Restoring 200 Year Old Oak Floors and Fixing Our Castle Gate

This week we installed spotlights for the Chateau Masterpiece, renew original oak flooring, and Ian almost got squished by our gate. Remember that photo of you when you're a kid and you're standing next to your grandma's dog? Yeah. In that same spot. I think you should have our carousel stand and we should recreate it. Yeah? Oh with my grandma's dog. Yeah. With Steve-o. Yeah. That was pretty good. Times have changed and nothing's changed. Nothing's changed. Well the flowers are gonna change. Flowers are gonna change. What kind of roots are these? Somebody just put like a piece of sweet potato in here and it just started. What kind of potato is that Arkea? Couch potato. What do you think of that? No. No? Should our Arkea eat this? Probably not. Sorry bud. Normally these little white flowers get super dried out in the summer and I have to remove them because they're not pretty but last summer it was such a wet season that they stayed lush through the year and then this winter I didn't take them out and coming back here they were already in bloom so it's just like a lovely surprise this year. I really love these flowers for the springtime because well first of all if we have any frost at night we know that these ones won't die but they just match so perfectly with the color of the chateau. Florian the electrician returned to install some dimmable spotlights on our chateau masterpiece. Do you need help taking your stuff out? It's fine. For now it's fine yeah. I'll take care of it. Thank you. Since I'm in work clothes today. It's fine. He found really great discreet lights that we can put up in the corners. We just have to test them out and see if they'll be bright enough. Just close the shutters so that we can see how much light that actually gives off. Now you can actually admire the painting while our guests are here eating and dancing and playing and admiring the artwork of course. Okay next. I like that. Yes? Okay. There are wires that go there. There's the same salad over there. It suits me the day I do that. If I want to connect the two together. Yes you can. Two bands and a remote. But I told you the two bands are going to work. But we never know. Okay. It was just broken off. This is made out of plaster. That means we might be able to fix this ourselves Ian. That sounds like a fun project too. I just used up one of my nine lives. I was coming through the gate and normally I can just close this gate like this and it's totally fine. But this time I closed the gate and as I went to lock it this just came smashing down right past my face. It was so close. Yeah that was scary. That would have crushed you. That definitely would have crushed me. Okay so how many lives does that leave you with? Just you know trying to life plan here. Look it's Monday. I need at least four more to make it to the weekend. It looks like it's just dropped over time. I mean there's no like base plate so it was too low for that pin and then this thing by itself just couldn't handle the weight. Okay yeah you want to grab that side? I can't lift this. No no no we definitely need the tractor. Yeah. I don't know about this Ian. I don't know about this. I've never done this before. What if we I can bring the tractor around if we lift it a little bit then we can put some planks underneath it. And then I can readjust and push it forward and have it strapped to the bucket of the tractor. Okay. And then I was thinking maybe what we can do is I can take another strap and run it through that pinhole to this side. That way there's kind of a barrier so that if if I lift it up and it's off balance and it goes too far then it's not just going to come crashing forward and try taking the tractor with it. Got it? It's coming along. Okay. Okay stop. Go down. It's good. I'm gonna back it up and go beneath it. I need you to just guide me there. Back up. Good. A little more. Stop. All right go ahead. What was that? We'll bring it back down halfway back and then we'll have to replace those blocks and then I just have to make sure that I clear the bucket. Yeah. Of this pillar. Back up back up. All right down. There you go. High five. It actually feels... Oh. Some WD-40 on that thing. Yeah. What do you think? Seems pretty good. You really welded that thing on there. Yeah it's not it's not exactly pretty but it's uh it's stronger than before. Okay well now I can get back to what I was doing. I was not planning on doing that today. So initially I thought we would want to paint the walls and then sand the floors. But then we run the risk of having our newly painted walls covered in oak floor dust. So I think at least I want to try this time. Sanding and treating the floors then recovering them and painting. So we disagree. Yeah okay. I don't know. We'll do it this way this time. Next time we'll do it my way and... I've been... I mean I've seen both versions. I've seen the floors done last. I've done that before and I had to wipe the walls down. The floors are pretty bad. Yeah I feel like the stain is not the same anywhere on the floor. No you can see there's some kind of burn mark. There's water marks everywhere. I don't know what's happening here. As you can see I've got a it's a custom thing. So just if it pops off. What happened? Did the bag rip or did the... Um the little... Yeah the bag ripped and don't worry about it. All right so just for a quick test. Okay. That looks nice. Yeah. Gosh that looks nice. If you want to drive this thing then I can start hand sanding in all the corners. So I can't believe they were this light the whole time. They're just like covered and caked in wax. Yeah I did see some scratch marks over there that I was like I think you did that. It is possible. I think little Daphne did that. I may have had a crayon at some point. These floors were waxed and there was like I don't know how many years of just like caked on grime and I actually had to change the sander head like every five minutes. Yeah me too it was caking up really fast. We tend to lean towards just natural oak. Yeah. I mean it's got a nice tone. I mean this beam that I sanded here we're leaving that natural right? Ian you match the room. Me? The room that we're doing yeah. Got a green shirt, brown overalls. I dressed for the job. This is what we're going for. Yeah this is basically just a sealer that's gonna keep the wood protected but also it'll lighten up once it dries. So this should be good. It is really nice to have fresh floors. Now we just have to cover them back up so we can paint the walls. Yeah let's do that tomorrow. Sounds good. Oh is that GoPro still running? Leave the plastic on there for the paint to seal. Okay we're good. Oops sorry. You can put me down now. Thank you for watching. If you've enjoyed this video then please consider subscribing. And if you'd like to support us and get exclusive content join us on Patreon. I mean if this fell on me it'd be the same as like... Pancake. If a small car fell on me. Yes it'd be the same as pancake. Or as they say in France. Pancakey. No I was gonna say... Crepe? Crepe.