there.
I have learned to never say "never" life can be a journey right.
How many years experience does it take to make it look reasonably easy .nice work and craftsmanship
I have to admit this is very basic construction to what I use to do but never the less you pull on all your experiences of more than 40 years to make it look easy.
Hi Simon. What a story about that big beam cut in half. Do you happen to have photos of that thing? I could use it for my worshops with kids and such.
Hi, No sorry I do not this was before digital camera's. Probably not the most expensive mistake I faced in business but by far the most stupid.
Been working as a mechanical designer for twenty years, I can confirm that people are very capable of that :D maybe some day you could make a top 10 of these "events" form your carrer? It would be entertaining content :) Don't feel obliged, though.
A dormer over the doorway would look nice?
This can get ripped of or damaged by excessive ice build up and cause un even weight loading.
You are carrying the financial burden of the complete job Simon, your price for it can be passed onto the owner, like a deferred payments.