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This is increasingly becoming a series about building a new house in a place where there's already an old house, but without ever going through a stage when there's no house. :D

Graveyard, mummified cat, ghostly handprints ... I can't wait to see what further mysteries this house is hiding ;)

I was once discussing buying an investment property with an older, wiser friend. "You know what is the best way to renovate a 100 year old house?" he said. "With an excavator!"

"Buy an old house" they said, "It'll be fun" they said...😂 Good stuff

One of the greatest maker minds there is renovating a house to better standards than todays builds👌

I really appreciate this series. Practical solutions in the messy real world of a old houses. Way worse shape than my 120 y/o rowhouse, but lessons all the same

Every youtube channel eventually becomes a home renovation channel

Haha there are definitely some local mischievous kids exploring that place when you're gone! Loving this series, that dry stack stone looks mint

As hard as this kind of work is, I also feel its some of the most satisfying....preserving rather than destroying. (Also, I really love seeing Ken's stonework)

I am a professionally trained Mason. I would dig down below the floor in the basement. Over multiple stages eliminating the rubble foundation

I love that the chandelier in the "apartment" still has a price tag on it!

Love watching your devious mind at work. You should admit, you bought the house, cause you had the beam. So fun. Thanks

I see so many old houses rotting away wishing I had the time, money, and resources to restore them! I love this

As a civil engineer (with a specialty in old houses and buildings) I'm happy to finally see a video with no mistake and a lot of good sense ! I've seen a lot of videos on KZfaq with some guys doing everything wrong, telling you "Yeah, you gotta do this and that !" with a lot of confidence and pouring concrete and cement everywhere to just have a beautiful video but man... their house will fall into pieces in the next couple of years...

Hope Jimmy’s health is good.

This reminds me of Laura’s house. Lots of big structural work with a great payoff. Also, I’m really looking forward to the gravestone and graveyard restoration.

This takes me back to when “This Old House” had a presenter that still demonstrated their tradecraft while leaving room for trial & error … TOH just feels like segmented infomercials for the past several decades and hard to watch… really enjoying how this story is being told and edited😊

Man, you are doing it right Jimmy. The gravel looks like #57 in size. You never know what you're going to get when you start bringing these old houses back to life ... once you start peeling back the layers, you could run into absolutely anything ... no standards of construction until reletively recently. Good stuff, man, love it!

Man, that thing was rotten badly. Ultimately, you made the right choice in demolishing the unsavable stuff.

I'm enjoying this series. I think the big swings you're taking up front are really going to pay off in the end.

Listening to Jimmy talk about ladder safety brings back memories. Back in the 80's when I was still working as a journeyman painter on commercial and residential projects, we used what we referred to as a 4' painter's ladder. This was a lightweight wooden ladder with a rope or a thin chain holding the two sides together, and no locking mechanism. These ladders were built to be moved quickly and effortlessly as the painter would work his way around a room cutting in the uppers. You could hold on to your cut pot with one hand, pick the ladder up with the other, and the two sides would close allowing you to quickly and easily swing it over to your next move. But they eventually outlawed these ladders because carpenters, plumbers, laborers and other tradesmen on the job would use them for things other than what they were designed for, and hurt themselves in the process. This lightweight ladder was designed for someone using a two or three inch paint brush and not applying any amount of force or torque. But laborers would "borrow" them from us and use them to demo walls, and the ladders would slip shut and collapse on them. Anyway, our very convenient painter's ladders were eventually outlawed and replaced (for "safety" reasons) with OSHA approved boat anchors that weighed more than twice as much, and required two hands to open and close, making our jobs harder and more time consuming, but not any safer. Progress.

A lot of work ahead of you Jimmy, but you have a great team helping you. I’m sure this will look wonderful when it is completed.

Good work Jimmy. There is nothing like taking a house back to bare it's bare bones and rebuilding it to something solid. I have done it here in the UK. Once finished, which will take a while and a lot of hard work, it is not only extremely satisfying, but also knowing that it will last solidly for many years means everything for those who care.

Nothing better than a sunday afternoon Jimmy DiResta video👌

I’d just burn it and start over

I'm quite a bit younger and have about a quarter of your energy. You're a wizard Jimmy.

A really big challenge this time ! A long term project. Good luck for all this stuff ! And take it easy, step by step. Don't focus on the final target and the projet duration. And take breaks when necessary.

This is super awesome Jimmy - thanks for taking us on this journey.

Love these big projects. You are never scared to get your hands dirty. Love your optimism and resolve. Can't wait for episode 4

Enjoying this series Uncle Jimmy, feels like your roots but with a twist!

Thank you for sharing this project look forward to seeing the progress

Very interesting. The old houses have an interesting history. When one sees its foundations and the materials from the time it was built.

This is amazing content I love old houses getting repaired the right way ❤

❤Super inspiring. Jimmy never met an obstacle too big! I’m surprised you’re not pulling down that addition and just rebuilding it.

Thanks Jimmy!!! Great series!!! ❤

I love watching stuff like this. Thank you for sharing your house process with us.

Man, hats off to you. That's an enormous job. Mad respect.

I have always loved old houses. I’ve worked on several that I’ve owned. I’m just mesmerized at how you’re addressing all the issues with this one.

More than pleasure to watch you working and explaining.

I do love the project and I do love the channel. The diversity of your projects is my favorite part of the channel

Takes a special guy to tackle rehabbing. Great that you have the resources to do it. One step forward and two back. Farmers often cut corners in building I have several situations where that occurred. All that collecting of stuff has come in handy???? LOL!

Really enjoying this 'Direstoration' series

This is the beginning of so much work. I can’t wait to see where it goes! Keep it up!!!

Thanks for bringing us along on this journey. This project is much more than just a renovation - it’s an education in what not to do in the first place, and how to deal with it going forward. 😃

I’m here for it! Love home renovations I learn so much and every Reno is different. Love the history of the buildings and the creativity rebuilding requires!

WOW! This puts a new meaning on "This Old House"! Great work Jimmy & best of luck going forward with that rebuild! I will be rooting for you! 👍👍🔨🔨

great update Jimmy, please keep posting more on this project, it's great to see. Hunter is such a pro, so precise with the digger!

Love, love, love that you are bringing this house back to life and I am also appreciative of your care with the mummified cat. Keep up the good work Jimmy!

Absolutely LOVING this Jimmy! Keep up the good work.

Poor cat. :( At least you have a graveyard handy that it could be put into. Those 'ghost' prints look more like raccoon or opossum tracks to me, but maybe there's a ghostly toddler crawling around lol.

Brilliant content, thanks Jimmy!! Very inspiring

Excited to see the progression! Great work!

I love this series. Thanks for keeping us updated. Jobs like this are ten times harder when trying to film and explain what’s going on.

Jimmy should call this the Graveyard House of Theseus series😁. Between Jimmy's reno series and OffTheRanch's resort reno I'm getting hit right in the 9 year old me's demolition feels. It's wonderful. I can't wait for the rebuilding phase.

So cool to see! It's nice to see the work going into such a cool house. And that view will be amazing.

Great to watch the progress!

I admire your efforts to preserve what you can. Most of us watching this know tearing it down and starting over would have been easier, cheaper and quicker. Sometimes even, despite good intentions and will, patience and decision making, you still might end up tearing it down but you will have learned so much and filming it teaches others so much. So thank you. And I hope your efforts in this case are rewarded and the spirits calmed by your care. (Those handprints are spooky!)

Those footprints, handprints and large stain is just old blood, don't worry about it.

Mike is jacked! It’s coming along great.

Wow, that is fascinating. Thank you!

WOW! Thanks for the look.

Really interesting series, I look forward to more episodes!

Good luck with your recovery. This is very interesting to watch! Thank you, go ahead and do everything according to history. ! I look forward to every episode

My house was built in 1925, It has diagonal 1X sheething with clapboards over that, although the garage has no sheething, just clapboards... That view is spectacular!

unreal work, Jimmy. Love it

Heck of a project you have there Sir. I know you will do what is right for the house and property.

This was great to watch, I enjoy how you walk through the steps and your ideas. Look forward to seeing the progress in the next video. Good stuff Jimmy. Stay positive, keep it real. Peace

Seriously! I just sat down with a coffee and half hour is gone! Woosh! Like a flash. Thanks Jimmy!

Always a new adventure and learning opportunity with an old house!

Thanks for the update Jimmy, you're always treading a line with an old property like this, wanting to keep as much original whilst replacing what either is shot or should never have been added in the first place ! Great work there, keep safe all of you !

Love these videos. Huge source of inspiration for me to get up and fix some things around the house!

This all looks so satisfying. Good work!

Really enjoy the tear down. It shows us the right way and the wrong way of building a structure. The view, is reason enough to work through all the problems. My old church had a sand stone foundation and cedar trees holding up floor joists. It was 154 years old. Stay safe.

Love the fact that you guys used a Halligan bar.

Wow! Huge job. Good luck.

Love watching this kind of stuff! Keep it up Jimmy.

What a killer project, Jimmy! I'm loving this content; keep up the great work!

Wowsers, quite an undertaking! Loving the content.

Man I love watching these videos of this old house. Look forward to the next one And at some point to the completion. Keep up the good work.

Very fun to watch! Keep up the good work.

Dang - he's flying through it. Nice work. Looks like a fun project.

Between you and Laura Kampf, I'm getting my fill of house rebuilds here on KZfaq 🥰🥰🥰

Wow. Ambitious! Amazing project Jimmy!

This was a great episode. The demo looks so much fun.

Foundations are key! Nice work!

I wish u a good luck. I spent 5 years on renovation of my house. Its a trap after trap and so on :) life is not easy, thats why we like it.

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while…..can’t wait for next episode.

Great job JD and crew

You are an amazing designer/fabricator/builder. I truly enjoy watching you work as you have some amazing skills.

Love it! This is gonna be a great property

Thanks for vetting Ravine Farm for me - I never knew they did excavarion. But their horse riding trails are excellent.

You are the man for this !!!

I love your description of the nastiness , of the previous repair attempts !!!

Awesome content, thanks man

thanks for the content, jim. very entertaining.

I love seeing the demo/build of this old house. You’re videos are so well narrated. I can watch this all day. Great video as usual. Can’t wait till the next episode! Thanks for sharing. With you we never know what video we will get. Construction, demolition, maker, build, leatherwork, sewing,Halloween props…..lol. Always great content!

The graveyard house is really becoming barebones , glad the cat was the only thing you found. I thought those walls and foundations may have held more secrets ! Amazing that it was standing, considering what was underneath.

FOR EVER FORWARD JIMMY , PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED ON PROGGRES 😮. ALL THE BEST FROM SCOTLAND 😊.

This is so epic, Jimmy. Wish I were there lending a hand! Love working on this stuff because it's truly interesting and works the old gray matter upstairs! Keep on, keepin' on!