You really are restoring this old girl from the ground up! Great job! BTW that door looks amazing!

The sash pulleys are works of art! It's so cool that you took the time to clean them up. You are sending love and appreciation back in time to everyone who had a hand in creating your house. ❤️

I love that even the smallest details must be done correctly for the benefit of the building. You are amazing! You treat this old lady with so much care, she will be beautiful once again with all your work!!!

It must be so gratifying when you step back and see how far you’ve come in this adventure! Well done. You’re a good man.

To get rid of the dry-lock and the remaining cement you may want to look into a media blaster. Not sand because sand may be too abrasive for the stone. Media blasting uses crushed and ground walnut shells instead of sand. Unfortunately it's not cheap. Good luck and Thank you for another installment of this lovely video series! See you in the next one!

You did a wonderful job on the wall. It looks terrific! You're making great progress, Kaleb😊👍

You are so talented in all you do. The wall is beautiful.

It always blows my mind how much you research and know about every project you share. Amazing job, as always. P.S. wow, that black & white look on the kitchen door is gorgeous!!

To remove the soot, you can use an abrasive blast. Obviously, use walnut shells, NOT sand or coal slag which can damage and erode the brick and stone. Also, do all your pointing and structural repairs before blasting. You can also try a mild muriatic acid solution and a pressure washer. Again, do all the repair work first so you don't drive moisture into the cracks or dislodge stones. Muriatic acid is what masons use on new brickwork to remove the mortar haze. I would start with the least aggressive approach first. In fact, a spray bottle with white vinegar might do the trick, as will mother nature in time.

It's so amazing to see this house going back to its full glory and how even a part of wall that gets restored just makes a huge difference. I hope you'll find that steam pressure washer soon. :)

If you can source it, soda blasting might help to clean off the stonework; less abrasive than sand blasting.

Your Wall looks great! The window plates are beautiful! Great job Caleb.❤

The new pointing looks great. It really makes a big difference.

You’re doing an amazing job restoring that place, dude. Keep it up.

Just turned in my final paper for my master's degree, and I can't think of a better way to relax than watching this video!

I like the way that you did the mortar on the stone wall. It looks really good!

It's nice that you took care of the foundation, because these gaps are terrible. This house is lucky to have such a caring new owner!

the way you have pointed the wall looks very professional and original to the time period the house was built. You are doing a great job.

Is there no end to Kaleb's talents and artistry!!! I was mesmerized by this whole video!! Simply Awesome ❤👍😃

I look forward to your videos. You are doing a great job. I love buildings that tell a story. I go in, imagine the lives that lived there. Than you for sharing your journey and adding your story to that beautiful home

Great transformation!! Can’t wait to see the front door and entrance looking good again x

I admire your restoration skills! On other videos I've learned of the evils of modern cement on stone walls, and you handle the lime mortar very well. I do hope someday you'll improve the security of that door to prevent entering the house by simply breaking the glass window.

That Dry Lock stuff would be the perfect use for a volunteer day. Get people to go around just picking off the loose bits so at least that part's done. If they can go deeper great, but if not, at least some of the easy stuff is done. Who knows, you might not be able to get it all off, but if you can get it off from where the stones need to be pointed, it'd make a great way to kill a lot of the finicky work and get the foundation sealed up.

I'm a miniaturist and dollhouse collector, and I tell you MY JAW DROPPED when the puzzle was revealed to be miniature furniture!! *YOU NOW HAVE COMPETITION IN COLLECTING THESE* LOL, no, I'd send them to you. 😅 Fun video as always

Great job on the exterior walls. Saw a wood ant go into the hole near the first step out of the basement. FYI - There is some liquid stuff that is contained in a small package that attacks ants and the dogs are not attracted to it since it is contained. Love the pullies - So beautiful and intricate too.

I really like the way you did the mortar, leaving the stones a little proud gives the wall so much more texture and depth. Very attractive! Your door is gorgeous!

You make anything look so much better. The wall looks so good.

What cute doll house puzzle furniture. Watching your videos is always a pleasure. Your work is well documented and well done.❤

That drylot looks like a nightmare. All you can do is pick at it every time you can't decide what to do next. Good luck, I've enjoyed watching your progress. Thank you.

That wall looks so good. You have brought it back to life. Great job.

Awesome video as usual! A continued compliment to you on your restoration authenticity. Using the proper mortar and putting things back to the way it was is so refreshing to see when 99% of contractors/diyers screw it up royally. Your stone work repair looks like it was always that way.

Awesome job Kaleb. The wall is beautiful. The whole house is going to be stunning ❤

The stone work looks really nice😊

Watching you do what you do is five miles beyond amazing. Enjoyable.

Fantastic work as always! I wonder what keeps rainwater from running down the stairs and seeping under your beautiful basement door?

That looks pretty amazing... what a wonderful job. Those pulleys are pretty.

The vertical blocks also highlight the door

The wall looks phenomenal, Kaleb!! Amazing job!! The puzzles are super cute & so special!! ♥️

The hot water pressure washer is rentable in your area. You need to buy low pressure tips. So instead of 4,000 psi, you can get a tip that is 300 psi.

Caleb, I just can't believe how well your both doing with the amount of subscribers that you've now got within basically a rather short amount of time. Having been a subscriber from the very beginning I can recall just how nervous but excited you were about the house and the amount of work that you needed to do. As for someone who had never restored a old house previously its absolutely stunning and fantastic to see just how much you have grown and how much research you do when it comes to a job you've never done before, prime example is the lime plaster and the lime render. Talking of the lime render, you really have done a excellent job with the pointing of the stonework area around the basement, the only area's of concern is the larger stone's that have actually cracked all the way from one side to the other. This from my experience with lime render and the stonework, I have in the past found that when it rains the water would run down the face of the stone and creep into the cracks and either sit there doing more damage to the stone's and the best way I found to fix this was to take the stone's out of the wall and basically make the stone into two of three stone's where the cracks were and then relaid them back inplace of the walling. As for the stonework that's covered in the waterproofing material Drylock have you tried to use a wire wheel or wire cup attachments that go onto your drill ??, I've used these attachments previously to help remove paint and sealants plus ingrained marks on the stonework and found that they worked really good, but be warned if you press on too hard not only will it clean the stonework but can actually damage the stone's if there of a softer nature like sandstone. Good luck with the stonework I've every confidence in you and your abilities. As always guy's 💯% 👍 🇬🇧. P.s Those sash pullies for your friend's windows have turned out absolutely amazing, you've done a wonderful job in restoring them back to their original looks and that design is awesome!!!

The wall looks great. I'm not sure I could have done that good of a job. And those puzzles are adorable. Little by little she's coming back together.

Looks great Kaleb! Those puzzles are awesome.

That is fussy work Caleb and tedious. You knocked it out of the park! Loved the antiques!

You're doing a great job, that wall is nice.

Puzzles and pulleys and pointing, OH MY!!

The wall looks amazing

Kaleb, Great Job! I have collected miniature furniture over the years so I really like the puzzles, they are really cute! C.S. Brown's book tag is awesome. I like his sense of humor in something that I am sure took very seriously.

Welcome back. And thank y ou for sharing t he puzzles. My jaw dropped. Not only are they really sweet little puzzles, but that they are part of the history of the house and still extant is just amazing!

This is amazing. It looks like brand new.

We are so excited to see the windows put back in! Matt and I are ever impressed at the care and detail you put in to everything.

Your wall looks great!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I think the little wobbly pice you put up as another table plate should be a book

Being an artist definitely has it's advantages. It truly shows.

Your attention to detail is a rare gift.

Looking good as always, I hope you and Kim are doing well. Always look forward to new videos. Yall have a great week .❤

Pointing tool. One of the most useful inventions ever.

I cannot believe the detail and care you take with things I would never think of! That stone wall looks beautiful

You should rebuild that little fence to make it the way it used to be

Oh wow! I didn’t really realize what you were doing at first,but that wall looks amazing!!

That wall looks amazing! While protecting the exposed limestone, could you use a sandblaster on the dryloc?

I am looking to the future when you have this beauty fully restored

The historic district in Colorado Springs Colorado is amazing and you all would LOVE that place. It's all Victorian and the city keeps watch over owners to make sure those houses stay true. Very strict rules and limits on what residents can do to their house. Like the historic office of the city is the HOA. CHRISTMAS IS MAGIC in that neighborhood. I take my children there all the time.

The stonework looks great! Enjoyed.

I love those puzzles. It’s amazing how all of that fits into that small box. I can’t blame you one bit wanting to collect them. I know I would. The stone wall you worked on looks sooo good. Takes time n patience for something like that. So sad about the other area by the basement. Definitely have your work cut out for you. Oh, about using that D2. I’ve seen it do amazing work on headstones. It takes a little time but each day it gets better n you can use over again if not pleased at first time using. It’s kind expensive as I’ve heard but definitely worth it. Caleb, your hard work is showing much progress. ♥️😊👍👍🌟🌟🌟

Well the dollhouse furniture puzzle is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

The details are spot on! I love the updated look 😍

So fun to watch you 'tucking the stones in', lol! That section of wall looks great. Such an improvement! Those Eastlake window pulleys are wonderful...another reminder that function and beauty are not mutually exclusive. San Diego Hardware here has been around since 1892, although sadly they had to vacate the location they occupied since 1922, with the tin ceilings, etc. and move to a modern building. It's one of the places to find quality reproductions of vintage hardware. Those puzzles are great! I still have my parents' (they each had a set as children, in the early 1930s) Monopoly games, with the pieces (train engine, iron, etc.) cut from wood. I think that second large flat piece, and the two long ones ( missing from the first set) make a bed.

Those are cool! You are going to have a gem of a house when you are finished. You will be quite the craftsman!

One of the puzzle pieces is a large open book/ledger that goes on top of the table. The little "ottomans" are side benches at the same table. Display borrow book ban notice and souvenir puzzles in your library. Just my thoughts today watching wonderful video! Keep on keeping on!

Really enjoyed the old photo of the family outside the house! 😊

Good to see you again! Stay encouraged. you will win the battle!

You make it look so easy but I know the time you've put in to learn. Way to go!

Looks awesome Caleb!❤️

Fantastic job. The timelines for your mortar improving over time is great information. Seeing you are trying to do the best for your old beauty you might like to know that the improvement in the beginning with water curing is fast and progressively slows down. But you can still get added strength by extending the time that you keep your misting up. I recommend adding two weeks to a month if you can coordinate it. I was actually excited to see how dry your mortar is. Adding too much water is the fastest way to degrade the life of your work. Dry work and consolidating your grout lines takes much more time and effort but will give a far superior result. You need enough water to perform the chemical reaction but any more and you will be replacing solid material with water that will dry out and leave you with less dense and weaker grout. After you pack your dry grout in and it is as tight a grout as you can place, misting water at that point just keeps the chemical reaction going. This is true for concrete also. You probably know this but since it is the most common mistake it would be great for your audience to know.

Amazing transformation. Great Job!!!🥰

Your love of this house is so evident !

That wall looks fantastic! And oh boy do I hate Drylok too. It's meant for the interior of clean cinderblock basement walls, but cinderblock walls are also porous and will always let water in from the outside. So all it does is trap moisture in the blocks and eventually it fails.

Your work is so well done and well researched. The house is looking more beautiful in each video.🌸

That must be so satisfying

Adore those wonderful puzzles, the ingenuity of the maker is incredible. I find it hard enough to visualise 2d let alone 3d. They would give me endless pleasure to look at and handle.

Awesome

Looking closely at the picture you provided with the fence, I realized what the objects in all the windows were. I remember asking you in the first year about the widow’s walk and my curiosity about the objects. They are flags.

Nice pointing work on the wall, I hope to do my foundation too someday soon..I also bought abatron to repair some wood rot. Learning curve ahead, any pointers(pun intended) are welcome🙂

Wall looks amazing Kaleb! I’ve learned so much from you in the past 2 years or so. It seems there is no challenge you won’t learn about and tackle.

Wall looks fantastic! Reminds me of the foundation walls in the apartment building I lived in as a very young child in NYC.

For fellow victorian house lovers I just came across the Albert H. Beach house in Escondido and I highly recommend checking out pictures of that place if you love a beautiful crazy ornate house. The wallpaper is definitely not for everyone but I can near guarantee you’ve never seen anything quite like it. I’m personally obsessed with every single detail of it and I hope some of you appreciate it too

Pointing looks so beautiful!

So proud of you!!!!

Thank you for another wonderful video Caleb! Enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend!

A very useful tool can be made by cutting down a conventional pointing knife (can't recall the proper name) to about 3". I have found this super useful for short vertical fills between bricks.

You can lift the paint all of your ware very easily. Get an old crackpot from the thrift store. Put your hardware in the pot and fill with boiling and turn the crackpot on high. The paint will soften. Once the paint is soft plung the hot hardware in a bucket of icewater. The paint lifts right off.

Excellent work Kaleb, and the furniture puzzles are cute and fun.

" The birds are chirping here in St. Louis" Well except for the St. Louis Cardinals, they are just choking. You might consider painting that wire pipe near the back door. it sticks out like a sore thumb with its shiny silver look

As always a fantastic job😊

Excellent video as always Kaleb. The quality of work you have achieved on the stonework is really top notch. The style that you've gone with, highlighting the stones rather than the mortar, is the more traditional approach here in the UK. Like you, I too prefer the finished look better too. That nasty material you are working to remove is really horrible and as you demonstrated, should never have been put on in the first place. I'm sure over time, like the carbon deposits, you will eventually get rid of as much as you possibly can. How cool to find both the little library card and the second unique band saw puzzle. I totally agree about the cards for the library books. "Borrowed books do not return themselves!!" That is SO true. As you are creating a library of items of Charles S Brown yourself, while I wouldn't suggest you want to stick labels on any of the items it might be a good idea to have notices on the display cabinets politely reminding visitors to kindly leave items where they find them!! Great Upbeat Video - as I said. Thank you as always, Steve in Manchester [regrettably Noggin died late on Sunday Night/early Monday morning].

Good morning from Bucks County Pennsylvania

Hey Caleb, do you know if those steel tie plates on the outside can be turned? The one diamond one that’s turned with some covering the brick and stone is making my OCD go crazy. They look pretty rusted but would look great all aligned and re-blued or painted black!

Will you tuck point the space inbetween the door frame and the wall? Or does something else go in there? Love your work!

Really enjoyed the photo and history of the stone on your Beautiful Girl, thank you.

Great job on the re pointing of the stone's, looking so much better, its a time consuming process but will be worth it in the end 😊😊😊😊