The weekend rush to the house produced some news both good and bad but none of it terrible which was a big plus. The house and the grange have both suffered damage from the storm. For the most part it’s lost tiles and flashings.  The shutters did their job and all windows and doors survived. Unfortunately the outhouse attached to

Just wanted to bring you some news and some photographs of what unexpectedly happen. I am now tonight (Friday 13th Feb) booked on the late ferry to drive to the house and inspect any damage, but here is a report from out neighbours in Montpillard. “In the early hours of Tuesday 10th we had a massive and very destructive storm

How is it that we don’t have one agreed set of measurements for the house? It now seems after Dawn looked at the bathroom furniture that I have purchased she thinks my measurements are out and the items aren’t going to fit. No problem we have plans right, after all the architect did finally delivery them. OH that’s right we

Well who says “free” tools don’t work? After trying to find sizes, stock and then going through a whole will it, wont it fit dilemma i finally went back to the B&Q website and used their planner to check some space arrangements. On doing so i selected their Barcelona range and dropped items in and then got a nice surprise

Given the “credit crunch” and the fact that we are going to change our renovation lans there are nothing i like to hear more than “FREE” and that’s exactly what we have here. Now it’s no secret that our plans for the major renovation will have to wait due to the awful €/£ rate so we’ve decided to rip out

Here’s a brief post to let you know that finally after 3 month we have started to get the house plans through! I KNOW I am as shocked as you are and later we will go into all the trouble we have had but to get a first round of drawings through is very exciting for us so we thought

When we bought they house the first thing we decided to do while we designed the renovation was to remove the wall in the bedroom area’s that created two rather small bedrooms. While in the longer term this new room will be removed altogether for now we want to create a temporary bedroom of a decent size and there was

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

As with all houses in France the chimney must be cleaned every year and a certificate issued if you are going to live in the property or your house insurance isn’t valid. Well our house had been empty now for some 5 years and after failing miserably to get hold of a chimney sweeper local or otherwise it was time

So we did our due diligence, we knew what we were buying and we even knew that there was a horse cart stuck on the cattle feed shed roof and we’d have to chop it up to get rid of it, hell we even knew we had an asbestos pipe to get rid of so we were prepared for everything