Greetings from America! Beautiful! Congratulations on such an honor! The Chateau deserves it! Let’s see her come back to her former glory... renewed!i hope the walls will speak of good, happy memories, in the future!
Crikey, that's great news!. I hope it will enable you to fix the roof properly, and entirely, without a good roof you have nothing. The facade as well, is even better. Congratulations.
Congratulations! Thrilled for you. Huge critical step getting that roof renewed, massive task. The scale of Purnon is really brought home seeing the workmen on that large curved roof! It is by far the largest of the châteaux I see being renovated on RU-vid. 🇦🇺 Are there earlier videos which are not on your site? I came across one from a year ago which does not appear on the site, then nothing until 6 months ago, the short Thank You one. Interested to find them, if they exist. 🌹edit quite a few more have popped up on the list now. 👍
Congratulations. Deserving. Every restoration is important. A worthwhile undertaking by the French government. Watching the crumbling majesty of these properties be restored is heart warming. As it should be. Hi from Brisbane.
Congratulations on your securing such important help. The work you are doing is so interesting to see and appreciate you sharing your valuable journey. I’ve watched beautiful old buildings (relatively young compared to France though) being demolished in Australia with despair, so it’s wonderful to see your respect for heritage and restoration. I often think that the people who demolish old buildings here probably go on holidays to see architecture like this in Europe!!. What you’re doing is a labour of love but vital in appreciation and beauty of history and in life!
Congratulations!! What a wonderful thing to do from the French government to help save so many fantastic buildings. The chateau is so lucky to have found you both as the new owners. Can't wait to see more restoration videos. Thanks so much for sharing the incredible news with us.
It’s midnight Tuesday here in NZ and I usually have that problem with most of the ‘Chateau’ videos that release around the early morning for me too! At least this one I will make the premiere.🥰👏
Congratulations! We have so much admiration and respect for you for taking on this important restoration! You are making such a significant contribution. Bonne continuation!
What amazing news. And now hopefully your Patreon page will continue to help fundraise as well as your RU-vid income. All the very best for your and Purnon’s success
So glad you have started a patreon account! I am so glad to help restore the gate with you :) And I just love getting the weekly updates, have a great week this week!
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HI Holly - thank you so much for joining us on Patreon. We are so very grateful and glad you are enjoying the weekly updates x
Congratulations to you all with this wonderful achievement. Your dedication to this restoration is outstanding. I am so excited to see this beautiful Chateau come to life... ❤️🇦🇺
Hell from Sunny Queensland 🤗🤗just found your RU-vid today after watching another restoration work on a different château. Just finished watching all of your uploads and so looking forward to seeing more in the coming future.
Fantastic.A building worth saving. The roof is massive but once it’s done you will be relieved. It will be a genuine restoration and not.a quick fix. All the best with your ambitious efforts.
Sorry I’m a little late getting to the video. Congratulations on receiving the grant for 2022! Purnon’s future is brighter now that she’ll be watertight!!
Congratulations a big step getting roof repaired and will help secure the future for the Chateau and you it's guardian well done Iam sure much paper work and research to apply for this program Well done !
Congratulations, this is so exciting for you and for the community around you. It's wonderful to see the craftsmen working on your roof and can't wait to see its progress. Again, Congratulations!
Hi guys, stayed up to watch your announcement, congratulations to you both and your team. So very proud of you. Well done. Best wishes, open another bottle. Cheers from Melbourne 😁🥂👩💼
Congratulations on your grant, hopefully this will be a great shot in the arm going forward! Please, if you will, put out videos, more often, so we can see the progress being made! This is like the raising and resurrection of the Titanic! Cheers!
A few months ago I tried to find some information of real estate taxes and found a few things (in English) that looked reliable. I was surprised that the property taxes on some of these places was actually lower than my little house in NH. One building on 4/10ths of an acre and about 800 sq. ft. above ground. NH tends to rely on property taxes and has no income tax or sales tax. France seems to rely on income taxes that I suspect are high (I haven't looked that up) but the real estate taxes are low. I think in this country historic preservation projects usually get some kind of tax credit Trump had an 80 mil problem with the IRS over this issue of historic preservation tax credits he claimed he was owed for the renovation of the Trump hotel building (the former post office) in Washington. It sounded like France was trying to do HP on the cheap and it seems fair that some kind of subsidy is applied. Another thing that I wish I could look into is the prospect of someone trying to create an industry to collect and market the muck that clogs the water features of the gardens. Many of the moats, canals and ponds were probably man made and served the practical purpose of lowering water levels and making the ground useable just like at Versailles. Many are apparently shallower than they used to be. But if the muck isn't polluted with chemicals and heavy metals like lead or mercury, were not exposed to much chemical runoff from fertilizers, pesticides etc. perhaps they can be use as a rich organic fertilizer? 45,000 sites would provide a lot of feed stock. Would it be worthless? In about 1895 Frederick Vanderbilt was able to sell the muck that had filled a small pond on his Hyde Park Estate. The site claims he got about $30,000 in 1895 dollars by selling it to the local famers and he probably used a lot for his own farm acreage.. Two of the houses for managerial staff (large, well built and detailed but not as lavish as the mansion) could have been built at the time for about $5000 each. I live in a small district in a rural NH town that was built in the 60s as vacation homes around an old glacial Pond (about 10k years old) . While I was a commissioner decades ago i asked the state environmental services dept. if we could do that to try to restore the pond. In 60 years it has lost about 20 feet of depth from sand runoff from the roads as well as the leaf fall for thousands of years. It is in its last dying stage, is classified as eutrophic and in a few hundred years or less, it will be another swamp or bog like at least one other nearby in the state park. They also thought it would be far too polluted. But these estates may not have been using many chemicals and are not immediately surrounded by other development.
It is heart breaking to see the damage done by water through neglected repairs. I congratulate on securing the French heritage grant. I can only imagine the paperwork you had to compile and specialists that visited to make assesments. Now you have to manage all the trades so they work in harmony. One observation I made and your château is not the only one I've seen, why do the roofers not lay asphalt tar paper, or a water proof membrane under the slate? The omission of such was why there such a catastrophic damage in the first place. Nailing slate on plain wood because that is the historic custom is just putting off the repetitive damage for another 50 years. The slate protects the wood from the outside, however elements but moisture becauseWhy???
Oops, outside elements, however, moisture builds up on the underside of the slate and that rots the wood, the nails rust and the slates start sliding and cracking and fall away. There needs to be a moisture barrier under the slate!
