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Hi and thanks for your comment and what would you like to see

Bonjour et merci pour votre commentaire. Oui, beaucoup de travail, même si je continue d'avancer à mon rythme.

Thanks For The Comment although for all those watching my videos and looking to live in France let me tell you that France has the third highest government debt in Europe with a 109% ratio exceeding the agreed 60% GDP limit. Yet in many parts of rural France it’s the British, Dutch and Belgians amongst a great multitude of people who help prop up the fragile economy of rural France. With yes their Gites, restaurants, bars and cafes. Notwithstanding the money they spend in the rural French economy supporting it with their combined taxes and definitely there renovation budgets and employing people in such work. The local French people are employed in the supermarkets, banks and other service oriented industries. Yet the major problem for all residents of plant earth is we have approximately 120 years until the end of fossil fuels and solar, wind and nuclear are not going to support probably 10 billion people come 2140 So I have planted a lot of trees on my 3 hectares and continue to do so along with a possible Gite.

@@frenchpropertyrenovations7788 "Yet the major problem for all residents of plant earth is we have approximately 120 years until the end of fossil fuels and solar, wind and nuclear are not going to support probably 10 billion people come 2140" 😂😂😂 Ok, continue to listen the mainstreams medias... You're really not informed and too stupid. Good luck !

@@frenchpropertyrenovations7788 Well said! Just 1 question. I've watched a couple of your videos so far and I get the impression that you live in France permanently? How do you manage that? I thought it was 3 months out of 6 now that we left the EU.

Hello and thanks for the comments and support. I applied for a work visa when I came over to France to live. I am a fully qualified plumber with additional building construction qualifications so they usually help all over the world as a shortage of skilled labour. Maybe I should do a video on getting related videos to live and work in France or retiring to the French countryside

Thanks for the comment and appreciated

Thanks and they usually come with some kind of work to do although it’s worth it

Thanks and the weather here is usually far better in the summer months. My first year here was beautiful sunny weather from March through to the end of October

@@frenchpropertyrenovations7788 Alistair are you still working on the first property or has it been sold now? Best Dean.

I am still working on it and have some more videos to post soon in the New Year although I have had no fibre optic broadband since the storms in November which brought down a lot of trees here. As soon as I am reconnected I will post them

@@frenchpropertyrenovations7788 Do you think the 2nd property will be an easier task, great content unlike a lot of channels talking waffle.

Thanks for the comment and at the moment that’s a secret because now owning two properties and so much work I have in the future to reduce this to one property and hopefully we can reflect together at what I paid for properties and what I spent and how much work I personally put into it and you get to see at what stage I finished the work and sold it. Basically so I can show everyone some real sweat equity being created

@frenchpropertyrenovations7788 Awesome job .

Thanks very much and yes I am a fully qualified plumber and I do most of the work myself unless it’s really specialised but even then I try to get involved and help. Plus no living in a nice gîte down the road as I actually live in the property I renovate and I always have done and always will. it’s how you save money and make money

Thanks for comment and I did that with a chainsaw and an axe no log splitter so possibly better than a trip to the gym and outdoor work in the summer sun which I think is better than work if you get me

That machine is smoking very heavily!!!!

the JCB is over 30 years old so not in too bad a condition and it does need a new turbo as the current one has a crack in it so maybe sometime in the future when I am not spending my money on my house it will definitely get to the top of the list. I have replaced a lot of the ram seals and I have put my septic tank in now so that video with the JCB will soon be uploaded to my channel

believe it or not I bought my first property with 5 pictures and some drone footage of the house and field. I have been in construction all my life and a bare bones property like this basically 4 walls and a roof. It’s basically built on soil no damp proof membrane so you will always have rising damp to approximately 1m from ground level, hence why I point all the walls with lime mortar so the walls can breath and moisture can escape. So long as the walls are relatively straight no big cracks or bulges you should be ok.

I have now installed a downstairs bathroom and put a timber stud wall in. This also allowed for some electrical sockets in the bedroom/ office room so little steps and slow progression

Thanks and not so flexible some days

Hi and yes that might be helpful for me and others reading the comments. I have friends who pop back over to the UK so they usually bring me a new gas bottle here and there as it’s also good for lighting the fire. The pipe was 14mm although I worked from 8mm to 600mm during my plumbing life

Hello, having been in plumbing and also having worked in the USA, The Bahamas and lots of UK plumbing there is definitely no need for the additional nut as it really serves no purpose

I am in the Haute Vienne area of France

Thanks for the. nice comments

Thanks and I hope you enjoy my future videos too

Thanks and I now have two cats, my dog and 4 geese

Hello and yes I need to grout the tomette tiled floor and for the pointing I am using traditional lime mortar mixed at a ratio of 3 to 1 lime

Hello and thank you for watching my videos and I hope you enjoy all the new videos to come in due course as things progress

Thank you! 😊

I live in the Haute Vienne area of France

The Stonework is beautiful if you take the time to clean it and repoint all the joints with Lime Mortar. Removing the decayed moisture retentive old plaster and pointing makes the house drier and more beautiful filled with old character and well worth the effort

Thank you and please keep watching

Thank you and I have been in construction too long to pay any attention to them and once again Thanks and keep watching

Yeah that was the general idea to remove them from one part of the building and reclaim as many as possible to create another beautiful floor that didn’t look modern when completed

Yeah it’s very repetitive especially working on your own and hard work. Thanks for the compliment and please keep watching