Buoyed by the success of the chimney cleaning Dad and I couldn’t help but get inquisitive and want to see what was behind the 70′s wood cladding. After all I’m 34 and I was a kid the last time this style was in. We’d initially decided to wait until the morning to do any more but one thing lead to

Firstly i may need to explain that out property consists of two main buildings (the house and the grange) and then a series of lean-to outbuildings. Of the two main building the Grange (pictured right) was causing us somewhat of a concern for the coming winter. You see the issue here the while the wind mainly comes from the west

So we are starting to learn FAST that thing in France are ALWAYS more expensive and take forever to get done, even then they aren’t necessarily done right. Here’s our story of trying to use our first French tradesman : As you can see from the photo on the right the “Grange” is missing some shutters and this is causing