My Old House Pt 1 - Hidden Windows & Sawzall Action!

[rhblakeman]

We bought a '52 house here, bathroom was like a closet with no window but I knew there was one outside. Idiot contractor put plywood inside over the window after taping an old shower curtain onto glass (for looks outside I guess) then drywalled over. I pulled the drywall, plywood and window then framed out a bit more and put a glass block window in with a 16x8 hopper window and it's waterproof and lets nice southern sun into the room and no curtain needed with the frosted blocks.

[Boomdoggles]

thats totaly a stanley knife

[AsthmaticBat]

That is clearly a bungalow, not a colonial!!! Are you simple?

[stefann1989]

small walls. at the countryside, i have walls that are like 50cm thick :/

[CaptCaboose1]

Sweet! I have windows!

[BrianJunglist]

lol this is like a dj version of flip a house lol

your hosue looks awsome tho :D

[iulixxx]

heey! the house is not old,it's a house not a car

[dj99surf]

I love sawzalls. Those mothers can cut through thick nails!

[jordanretros]

WE WANT MORE VIDEOS!!!!!!! LOL... Please...

[DjZix]

yep... Here in So. California I have read reports of drug dealers drywalling over all the windows of brand new homes.

Good luck with your new home. Let the light shine in.

PnJ

[ellaskins]

BRI the D.I.Y!! nice job! j

[djadsellman]

aha nice vid bri

[mdc017]

are you sure it wasn't a grow house?

[TaterSalad24]

Did someone say BUTTER?

[ProAudioFanatic]

How bout i break in, and re-plaster those windows again? (rebar and concrete, rebar and concrete)

[billleethekid]

your quite the handy man! good luck with the new house!

[DjKiba]

REPENT THE WINDOWS ARE CURSED AAAHHHH!!!!!

just kidding

who plasters/dry walls over windows?? O.o

i mean really??

[scionique2005]

Brian Good luck with your new/old house :). I Know the crap that comes with old homes.

[FunkyRob]

Really bizarre that the old owner would do that.

I'd like to see the outside of those windows

When I removed a wall at my house years ago I found a half empty 5th of jack daniels.

[RockTheHouse4]

brian Vila! nice wood floor in the foyer!

[adonist7]

Bah, i pretty much work in windows and doors, so we could have hooked you up with some nice prices!

its not too hard to do on your own

if you buy yourself a window, message me, and ill tell you how to put it in (if you dont kow how)

[djgrumpy619]

who ever remodel that house and but driewall over the windows thats the stupides and lazyy peaople who ever did that they didtn know what in the world they were doing but good job brian

[jearley2424]

Well my friend enjoying watching all the things we talked about when you were over. Wish i was there to help mate, as im very KEEN to do some home improvements, place is MASSIVE! great fun good luck!!!!!

[briansredd]

Oh yes, it's Massive, but not lovely or propper yet. HA!

Tell Wendy & the kids I say hello and see you in Vegas!

[Djfritzer]

haha i wana meet the idiot that dry walled over the window and just point and laugh!

[MagikGimp]

You could put a nice stained glass window in there, I mean nothing ridiculous but just a simple design with a flowery pattern down the middle for example. The window overlooks your neighbo(u)r's (I'm British) so a stained glass job (with translucent parts where there's no colo(u)r) would still let the light through but would stop anyone looking in. That would be my guess as to why it was blocked in the first place.

[briansredd]

Yeah I'm with you on that one. There are several old homes in the area with stained glass pannels in these types of windows. I'd like to find some old stained glass windows from a archetetual salvage yard. They may bust my budget, though (VERY expensive when you can find them).

Later in this series, I may try something that is a bit of a compromise.

[MagikGimp]

Over here you can get new stained glass (so you can still have it triple glazed etc.), it's just obviously done in a factory rather than by hand as you'd find in churches and old houses. It still uses the same principle of each pane being lead-lined or whatever the more modern equivalent is but each pane is usually only one colour rather than a pattern or picture. You can't post links on YouTube but you might get an idea if you do a Google image search for "conservatories stained glass" (page 2)

[thestig888]

at 1:09 over here in the UK we call that cutter a safety knife or Stanley knife (mainly cos they were made by a company called Stanley) dunno if they distribute in America though

[briansredd]

Oh yeah, Stanley is an American company :)

[djfrankis]

who is that at 3:41 ?

[briansredd]

My girlfriend's son

[SonicOrbStudios]

...now that I think about it, I wonder what else they covered up. Have you gotten the house inspected?...probably not, because it would not pass with those covered windows...

You really should have it looked over well to make sure electrical and everything is good, don't want the house burning down.

[briansredd]

Most of my friends are in construction & I took then thru the place before I bought.

Also, Long, Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I use to inspect, assess, and apprase property :)

[briansredd]

Thoes windows were covered up in 1971 (there was a board in one of the windows with a date written on it).

I think the plan was to side over the window holes eventually, but didn't want a plywood patch on the outside in the mean time so just left them in place.

[SonicOrbStudios]

LOL, I've worked on a ton of houses however I have NEVER seen anyone cover up a window...

[djmarkcotter]

omg how do you afford a house on a mobile DJ budget,,, i don't get it

[briansredd]

You haven't been watching the videos, have you? HA! I work ALL the time :)

[djmarkcotter]

i know buddy :) ive been thinking about my videos lately and if clients see them, i link them to my web site, but i think people are prejudice against me. ill have to try going back to the audio DEMO cd that i used and see how that works. IVE BEEN AT THIS BUSINESS FOR 10 YEARS NOW AND ITS NEVER BEEN THIS BAD. i can't get a gig to save my life :-P

[rushentertainment]

I have never seen some one dry wall over a window i guess there is a first for everything. Cool video tho

[TommyTurntables]

drywalling over windows.....classic! And plaster can sure eat up a blade quick! ;-)

[jordanretros]

thats crazy stuff. maybe the house was haunted??? thats why they dry walled all the windows so the light wouldnt come in....?

[briansredd]

If I had to guess, they sealed them up because they didn't want to look at the ugly house next door (the one I'm renting now.. HA!)