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Help! We Bought a Village - Season 4 Episode 33
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07:03Already over budget, and with winter around the corner, Louise and Paul's aspiration to be moving in by the beginning of next summer now looks to be under threat.
07:14The guys have said this isn't the best weather to do it, so they're going to start on that when they've got a few days of dry weather so that the cement can set off and so that they're not digging holes and then having them fill with water.
07:28There will be setbacks because with building work there always is a few setbacks, but, you know, hopefully nothing as bad as the underpinning.
07:36But now I'm just going to be wagging my tail every day because everything they do is a step further forward to getting it done.
07:45So, you know, happy days as far as I'm concerned.
07:48The dream's alive! The dream is totally alive!
07:53But despite Louise's optimism, delays cost money.
07:58And with this project already breaking the bank, it's key they get the underpinning sorted soon to keep their dream alive.
08:05While La Hou's journey to being brought back to life has not been an easy one, in a different part of Normandy, another village facing an equally tricky rebirth has been fortunate to find itself under the stewardship of a master craftsman, La Cloutière in northwest France.
08:27Even though we are the owners of everything that we have here, we are really just the custodians.
08:39We won't own it forever.
08:41For the last three years, Tracy and Budo from London have been lovingly restoring this once run-down settlement, learning ancient trades along the way.
09:00As a time-served joiner and carpenter, Budo is more than qualified to perform all the restoration work himself.
09:08There's a sense of responsibility when you buy these properties.
09:13You have to take them seriously and think about the past and the future.
09:19You start to touch the stonework or the woodwork and you know that hundreds of years ago someone else was working and building that.
09:26You gain that sort of respect that you want to keep that going and create and make the best you can at this and keep it as authentic as possible but with a modern touch.
09:36It's July.
09:38Today, the couple are keen to finish off a job that's taken longer than they would have hoped.
09:45We've got to get this tiled and watertight but the rain has slowed this process down.
09:50I'm behind on this roof. I need to catch up with it.
09:53While bad weather has limited the opportunities for Budo to work on the roof,
09:58in contrast, the single-storey structure that sits beneath was erected with lightning speed.
10:04The building had collapsed that was here.
10:08Using the original footings, I just built straight back off of that.
10:12I think I built the stonework of cutting the roofing in 11 days.
10:15So that was a nice fast process and then the rains came.
10:19Now we're getting back on. The weather's breaking and we're, you know, we can push on and get this done.
10:22Today, Budo is finishing off attaching a frame of wooden battens, which will support the final layer of slate roof tiles.
10:31Right. So, let's start with the first one down that end.
10:40Just work my way along with the spacer block and it keeps all the tiles true to form, if you like, coming down.
10:51Try to use up all my scraps of wood, fill in these openings.
10:56Next, Tracy begins the heavy job of transferring the tiles up to roof level.
11:04Good exercise.
11:06Good exercise.
11:07OK, any more?
11:09Yeah, we'll keep coming. Might as well get them up.
11:12Ever cost conscious, Tracy and Budo have saved a small fortune with the purchase of their roofing slate.
11:18So, we got these tiles secondhand. They were apparently off of an old chateau. We ended up buying 8,000 for 1,600 euros.
11:28So, we were quidzing and maybe in the future we've got enough to do the barn as well. So, we've got plenty.
11:36There's history to them as well. So, we're bringing them back to life. Again, we're looking after the past, aren't we?
11:42Recycling to the backs of them.
11:44When the farmhouse was first built, its roof would have been thatched. But by the end of the 19th century, slate roofs had become much more widespread.
11:55Ever mindful of the history of their village, Budo's choice of roofing tools is very traditional.
12:02Like a machine gun.
12:04So simple.
12:06Then I'll just go along the line.
12:07And that gives me a lovely straight cut for my first tile on.
12:17I like the French and I love the old tools the French use as well. Some of the old tools like, you know, these are old. These are probably 100 years old, these.
12:25And it's not just the French tools that Budo has been won over by. He also holds their building techniques in high regard.
12:34The roofing system here in France is different to the UK.
12:36In the UK, we nail and fix the tiles. Where here in France, we do it on a hook.
12:44We put the tile in.
12:47We hook the tile on.
12:50Then we run another hook next to the tile.
12:55There we go. That goes in there.
12:58And one on there.
12:59The French will be screaming at me now.
13:02There we go.
13:02No, it's French roofers. No!
13:04So, we're going to keep going up. So, the next one will drop in here.
13:11The next one will go in there.
13:13So, we've got tile underneath.
13:15Tile overlapping the underneath tile.
13:17And then the next tile starts up.
13:19And that's how you continue all the way up through the roof.
13:21But what I love about it is if you have a cracked tile, slide it out, put a new tile in place, and it's as easy as that.
13:29It's important for us to have things that are easily maintained, isn't it?
13:32Yeah, 100%.
13:33You know, our age is catching up, and it's, you know, in 10, 15 years, we're going to be a lot older, and we, you know, it's going to be a lot tougher.
13:39We want to be able to go up there and do things a little bit easier.
13:42We're keeping to, like, traditional building methods, which are more simpler, I think, anyway.
13:48Using the efficient French hook system, as long as the sun keeps shining on La Cloutière,
13:53Budo should be able to finish tiling the roof in a matter of days.
14:04Coming up.
14:07In Spain, a village saviour has a pressing need to build a new safety barrier.
14:13Like a glove.
14:15Perfect.
14:17And at La Ulle?
14:17Louise and Paul's builders fix the old farmhouse's foundations.
14:26It needs to be done.
14:27It's a mammoth task, really.
14:42While some village saviours have tight deadlines,
14:44others simply love to take their time to enjoy the process and learn new skills along the way.
14:54Located in the Asturias region of Spain, lies Arañada.
14:59The eight-acre site, perched on a hillside,
15:02consists of four buildings, a small forest,
15:05and numerous streams and springs supplying the village with water.
15:08Almost 20 years into his village transformation,
15:13Neil Christie from Newcastle is still not finished.
15:16But that's not what drives him.
15:19Time actually heals a lot of things as well,
15:22because trees grow and plants start coming through,
15:25and now it makes things look much better than it did.
15:28Now it's less more established.
15:30As far as owning it,
15:36I more or less knew what I was launching into from the beginning.
15:40And obviously, you always find something that you don't anticipate.
15:44It's got its problems,
15:45but there again, it doesn't distract me from getting on with it.
15:50Really, it's a lot of superficial.
15:52There's no major construction now.
15:55It's the peripherals that are actually full enough to take all the time.
15:58It's November,
16:02and today Neil is continuing to repair damage caused by recent wild weather.
16:07It's a job that's really well overdue being done.
16:11It's a rather large sort of precipice of a wall.
16:15It's come to the point where the temporary fence that was along there
16:18got destroyed in the recent storms.
16:20So now what I'm doing is putting a proper fencing wall along the edge of this.
16:26I think it's 20 metres long,
16:27so it's going to take a little while to do.
16:30To build the hybrid wall-cum fence,
16:33Neil is using a mixture of precast hollow concrete blocks
16:36linked together with horizontal wooden beams
16:38to act as safety barriers.
16:40So, that will go on this end,
16:48but I'm also certainly going to have to cut the slots in the bottom of it
16:54because obviously it sits over the top of that.
16:57So, because I like my ears and my eyes,
17:00I'm putting protectors on both.
17:03Like many of our village saviors,
17:12Neil has built up an arsenal of power tools
17:14over the course of his many renovations,
17:17ready for any eventuality.
17:19Like a glove, perfect.
17:30The idea, or the concept of what I'm doing is this.
17:34They actually form a column that's just over a metre high.
17:38There's one of these every two metres right to the end here.
17:43In the second block, small block up in the top one,
17:46I'm putting a 30 millimetre hole
17:49and there's going to be some wooden posts doing horizontally
17:53so it makes like a bar fence.
17:55Even with cement, it could, with an impact, collapse.
18:00So, to prevent that happening,
18:02I've got some, I think it's 16 millimetre diameter rebar,
18:06which, this is a three metre length, obviously far too long,
18:09but that is going to go down here, like so,
18:14and I'm going to drill two holes in the base concrete.
18:18Rebar, or reinforcing bar, typically made of steel,
18:24is used in masonry structures to give added strength.
18:27It's also not a new invention.
18:31The Romans used rods made of iron or wood
18:33to construct their arches,
18:35featured most famously in the Colosseum in Rome,
18:38as well as their viaducts and aqueducts,
18:41many of which still stand to this day.
18:48Once Neil's rebars are locked into the base,
18:52he'll pour concrete into the upright hollow void
18:54to give further reinforcement.
18:58For me, that's a proof of concept, OK.
19:00I'm quite happy with the way things are going to progress with this.
19:04The biggest problem, I've had a problem here,
19:07is the multiplicity of different jobs on the go at any one time.
19:11When you get down to these kind of things,
19:13it's not 100% important,
19:15but it gets to a point like it is now,
19:16where it is important,
19:18so it takes precedent over other things.
19:20Any one time, there could be 8 to 10 different jobs
19:23running in parallel here.
19:25One thing's for Sue, I don't get bored.
19:28There's always something to turn to.
19:30Back at the 300-year-old village of L'Ou in north-west France,
19:43it's October,
19:46and, already behind schedule because of bad weather,
19:49today, Louise and Paul's builders, Kelton and Stuart,
19:52can finally begin the underpinning work
19:54on the wall of the old farmhouse.
19:56They dug this hole here.
20:00That's got a join up to the other side,
20:03and then they will pour the concrete into these holes.
20:08So whilst this one sets, they'll do one further down,
20:11and then when this is set,
20:13they'll be able to do one next to it,
20:15so that, eventually,
20:17it will be one continuous line of cement going under the wall.
20:20If this wall's not safe, the house isn't safe.
20:23It needs to be done.
20:25It's a mammoth task, really.
20:28For builder Kelton, the process isn't without its risks.
20:33The challenging part of this job is
20:35if we don't dig it in the correct position,
20:37the stonework can fall on us and come into the hole,
20:41and then that means we've got to concrete the hole
20:43and then rebuild the stone on top.
20:45If we can do it gingerly and safely,
20:48then we won't have to touch the wall,
20:51which is the best scenario.
20:54Complicating the underpinning process
20:55is Paul and Louise's requirement for underfloor heating,
20:59which means that the concrete needs to be set
21:02at two different levels.
21:04Here, underneath the wall,
21:06obviously we need the concrete right up underneath the wall.
21:09So here, we need the concrete at this level,
21:12but this side, in the finished floor,
21:16we need it down here.
21:17So we've got to create a shuttering system
21:20to keep the concrete up high underneath the wall.
21:25Outside's not an issue.
21:26It's the inside that's the problem.
21:31Kelson is building a shuttering system from wood,
21:34which will allow for the two different heights
21:36of concrete to be poured.
21:38With the first hole dug and the shutter constructed,
21:44next, Kelson and Stuart begin mixing
21:46and then pouring the concrete.
21:53With enough concrete poured to the floor level,
21:56the shuttering box is put in place
21:58to allow for the higher level of concrete under the wall.
22:01Just need to top this up with concrete,
22:05vibrate it,
22:06which gets rid of all of the air pockets,
22:08so the concrete is nice and solid.
22:17With the first pocket of underpinning concrete in place,
22:20it can be left to cure and harden over the next few days.
22:24Kelson and Stuart now begin the entire process all over again,
22:28digging a new hole on the other side of the doorway.
22:31Now that we're through,
22:34we can clean the hole,
22:36get some concrete in.
22:55We've got two in,
22:56which I'm really pleased with.
22:58Never quite sure when you first start
22:59quite how it's going to go.
23:01We can get at least another two in tomorrow.
23:04That'll be four done.
23:05So, good head start.
23:08This is amazing.
23:11They've really made great progress.
23:13If they can do this in one day,
23:16if they continue at this rate,
23:18then it will be done in the couple of weeks that they said.
23:22I never thought I would say that looking at a lump of unset concrete would be so exciting.
23:29When it sets,
23:31when it sets,
23:31you know,
23:32I'm going to crack open the champagne.
23:37It's brilliant.
23:39Fantastic.
23:40If the project to renovate the old farmhouse is to stay on track,
23:44and more importantly,
23:45stay on budget,
23:47the builder's target of finishing the underpinning work within the next fortnight needs to be met.
23:52Coming up...
23:58This is what you call a proper workshop.
24:03Neil steps back in time to watch a craftsman at work.
24:06Do you think that's sharp?
24:09And at low?
24:10I think it's a tricky job.
24:12Paul and Louise's builders dig gingerly to avoid a collapse.
24:17We've got to be really careful.
24:19If we go any further underneath,
24:20we're going to lose it.
24:33Back in Arranyada,
24:34where Neil is taking a break from his wall construction.
24:38His love affair with this area extends beyond his own village
24:41to the nearby town of Taramundi.
24:45Today, Neil is visiting one of the town's museums,
24:48keen to build a picture of what life was like here in centuries past.
24:54We're at a place just outside of Taramundi town itself.
24:58It's called Massanol.
24:59What it used to be was a grain mill.
25:02It was the first place in the town to actually generate electricity in the mid-1960s.
25:07and it's been renovated into a museum now.
25:12This is part of the regeneration plan for the tourism in Taramundi.
25:16From the original concept of actually producing grain and generating electricity,
25:22now it's actually generating money for the town as well by bringing tourism in.
25:26A working museum, the mill sits at the bottom of a valley,
25:31harnessing the power of the river that runs through it.
25:35While the mill originally produced flour to make bread,
25:38its machinery is still fully functional.
25:41Former boat builder Neil is in his element here.
25:44This is part of the original mill.
25:47It shows how the water actually operates the millstone.
25:53You see one there is working from the big mill wheel outside.
25:58And it's actually turning this large shaft very, very slowly at the moment.
26:03The entire plant is actually operated by water pressure.
26:07And just by altering the water flow,
26:11you can alter the speed of the wheels for certain jobs.
26:16For instance, this one.
26:17Pull it out.
26:22And you can see by the amount of water flow,
26:24it's starting to move it properly now.
26:27This region is literally run by water.
26:30Everything was oriented around water,
26:32including the agriculture, the crops.
26:34Although now a popular local museum,
26:39the original mill was established here in the late 19th century,
26:43a vital resource that would have helped feed the local population
26:46with its flower production.
26:50Neil is passionate about the history of this area
26:53and what a museum like this can teach tourists
26:55about the heritage of a town like Taramundi.
27:00For me, this is very important
27:01that they can see what it used to be like.
27:04This is an old method of crushing grain.
27:11There's a bit of grain.
27:12You put it in there and turn it into flour.
27:17And the wheels are just an extended version
27:20of this tiny little machine here.
27:23To me, it was, wow, it's like stepping back in time.
27:26And I think a lot of people still think that way when they come here.
27:29Another attraction where you can step back in time
27:32is the Museum of Cutlery.
27:34Here, Neil is visiting a local craftsman, Antonio,
27:38who produces handmade pocket knives.
27:40This is what you call a proper workshop.
27:49Fantastic.
27:51I really enjoy watching Antonio doing this.
27:53He's a skilled craftsman.
27:55This is the blade of the knife coming up now.
28:00It's either carbon-based steel or chrome,
28:03and it's very, very hard.
28:13A stamp identifying the maker
28:15is hammered onto the surface of the blade.
28:18Like his father before him,
28:23Antonio is carrying on a tradition
28:24that's been handed down through the generations.
28:29He's cutting the handle down now for the knife.
28:32And there's this special wood called bok,
28:34which is really hard wood, and it lasts a long time.
28:37This is a complete traditional way of doing.
28:40They've been doing, well, he's been doing 50 years,
28:41and the family probably over 100,
28:44in the same building.
28:45Next, Antonio takes the roughly-hewn knife handle
28:51onto the lathe for further refinement.
29:01We've got to cut a slot in it now, by hand as well, yeah.
29:10Exactly how much to cut into it.
29:12From raw materials, we're getting towards the shape of a blade.
29:25Now he's taking the shape of the blade itself.
29:28He's filing down the blade.
29:29With the knife almost complete,
29:42Antonio adds some decorative flourishes.
29:48A final buffing up,
29:50and the knife is ready to be used.
29:52Do you think that's sharp?
30:02Well, it's just indescribable, really,
30:04whether they're the end product.
30:07It's actually done by hand.
30:09Every part of it made from the basic materials.
30:12They're continuously busy,
30:14which is good for Taramundi and for them.
30:16Taramundi really is expanding its reputation for tourism.
30:21That's its lifeblood, really.
30:22It lives on tourism.
30:27Really good place to live.
30:29There's no doubt about that.
30:30It's one of the best moves ever made to come here.
30:33In an era where ghost villages and their traditions
30:35can easily be lost forever,
30:37it's clear Neil takes great inspiration
30:40from artisans like Antonio,
30:43keeping the past alive
30:44through their dedication to their craft.
30:56Back in northwest France with Louise and Paul,
30:59their builders, Kelson and Stuart,
31:01are under pressure to complete the underpinning work
31:03to the old farmhouse before the bad weather arrives.
31:07There's a lot of discussion about this doorway.
31:11I think it's a tricky job.
31:13I don't really want to interrupt them
31:14while they're deciding what it's going to be like, you know.
31:18An idea where else we would have liked to have gone
31:20further underneath.
31:22Right.
31:22Because if we go any further underneath,
31:23we're going to lose it.
31:25Obviously, it's two ends of a wall.
31:26There's nothing joining the wall together
31:28across the doorway,
31:30so we've got to be really careful.
31:35We've done our excavation
31:36and as far as we dare go,
31:38we can't go any more
31:39because if we go any more,
31:40we're going to lose the stone.
31:41So now we're creating shuttering.
31:43We'll get some concrete mixed up
31:45and get it filled up
31:45so the stone stays where it is at the moment
31:50so we don't lose it.
31:51When the old farmhouse was first constructed,
31:54the arched doorway would have been
31:56one of the trickiest parts to build.
31:59With huge stones to lift into place,
32:01it's likely a pulley system was employed,
32:04using livestock to heave the masonry skyward.
32:08Despite the largely simple design of the cottage,
32:10the archway gifts the property
32:12a welcoming architectural flourish.
32:15As well as the pressure of the changing weather,
32:23there's more pressing urgency.
32:26The stone here has started to move
32:28and there's a real risk it could all collapse.
32:31While Kelson shovels the concrete in place at the door,
32:35Louise is keen to have a look at the progress upstairs.
32:38This is great.
32:39You can get a real sense of how much space
32:42there's going to be for the rooms.
32:46Stuart and Kelson have used their time efficiently,
32:49working indoors when it's been too wet
32:51to work on the underpinning.
32:53As a result, the majority of the timber work
32:55for the upstairs of the property is now in place.
33:00A comfortable home for us is the end result,
33:03the desired end result, really.
33:06Fundamentally, it's something that we've designed for us.
33:08You know, it's like our little dream project, really.
33:16With Paul working in Paris during the week,
33:19he's been out of the loop.
33:21Returning home for the weekend,
33:23Louise is keen to bring him up to speed
33:24with the progress of the works.
33:27This is the underpinning on this corner that they've done.
33:30That's big.
33:32How far down are they going?
33:33We can walk on it now.
33:34Oh, my gosh, about four feet.
33:37OK, so that's good.
33:38And this is where they've built up the wall here.
33:41Wow.
33:42And they said they're going to shave off this concrete
33:46so that it matches the wall.
33:48Ah, it follows the contour.
33:49It follows the contour of the wall.
33:50I like that.
33:51And they've also done here.
33:53So it looks like there's another underpinning there.
33:55One, two, three, four...
33:57Three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
33:59Yeah.
33:59They've got a ninth one to do under there.
34:01Well, that should hold it.
34:02It should, yeah.
34:05They've worked amazingly, really.
34:07Yeah.
34:08Well, maybe we can crawl in under here.
34:10Can you crawl in under there?
34:10No, not with my hip.
34:12No, OK.
34:13Shall we go around the front then?
34:14Yeah, try not to fall in, Lou.
34:15Yeah, this mud is really sticky.
34:17Yes.
34:19Well, it's been very wet this week, so I'm not surprised.
34:24Let's have a look inside what these guys have been doing.
34:26Oh, wow.
34:30That's a lot.
34:31Oh, my goodness.
34:33Although, the neti finished upstairs.
34:34Yeah.
34:35Oh, my goodness, we've got a ceiling.
34:37Yeah, yeah.
34:38I'm dead keen to have a look upstairs, actually.
34:40Yeah.
34:41Let's have a little look upstairs.
34:43You can get a real sense of the space we're going to get upstairs.
34:45Yes, because before, with all the junk and straw and beds and who knows what.
34:52Oh, wow.
34:54Oh, this is a nice size.
34:56It is, isn't it?
34:57Stuart and Coulson have not only pushed the project on, they've succeeded in completing
35:02the underpinning in time, as well as also making good progress inside the house.
35:08Better than I thought it was going to be in a week.
35:10I'm going to Paris happy this afternoon, so I know I can leave things in loose capable hands.
35:16Happy man.
35:17Yeah.
35:17Good as it gets.
35:18Yeah, yeah.
35:19After an initial fear that the project was about to be derailed, Louise and Paul are delighted
35:25that their dream is now back on track.
35:32Coming up...
35:34I've got one tile, so I've got one chance.
35:36So that's it.
35:37It's now Budo's turn to feel the pressure, while in Aranyada...
35:42That's the first of goodness how many I've got to do.
35:47Neil's wall begins to take shape.
35:50It'll go through here, and that one goes into that one there.
35:53Back in France, at the historic farming settlement of La Cloutière, where Budo is making good
36:12progress with his roof tiling.
36:15Loving these French tools.
36:16Aided by the ease of the French hook method of laying slate tiles.
36:22And then by pushing it into that crochet, it locks it in.
36:26Makes it nice and sturdy.
36:28It's very important that when you start with these type of roofs, that you start off right.
36:33You start with plumb lines down the roof, and everything works to a nice straight line.
36:38So I'm happy now.
36:39This system's going to go quick, and I think I can have this done in a day or so.
36:45Most PDI wires, if you've got a right scaffold and you're a bit protected, you can do this
36:49sort of thing yourself.
36:51My trade is a carpenter and joiner, doing anything in wood.
36:54But doing all these other little trades saves us such a lot of money.
36:58We've got a quote from the roof above, which I'm going to do.
37:01And that was over €10,000 in labour, and then whatever the tile price would cost.
37:07So it shows you how much money you're going to save.
37:10Look at that.
37:11What a system, eh?
37:14No wonder the French can have two-hour lunch breaks.
37:18They make their working life easy.
37:20The recycled slate that Budo is using is likely to have been quarried in northwest Spain and
37:26the Galicia region, which is where the vast majority of roofing slate used in Europe originates.
37:31Spanish slate has, for a long time, been preferred by roofers because of its extremely slow water
37:39absorption rate, which makes it highly resistant to cracking in low temperatures.
37:44The hook system also reduces the chance of tiles being damaged, as there are no nail holes,
37:50which can weaken a tile's integrity.
37:52Four weeks later, and with other projects having delayed the finishing of the roof,
38:03today Budo is laying the very last tile.
38:08Thank God.
38:09Last tile going on.
38:10Just got to put me cut in.
38:11I enjoy doing all aspects of building work, really.
38:21I've been fortunate in my life to be a foreman on a site doing all trades, you know.
38:28I don't look at this as a chore as such.
38:30It's just something nice about these old houses.
38:32They warrant being brought back to how they would have been two or three hundred years ago,
38:37you know.
38:38With a layer of mortar applied to the apex of the roof,
38:41Budo positions the final ridge tile.
38:51Now I've got to just cut a little piece to go over here and cap this end off.
38:55I've got one tile, so I've got to do this.
38:58I'm going to be cutting it here, along here, and keeping this bit to put that capping on over there.
39:05So I've got one chance, and that's it.
39:09It means I've got to go and buy another tile if I don't get it.
39:14With the pressure on to make the perfect cut,
39:17Budo wields his masonry saw with the poise of an open-heart surgeon.
39:25Success!
39:27So that's the bit that's going to go on there now.
39:29So I'll put a little bit of cement on that.
39:30I'm going to go away, leave that for an hour, just to dry off a bit.
39:40I'll cut it clean, fill this in with the rest of that on there.
39:44Job done.
39:45That's the roof on.
39:47Thank God.
39:48Next job.
39:50As all our saviours know, when one project is finished,
39:53a short pause in hostilities is all you can count on
39:57before the village cries out for more help.
40:00So I'll just keep working, getting jobs done,
40:03get this kitchen done for Trace.
40:05We've got another adventure we're doing over on the barn.
40:08So I'll get on to that as well, and then working through the house.
40:10So I've got jobs every day.
40:12I wake up every day and do the job, go to bed, think about a job,
40:15wake up, do another job, and that's my life.
40:18Back in Arrañada, where Neil has returned to his wall building.
40:31While the project has moved forwards,
40:33he's not as far on as he would have hoped.
40:36It's progressing slowly, very slowly,
40:39because every other day it throws it down with rain.
40:42Just not really sensible to do it with the amount of water.
40:46so that everything's saturated from one end to the other, including me.
40:49With a pause in the down pause,
40:52today Neil is working on the upright columns for the structure.
40:55That's the first of God knows how many I've got to do,
40:59but that will go on there.
41:04There'll be another one exactly the same, that side.
41:09The rails will go between the two.
41:11So, what I'll do is just to demonstrate how it's going to happen.
41:18It'll go through here,
41:20and that one goes into that one there,
41:22and that's cemented in.
41:24And there'll be another one, two blocks up on here as well,
41:27so it'll be pretty stable when it's all cemented up.
41:32Having made a good start,
41:34inevitably northern Spain's climate strikes back.
41:36You can see the water lying on the top of here.
41:40Even the blocks that have been cut out
41:42have got about two inches of water in the bottom of the holes here,
41:48so that isn't a good idea to start putting concrete in there.
41:52So, well, I think I'll have to give it up for today
41:55and wait until it gets dried out a bit.
41:58A few months later, and making good use of dry spells,
42:07Neil's Wall is almost finished.
42:10The railings are, as you can see, very strong.
42:14They are treated, so they're not going to rot away or anything like that.
42:17It'll take a lot of years, I would think.
42:19And now it's just a pretty-up exercise, really,
42:22to make them in keeping with the rest of the building.
42:24It will look properly decorative at the end of it as well,
42:27and I think it'll make a big difference to the appearance of this part.
42:31Having safely secured the top of the wall with his solidly built structure,
42:36he's decided to replicate the design
42:38to make safe another exposed high wall on the terrace below his house.
42:44The idea is that it's exactly the same type of structure
42:48and it's going to continue where these green-yellow marks are.
42:53and that'll go the entire length of the entire terrace.
43:00Part of the reason for wanting to do this is,
43:04in the summer, we do spend a lot of time sitting out here in the longer days.
43:09It's absolutely spectacular views around here.
43:12It's part of the reason for the family picking this particular place
43:15because it's nearly all our land around here,
43:19so nobody can do anything with it.
43:21The view's not going to change.
43:22So it's perfect for us.
43:25Two decades into his village saviour journey,
43:28and Neil's transformation of Arañada is remarkable to behold.
43:33And the fact he's doing it all himself is simply the icing on the cake.
43:37You think, oh, I've just got a load of people in to do things.
43:40No, I don't want to do that.
43:42It's an expression in Spanish, it's a poco poco.
43:45It's little by little.
43:46And that's precisely what I am, little by little.
43:50And eventually you do get the results.
43:53I can sit back and say, look, I've done it.
43:56I'm quite satisfied with the end results.
43:58But if you're getting somebody to do it,
44:00how do you explain what you want to see in your mind's eye?
44:03It's not possible.
44:04So for me, that's part of the enjoyment, if you can call it that,
44:08of doing the work.
44:10Yeah, physically it's hard work at times,
44:12but I get satisfaction out of seeing the end result.
44:15And that inspires me to continue with it.
44:20Next time, anticipation builds for Louise and Paul.
44:29The more that gets done,
44:31the more I get excited about the possibility of moving in.
44:34At La Cloutière, Budo unearths a treasure trove from the past.
44:39That was a lovely little find,
44:41and that's definitely going to go in my man cave.
44:44And in northern Spain, we're back with a couple
44:47who, having completed one part of their village,
44:49are moving on to an entirely new phase.
44:53If we don't do some controlled demolition in the next few months,
44:56then the walls will fall out as well.
44:57And we're going to go in the next few months.
44:58And we're going to do some work.
44:58And we'll see you in the next few months.
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