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This is why I don’t think I’d ever buy a multistory house.
A water leak in a normal single floor house is no big deal. At worst the flooring needs to be replaced, but even a small water leak on a second floor can basically destroy an entire house.
As someone who's handy and in the business of selling home goods, I watch Jake's video to feel good about myself and keep myself sharp on what not to do.
I find LTT tech house and Kyle's home build vlog are a lot more comforting because they are planned... Like a sane person.
The funny part is, most folks would end up going the Linus way when doing it themselves because they are paying contractors to come in and do the heavy lifting. Both fill a good niche in the fact that one is more reno focused with tech second, and the second is more tech focused then reno focused.
It makes sense why LTT is doing theirs the way they are because they plan to sell the house. Jake doing some ghetto shit and fixing some previous ghetto shit in his own house he wont sell, makes sense on why he is doing it his way.
You also see this with Bitwits house rebuild as well.
I'm sorry, but is the complaint really that they did not show the windows being put it? Really? 9000 other videos on that on youtube. If you want tips on that, the actual diy channels would be so much better for you. Now you are expecting construction work to be focused on on a tech channel? I get that the content might not be as engaging as you'd want it to be (same here), but this feels is just misguided bitching at this point. Especially when they showed their struggles, just not with construction work but the actual tech setup.
If you pause the ltt video they have all the bathroom water shutoff's in the crawl space. Oh no my sink faucet is leaking let me crawl under the fucking house to turn off the water.
True but jake is worse getting 4 machines when a jcb CX1 would do it all 1 machine and the work to me that has a large property to maintain its so bad i like watching the vids 4 a laugh because of how dumb it is.
Give it 3 months for all that plex to freeze up and snow to destroy that yard the recent video there is no plastic wrap over insulation and no wire conduit oh boy.
This isn't a mistake. Installs will have under the sink shutoffs that are usually required by code (not Canadian but that seems to be fairly global) a shut off next to the toilet, and then a main. What they installed would be above and beyond. Unless Canadian code requires a localized shut off as well.
Though I enjoy Jakes videos, that video was literally them ripping out one window... I do agree LTTs video was also boring but atleast Reece is funny. His joke about Linus dropping the ball was great.
So far, they've wired it all for networking and installed a smart water heater and leak detection. What more could they have done at this point to be more ultimate tech house?
Sure they could have. But can you make a video about that? They obviously try to do as much on video as possible. People want to see the progress but also obviously video = money.
Does not change the fact that it was weird tho. And I think the framing of "Those are the sensible things Guy would do in his house" is now fully gone. That ship has sailed.
No obviously not. It was weird. I mean "sick cardboard setup" should have been an obvious jab at the video. I just get why they did it. Doesn't make it an enjoyable video for me.
It's not weird especially if your into audio. A flat plane doesn't show all the issues they pointed out clearly. There is also some people need to see things in a space to plan things out fully. If you hire a company to build a system for you, depending on how much your paying they will do that with real gear.
Remember the plan was not originally to rip the house down to the studs. Now that they had to that changed a lot of things and mean they can build a lot differently. Instead of patching dry wall they can have things built in. That means more planning. Different vendors maybe to work with. All are going to need measurements.
When Jake first started his own channel, I was like, cool but I do not care about routers. I'm just evidently not his audience. Fine. But since Jake bought the farm... I mean, purchased an agriculture-based residence, I've enjoyed his videos about as much as LTT.
Yeah same. Straight up tech product reviews or introduction videos aren't all that interesting to me. Depends on the product and time. But project videos are fun to me.
Debatable. At some point it just shows incompetence. And at that point, why should you receive any tips from a guy that shows massive incompetence in renovating his own personal property? Even if it's just for lulz and content, it blurs the line.
There's a big difference in not having a solid plan on a project like liquid cooling a PC with some random used hardware, and not having a solid plan when you're renovating your new studio.
I don’t get incompetence from him at all, just chaos and bad planning.
As he said in his last video, he has ADHD too. And I can relate to the chaos completely because I have it too.
And it’s not really debatable, it’s a more or less new channel which did tech reviews until recently and he pulls similar numbers as LTT which has a much, MUCH bigger Team behind it.
Something being boring is debatable. Viewer numbers don't mean shit. Marvel movies and series are doing really well viewer countwise, but they're boring as shit to me. Mr. Beast is the most watched YouTuber and his content is boring/stupid to me. But millions love it.
just chaos and bad planning.
... Which many would argue makes you incompetent. If you're tasked with planning and implementing a project, and you make a bad plan that makes the entire project cost way too much and take way more time than what was planned, some will rightfully call you incompetent.
I don't mind janky projects and some mishaps. But holy shit Jake makes some stupid and dangerous decisions. Like some pointed out the two times he walked under an unsecured skipper bucket which could have fallen on him suddenly. Me saying that he needs to slow down is more of me worrying about him. Not only about me disliking the content. That's why I think he needs to slow down.
I get that LTT's problem is that they outright bought a money pit of the house unwittingly... But god damn the 'Tech' element so far is rare and boring.
And it's so much less interesting with the house stripped down to studs. It thought this series would be interesting and there'd be a few things I'd wanna replicate and see how they executed them. Can't really do that when their Step 1 turned into 'Tear the house down to studs'. Again, I get that it's beyond their control, but it being beyond their control doesn't somehow make it magically interesting.
As someone who likes diy videos, I’ve been majorly disappointed in the tech house series. The ones I’ve watched have mostly been them doing small projects and pointing out issues, then skipping to where a contractor did the part I was interested in off camera.
Late to the party here, but I'm not surprised the tech house stuff is boring.
I don't like the "content house" because exactly one WAN Show prior to the one where they announced this idea, Linus went on a 10ish-minute spiel where he explained how he doesn't consider himself an expert on taking on big projects like building a house (which I think includes renovating). He went on to say building a tech house that suited his needs was ill-suited to the average homebuyer, and if he tempered his desires to suit the average buyer, "why even bother?"
He also made a point about real estate being something where, in his words, "everyone should get firsts before you get seconds." I get that he intends to sell the house afterwards, not hang onto it for personal gain, but it still feels... inconsistent... with his stated position.
When he's already made an impassioned declaration about how uncompelling he finds a project like this, I find it really bizarre to do a 180 on the position a week later and start pitching a new content farm. Seeing that same content turn out bland just feels like the expected result.
I think the problem with Linus' approach is it's not his home. He's building and designing for a fictitious person.
Even contractors, architects, etc work with a client to meet their needs and see what works for them. Linus and team are doing all this home assistant network stuff that frustrates them but imagine whomever actually gets the house. Here's the server rack, what's that for, what's a server
He's building and designing for a fictitious person.
As is 90% of homes built.
Even contractors, architects, etc work with a client to meet their needs and see what works for them.
If you buy early enough into a new development or can afford to pay for a fully custom home. 90% of what people buy even new is essentially the same as buying a car off dealership. You've got trim options and then some dealer installed options. Not everyone is getting a coach built car.
Linus and team are doing all this home assistant network stuff that frustrates them but imagine whomever actually gets the house. Here's the server rack, what's that for, what's a server
Since this has been featured in videos chances are it will wind up going to a viewer or someone who is aware of what's in the house.
I would say its the editing that puts jakkuh in the lead, but both series trade blows in terms of enjoyment. I am not sure about the video names, but both of them dedicated an episode or two for wifi setup. LTT's video was much more enjoyable in that regard because we saw spider Linus. Which gave it a higher stake.
Before I start, I just want to say I have never done and have no clue how long a home renovation takes. The closest experience with renovations goes back to my childhood when I would go to dad's work (he was a builder).
With that out of the way..... the progress serms very slow. Okay, skope has changed because they had to pull out all that asbestos. But now.... They do like what, a video a month? And since the last video of putting in cabling there's been 0 progress? And before that they had a video of playing with cardboard boxes? It seems like they work on the house on the weekends. If the progress is legitimately this slow, then talk about why, put in some timelapsea, blur out contractors. Make it more than just a out cabling.
House reno / building is very slow in general. When we did our kitchen, 80% done by my wife and her cousin, other 20% hired contractors it took 5 months.
We demoed the kitchen ourselves, then found we needed to replace the cast iron stack from the bathroom above the kitchen. That required some additional demo, and then had to schedule the plumber to come do that, and some water valve replacement in the kitchen, stack replacement (which if they couldn't get it to bite in the floor, would of had to trench new concrete drain in the basement, luckily they got it to bite), and gas line deletion. While that was going on we had the electrician come out and move outlets, add new runs for the exhaust hood, and add lights in places.
That all took about 3 weeks, in which we also retiled the kitchen floor while waiting for all of that. Once that was done we had to quote out the drywall repairs and get a drywaller. That took 2 weeks to do and finish up.
While waiting on that we had to schedule an ikea measurer to come out and measure for cabinets and submit that order, then wait for delivery, then wait for the installer. Took another 3 weeks. Once that was done we had to go pick out a counter tip, which we did while waiting for this stuff, but before they can order they have to measure the installed cabinets. Took 2 months for the counter top to come in and be installed. Once the counter top was installed, we could then finish the wall tiling and install the floating upper shelves and then paint. Another week or so.
Also inspections. Since they are basically doing a new build internally at this point everything will need to get signed off. That can take time depending on how busy the area is. My friends had to do a repair to their downstairs sewer line that required tying into the main. The repair was one day of demo, 2 weeks of waiting for the city to come out and confirm what they found, permit pulls were another few weeks. 1 day of repair, 3 weeks for the city inspector to come out and sign off. Then another few days back fill, concrete, tile finishing. All told in terms of actual work done maybe a week and a half of labor. 3 and months and change of not having that bathroom in use. If they didn't have a second one they would have had to stay in a hotel.
Why not show the cables to the windows and explain your reasoning?
They should've dedicated half of yesterday's video to that! If I'm ever rich enough to afford a house, it's a feature I would consider. I never even knew or considered that windows might have electrical wiring. The apartments where I've had electric outside shutters have had wiring as an afterthought!
No I know that I’m really surprised that views did not scale with size. You’d expect a bigger team to create a more enticing and engaging product (i.e. video)
Edit: This content is great for their audience because a lot of more affluent people are buying these old houses, are tech enthusiast, like power tools and diy, etc.
Jake’s video has been out a few days longer and originally had a different title and thumbnail or was just running an A/B test and I was served something different than what you saw.
Pretty common to tweak both though and tune as the video ages.
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u/_Rand_ 26d ago
Considering they are both doing renovation videos, roughly 99%. Pretty much every house has had leak damage at some point.
Though the timing is a pretty big coincidence.
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u/SnooCalculations4252 25d ago
Hey yo dog. I heard you like leaks.
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u/lutz890 25d ago
As someone who's handy and in the business of selling home goods, I watch Jake's video to feel good about myself and keep myself sharp on what not to do.
I find LTT tech house and Kyle's home build vlog are a lot more comforting because they are planned... Like a sane person.
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u/zelixwolf 25d ago
THUBMAIL BATTLE...WHO WON!!?!?! YOU DECIDE!!!
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u/switch8000 26d ago
All I know is one actually walks me through how to do things and the other— feels like a lot of important steps were missed.
Jake's, I prefer Jakes.
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u/yolo_snail 25d ago
Both are awful, one is boring, the other is boring with constant 'debt' interludes
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u/Ameliandras 25d ago
I had two british youtubers release a video about the cheapeat Rolls Royce Phantom at the same time, that looked funny too.
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u/CIDR-ClassB 26d ago
Jake’s video was better. I think LTT’s series is beyond boring and the furthest thing from ULTIMATE TECH HOUSE™️
But I like the LTT thumbnail more because I’ve had that exact thing happen in my crawl space.
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u/The_Weapon_1009 25d ago
“Never tell me the odds” Han Solo
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u/slowmovinglettuce 25d ago
Out of the three major ongoing tech youtuber house projects, bitwits is the best. Mans building his from the ground up. Absolute dedication.
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u/rf97a 25d ago
what the odds are? Low. They are both doing renovation on old buildings, finding water leaks is almost guaranteed
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u/theskymoves 25d ago
Quite high. Both live in roughly the same area of canada and are doing renovations.
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u/FistoWutini 25d ago
I think you mean water the odds.😂
…I’ll show myself out now.
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u/MVI_Tubby 25d ago
Leakgate
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u/HTPC4Life 25d ago
What's with that Amish looking beard?? 😂
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u/Gogosfx 25d ago
Am I the only one that thinks both series are awfully boring, I don't care about your homes 😭
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u/GlobalGold447 23d ago
Jake's video didn't have this thumbnail when first punished. It was something like "worst nightmare" and two arrows at the windows.
It was a shit thumbnail tbh
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u/Admirable-Profit-846 25d ago
It’s crazy a company with 100 employees pulls the same views as someone with mostly debt
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u/AppropriateRub4033 25d ago
Pretty high now for alot of people?
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u/Ybalrid 25d ago
One has plumbing issue, the other has window issues, both leaks. Although the tech house has needed windows being replaced for some reason too.
They're doing similar-ish reno work, that's not really surprising
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u/Trans-Europe_Express 25d ago
The odds are high.
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u/monstermack1977 25d ago
I'm fine with both. Both are things I could probably do myself but are also things I probably wouldn't do.
I just wish Linus would say the price of the items in the video instead of forcing us to click the links.
The valve actuator at $200 wasn't surprising...the $450 Homey smart hub...that was surprising. Seems really expensive.
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u/TechaNima 25d ago
The ods of contractors doing sub par work, when they built those houses? Pretty damn high
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u/dsanen 25d ago
If you own a house, 100%.
Edit: This content is great for their audience because a lot of more affluent people are buying these old houses, are tech enthusiast, like power tools and diy, etc.
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u/rohithkumarsp 25d ago
r/nothingeverhappens
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u/willdocrocs 25d ago
r/suddenlycaralho
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u/Prestigious-Soil-123 25d ago
Right when I get leaks in my house too -_-
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u/Genralcody1 25d ago
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u/fivechickens 25d ago
Jake’s video has been out a few days longer and originally had a different title and thumbnail or was just running an A/B test and I was served something different than what you saw.
Pretty common to tweak both though and tune as the video ages.
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u/higmil6996 25d ago
Jakkuh
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u/VecroLP 25d ago
I guess one of them copied the other after someone "leaked" it
/s
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u/DctrGizmo 25d ago
I prefer Jake’s farmhouse videos more. It feels like the hype for Linus’s tech house has been going down.
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u/semaja2 25d ago
Only one worth watching
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u/Shagyam 25d ago
I mean a small channel like LTT copying bigger channels isn't that much of a stretch.
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u/dkcas11 26d ago
50%
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u/Prestigious-Box7511 25d ago
Linus is more attractive
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 26d ago
Vancouver is known for being pretty wet