You need a full time grounds keeper,so much work. Once you get the sides cleaned up it will be beautiful!

Remember the movie Cattyshack? I just imagine Phil fighting those rodents.

My Husband Fux Painted over our wall paper

You will nail it eventually 👍🤗🍷🍾🌹🌹🌹 Love Sue ❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤

Stripping wallpaper, not fun!❤

Phil, if you drain the moat it makes cleaning the banks much easier, then fill it back up!

Phil do you have that round wallpaper blade, it looks like a mouse and you roll it over the wallpaper and it scores the wallpaper so when you either put solution on it or steam it it gets behind the wallpaper

Are the giant rats a protected species? I'm the sort who would call the local pest control as I just couldn't take them damaging my place like that. Ugh.

Phil my love. Happy holidays 🌲🎄🎅. Take care and stay safe. Love ya 🍺🇺🇸🌞❤️🕊️⛪️👍🌹😇🙏

Warm water with fabric softner. Use hand pump sprayer. Soak for 30 minutes. I did 12 rooms 12' ceilings. All types of papers. Scoring before spraying. Good luck.

After removing wallpaper from every room in my previous home, I’ve never put it up again. I got a projector and an adult coloring book and hand painted some designs.

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You have a beautiful property Phil.

Hi Phil, great progress on the wallpaper

Try putting lit flares in the critter tunnels with live traps nearby to catch them.

I’ve seen you handle the overflow a lot of times and I’ve always wondered why you don’t fix a bridge out to the sluice instead of standing on the boat.

cute, but very destructive critters, around here(Oregon, USA), they are always trying to keep them out of the ponds and river banks. Have you got a friend/enemy you can ship them off to? ha ha

I feel your pain with the wallpaper stripping! Such a tedious job but the end results will be worth it. I have seen you clearing the sluice several times now and wonder why you don't cut back the branches that seem to hang over it? But maybe its just the camera angle.....

You really need to consider cutting down and removing all trees and bushes around the moat. You can plant again however you will never get rid of all the problems caused by the roots until you do this. It’s not the ideal situation but you bought all the problems when you took over the Chateau. It will grow back.

I always add white vinegar to hot water to remove wallpaper easily.

You do t need a gym with all the work you do around the Chateau. That damn wallpaper again 😬😲

I thought you had the authorities deal with the coypu? I think if you cannot be rid of them I would sell if it were me. Poor Lightning :( If you knew what they eat maybe set up traps? Edd showed us a lovely property needing work no moat no water round have a look. I hope you have asked Sadie what it was she bought for her former convent apartment to rid her of the wallpaper.

Good job, Phil on clearing out the slice gate thingy. Glad the wall.paper trick is working for you. Cheers

Phil glad the wallpaper is a wee bit easier. How’s your back doing?

Great job on removing the wallpaper, Phil! Glad to see the process is going a little better for you. Well done on clearing the spillover! You have such a beautiful property! I can easily see why you enjoy living there.

Excellent ❤

What a job. Clearing the water problem looked satisfying but the wall paper...ugh.

It will be worth it when you get it all done.

Hi Phil, oh the trials and tribulations of having a moat, almost envious 😔 Brazen lot of wildlife you have, remind me are they protected? Can you set humane traps. Slow but good progress with the walls. Keep it up. Stay safe and strong. Keep smiling. Judith 🦋💕

I can see you wilting Phil, keep going lad. X

Wow! Spillover is working great now.

Crank your favorite rock ‘n’ roll while you’re removing the wallpaper!

Sorry, the only suggestion I can give about the wallpaper... put on some music, have a drink &/or cigar and just keep at it. I do have a suggestion for the colours in the room. When I think about designing something - I first decide on a colour that I like and look at what's beside that colour, or across from it on the wheel. I look at complimentary colours, opposite colours. Decide what level of colour light or darker and stick with those colours (what I mean by that is don't choose colours that are not in harmony with the colour) hope that make sense,. Usually, only 3 colours per room. Think of an imaginary triangle and see if those colours strike your fancy. It's all up to personal taste. But, I will say if you chose 3 colours they should be in harmony ie: the adjoining rooms can be done in the same colours but you can switch it up by making the main colour in the main room the 3rd or accent colour in the adjoining room next, and the 2nd colour in the first room can be the main colour in the 2nd room with the 3rd colour in the first room can be the accent or 2nd colour in the 2nd room. The internet has many ideas for colour combinations and concepts for using the colour wheel. It can also give you colour concepts. I hope I explained this in a way that is understandable and that this is helpful to you. If you are dead stuck pick something in the room that will have all the colours you would like in the room. Maybe the colour of the fireplace, a picture that will be in the room that you like or even a pillow cover or bedspread. I may be telling you what you already know but this has always worked for me even when I'm not inspired. Good luck room main room adjoining room 2nd adjoining main colour colour 1 colour 2 colour 3 secondary colour colour 2 colour 3 colour 1 accent colour colour 3 colour 1 colour 2 I'll be watching

If you have viewers from Louisiana they can give you a recipe for those.😜

Phil, here is my mental trick for handling tedious tasks [like stripping that nasty wallpaper]: I set the timer on my phone for 60 or 90 minutes, and when it goes off, Voila! Done for the day. Just do that every day. [And sometimes you'll feel like going longer.]

Your walk around the property was a beautiful reminder of just how gorgeous it is. Removing wallpaper reminds me how Billy worked on the kitchen at the convent, day after day plugging away, and eventually it was done. It will be the same for you and the d@mn wallpaper. ❤

I like to remove wallpaper. There must be more people who likes it as well. Perhaps you can find vollonteers Philip.

All you have beavers. How interesting. I didn't know you had them there in europe too. They can't do a lot of damage. But they do live there.

Try a heat gun. You can adjust the temp so you don't burn anything. Heat releases adhesive in many cases.

There is always something to do at home.

Wow, those creatures are amazing. Long whiskers on them. Nice footage. Sorry they cause plant damage. Glad you unstopped the drainage holes

I had vinyl wallpaper everywhere in the kitchen and the bathrooms when I bought a 20yr house which is fairly modern . The builders or 1st owners probably thought it was cheaper to wallpaper everywhere. But with the humidity of these rooms it was time consuming to remove. No particular tips except keep doing what you’re doing it’ll be worth it in the end 😘

Well done Phil. You are getting there with the house and the moat issues will get sorted eventually. Cheers 👌🤗💯

Phil, I live in a very rainy Canadian city! We have catch basins everywhere and they get clogged with leaves constantly. Our city actually has a program where you can "adopt" a catch basin, and clear the leaves to prevent flooding. Not as cool as your moat though! I regularly go out and clear four or five. It's great exercise for this old lady! Those rodents are DEFINITELY a pain in the behind 😮😮

Could you have a paper stripping party of sorts with a few mates to break the back of the work ? 😊

Those little buggers. They need to be evicted.

Animals in captivity escape on their own or did some unscrupulous breeder accidentally leave doors open so they wouldn't have to feed them because they were not profitable anymore as people stopped buying fur is the unasked question. If everyone who has the problem fed them contraceptive laced food in a few years the issue would solve itself humanely.

Coypu do make very nice fur coats, though I don't know if that is legal anymore?

Good job!

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