A major storm threatens to ruin our Chateau DIY Christmas Ep 38

[@hedgewood7152]

Amongst storms and leaks, Noah’s sweet face brings bountiful sunshine! ✨🌞✨

[@thechateauadventures]

☺️ he is very cute.

[@catherinekilgour2563]

Ok so I know this is an old video but I can't see anyone else comment about it. Around 9:38 you mentioned the stairs were damaged and showed them but with the fast camera movement I couldn't even work out which way was up let alone which way the stairs went. It was rather disorientating. Hopefully after all the rain you had some nice stable weather for a while.

[@thechateauadventures]

That’s fair. I panned a little too quickly over it. A couple of the wooden treads snapped in half. It isn’t the stairs we’ll be having in due course but it was still unhelpful, as that was the only way in and out of that space.

[@irenes.vestergaard357]

Oh no! I can only try to imagine how horrible and frightening it must have been during the storm. Not knowing how much would be ruined 🫣😢 Hope you will be able to get a new and waterproof roof soon. But I know it will be an expensive projekt 🫣 But it can be even more expensive not doing it. But I´m sure you know all about that already. There are many important projects in a 1000 y.o. chateau. Tank God you have Curt. to help you! 🙏❤ And by the way, Noah is so gorgeous 😍

[@thechateauadventures]

Thank you Irene. Keep your fingers crossed we can sell our London flat soon which will enable us to get the roof replaced next spring if all goes to plan 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Wes te so grateful for Curt… and for Noah ☺️

[@Kaligirl681]

I'd never do anything inside until that roof addressed. You're throwing good money after bad.

[@thechateauadventures]

Us neither given the choice. But we didn’t have too many options as our London flat sale hasn’t gone through and the bank which had given us a loan in principle closed its doors just as we were about to sign for the loan. As we don’t have a spare €250,000 lying around to redo the roof yet we are doing the best we can with the resources we have. The roof doesn’t actually leak in 99% of cases thanks to the work we have done to patch it up - only in extreme weather. But agree that the optimum would have been to do the roof first. C’est la vie 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Kaligirl681]

@@thechateauadventures I hate seeing your beautiful work be damaged. Best of luck on the sale of the flat.

[@thechateauadventures]

@@Kaligirl681 thank you 🙏🏼🤞🏼 fingers crossed for a kind winter and that we actually sell our apartment 🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@gunterhagendorf8318]

I don't understand your approach. When we bought our property in the Luberon, the first task was to fix the roof and the windows.

[@thechateauadventures]

If you would genuinely like to understand our approach you can watch our vlog from a few episodes back where we answer that exact question. We would have loved to tackle the roof first but various plans didn’t go to plan. I am very pleased to hear you were able to address yours straight away. A weight off your mind I am sure.

[@annettesharrock1236]

Wow a lot of rain you had , May be the roof needs fixing before you do any more building works, The stairs looked really good they turned out well . Nice job on the walls My he has grown he no ta little baby anymore so cute.Been watching you on tv this week

[@thechateauadventures]

Hi Annette. We know 🫣 here’s to hoping we sell our london flat sells soon so we can replace the entire roof once and for all. 🙏🏼 we are super happy with the walls ☺️ and, yes, he’s definitely growing fast 😊 I did hear they were showing last season again.

[@petrekovairena1891]

Moc držím palce a přeji mnoho sil není to jednoduché.

[@thechateauadventures]

Thank you 🙏🏼😌

[@peter_bazinet]

I didn't get a notification for this. You Tube has been weird all day. But I'm watching now.

[@thechateauadventures]

We missed you!

[@juliawatson8874]

if the roof is good doesn’t matter how much rain comes down

[@thechateauadventures]

True, and I agree with you in theory. However, this was an exceptional storm and we know plenty of roofs that were supposed to be ‘good’ that leaked in that storm. It was exceptional. We know we need to change our roof and we will once we have the funds to do so. In the interim we are fixing it as best we can. Typically it doesn’t leak 99% of the time… thankfully 🙏🏼 or every other episode would be about our roof leaking 😬

[@audreyatherton3373]

I think I'll stay here, our weather is smashing, mild not too cold winters , lovely hot summers 5:19 you sometimes we have major storms not like the weather in France.

[@thechateauadventures]

I think it’s been a very bad weather year here. Apparently it’s a 20 year cycle. 🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@RaySqw785]

slt, pas évident de se projeter avec un toit qui fuit, les tuiles semblent poreuses aussi, les épisodes météos en automne pluvieux sont fréquents dans votre région, donc priorité c'est le toit, le petit a les yeux de sa maman, bon courage

[@thechateauadventures]

Je pense que les tuiles sont ok, mais elles ne sont pas accrochées donc le vent peut les faire bouger 🫣 nous voulons tout à fait refaire le toit dès que possible, mais sans vendre notre appartement à Londres nous n’avons pas d’autre option pour l’instant pour financer tout ça 🙁 Oui! Les yeux et les cheveux de sa mère ! ☺️

[@RaySqw785]

@@thechateauadventures tu devrais faire passer un spécialiste, la présence importante de lichen et le fait des taches non homogènes noires (pollution) font qu'elles ne sont plus hydrofuges, et font comme une éponge, il existe des traitements (saturant minéral) qui leurs redonnent leur étanchéité, si tu répares et laisse ton toit avec ce genre de problème, les liteaux et poutres etc.. vont garder l'humidité, et pourrir ! pas besoin de changer les tuiles ;) bonne chance

[@RaySqw785]

tu peux tester la porosité, simplement en la retournant regarder si certaines font des traces blanches, et aussi simplement verser de l'eau dessus, si les gouttes glissent ou la tuile la boit ;) slt

[@thechateauadventures]

Merci. L’idée c’est de remplacer toute les tuiles avec des tuiles neuves quand nous referons la toiture - il y a aussi la charpente à refaire 😬. Nous revendrons les tuiles canals après, ce qui devrait aider un peut avec le coût! Vous vous y connaissez bien on dirait. Merci 👍🏼

[@estavoyernathalie9433]

La priorité pour une maison : hors air et hors eau. Donc toit, fenêtres …. Sont les premiers travaux à réaliser. Malheureusement, c’est pas le cas pour beaucoup. Bon courage.

[@thechateauadventures]

Oui, tout à fait. Malheureusement la banque qui nous avez donnée l’accord en principe pour notre prêt a fermer ses portes juste au moment où nous allons emprunter pour faire les travaux. Donc nous faisons au mieux avec les resources que nous avons pour l’instant 🫣

[@estavoyernathalie9433]

@@thechateauadventures bon courage, je suis passée par ces épreuves… toute mon empathie .🙏

[@audreyatherton3373]

Hi from Centurion South Africa.

[@thechateauadventures]

Hi 👋🏼

[@samleigh7817]

Would spray foaming the roof not help seal it whilst you save for replacing the roof?

[@thechateauadventures]

I have no idea. Generally if there was an opportunity to foam something Curt would have been the first to suggest it (he loves expanding foam), so it may not be the right solution… possibly not least because the roof spans 480 square metres circa 5,000 square feet 👀 will ask the question thigh, thanks. ☺️

[@sethdietrich4648]

Most of the comments thus far are fairly gloomy. Personally I would prefer to sound a more optimistic note. However, I'm at loss to do so. I went to visit some cousins today who had to give up their lovely home and move to a nursing home. It's odd really that so often these hard decisions are determined by one of smallest rooms in the house, the toilet. Walkers and wheel chairs are practically incompatible with toilets as one ages. In a similar way roofs have a sort of "out of sight, out of mind" existence until they fail to do their assigned task properly. Perhaps it is a blessing to know the extent of the problem and seek a remedy to the roof problem before proceeding further with work that could easily be damaged in another storm. I wish you well.

[@thechateauadventures]

Thanks Seth. Sorry to hear about your cousins. ☹️ that must have been. Hard decision for them (or perhaps one that was take out of their hands). We know what we need to do… we just need to find the money to do so. Hopefully our London flat will sell soon 🤞🏼

[@CynthiaEvans-i2f]

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[@thechateauadventures]

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