Can I Call That A Success? - Chateau Life 🏰 EP 348 

Come on viewers let’s get more thumbs up as it helps the channel?

I love saving old things instead of buying new. Great job on the fire pit!

I would say you definitely achieved SUCCESS restoring your firepit, Phil! Well done. Thanks for another great video! Looking forward to the next one.

We need a work bench for you! And a proper stool to sit on while working.

I like repurposing and fixing what I have, my adult children say I’m a hoarder until they need something 😊. Love what you did with the fire pit.😊

You SHOULD. Be proud of what you have done. So talented you can do anything.👏👏👏

You may not have saved any money repairing it yourself however you gained in owning a custom fire grill that you can proudly use in the years to come. Also the repairs you made are better than the original in that the materials you used are of better quality. I wonder how much it would cost to buy one with the upgrade in steel?

I am SO impressed with your talents! Well done, Phil. Looks beautiful, now bring on the nice weather to use it and relax! xx

You are absolutely right about living in a throw-away society. I try to fix, repurpose, recycle just about everything.

Yes Phil, it was a good and productive day! You are absolutely right when it comes to repairing things. I love handcrafted stuff!💋

I so agree about cheap disposable crap!

Much better than the original.

Phil that’s going to look absolutely lovely on your gravel terrace You’ve got Talent.

Upgraded and better than the original fire pit. A job well done.

Yes definitely a smashing recycle job well done. Kudos to you Phil many happy fires.

Nice save on the fire pit and it will last many years now that it is made better than new.

I've never understood why a firepit is produced which can only hold twigs and little bits of wood. Now, in fairness, we have an almost total fire ban. We have suffered hugely over recent years with catastrophic wild fires. This might explain tiddly firepits. So many people either live in the foothills or in the grassy plains. One good blast of wind and we're looking at thousands of acres of burn. Your work looks good! Nice job and it will last!

I love that you can turn your hand to any job needed xx 🎉 Fire pit looks good Phil ❤

Excellent work Phil ,I am impressed, quality will last years,it's a pity they don't make them as good, well done 😎👍

Phil, great job. It was fun to watch you construct this. Cheers

Your brilliant. So much better than the expensive ones they sell. I love it

A man of ALL trades🎉

Oh yes, call it a big success. You’re so talented. 😊. You’ve made the leap forward and you are so much more relaxed. It’s great to see you happy and being your best self. Keep up the good work. ❤

I’d call that a big win ! You are so skilled Phil.

That definitely looks like a success to me well done nice work 👍

And in throwing things away, we just fill up the landfills with all sorts of debris. I truly think products are made more cheaply now so they don't last and you have to buy more.

That looks so much better now 😁

Job well done Phil!!

Excellent rant Phil! Good use of a rainy day and yes it is a great success getting the fire pit refurbished. Two thumbs up for a good tidy up of your garage 👍👍. Thanks Phil🙏❤️

Go Phil ❤️💎🏆🇩🇰

I completely agree with your “rant” (perspective). Not to mention the conditions in which the people who do mass produce these goods (usually) most work and live.😬

Phil I love your shop. You have a shop , Bar and Chateau. Definitely the coolest. I was in hospital. It was critical. I looked to see if you posted while there to see how you were doing. Glad you did . . Home now and happy to see you moving right along. I hate the throw away society too.

The fireplace looks great! Recycling is the best

Yes, it used to be said that a good pair of shoes would last many years, which they did. My late father would re-heel and re-sole all our shoes but the fundamental shoe was better quality than found today.

I love seeing you make something new out of things at hand ,well done.

I think you are very brave sharing your divorce story from a male perspective - and it is actually very enlightening. Thank you for sharing and being open and honest.

Good job Phil! And planned obsolescence is a lucrative business model for the corporate run world. I agree we are losing true craftsmanship to this way of operating. Time for change anyone?

Looks brand new, well done. Love up cycling.

I would love a decent fire pit, even £250 won’t buy a heavy duty one, I didn’t know ash was corrosive 😮 every day is a school day. Cheers Phil, Enjoy a lemonade or 2 tonight K🇬🇧❤️

I really enjoy watching you work on things like this! You have so many skills!

Nice reconstruction! I love this quality about you Phil❤

Very nice. I look forward to seeing it back at the Chateau. As you started to speak today, my cat, Molly jumped on my lap to hear what you were up to in France. Keep doing what sparks joy for you. 🌻

We are a throw away society. I’m so glad to see you bring back to life things that would usually end up in the trash. The fire pit looks great 😊 Deborah

Out an about early. Beautiful day. Enjoy

So cool to see you do that. Thanks so educational!

How many skills you have!

I absolutely agree with you Phil about the throw away society that we have now. I have had 5 arts and craft shops in the past (one at a time) and folk are always amazed at how much it costs in time and materials to hand make things, so therefore how much they are selling for - so they go and buy mass produced stuff instead. Do not know what the answer is, as non of us have much money to go around now? It is so good that you have the facilities to mend your fire pit, and can enjoy it now, thanks to your hard work on it. You are a good man Phil, with a good caring heart. Wish there were more like you in this world of ours. xxx

Nice job Phil, now just need a nice clear night to put it to use.🎉

You are a Jack-of- all-trades. Keep busy, looking nice.

Great job!

OF COURSE 🎉

Not bad Phil, if I had a patio, I'd put in an order. Bludy good Rant too bloke! 125% agree! Keep up the good work m88, stay vertical and re-buildin Eh!

Great job looks brand new!! Can't wait to see you take a video of it in use!!

It’s great to see Phil , when you have the right tools and knowledge you can do wonders. 👍👍😍

Thank you for the video Phil! You are making progress! Stop waffling and let's get cracking!

Let me know when I can bring over a folding chair, pizza and beer👍

Looks great, nice. Build on the little fire pit. You're really coming along there. Phil everything's looking good.

Don't sell yourself short you are a Craftsman you just fix something that will last for several years and not all of us can do that

Most definitely a success, must agree with the make it to last wisdom ... and you have many skills, it's great you put them to good use. Thank you for explaining about the paint I was wondering .. 🙂

Great job❤

Yeah, you are being hard on yourself Phil. What you made is far better than buying it in the shops. Using recycled materials is definitely a win as it will last for many years so it’s much better than what you bought. As people have suggested have you thought about having a bench to work on as I’m getting a sore back watching you. I did think about asking you about putting a hole in the bottom on your fire pit too but you set us straight on why not. Now that I know how you will care for it sounds good to me. Thank you. May you please take care and stay safe. Louisa. 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩

Can see you have perfected your welding skills from when you first started your vlogs😛 Great job on the fire pit.

Way to go phill.stay positive and keep on going.your on the right track. Good job done.❤❤

You have just made a comment that gave me a bit of a shock that we are losing the old skills...actually see it a lot and find it quite surprising when folk say they dont know how to do things. It seems the information that used to be in people's brains is now in their phones. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old.

Clever man Phil. You can do anything...Your chateau will be so nice when summer comes this year. Glad to see how well you are doing...

Great job, Phil. It helps when one has the skills and tools. They don't make things to last like that much now.

Nice job restoring your fire pit! I like that you restored your existing one vice buying a new one. Stay strong and keep the faith! We are with you!

Agree with you on people loosing the abilities to produce and make stuff themselves. The industry also, instead of making durable things that last at minimum 20 years and on average 50, make things that last 1 year and at maximum 5. How many kitchen machines do you need to substitute frequently because the old ones are disintegrating?

Love how you repair and reuse things

Way to reuse, reduce and recycle Phil.

Love that you have the ability and desire to save rather than toss things out. Well done Phil. That repaired fire pit will serve you well for quite a while

🙏👍👍👍❤️

The repurposed steel for your fire pit was perfect and your skill creating the new burning basin was exceptional.

Hey Phil, well done on your new fire pit. You did achieve success. Here's to many nights by the pit. I also hate that we live in a throw away society. So again, well done. Love from N.Y.

Lovely!

That fire pit is going to look fantastic when you get done with it 😊👍

I would call it a success. Fire pits are great for sitting around on a cool evening.

I think you did a grand job on it... My Pops would have approved of your work. He once made his own grill out of a 55-gallon steel drum... It was an awesome grill and he could rotisserie an entire turkey in it... was amazing.

Yes, Phil, yes you can!

Couldn’t agree more with your philosophy. Great job on refurbishing the fire pit!

Great work Phil, not just in the fantastic repair but also in commenting on our throw away society. More of us need to be having that conversation - it would be much better to make and repair things closer to home than to import so much poor quality stuff that just gets disposed of

I liked your rant..poor MP got mine tonight.😢

Good morning. Good to see you again.😊

You did a lovely job restoring the fire pit. Much better to use your own skills and have the satisfaction of doing the work yourself rather than going out and buying one. Truth is known, the newer one would probably be made with inferior materials and not be put together as well as your old one. Everything just seems to be made cheaper and cheaper these days. Yes, I’m old 😂

You did a great job restoring the fire pit and I think it's a lot better to fix something if you have the ability to so. The earth is filled with enough garbage as it is. I love having a fire pit. The problem is I can't put a cover on it when it's done because it's hot. The next day I forget and it always fills up with water. So I (my husband) drilled a wee hole in it because we know ourselves and it's gross emptying it when it's full of water and ash. But that's just us. I'm looking out the window right now as the rain is coming down and out fire pit sitting on the patio.

Definite success! And the landfill won’t see that pit for many many years, great job Phil.

The work you’ve done on your fire pit looks great. I admire your “shop abilities/know how”.

I love your thinking Phil...make do, fix things, re-purpose. If more of us did that, I believe it would be a happier and cleaner world. Good for you!

IMO, the best fire pit is made from a laundry machine barrel with a chimney on it. The holes allow air to go in to keep the fire hot and the chimney keeps the smoke above head level so you don't get the smoke in your face!

Good to see you doing things for yourself. You seem so much happier these days.

Glad to see that your doing good and happy.😊

😊looks really good a man of many talents ❤

Beautiful job Phil. Now enjoy.😊

Phil, you're talented. The fire pit looks great. I don't think that I know anyone who would fix the old and make it usable again. Good for you! One project out of the way. Have a great day.

You be safe and careful.😊👍🙏

You’ll enjoy that of an evening in the summertime,and you can even cook on it possibly. If you lose electricity from a power cut you can boil a kettle on it too for a nice cup of tea too. Enjoy! 😊 M.

Oh wow the fire pit is like new nice one x

A smashing success, Phil! Very impressive job in remaking and immeasurably improving the firepit. We appreciate your bringing us along as you made great use of a rainy day.

Always rooting for you Phil!

Brilliant renovation job Phil 😊