this
along with watching endless wood working videos
I like those, but the house restoration videos are my favorite. I'm currently watching a single guy restoring a French chateau that was gutted by fire in the early 80's. I was appalled in the first video by what he faced alone.
* He has removed most of the vegetation within the building, some of which were mature trees.
* He removed all of the crumbled flooring, masonry, ash, etc from the basement/bottom floors.
* He has installed steel beams in three of the four floors he has installed and is working on shoring up the roof brickwork/masonry
He had a few help him in places of the job, but he's done most of it himself.