Clearing out
Before we started the roof we had a lot of clearing to do, because the previous roof was in such a bad condition, most of it had collapsed then the loft floor and the first floor had come down as well, so on the ground floor you couldn’t walk under the beams there was that much rubble.
Getting rid of it was a problem, they don’t have skips here in France, at the back of the castle is a large area that we intend to make in to a patio, so we decided to pile the rubble in to a mound running across the back that would create a divide between the patio and the field. This was fine, but there was far more than we anticipated, the mount was done and we still had a lot to get rid of, so with the need to keep things moving i decided to just tip the rubble on the patio area and work about it later (bad decision) I figured we could just hire a mini digger and level it out when we are ready to do the patio, the area just became overgrown over time and it was difficult to keep it tidy.
Then last week a slice of luck, our neighbours were having a car park put in, and this enormous digger turned up to do the job, we had a chat with the diver and asked him how much to clear and level it while they were there, €90 and 45 minutes later it was done.
You cant see the castle in the photos as the moat is lined with tree’s, the castle is behind the tree’s in the first photo etc
