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First day at work and video tour.

Oh my god, what have I done !!!! In the cold light of day it looks very daunting. Just for fun I've knocked up this quick video tour of the house before renovation starts.

Anyway in a situation like this demolition is always a good stress reliever. So goodbye to the wooden green partition wall, goodbye to some rotten woodworm planking upstairs and goodbye to the corner of the concrete floor. I just wanted to see how thick the concrete was before deciding on a mini-digger or doing the job by hand.

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These are my experiences of renovation and running a gite business in Brittany, France. A gite is the French equivalent of a country holiday cottage. French culture, language, taxes and bureaucracy. Find out about our gites using the links on the LHS. Stories about the road to this point will be added in due course. Renovation nightmares, builders, stress, etc. Stay tuned.



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