Everything We've Done to Our €39,000 House in Spain - Full House Tour!

Hello, you might have watched our first video a year and a half ago where we showed you around our 39,000 euro Spanish house but we thought it was time for an update. Thank you to Wise for sponsoring this video. Originally we bought this house as a holiday home but as we fell more and more in love with it and with Spain we realised that we wanted to one day make a permanent move. We still aren't quite ready to do that yet but in this video we show you everything we've done so far and give you a complete tour. This is the living room which is the first room you come to when you enter the house. Last summer Rob refurbished the door and put new wood on it and insulated it as there were lots of drafty gaps between the original planks. When we moved in we had the fridge in this corner but now that it's in the partition corridor we have more space to put the table in the other corner and arrange the armchairs and sofa in a cosy layout. We had the entire house rewired and we increased the potential. This is the new fuse box. We put this stove in as soon as we moved in. This is how the fireplace was originally. The plaster was actually flaking off either side of the fireplace so we re-plastered it but it does still need another coat. I'm going to take a minute or two now to give you some really useful advice. Now we know that a lot of people watch our videos because you're interested in buying a Spanish house yourself. Well me and Rob recently found out that when we bought our house for 39 000 euros we could have saved around 500 pounds if we'd used Wise to transfer our money. This is because Wise will always give you the mid-market exchange rate. So we really missed out there but the good news for you is that you don't have to. So for example if you buy a property for around 50 000 pounds if you use Wise to transfer your money you can save around a thousand pounds using Wise versus your bank and obviously the more you transfer the more you'll save. For large-scale transfers Wise have a dedicated team to make sure your transfer is smooth and secure and with the app you can track your transfer's progress every step of the way. Amazingly up to 74 percent of transfers are instant. This information about Wise is correct at the time of recording this video. If you click on the link in the description you can get a free currency transfer of up to a thousand pounds or a free Wise personal card. I painted this cupboard it's really transformed it actually. My friend in the village gave me this it's quite old and it was made locally so that's brilliant. This partition was actually had a video all to itself didn't it? Blimey it's famous. It is famous yeah that's right and so it has been brilliant hasn't it? Well yeah it's it's turned a bathroom from an ensuite into a bathroom hasn't it because we can you know people can sleep in there and we can anybody that's sleeping upstairs can get to the loo down there. Yeah so it has been absolutely brilliant excuse me we still need to paint it it's just basically it's just like a shelving at the moment isn't it and this is all work in progress and so leading off from the partition is the bedroom that we changed into a bedroom and a partition. You've been on the grog? No not recently but hey you were away maybe I was then. Oh blimey. I wasn't actually I was just working and seeing my chums which was nice very good so here we go then let's have a look inside this room this door was originally between the lounge and the bedroom so we used the door again which was great upcycled yeah okay in here then kept the wardrobe and painted it finest antique wardrobe now this wardrobe I'm really pleased because at one point I did think about painting it but I've really come to appreciate it it's lovely it's great I love this frame okay anyway um what has made a real difference um has been the air con so this is one of the rooms we've got the air con in so looking around the room it's very very featureless at the moment oh can I have a rest now I didn't mean to say that this is a really nice mattress and it's a really lovely de-gaper I'm so pleased with it Danny so the other side of that wall is where the bathroom is we've got the partitioning and I mean it was a big room so there was enough room to make it smaller but I mean it still is because this is like monster isn't this queen size bed like there's plenty of room plenty of room plenty of rooms look at what a concentration now we'll show you what this bedroom was like to start with the first one is just a very quick video we filmed soon after buying the property this section here is now a corridor you've just seen the room it used to be part of this is the corridor from the other end so here is the bathroom exactly as it used to be look at this lovely old trunk what a shame it had woodworm in the bottom of it so we had to throw it away but that was a bit strange really because there is no woodworm anywhere else in the house only the old holes in the kitchen diner this was the old shower but we wanted a bigger shower that you could easily get to because here the toilet is anyway now we'll show you what the bathroom is like at the moment we still have got work to do to finish it off although we have done quite a lot to it so the water heater is something that's been really successful hasn't it as my old mate Richard say look at the size of that jockey yes it's been fab it has been and the reason we wanted such a big one was because again when we family has come to stay with us we wanted to be able to have one big enough so that everybody would have a shower in the morning well the one that we inherited with the house unbeknownst to us just one and a little bit showers yes in the other bathroom in the other bathroom that's right as our son found out in the winter when he was the second one in yeah this supposedly will do quite a few well how much is it is it 400 litres i've no idea oh okay i don't know well we don't know i don't know so yeah fab try a bit of kit yeah that is great there wasn't there wasn't a water heater in here no there was a manky old shower there was a manky old shower but i think it's fair enough that it was a manky old yeah yeah really pleased with that yeah yeah it's great it looks nice and it works yeah lovely and warm lots of water yeah and surprisingly compared to england yes quite cheap it was cheap wasn't it yeah it was cheap it was a really good buy this because i think in total it came to uh it was it was like 11 million euros yeah but that's like shower base making the base all the tiles the water job thingy shower whatever and the surround and this surround stays really clean doesn't it so there's obviously something on the glass yeah yeah i'm really pleased with that for weeks on end yeah yeah and it's i think it's one and a half meters by 1.2 or 1.8 so it's quite a big shower it's nice and uh yeah i think that shower base it was only like 80 quid yeah and it's composite so really pleased with that certainly the wall needs cleaning i did clean it after i finished doing the bathroom is that why you're doing the here oh blinding yes i i did i did use the multi-tool on that at the time yeah i did so yeah this is and i just didn't have time to kill it again afterwards this is where we're up to at the moment with this area rob put new plasterboard on and uh i was hoping somebody would have put the tiles away on because i went back to england for a couple of days to go back to work and i'll come back and look that's your mirror that's look look at it yeah that's right my time contribution i've put that uh mirror up entirely on my own blimey that's good yeah anyway um so yeah yeah so that's next job sink out and tie all that and yeah it is could you move across it's just a shame that these showers showers yeah they're silverish but not when they're next to each other are they when they're in there they don't look too bad but they're nice and shiny so they'll clean up well yes but it's just they were the closest we could get so i'm just gonna have to live with the disappointment because there's worse things than that in the world very good there you go so all right there here's some old footage of this bedroom if you haven't seen our previous video we recently took down this ceiling and replaced all the beams to make the floor upstairs level bedroom number two um which we which you did a lot did a lot of work and um so that was in our the video that we filmed in february um all we've done in here is just put the furniture back in now made the wardrobe that spider man oh yes made mended the wardrobe that's lovely and i even wiped the um plaster a bit off it so that's a bonus and um we are going to put up the lovely prints on that wall and we've just got two of them up there at the moment because there were just two two random nails that were left so we have got to do quite a lot of work in here haven't we so yes we've got to make good around the edges of the roof haven't we yeah another aircon unit oh yes yeah which is fine because they heat as well as they do that's cool so even in the winter you can put it on as a fan heater yeah it was really good in the winter wasn't it because yeah it was a casualty of uh taking the roof down or the that's right well that's because it was so difficult wasn't it because you just had to you couldn't carry all the rubble down the stairs so you just had to drop it yeah onto the floor here so uh now only on suite bathroom as the other one is no longer this is featured in videos where we had to re-plumb the sink and had a big leak and mismatched tiles but i've never really noticed because they're down there do you know well i mean i've said this before so sorry if i am repeating myself these you like them didn't you i know i like these ones that are on the back and i just want those i think they are lovely i think they're lovely i think they're horrid what a shame that they're not all like that but then i'm i'm resigning myself you need to get a bit further back with me i'm resigning myself to the fact that at least they are there now in here so you've got the bidet which is lovely and useful and that's the old water heater that's yeah which which still works doesn't it yeah it's so for washing up and stuff like that it's very good yeah and all this pipe work was exposed to when we uh yeah when we moved in i'm probably guessing they must have had a leak in here somewhere and they couldn't find it yes it's sort of like we haven't done anything in here but then as you just said you did do something in here because that link took quite a lot of mending yeah it was a right pain yeah i want to have a better world yeah took quite a long time but it's been brilliant because it hasn't leaked since then no it's all done all fixed oh we put a light in flipping heck how could we forget that because there never used to be a light in there that is good well the only light was that yeah i mean that's a bonus and that still works actually yeah yeah because that's probably older than i am so this is the kitchen or this is this side of the kitchen uh which we're pleased with that one come on lovely tiny who did that blimey i bet that cost bloke who does that cost loads to do oh yes are you are you hiring yourself out no actually someone did ask someone did ask if yeah so that's it then maybe that's the answer yeah come up and come and work over here as a toiler yeah the curtains um but we haven't done anything with the floor yet no so got the nice little shelf a lady in the village has asked if i'll go and mend a roof hasn't she yes she has and i said i'll tell her she hasn't got enough money to pay me to get on the roof yes why is well i'm not that bothered it's just yeah i don't really need to be climbing up a three-story building on a set of step ladders yeah i did yeah so those are the little shelves um i did those so that's good yes eggs for tea now here then is the kitchen look at this isn't that lovely that's horrendous we don't even want to touch it anyway that's got dusty from last time so look at those tiles that's the sink so one day we will tile this floor it's a bit wet today because i've just been washing up okay these are our lovely cupboards those are the cupboards or the cupboard okay nice little little window very good so moving around then it's not looking quite so nice over this side so um so we've got the hi-fi cabinet and okay so we're not really going to talk about that because you know it was never meant to be work hard it's just somewhere to put the microwave what do you like yeah because because you can't get microwave brackets that you can fix the wall can you i didn't quite frankly darling i was trying to avoid giving you another job yeah anyway so i have to carry that from somebody else's house that was a big enough job talking about jobs it's not really good news here because this was a major job that's still the um this was a major job plastering with line plaster oh dear it hasn't worked it hasn't worked no well we don't know what's the other side of the wall doing that's the annoying thing we don't so um that's really disappointing isn't it because we did quite a lot of research with and it took quite a lot of time didn't it yeah and everything was pointing to you line plastic you you know it's breathable but i just don't know i don't know what's causing it it's not like we've painted over it with we've not painted it we're not painted it at all have we just did it and left it didn't we and then um it was okay to start with but then when we came back in february it was like that so if anybody can give us some advice about that why it might have gone wrong yeah what we can do yeah what to treat the walls with on an old spanish house yeah i mean thank you we did have some we did have some comments before and some of those did say about using line plaster i don't know should we just get some of that plastic paint that all the villages use i don't know no so please tell us better still come around and do it yeah yeah you're very welcome yeah make you a nice dinner yeah stay in the loft okay right then in the loft so the floor was the major renovation yeah nice and flat and smooth so yeah yeah so certainly changed the usability of the room hasn't it so it has yes it has this is great that's like really it's like it's a good start isn't it yeah yes but actually when we come back here in the summer one of the first things i want to do is fill in the little tiny holes that there are so the loft is great isn't it the loft is fine because when we bought the house the builder actually took off every single tile on the roof and relayed them so the roof is absolutely perfect there are no leaks at all so that is great no leaks at all one day it would be very nice to plaster in between the beams yeah you want to fill in between here don't you which is yeah and that'll stop any bits falling through yeah because and yeah bits fall through when it's windy little tiny bits so that is a thing this is actually off the original bamboo isn't it yeah it is and then this wall here do you think i would be able to plaster this now i'm not talking about smooth perfect uk style plastering i'm just talking about a covering because i thought if i did that that would fill any of the little holes because when it's dark and there's no light on you can see can you yeah you can all right okay you can see little tiny pinpricks of light in a few places and i just think even if it's an ant a little creature could get through there okay oh yeah been done on that wall yeah there's no reason why not it can't be done on that wall and some people might think oh that wall would look lovely if you pointed it um like i've seen some people do it were in um european house restoration videos but i think that would be so difficult so difficult to get there i think that's a block that is too big well it's the wrong sort of brick isn't it so yeah i didn't know that anyway personally i know you don't want to i'd quite like to paint that just white no that is exactly what i do want to do is it yes it is why do you think i wouldn't want to i don't know because well that was because i think if we are going to do this pointing it thingy yeah what like this no not like that at all all right well that put yeah well you can't do it on there exactly i think that is the only wall you could realistically do it on i don't think well you're not going to be able to why because you'd have to chip all this yeah old stuff off it's a massive job to do on don't think well well this is what i'm saying hang on let's open this window a bit now we're not looking directly at the thing is i just think that is the only wall you could realistically do that on because you couldn't do it on this wall and i would just said that all so are you thinking we should plus this wall just paint it i'll paint it okay that's good then that's not the most horrendous job in the universe so we could well it would look it's going to be quite difficult yes it is yeah yeah and as i say not impossible probably be easier to do it with a sprayer than um oh yeah that's a good idea but they also have paint brushes over here i don't know what they can you describe them i don't know you'll have to look for a picture okay so and then there is next door next door right let's have a look we haven't done anything in here we have a bed apart from dump loads of stuff in it yeah we've got loads of stuff in here and um yeah we haven't got any plans to do anything with this at the moment no so let's carry on the good thing about this little area is it's got light hasn't it yes so this is a really really useful storage area yeah it currently is full up of stuff that we've used the renovations yeah spare tiles yeah tire cutter yep yep okay right take a deep breath then viewers lovely viewers take a deep breath you know just be with us here um do we need a torch no you can see perfectly in the pitch black right i am i am going to say now then i'm not really looking forward to this well there's nothing in here well you say that but it's been completely shut up not really for um two years yeah so one day someone not as for this certainly not for the next year no no it's weird out the window yeah i think it's chucking it down isn't it the weather is so changeable at the moment anyway i'll just move back over here so yeah so um yeah it's weird the floor's like earth yeah but it's got loads and loads of twigs in it so and it's all different levels so who knows who knows it would be a great project for somebody to turn it into like a guest a guest suite or something like that there is water isn't there yes there's water and electricity well there's electricity there's cold water and there's who knows who knows indeed many other jobs in the pipeline before that yes going outside then here you can see the new roof which replaced the metal roof that got really hot in summer we also asked the builder to plaster this wall with the two windows so it was smooth enough to fit the aircon units as a bonus we had to make a tiny patio to put his ladders on this is what the outside area was like when we bought the house here you can see we've painted the house and the garage let's now go back inside to the kitchen diner so this is the kitchen diner how it is at the moment and how it was when we bought the house so in here what we've done is put the shelves up have a closer look at those in a minute i painted this pattern on the wall which i'm absolutely sick of by now really yeah i can't i don't like it yet i don't like how it's so bright yellow i think if it was if it was a bit more subtle i don't know i might have to do something about that but it's another one of those um totally inessential jobs okay so um from out of god they are indeed so thank you so much to everyone who has given us these we are very very grateful members of family can we just point out yeah not log you know people have knocked on the door and anyway aunties thank you very much yeah you know who you are um so we have a choice today i'm goody let's briefly see this another time this one hang on a minute oh god i want to sit down okay so we have this one yeah that's very lovely yeah that's one but the thing is when you look at it i know when when you look at it on this on the screen um it's like a lot of white so could we have the flowers please on the table how well that's going to cheek because that's in a green glass well don't worry about that flowers on table yes come on chop chop chop chop what do you say flowers i'll put the flowers on and that is the end of our house tour well um i think we can just sit and relax now luckily we are both a type the type of people who like to keep busy anyway more about the house so what do you think was it what you were expecting what would you have done differently where would you have started what would have been your priorities it would be really interesting to know it would yeah it really would and also to know where do we go from here obviously we've got our own thoughts we'd like to know your suggestions okay so thank you so much for watching and thank you for your support in our journey so far it's been amazing for us it's been it's been amazing so um thank you very much we're now gonna have beer o'clock beer o'clock somebody said we've got to go walk yeah you know we've got to go for a walk we always end our videos with a walk because we love walking so much so here we go get changed go for a walk wish you all the best