Escape to the Chateau DIY (2018–2021): Season 2, Episode 17 - Episode #2.17 - full transcript
Erin from the UK and J.P (Fr) own a chateau in the Pay's de la Loire area. They have 4 cottages ( Gites) to rent and they are renovating the Solarium to make a guest breakfast room for the in-house guests. At a chateau in the Picardy area Tim and Dutch born Marguerite are trying to make a Gin Bar from an old shed to use for wedding receptions. In the south near the Pyrenees in Loutrec, British couple Paul and Allison are building an outdoor kitchen and a Terrace for weddings. They paid £650,000 for their chateau but it will end up costing over 3 times that cost. They also want to make a newly discovered underground chamber into another guest room, but first they must make a window. Dick fixes up his Vin de vin at his chateau;
Dick Strawbridge:
I'm Dick Strawbridge,
and along with my wife Angel
and our two children...
You're late!
Dick: we've lived in this
magnificent chateau in France
for the last 4 years.
Angel: 1, 2, 3.
Dick: We are renovating it
as our home...
Right. So canapés.
Dick, voice-over:
and our business...
2, 3, up!
Dick, voice-over: And it seems
we're not the only Brits
who have followed their dream
and have bought a chateau
to call home.
Woman: Absolutely stunning.
It's beautiful.
Dick, voice-over: So Angel
and I are back
guiding a new batch of
adventurous owners.
Angel: I know it's gonna
look lovely.
That's bordering on ridiculous.
Dick, voice-over: And catching
up with some old friends...
Hey!
as they battle to rescue
their homes...
Stick it in the hole,
and let's just see how far
we can go.
Dick, voice-over: and try to
make them pay their way.
But this has all gone wrong
'cause 5 was originally there.
Pardon.
Dick, voice-over: And we'll
reveal more
about our own
chateau experience.
Angel: It's a balance.
And finding that balance
is really, really hard.
Dick, voice-over:
They'll be highs...
- That's it. That's it.
- Yes!
Dick, voice-over: And lows...
All these stairs will be the
death of me, I think.
Dick, voice-over: But however
hard the going gets...
Whoa!
for these plucky Brits,
nothing beats life in their
very own castle.
[Cheering]
- Today...
- Voila!
Dick, voice-over: we meet
fiancés Erin and JB,
getting engaged with the
business of chateau ownership.
JB: I was really hoping
for marble floors,
but it was just like
a dirty tile.
Dick, voice-over: Catch up
with a couple having
a light bulb moment.
- That's nice, isn't it?
- Oh, it is.
Tim: And then when we get
all the fairy lights over it.
Dick, voice-over: And another
pair of familiar faces
with disagreements
over deadlines.
Alison: It'll be done in a week.
Paul: Two weeks.
Alison: No.
Paul: Two weeks.
Alison: One week.
[Engine grinds]
What?
Dick, voice-over: Plus, there's
a vanload of woes
for yours truly.
Unbelievable.
We haven't got a bang
or pop.
If it doesn't do a bang,
it hasn't got pfft out the back.
You've got it, you see.
Dick, voice-over:
Chateau de Bourneau
is a 19th-century fairy tale
built in the 16th-century
Renaissance style,
surrounded by a moat
and 40 acres of grounds.
Erin: We came up this
main village
and then we just had this
ahh moment.
And we're like, "Oh, it is
so beautiful.
This is it. This is it."
JB: And I knew I was in trouble.
Erin: And then JB knew he
was in trouble.
Dick, voice-over: Erin,
an anesthetist,
and French-born JB,
a trained engineer,
spent £560,000 on the chateau
located in the Pays de la Loire
to the west of the country.
Erin: You do end up having to
learn unexpected skills, really.
Dick, voice-over: They're
renting out 4 holiday cottages
on the estate to provide income
whilst they get their chateau
up and running
for weddings and events.
Erin: Our ability to renovate
the chateau
is entirely reliant on whether
our business functions
and whether people sort of buy
into the same idea
and fall in love with it the way
that we have.
I think this is the most
romantic place in the world.
And we hope other people do,
too,
and want to get married here
and have their event
and come and stay.
Dick, voice-over: I've helped
them try to tackle
their damp issue from
the surrounding moat.
Your fundamental problem is
we're below water level.
I think that's the thing,
owning a chateau
is not that glamorous.
Dick, voice-over: Now, in a bid
to cut costs,
they're tackling another
job themselves--
transforming the old solarium
into a guest breakfast room.
JB: Everything is to be
stripped--
vinyl floor, removing windows,
checking glass, removing
door panels,
sanding everything,
chipping walls.
And, yeah, proper big job
today.
Erin: Just a small few things.
Dick, voice-over: To save time
and money,
they've roped in some free help
in the form of their friends
Alistair and Seth.
JB: That was easy.
Dick, voice-over: The solarium,
or sun room,
was created by enclosing
a balcony
when it was used as nursing home
in the mid 20th century.
Erin and JB want to preserve
the structure
as much as they can.
JB: Step one done.
This can stay.
All of this looks good.
Ish.
Don't know what that is.
Right, stage two,
we take the door.
- Not moving.
- Not moving at all.
We may have to just put
a screwdriver in
to jimmy the hinge a bit.
JB: Is it lifting?
Hold this in case it falls.
Seth: 1, 2, 3.
JB: It's off.
Seth: OK. And down.
JB: This snapped.
This snapped.
Seth: Oh, did you snap
the pin?
JB: The pin of the hinge
is actually,
I think it was like rusted,
like chemically welded in,
and snapped.
So those two are broken.
There's only the top one that
was really holding the door.
Which means don't know what I'm
gonna do with these doors.
Seth: We can't get them
back on.
JB: We can't get them back on.
We'll need to change that
if we want to.
Dick, voice-over: If JB can't
fix the broken hinge,
this entire frame will need
to be replaced,
and that could be quite
expensive.
And if this one's broken,
the same could happen to
the others.
JB: This is not gonna come out
easily.
Seth: No, it's not.
JB: Are we clear?
Alistair: Oh, here we go.
Seth: Hit it--see again.
JB: It is a sign.
It broke. It broke.
Seth: It's the top hinge
that's held.
Everything else is sheered.
Dick, voice-over: Yet another
breakage.
JB: I think once we take
those doors out,
we'll see what we can do with
the actual frame,
and then we need to reassess,
because if the entire frame
needs to be
changed, fixed, repaired,
something, we might need
to find a plan "b."
An easy job always turns
into something bigger.
You think it's just gonna
be a question of
removing something, sanding it,
painting, put it back.
If we rush it and don't do it
properly now,
it's gonna come back in
a couple of years.
And I'd rather take time.
[Laughs]
Frustrating.
Dick, voice-over: JB needs to
find a fix
for the broken hinges or this
job could end up costing
not just time, but a significant
amount of money.
Over in northern France
is 64-room Chateau des Lys.
Last year we met owners
Tim from Essex
and his Dutch wife Margreeth...
Angel: Hi!
Dick, voice-over:
when they were struggling
to make ends meet as a B&B.
Working smarter, not harder
is the big thing.
Dick, voice-over: After a
business chat with us,
they decided to offer
the chateau for weddings,
alongside their B&B business.
Now it's all about making
the chateau in Picardie
stand out from the crowd.
Tim: There were loads of
chateaus doing weddings,
so you need to have something
which is different.
And the thing we're gonna
have different
is that we're gonna have this
whole sort of vintage bohemian
thing.
Dick, voice-over: Part of that
whole vintage bohemian thing
is this old shed.
Tim: And we want to turn it gin
bar, but not just any gin bar.
We want to turn it into a gin
bar with Dutch gin.
Margreeth: A gin jenever bar.
Tim: A gin jenever bar, yes.
Or genever as they say
in Holland.
Dick, voice-over: They've
persuaded one bride-to-be
it'll be transformed in time
for her big day.
Margreeth: We have
the old pigsty
where we want to make
a photo booth.
Woman: So from pigsty
to photo booth.
Margreeth: Exactly.
Man: We're up for it, yeah.
Woman: Yeah, let's do it.
Margreeth: Well, thank you.
We won't let you down,
I promise you.
Tim: It'll be done.
Dick, voice-over: Now they need
to renovate it.
Because so far they've only
managed to clear the space.
Margreeth: We were a bit
optimistic with the time scale.
Although there is enough time to
get it all finished
if we didn't have any guests.
Dick, voice-over: They now have
just two weeks
to get the bar ready to go.
Plus, it's Tim and Margreeth's
busiest time of the year.
I'm constantly, you know,
having people arriving,
breakfast to be served,
rooms to be changed over,
so you can't just crack on
with it,
and I think that is very, very
difficult.
Tim: Tonight we've got 30 people
in for dinner. Ahh.
And, um, that's rather a lot,
actually.
Anyway, they're coming in,
and I've got loads
of other stuff to do today,
so I'm a bit snowed under.
In they go.
This is laundry for one week.
Dick, voice-over: It can
certainly be hard
to keep a handle on things.
[Indistinct]
Dick, voice-over: But finally
Tim and Margreeth
have a bit of spare time
from guest duties
and are checking out some tiles
they found in an outbuilding.
They could be perfect for
the floor of the new gin bar.
Tim: I remember there are
a few tiles in here
from when we were moving.
They're gorgeous, aren't they?
Look at those.
They're like--
I don't know where
they came from, but wow.
Margreeth: They are really nice.
Tim: They are really, really
lovely.
Margreeth: Maybe we can do like
a bigger one
with smaller ones around it.
Tim: Yeah. Oh, wow.
And those.
Margreeth: Great.
Very French.
Great.
Dick, voice-over: But before
they can put
the new money-saving tile find
into play,
Tim needs to trim back
some trees
that are too close for comfort
to planned new gin bar.
Margreeth: Say, that doesn't
look very stable.
Dick, voice-over:
Working at height,
you must have a stable platform.
Tim: I can't see anything that
can go wrong.
Dick, voice-over: There are so
many things that can go wrong.
Using a chainsaw off a ladder
like this
is dangerous for both Tim
and Margreeth.
Don't do it.
You must have the correct
equipment,
hold the saw properly,
and know what you're doing.
It's purely luck no one was hurt
this time.
Tim: Yeah!
That was all right.
Margreeth: Ah, well done.
Gosh, what a relief.
Tim: It's quite a lot of tree
there, isn't there, really.
Amazing.
Dick, voice-over: It's not time
to deliver
some old factory furniture
for the gin bar
that Tim picked up in
the nearby village.
Tim: OK, take it slowly.
Margreeth: Yeah.
Mind your head.
Tim: OK, great stuff.
Yeah, keep going.
We're OK.
We're gonna be able to do this.
It's good.
Whoo.
All this stuff has come from
an old factory in the village
that used to make locks,
and it's been deserted
since 1990.
The place was built in 1890,
so it's a hundred years old.
And this is all stuff that
we are allowed to take for free.
And we're gonna use this to
build our gin bar.
You all right with this?
Margreeth: Don't know.
Dick, voice-over: This is the
sort of creative recycling
that just makes sense.
Tim: It's number 204, this one.
Margreeth: Ah, well, Gin Bar
204.
Tim: Gin Bar 204,
the 204 Gin Bar.
Margreeth: I really like it.
Dick, voice-over: First, a quick
blast from a power washer.
Tim: Oh, that's gonna be lovely.
Yeah.
Margreeth: Yeah, I can
just see it filled with
all kinds of glasses
and gins and stuff.
- Do you know what we need now?
- Gin and tonic?
Tim: We need floor. Well, we
need a gin and tonic.
Dick, voice-over: No G and Ts
just yet.
Those floor tiles need laying.
What I'm trying to do here
is make a really nice mosaic
of all the old tiles
and bricks that we found
in our shed.
Dick, voice-over: Rather than
plan out her gin bar floor,
Margreeth's opted to make it up
as she goes along.
Margreeth: It's gonna be
very organic.
So it's gonna be a bit...yeah,
bit unique.
Dick, voice-over: With a wedding
group booked
to christen the bar in just
two weeks,
let's hope Margreeth's unique
approach works out.
We're under the cush a bit,
but I hope we're still gonna
get it ready.
If we don't, then it's a bit
of a disaster.
Dick, voice-over: At our chateau
in northwest France,
we love bringing new life to
the old buildings.
Angel: We're just excited to
see this place breathe again.
Dick, voice-over: But one
restoration's
kept me on my toes since
the day it arrived--
Angel's pet project
the van de van.
Angel: I don't think anyone's
gonna get it until--
certainly not Dick--
until that moment
when the lights are twinkling
and the bar's rolling.
It's ugly. In the dark, it'll
look all right.
Angel: Castor, can I help?
Castor: No, it's all electric.
Angel: You OK?
Castor: Gosh.
Dick, voice-over: It was
a bad start all round.
[Beeping]
Battery was in the wrong way.
The brakes are so ropey.
Dick, voice-over:
After lots of work,
we managed to bring new life
into the worn out
40-year-old Citroen van.
Once used for selling
novelty goods
on the beaches of northern
France,
it's now a bar for serving
drinks at our weddings.
Angel: There we go.
Nice and cold.
Dick: This is the most
ridiculous van I've ever seen.
Angel: I know, but it works.
Dick, voice-over: It did work,
but now the engine won't start.
With more weddings on
the horizon,
we need to get it going, so it
can move between
the chateau and the orangery.
Let's see what happens.
A little light came on.
That's a good start.
[Engine grinds]
It's got enough fuel,
which is something now.
Dick, voice-over: The fuel
filter's not blocked.
So next phase.
Dick, voice-over: Time to check
the sparkplugs.
Wasn't on very tight,
was it?
Dick, voice-over: And whether or
not we have a spark.
[Engine grinding]
There's a spark. Yeah.
Yep, the spark went all the way
through there.
[Laughs]
So we got a spark.
Oh, dear.
That's a bad thing.
Dick, voice-over: The
distributor cap
doesn't seem to be attached
properly.
See what happens now.
All right.
[Engine grinding]
Dick, voice-over: Those
cable ties aren't quite
the fix I'd hoped for.
Um...
Hello, my beautiful girl.
- How are you?
- Talking to me?
Dick: Well, obviously.
- Good morning, Daddy.
- This is a real beauty.
Dorothy: What are you doing?
Dick: Darling, that's--aah!
That's the point.
- What are you doing?
- The engine is a bit sick.
Dorothy: What do you mean
a little bit sick?
Dick: 'Cause what it does is it
sucks in petrol,
it squeezes it up,
and makes a bang,
and then it goes pfft
and pops out the back.
OK, and the bit we're missing
is the bang.
Um, I can't fudge it.
I've tried to fudge it,
it just can't be fudged.
Angel: Is there petrol in it?
Dick: Yes. Thank you. Shh.
Trust. Trust is a very important
thing.
Angel: Bye. I'm gonna go
and organize some chairs.
Dick: [Kiss] Have fun.
Dorothy: Dad, can I help you?
Dick: Darling, you can help me.
Just fix the distributor
and can you actually just
treat the car?
Dorothy: Yep.
Dick: Thank you.
That's my girl.
Yes is the answer.
Dorothy: Can I go sit on
the other side?
Dick: Yeah, you can go around
the other side.
Dorothy: Why did it not do
a beep-beep?
Dick: It doesn't do very much,
darling.
So I've got--I'm missing my
ignition and my exhaust.
Dorothy: Dad, I can see.
Dick: All right, can you
see the problem?
Dorothy: Yeah.
Dick: Where's my problem?
You haven't got the bang
or pop.
Dick: Well done.
Dorothy gets it.
If it doesn't do a bang, it
hasn't got a pfft at the back.
You've got it, you see.
You're so beautiful.
If only the world was
that simple.
Dick, voice-over: The van de van
is too essential
to our wedding business
to give up on it now.
Maybe I should hand my tools
to Dorothy.
Over in Picardie in
northern France,
Tim and Margreeth are busy
turning an old shed
into a gin bar for their
wedding business
and have just two weeks to
finish a stack of jobs.
Margreeth: Another good one.
These stones have all been
used before.
Some are in shatters.
Lovely.
Dick, voice-over:
Whilst Margreeth is making
it up as she goes along, laying
all tiles on the bar floor...
Tim: Uhh.
Dick, voice-over: Tim needs to
get power
and lights hooked up.
Tim: I'm not the world's
greatest electrician,
but I've sort of built a few
houses in my time,
and you sort of learn as you go
along, really.
This sort of stuff can take
no time at all
or it can take ages, so...
So the moment of truth time.
We're gonna switch this on,
see whether it works,
and after that,
put in another 10 hours' work,
but let's go for it.
See if the lights go on.
Ha ha ha. They didn't.
Dick, voice-over:
That's not good.
Tim: Oh, man.
Dick, voice-over:
An electrician's a cost
they don't want to shoulder,
so Tim's decided to fix this
himself.
We have done a lot of DIY
in the past,
so you would think everything
always goes smoothly.
Unfortunately, it doesn't.
This is taking me a lot longer
than I wanted it to.
I've got a feeling that the
switch itself might be broken,
so that might be my problem.
Let's try that.
Dick, voice-over: Bingo!
Job done.
Tim: Ha ha ha!
- It's nice, isn't it?
- Oh, it is fantastic.
Tim: And then when we get all
the fairy lights over it.
Margreeth: Yeah. It is--
Tim: It's gonna be good,
isn't it?
Margreeth: Oh, Tim,
it's so amazing.
Oh, well done, honey.
Tim: Thank you.
Margreeth: So good.
Tim: Yep.
Dick, voice-over: Looks like
the romantic lighting
is working its magic already.
But there's no honeymoon
for the gin bar yet.
Margreeth's mosaic needs
finishing.
And without enough tiles for
the entire floor,
Tim's ordered gravel and sand
to cover the rest.
Unfortunately, it's been
delivered a hundred meters
shy of the shed.
Yeah, they couldn't get
any closer
because the truck's--
the truck was too high
to get through the trees.
Dick, voice-over: After shifting
through barrelfuls
from the first bag,
Tim decides he can move the rest
by car.
Well, so far so good.
[Chuckles]
What could go wrong?
Dick, voice-over: You're taking
a chance
with the clutch there, mate.
Looks like he got away with it,
but rather your car than mine.
Margreeth's mosaic is ready
for its first critique,
from 10-year-old son Joe.
Do you want to come
and have a look?
It's finished.
Dick, voice-over: I think that's
a seal of approval.
It's great, isn't it?
Dick, voice-over: But with
the wedding party due
in less than a fortnight,
I just hope Tim and Margreeth
get their work done in time.
Back in Pays de la Loire,
Erin, JB, and friends
are struggling
to refurbish the solarium
of Chateau de Bourneau.
JB: It's off.
Dick, voice-over: After breaking
door hinges,
they're hoping the old flooring
will come away more easily.
So there is some quite ugly
tiles, I believe.
Oh, no, hang on,
that's marble.
There's marble here.
Over there it's ugly.
I think this is marble.
Dick, voice-over: An original
marble floor
would be a great boost for the
planned guest breakfast room.
But removing more lino reveals
something less grand.
Turns out it's just like the old
nursing home tiles
from the seventies.
I'm a bit disappointed.
I was expecting
some, uh, expecting some
marble floor.
Dick, voice-over:
The fiancés now need to
think about new flooring
as well as the rest of the
decor in here.
Elsewhere, the couple want to
create a honeymoon suite,
so Erin's project has been
making the main staircase
look suitably grand.
She's spent the past week
painting the metalwork banister
and is making finishing touches
with the help of old uni friend
Jen.
Jen: The first thing people see
when they come in.
Erin: Yeah, exactly. And what
we're trying to get
our honeymoon suite ready,
and that's part of that,
is that having that lovely
entrance up to that suite,
so we couldn't really leave it
Smurf blue.
Dick, voice-over: It's no
surprise to Jen
that Erin is getting hands-on.
Jen: We always used to joke
at uni
that Erin actually missed
a calling to be a plumber,
because whenever anyone had
any problems
with anything in their flat
plumbing-wise,
they'd call on Erin to pop
around.
Erin: I'm no expert plumber,
you know, but, you know,
I'll give it a go.
It's one of those things that's
quite a useful skill to develop.
So I'm really pleased.
I think it looks just so much
more in keeping with
the period property.
So, yeah, it's really good--
it's a good job.
Dick, voice-over: Time to
compare progress
with Team JB.
JB: And voila!
Erin: Ooh. Wow.
So you actually have done
quite a lot.
JB: Wait, why are you saying
that for?
[Laughter]
Erin: Well done, guys.
JB: I was really hoping
for marble floors.
We decided to dig in to that,
but it was just a dirty tile.
So, yeah. [Laughs]
Seth: The problem is that we
have broke
almost every single hinge, so
the doors now can't go back on.
Erin: Oh, right.
Seth: So it's gonna stay
al fresco for--
Erin: A while.
JB: Make it sound positive.
Come on.
Erin: So whilst we've been
hard at work,
you guys have been--
- Breaking things.
Erin: Breaking things, OK.
Beyond repair.
It's gonna be a big job.
I think we just need to create
a bit of a mood board.
JB: Mm-hmm.
Erin: And see what we can...
JB: I know the mood already,
and it's not a good one.
So added to the to-do list
spreadsheet,
we now need to probably fix or
cut off some of the frame
of the doors, replace, paint,
reinstall, change windows.
Dick, voice-over: If JB can't
get those doors back on,
this solarium could end up being
a very breezy breakfast room.
In the south of the country,
just a baguette's length from
the French Pyrenees,
is the stunning 11th-century
fortress
Chateau de Brametourte,
located close to the idyllic
village of Lautrec,
a once ancestral home of artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
We first met chateau owners Paul
and Alison last year.
Paul: We've got about 60 people
we're expecting.
And I've got a list as
long as your arm
of things I've got to try
and finish.
Dick, voice-over: They were
building an outdoor kitchen
and terrace for weddings
and events
between juggling jobs in IT
and HR to fund renovations.
Alison: It's
gobsmackingly-shocking
how much we have spent,
and we haven't finished yet.
We're probably gonna have to
pay 3 times what we paid
for the chateau by the time we
finish renovating it.
Dick, voice-over:
The Brits paid £650,000
for the chateau 12 years ago.
And this year they have a new
project to expand the business.
Last year we found this little
hole in the floorboards
in the room above,
and when we peered down into it,
we thought we could see
another room.
Dick, voice-over: They found
this abandoned chamber
located under their original
keep,
which they intend to renovate.
Alison: Come have a look.
Come have a look.
Dick, voice-over: Abandoned for
hundreds of years,
it shows the building's previous
life as a fortified castle.
Alison: This is an old
arrow slit
that used to look into
the original moat
that's been filled in at some
point in the chateau's history.
Dick, voice-over: Paul and
Alison want to turn the space
into an additional guest suite.
So I've got to work out,
how can you make a window
that at the moment looks
into soil.
Dick, voice-over: And the
subterranean location
brings an even bigger problem.
Alison: This has had these
dehumidifiers going now
for over a week, and it's still
feeling damp.
Paul: We were hoping it would
dry out, but it hasn't.
So there's obviously too much
water getting in there.
We're gonna have to dig
a big trench all along the side
and about 3 meters deep,
so all the way below ground
level and below this floor level
and put in a drainage pipe
to take away the water.
So that's gonna be
a big job.
Dick, voice-over: It certainly
will be.
And digging a 3-meter trench
will make a big mess.
But with their wedding season
kicking off in just two weeks,
they'll need to work fast
to make the place picture
perfect by then.
Alison: I'm stressed, darling.
Are we gonna get it done
in time?
Paul: Paul it all up, put
gravel down.
Alison: And all in a week,
all in a week.
Paul: Two weeks, yeah.
Alison: No, no, it's got to be
done in a week,
otherwise the plants won't
come back.
Well, what does that mean?
- Yeah, it'll be done.
- It will be done in a week.
- Two weeks, yeah.
- No.
- Two weeks.
- One week. We need the plants.
- It'll take two weeks.
- Two weeks is too tight.
Paul: It'll be finished
in two weeks.
It'll be finished in two weeks.
Dick, voice-over: I think
they're in agreement.
Paul: Right. I need to go get
some lunch.
Alison: There you go.
Dick, voice-over: At
Chateau de la Motte-Husson,
I'm determined to get Angel's
beloved van de van moving again.
Yep, the spark went all the way
through there.
[Engine grinds]
It's got enough fuel, which is
something now.
Dick, voice-over: After several
unsuccessful attempts...
Right.
I'm calling in reinforcements.
I feel like I should always have
a bigger cup.
Man: Right.
Dick, voice-over: Namely,
Shane the mechanic.
Right. What I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna go get
the starting handle, yeah?
Shane: OK.
Dick, voice-over: To set up
the timing,
we have to crank her by hand.
Unbelievable.
Shane: Have you got the cranking
handle in position yet?
I've got to take this front
cover off to get at it.
- That's locked, yeah?
- Yeah, it is. That's something.
Dick, voice-over: Shane works on
setting up the distributor
while I check the battery.
What?
You can't have zero volts.
[Beeping]
It might be a remote kit.
Angel: You good?
Shane: Did you take this off,
then, Dick?
Dick: Nope. Why, what's missing?
Shane: No, nothing's missing.
The basket that holds the thing
is bent.
Dick: Are you trying to say that
I'm [Indistinct]
[Laughter]
Angel: But it's gentle.
Gentle heart.
Do you still love me?
Dick: Right.
Angel: And the van is still
living,
because it is fantastic,
isn't it?
Dick: But it's a trailer.
As a trailer, it'd work,
wouldn't it?
[Chuckles]
So we've got electric, we've got
spark at the right time,
we've got fuel.
So there's absolutely no reason
why this won't start.
[Engine grinding]
It wants to go.
Just needs more juice.
Dick, voice-over:
This has to work.
Shane hooks up some cables
to jumpstart the engine from
his van.
[Engine whirs, starts]
[Cheering]
It was much safer when
the engine didn't work.
Good.
Thanks, many. Thank you.
Good job.
It's got another 20 1/2 years
in it. Come on.
Shane: Yeah.
Dick: It'll make 60.
Good.
It still lives.
Doesn't matter what we do,
we just can't kill it.
Dick, voice-over: The van de van
is all good
to return to wedding duties
in the grounds.
In the Pays de la Loire,
fiancés Erin and JB are busy
with the first stage
of transforming the stunning
Chateau de Bourneau
to Renaissance-style splendor,
ready to host weddings
and events.
On the agenda is a honeymoon
suite.
Erin: We like doing the DIY,
but the creative side of things,
we might need a little
bit of help.
Dick, voice-over: Luckily,
interior designer Jo
is among the many friends
lending a helping hand.
She has a specialist know-how
to put Renaissance charm
back into this palatial space.
Erin: There's no features
really left.
Jo: No. I completely understand
that.
So what have you thought about
doing in here?
Erin: I mean, heh heh, now this
is where the budget comes in.
I really...[Laughs]
I really like the idea of
bringing it back
to like a chateau, you know,
so it really feels
like a luxurious chateau
experience
and putting in paneling.
Jo: Originally, paneling
was oak
to be made offsite,
put together,
et cetera, et cetera.
That is a very expensive...
Erin: How much--
Jo: undertaking.
Erin: How much are we talking?
Jo: [Sighs] For a room
this size, um...
probably 50 to £75,000,
I would think.
Erin: Oh, my god.
OK, so no, we won't.
Jo: We're not going with that.
We're gonna do something
different.
We're gonna try and emulate
that effect
but on a slightly better budget.
The key thing that'll make it
feel more Renaissance,
more traditional is probably
adding
what we call a dado rail.
But essentially a piece of wood
that runs about this height.
Then to get the effect of
paneling,
I think you'll need to go and
get some molding, essentially,
some carved wood, that we'll
stick to the wall directly
and then paint. OK.
The other way to add in
some luxury in here
is adding in some velvet.
Get a chair from [Indistinct],
something like that,
and then you can upholster
in a velvet.
And instantly, you start
thinking--
Erin: Luxury and chic.
Jo: Yeah, exactly.
All those sort of things.
Erin: Lovely. I love this color
of sheer.
It's really nice.
Dick, voice-over: Jo's help is
also needed
to tackle the bigger problem in
the troublesome solarium.
Erin: So this is the solarium.
Jo: Gosh, but what an amazing
space to have.
Erin: Yeah, it's cool.
So we really want it to be
beautiful,
but you can see,
we've got a bit of an issue.
So the main thing is this lovely
pebble dashing.
Jo: Yes, I would assume was
a later addition.
Erin: Later added, exactly.
Jo: But the problem with pebble
dashing
is it's just a nightmare
to get off.
And really, if you want
to get this up
and working and things
like that,
we probably have to think of
another alternative.
Something that's contemporary
for, well, the 16th century
is to [Speaks French]
or trellising, essentially.
Erin: Oh, OK.
Jo: So you put a trellis
over the top of this,
so this will act as
a background color.
People won't really realize it's
a pebble dash.
Erin: Sure.
So you mean, what, like a--like
garden trellis?
Jo: Yeah. And then that's
painted white.
So it almost feels like
you're in a garden,
even though we are inside.
You can then have the option to
grow something nice up it,
bit of greenery,
camouflage it,
make it aesthetically pleasing.
And you will never notice it.
Once you come in and you've got
that amazing view
and it's a nice entrance,
no one's gonna look back
and say, "Ooh, do they have
pebble dashing under there?"
Erin: Great.
The art of distraction.
Jo: Exactly. Exactly.
It's a key thing. Key thing.
Erin: Lovely. This is exactly
what I wanted to hear.
Dick, voice-over: With so
much of this vast chateau
needing refurbishment,
Erin needs all the budget-saving
DIY advice she can get.
At Chateau de Brametourte
near the French Pyrenees,
with just 10 days to go before
their wedding season starts,
Alison and Paul are trying to
complete the ground works
for a new subterranean guest
suite under the original keep.
They're laying drainage along
the side of the building
and digging a light well
at the front
to allow in natural light.
Paul: I guess this is where
we find the body
that's been buried, right?
Dick, voice-over: They need to
excavate a 3-meter trench
and clear up the mess before
guests arrive.
So they've hired in the big guns
to speed up the work.
Paul: I think at the end
of the day,
making a decision about hiring
a digger
is much more sensible,
especially since Alison's away
getting the dogs shampooed
and we're here digging the hole,
so I think we're gonna use
the digger as much as we can.
Dick, voice-over: Dogs Champers
and Truffles
immaculately coiffured,
Alison returns
to check on progress.
Alison: How have you been
getting on here?
Paul: Well, we dig a big hole,
as you can see.
But there's quite a lot of
digging to do still,
so we've got to go 3 meters
down.
Alison: How far are we now?
Paul: Probably only two meters,
so it's quite a bit bigger
we've got to get that hole.
Alison: Oh, Champers is scared.
Paul: Champers, come here.
Come on.
Alison: Good girl.
Paul: Yes.
Dick, voice-over: There's more
digging to do,
but the opening is finally
revealed
after being blocked by soil
for centuries.
And here we are looking through
the window
for the first time ever.
Dick, voice-over: Inside,
stonework that provided
a military stronghold more than
500 years ago
is being repointed for the new
luxury guest suite.
Days later, work has progressed
apace.
Alison: So loads has happened in
the last several days.
Dick, voice-over: Drainage laid,
the trench at the side
has been filled.
The entrance has new gravel
and stonework
over the light well for
the window.
But there's still one crucial
thing missing.
Alison: We've still got a great
big hole here
down to the window,
but we've found an iron monger
to deliver a grid
based on our design.
And I'm just really excited to
see that get fitted.
Dick, voice-over: Paul's back
with the final
piece of the puzzle.
Paul: Hello, darling.
Look what I've got.
Alison: Oh, great.
Paul: The new grill.
Dick, voice-over: Fingers
crossed it fits.
Alison: It's OK. Going.
Paul: Yeah.
Alison: Oh, yes.
Look at that.
Paul: Yeah, look at that.
Perfect, eh?
Alison: Look at that.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Paul: Look, takes my weight.
Alison: Takes your weight,
then it can take my weight
for sure.
Paul: Yeah.
Alison: Ha ha ha!
Paul: Hey!
Alison: [Laughs] Yes.
Dick, voice-over:
Just in time,
as the wedding guests are
due to arrive.
Over in Pays de la Loire
at Chateau de Bourneau,
Erin's interior design friend Jo
is showing her a mockup
of the paneling for
the honeymoon suite.
Erin: Absolutely hit the nail on
the head. That's wonderful.
So that's the dado rail that
you're talking about.
Jo: Exactly. What it does, it
provides a nice
horizontal structure for
everything else to be built off
and gets the feeling the room is
more formal
and gets back to that
16th-century feel.
Erin: It's beautiful.
No, I really love it.
Dick, voice-over: To put their
designs into action,
it's time to enroll
the men folk,
JB and Jo's husband Thomas,
to turn strips of 40 millimeter
wood molding
into the crucial dado rail.
Jo: You put two together.
Erin: Oh, yeah.
JB: Sort of like--OK, yeah.
Jo: They'll need to be
glued together.
So a much--a thicker line
across there.
Do you see?
Right. We'll leave you to it.
JB: Heh. Thank you.
Erin: Good luck.
OK, let's go find something
else, Erin.
Erin: Yes, love to.
See you, sir.
Good luck, boys.
Thomas: Let's give it a go.
JB: How--how...
How have they managed that?
Thomas: They've escaped again.
Dick, voice-over: Don't worry,
they're not idling.
Instead, they're remodeling
a couple of chairs
left behind by the chateau's
former owners.
They could be perfect for
the honeymoon suite.
Jo: I suggest what we try
and do is take out
these cane seats, just so they
don't get
in the way or get paint on them.
Erin: Perfect.
Jo: Do you want turn that one
upside down?
Erin: Yeah.
Jo: See what's going.
Erin: Let's have a look.
I assume it's screwed on,
is it.
Jo: Yeah, brilliant. OK, so...
Let's grab a screwdriver and
we'll try to get that off,
then we'll paint it white,
and then hopefully,
before not too long, we'll have
completely new chairs.
Erin: Excellent.
I can't wait.
Dick, voice-over: Over in
the honeymoon suite,
JB and Thomas are following
strict instructions
for the dado rail.
JB: So that is up.
So I'll place the corner first
on the note and on the mark.
Yeah.
Thomas: Yeah.
JB: Change of position.
So that wasn't a gas pipe?
Are we sure?
Thomas: It didn't smell good.
JB: It's probably the glue.
Hopefully it is the glue.
[Indistinct]
Thomas: OK.
JB: There's something metallic
running along this way.
Dick, voice-over: Come on,
chaps,
best to check you're not going
to strike gas,
water, or electricity before
hitting the nails in.
JB: Further along.
Thomas: Third time the charm.
JB: Good.
I'm very pleased with that.
Thomas: Yeah, that is pretty
damn good.
JB: We didn't hit any gas pipe
or heating--
well, maybe, we'll find out.
But...[Laughs]
Thomas: Find out as water comes
through the kitchen tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah.
Dick, voice-over: Fortunately,
Erin and Jo
are blissfully unaware of the
potential dado disaster.
Erin: How do you think the boys
are getting on next door
with your instructions?
Jo: Oh, um, I hope OK.
It's gonna be quite a challenge
trying to put fixed frames
on it,
which obviously exactly
horizontal and vertical
is always challenging.
But I hope they haven't
fallen out yet.
Erin: Well, as long as they're
not just sitting there
having beers or something.
Jo: I'm sure they're not.
Dick, voice-over: They wouldn't
dream of it.
Thomas: Stage one. Cheers.
JB: Cheers.
Good work.
Mmm.
Dick, voice-over: Grab a beer
break whilst you can
because believe you me,
getting the chateau
ready for events means you're
gonna be very busy
for a long time ahead.
Back in Chateau de Brametourte
near the Pyrenees,
with work safely
out of the way,
Alison and Paul's wedding season
is now in full swing.
Alison: Everything is looking
wonderful.
The guests have been asked to
stay at the front here,
just before the ceremony,
and they've all come a little
bit earlier than expected.
IF they saw this place
two weeks ago,
they would have been absolutely
horrified.
[Bell dings, cheering]
Man: It's a pleasure to present
Mr. and Mrs. [Indistinct]
Dick, voice-over: Luckily,
the wedding guests
have no idea about the messy
groundworks
they've just pulled off.
Woman: Beautiful setting,
beautiful scenery.
Yeah, stunning. Maybe one day
I'll get married here.
Man: It's beautiful here.
The views are spectacular.
The chateau itself is wonderful.
And the courtyard they got
married in was just idyllic.
It's absolutely fantastic venue.
Alison: As a team, we can get
through everything together,
I think, and work really well
together.
Don't always agree,
but complement each other
somehow.
Paul: No, don't always agree.
Don't ever agree, but.
Dick, voice-over: Above ground,
the chateau is picture perfect.
And below ground, what was once
a damp, disused chamber
is now an inviting bedroom
with repointed walls
and ensuite facilities.
Paul: Really happy how the
room's turned out.
Alison: I am really looking
forward
to taking people down that
staircase
and telling them the story
about that suite
that didn't exist before,
and to have your own arrow slit
there
right beside the bed, too,
is fabulous.
Dick, voice-over: Another
successful renovation project.
And I wish Alison and Paul luck
with their ongoing business.
Next time,
our place has a check up
after a hard winter.
All I'm doing is just relieved
every time I press
a button that works.
Dick, voice-over: Erin and JB
aim to cook up a storm
for their first guest party.
Erin: The French do not like
meat that tastes like shoe.
JB: [Chuckles]
Dick, voice-over: And panic
sessions
as Tim and Margreeth launch
their vintage bar.
Tim: I'm really panicking now.
We're about an hour away
from this
being anywhere near cookable.
Now I feel stressed.
I'm Dick Strawbridge,
and along with my wife Angel
and our two children...
You're late!
Dick: we've lived in this
magnificent chateau in France
for the last 4 years.
Angel: 1, 2, 3.
Dick: We are renovating it
as our home...
Right. So canapés.
Dick, voice-over:
and our business...
2, 3, up!
Dick, voice-over: And it seems
we're not the only Brits
who have followed their dream
and have bought a chateau
to call home.
Woman: Absolutely stunning.
It's beautiful.
Dick, voice-over: So Angel
and I are back
guiding a new batch of
adventurous owners.
Angel: I know it's gonna
look lovely.
That's bordering on ridiculous.
Dick, voice-over: And catching
up with some old friends...
Hey!
as they battle to rescue
their homes...
Stick it in the hole,
and let's just see how far
we can go.
Dick, voice-over: and try to
make them pay their way.
But this has all gone wrong
'cause 5 was originally there.
Pardon.
Dick, voice-over: And we'll
reveal more
about our own
chateau experience.
Angel: It's a balance.
And finding that balance
is really, really hard.
Dick, voice-over:
They'll be highs...
- That's it. That's it.
- Yes!
Dick, voice-over: And lows...
All these stairs will be the
death of me, I think.
Dick, voice-over: But however
hard the going gets...
Whoa!
for these plucky Brits,
nothing beats life in their
very own castle.
[Cheering]
- Today...
- Voila!
Dick, voice-over: we meet
fiancés Erin and JB,
getting engaged with the
business of chateau ownership.
JB: I was really hoping
for marble floors,
but it was just like
a dirty tile.
Dick, voice-over: Catch up
with a couple having
a light bulb moment.
- That's nice, isn't it?
- Oh, it is.
Tim: And then when we get
all the fairy lights over it.
Dick, voice-over: And another
pair of familiar faces
with disagreements
over deadlines.
Alison: It'll be done in a week.
Paul: Two weeks.
Alison: No.
Paul: Two weeks.
Alison: One week.
[Engine grinds]
What?
Dick, voice-over: Plus, there's
a vanload of woes
for yours truly.
Unbelievable.
We haven't got a bang
or pop.
If it doesn't do a bang,
it hasn't got pfft out the back.
You've got it, you see.
Dick, voice-over:
Chateau de Bourneau
is a 19th-century fairy tale
built in the 16th-century
Renaissance style,
surrounded by a moat
and 40 acres of grounds.
Erin: We came up this
main village
and then we just had this
ahh moment.
And we're like, "Oh, it is
so beautiful.
This is it. This is it."
JB: And I knew I was in trouble.
Erin: And then JB knew he
was in trouble.
Dick, voice-over: Erin,
an anesthetist,
and French-born JB,
a trained engineer,
spent £560,000 on the chateau
located in the Pays de la Loire
to the west of the country.
Erin: You do end up having to
learn unexpected skills, really.
Dick, voice-over: They're
renting out 4 holiday cottages
on the estate to provide income
whilst they get their chateau
up and running
for weddings and events.
Erin: Our ability to renovate
the chateau
is entirely reliant on whether
our business functions
and whether people sort of buy
into the same idea
and fall in love with it the way
that we have.
I think this is the most
romantic place in the world.
And we hope other people do,
too,
and want to get married here
and have their event
and come and stay.
Dick, voice-over: I've helped
them try to tackle
their damp issue from
the surrounding moat.
Your fundamental problem is
we're below water level.
I think that's the thing,
owning a chateau
is not that glamorous.
Dick, voice-over: Now, in a bid
to cut costs,
they're tackling another
job themselves--
transforming the old solarium
into a guest breakfast room.
JB: Everything is to be
stripped--
vinyl floor, removing windows,
checking glass, removing
door panels,
sanding everything,
chipping walls.
And, yeah, proper big job
today.
Erin: Just a small few things.
Dick, voice-over: To save time
and money,
they've roped in some free help
in the form of their friends
Alistair and Seth.
JB: That was easy.
Dick, voice-over: The solarium,
or sun room,
was created by enclosing
a balcony
when it was used as nursing home
in the mid 20th century.
Erin and JB want to preserve
the structure
as much as they can.
JB: Step one done.
This can stay.
All of this looks good.
Ish.
Don't know what that is.
Right, stage two,
we take the door.
- Not moving.
- Not moving at all.
We may have to just put
a screwdriver in
to jimmy the hinge a bit.
JB: Is it lifting?
Hold this in case it falls.
Seth: 1, 2, 3.
JB: It's off.
Seth: OK. And down.
JB: This snapped.
This snapped.
Seth: Oh, did you snap
the pin?
JB: The pin of the hinge
is actually,
I think it was like rusted,
like chemically welded in,
and snapped.
So those two are broken.
There's only the top one that
was really holding the door.
Which means don't know what I'm
gonna do with these doors.
Seth: We can't get them
back on.
JB: We can't get them back on.
We'll need to change that
if we want to.
Dick, voice-over: If JB can't
fix the broken hinge,
this entire frame will need
to be replaced,
and that could be quite
expensive.
And if this one's broken,
the same could happen to
the others.
JB: This is not gonna come out
easily.
Seth: No, it's not.
JB: Are we clear?
Alistair: Oh, here we go.
Seth: Hit it--see again.
JB: It is a sign.
It broke. It broke.
Seth: It's the top hinge
that's held.
Everything else is sheered.
Dick, voice-over: Yet another
breakage.
JB: I think once we take
those doors out,
we'll see what we can do with
the actual frame,
and then we need to reassess,
because if the entire frame
needs to be
changed, fixed, repaired,
something, we might need
to find a plan "b."
An easy job always turns
into something bigger.
You think it's just gonna
be a question of
removing something, sanding it,
painting, put it back.
If we rush it and don't do it
properly now,
it's gonna come back in
a couple of years.
And I'd rather take time.
[Laughs]
Frustrating.
Dick, voice-over: JB needs to
find a fix
for the broken hinges or this
job could end up costing
not just time, but a significant
amount of money.
Over in northern France
is 64-room Chateau des Lys.
Last year we met owners
Tim from Essex
and his Dutch wife Margreeth...
Angel: Hi!
Dick, voice-over:
when they were struggling
to make ends meet as a B&B.
Working smarter, not harder
is the big thing.
Dick, voice-over: After a
business chat with us,
they decided to offer
the chateau for weddings,
alongside their B&B business.
Now it's all about making
the chateau in Picardie
stand out from the crowd.
Tim: There were loads of
chateaus doing weddings,
so you need to have something
which is different.
And the thing we're gonna
have different
is that we're gonna have this
whole sort of vintage bohemian
thing.
Dick, voice-over: Part of that
whole vintage bohemian thing
is this old shed.
Tim: And we want to turn it gin
bar, but not just any gin bar.
We want to turn it into a gin
bar with Dutch gin.
Margreeth: A gin jenever bar.
Tim: A gin jenever bar, yes.
Or genever as they say
in Holland.
Dick, voice-over: They've
persuaded one bride-to-be
it'll be transformed in time
for her big day.
Margreeth: We have
the old pigsty
where we want to make
a photo booth.
Woman: So from pigsty
to photo booth.
Margreeth: Exactly.
Man: We're up for it, yeah.
Woman: Yeah, let's do it.
Margreeth: Well, thank you.
We won't let you down,
I promise you.
Tim: It'll be done.
Dick, voice-over: Now they need
to renovate it.
Because so far they've only
managed to clear the space.
Margreeth: We were a bit
optimistic with the time scale.
Although there is enough time to
get it all finished
if we didn't have any guests.
Dick, voice-over: They now have
just two weeks
to get the bar ready to go.
Plus, it's Tim and Margreeth's
busiest time of the year.
I'm constantly, you know,
having people arriving,
breakfast to be served,
rooms to be changed over,
so you can't just crack on
with it,
and I think that is very, very
difficult.
Tim: Tonight we've got 30 people
in for dinner. Ahh.
And, um, that's rather a lot,
actually.
Anyway, they're coming in,
and I've got loads
of other stuff to do today,
so I'm a bit snowed under.
In they go.
This is laundry for one week.
Dick, voice-over: It can
certainly be hard
to keep a handle on things.
[Indistinct]
Dick, voice-over: But finally
Tim and Margreeth
have a bit of spare time
from guest duties
and are checking out some tiles
they found in an outbuilding.
They could be perfect for
the floor of the new gin bar.
Tim: I remember there are
a few tiles in here
from when we were moving.
They're gorgeous, aren't they?
Look at those.
They're like--
I don't know where
they came from, but wow.
Margreeth: They are really nice.
Tim: They are really, really
lovely.
Margreeth: Maybe we can do like
a bigger one
with smaller ones around it.
Tim: Yeah. Oh, wow.
And those.
Margreeth: Great.
Very French.
Great.
Dick, voice-over: But before
they can put
the new money-saving tile find
into play,
Tim needs to trim back
some trees
that are too close for comfort
to planned new gin bar.
Margreeth: Say, that doesn't
look very stable.
Dick, voice-over:
Working at height,
you must have a stable platform.
Tim: I can't see anything that
can go wrong.
Dick, voice-over: There are so
many things that can go wrong.
Using a chainsaw off a ladder
like this
is dangerous for both Tim
and Margreeth.
Don't do it.
You must have the correct
equipment,
hold the saw properly,
and know what you're doing.
It's purely luck no one was hurt
this time.
Tim: Yeah!
That was all right.
Margreeth: Ah, well done.
Gosh, what a relief.
Tim: It's quite a lot of tree
there, isn't there, really.
Amazing.
Dick, voice-over: It's not time
to deliver
some old factory furniture
for the gin bar
that Tim picked up in
the nearby village.
Tim: OK, take it slowly.
Margreeth: Yeah.
Mind your head.
Tim: OK, great stuff.
Yeah, keep going.
We're OK.
We're gonna be able to do this.
It's good.
Whoo.
All this stuff has come from
an old factory in the village
that used to make locks,
and it's been deserted
since 1990.
The place was built in 1890,
so it's a hundred years old.
And this is all stuff that
we are allowed to take for free.
And we're gonna use this to
build our gin bar.
You all right with this?
Margreeth: Don't know.
Dick, voice-over: This is the
sort of creative recycling
that just makes sense.
Tim: It's number 204, this one.
Margreeth: Ah, well, Gin Bar
204.
Tim: Gin Bar 204,
the 204 Gin Bar.
Margreeth: I really like it.
Dick, voice-over: First, a quick
blast from a power washer.
Tim: Oh, that's gonna be lovely.
Yeah.
Margreeth: Yeah, I can
just see it filled with
all kinds of glasses
and gins and stuff.
- Do you know what we need now?
- Gin and tonic?
Tim: We need floor. Well, we
need a gin and tonic.
Dick, voice-over: No G and Ts
just yet.
Those floor tiles need laying.
What I'm trying to do here
is make a really nice mosaic
of all the old tiles
and bricks that we found
in our shed.
Dick, voice-over: Rather than
plan out her gin bar floor,
Margreeth's opted to make it up
as she goes along.
Margreeth: It's gonna be
very organic.
So it's gonna be a bit...yeah,
bit unique.
Dick, voice-over: With a wedding
group booked
to christen the bar in just
two weeks,
let's hope Margreeth's unique
approach works out.
We're under the cush a bit,
but I hope we're still gonna
get it ready.
If we don't, then it's a bit
of a disaster.
Dick, voice-over: At our chateau
in northwest France,
we love bringing new life to
the old buildings.
Angel: We're just excited to
see this place breathe again.
Dick, voice-over: But one
restoration's
kept me on my toes since
the day it arrived--
Angel's pet project
the van de van.
Angel: I don't think anyone's
gonna get it until--
certainly not Dick--
until that moment
when the lights are twinkling
and the bar's rolling.
It's ugly. In the dark, it'll
look all right.
Angel: Castor, can I help?
Castor: No, it's all electric.
Angel: You OK?
Castor: Gosh.
Dick, voice-over: It was
a bad start all round.
[Beeping]
Battery was in the wrong way.
The brakes are so ropey.
Dick, voice-over:
After lots of work,
we managed to bring new life
into the worn out
40-year-old Citroen van.
Once used for selling
novelty goods
on the beaches of northern
France,
it's now a bar for serving
drinks at our weddings.
Angel: There we go.
Nice and cold.
Dick: This is the most
ridiculous van I've ever seen.
Angel: I know, but it works.
Dick, voice-over: It did work,
but now the engine won't start.
With more weddings on
the horizon,
we need to get it going, so it
can move between
the chateau and the orangery.
Let's see what happens.
A little light came on.
That's a good start.
[Engine grinds]
It's got enough fuel,
which is something now.
Dick, voice-over: The fuel
filter's not blocked.
So next phase.
Dick, voice-over: Time to check
the sparkplugs.
Wasn't on very tight,
was it?
Dick, voice-over: And whether or
not we have a spark.
[Engine grinding]
There's a spark. Yeah.
Yep, the spark went all the way
through there.
[Laughs]
So we got a spark.
Oh, dear.
That's a bad thing.
Dick, voice-over: The
distributor cap
doesn't seem to be attached
properly.
See what happens now.
All right.
[Engine grinding]
Dick, voice-over: Those
cable ties aren't quite
the fix I'd hoped for.
Um...
Hello, my beautiful girl.
- How are you?
- Talking to me?
Dick: Well, obviously.
- Good morning, Daddy.
- This is a real beauty.
Dorothy: What are you doing?
Dick: Darling, that's--aah!
That's the point.
- What are you doing?
- The engine is a bit sick.
Dorothy: What do you mean
a little bit sick?
Dick: 'Cause what it does is it
sucks in petrol,
it squeezes it up,
and makes a bang,
and then it goes pfft
and pops out the back.
OK, and the bit we're missing
is the bang.
Um, I can't fudge it.
I've tried to fudge it,
it just can't be fudged.
Angel: Is there petrol in it?
Dick: Yes. Thank you. Shh.
Trust. Trust is a very important
thing.
Angel: Bye. I'm gonna go
and organize some chairs.
Dick: [Kiss] Have fun.
Dorothy: Dad, can I help you?
Dick: Darling, you can help me.
Just fix the distributor
and can you actually just
treat the car?
Dorothy: Yep.
Dick: Thank you.
That's my girl.
Yes is the answer.
Dorothy: Can I go sit on
the other side?
Dick: Yeah, you can go around
the other side.
Dorothy: Why did it not do
a beep-beep?
Dick: It doesn't do very much,
darling.
So I've got--I'm missing my
ignition and my exhaust.
Dorothy: Dad, I can see.
Dick: All right, can you
see the problem?
Dorothy: Yeah.
Dick: Where's my problem?
You haven't got the bang
or pop.
Dick: Well done.
Dorothy gets it.
If it doesn't do a bang, it
hasn't got a pfft at the back.
You've got it, you see.
You're so beautiful.
If only the world was
that simple.
Dick, voice-over: The van de van
is too essential
to our wedding business
to give up on it now.
Maybe I should hand my tools
to Dorothy.
Over in Picardie in
northern France,
Tim and Margreeth are busy
turning an old shed
into a gin bar for their
wedding business
and have just two weeks to
finish a stack of jobs.
Margreeth: Another good one.
These stones have all been
used before.
Some are in shatters.
Lovely.
Dick, voice-over:
Whilst Margreeth is making
it up as she goes along, laying
all tiles on the bar floor...
Tim: Uhh.
Dick, voice-over: Tim needs to
get power
and lights hooked up.
Tim: I'm not the world's
greatest electrician,
but I've sort of built a few
houses in my time,
and you sort of learn as you go
along, really.
This sort of stuff can take
no time at all
or it can take ages, so...
So the moment of truth time.
We're gonna switch this on,
see whether it works,
and after that,
put in another 10 hours' work,
but let's go for it.
See if the lights go on.
Ha ha ha. They didn't.
Dick, voice-over:
That's not good.
Tim: Oh, man.
Dick, voice-over:
An electrician's a cost
they don't want to shoulder,
so Tim's decided to fix this
himself.
We have done a lot of DIY
in the past,
so you would think everything
always goes smoothly.
Unfortunately, it doesn't.
This is taking me a lot longer
than I wanted it to.
I've got a feeling that the
switch itself might be broken,
so that might be my problem.
Let's try that.
Dick, voice-over: Bingo!
Job done.
Tim: Ha ha ha!
- It's nice, isn't it?
- Oh, it is fantastic.
Tim: And then when we get all
the fairy lights over it.
Margreeth: Yeah. It is--
Tim: It's gonna be good,
isn't it?
Margreeth: Oh, Tim,
it's so amazing.
Oh, well done, honey.
Tim: Thank you.
Margreeth: So good.
Tim: Yep.
Dick, voice-over: Looks like
the romantic lighting
is working its magic already.
But there's no honeymoon
for the gin bar yet.
Margreeth's mosaic needs
finishing.
And without enough tiles for
the entire floor,
Tim's ordered gravel and sand
to cover the rest.
Unfortunately, it's been
delivered a hundred meters
shy of the shed.
Yeah, they couldn't get
any closer
because the truck's--
the truck was too high
to get through the trees.
Dick, voice-over: After shifting
through barrelfuls
from the first bag,
Tim decides he can move the rest
by car.
Well, so far so good.
[Chuckles]
What could go wrong?
Dick, voice-over: You're taking
a chance
with the clutch there, mate.
Looks like he got away with it,
but rather your car than mine.
Margreeth's mosaic is ready
for its first critique,
from 10-year-old son Joe.
Do you want to come
and have a look?
It's finished.
Dick, voice-over: I think that's
a seal of approval.
It's great, isn't it?
Dick, voice-over: But with
the wedding party due
in less than a fortnight,
I just hope Tim and Margreeth
get their work done in time.
Back in Pays de la Loire,
Erin, JB, and friends
are struggling
to refurbish the solarium
of Chateau de Bourneau.
JB: It's off.
Dick, voice-over: After breaking
door hinges,
they're hoping the old flooring
will come away more easily.
So there is some quite ugly
tiles, I believe.
Oh, no, hang on,
that's marble.
There's marble here.
Over there it's ugly.
I think this is marble.
Dick, voice-over: An original
marble floor
would be a great boost for the
planned guest breakfast room.
But removing more lino reveals
something less grand.
Turns out it's just like the old
nursing home tiles
from the seventies.
I'm a bit disappointed.
I was expecting
some, uh, expecting some
marble floor.
Dick, voice-over:
The fiancés now need to
think about new flooring
as well as the rest of the
decor in here.
Elsewhere, the couple want to
create a honeymoon suite,
so Erin's project has been
making the main staircase
look suitably grand.
She's spent the past week
painting the metalwork banister
and is making finishing touches
with the help of old uni friend
Jen.
Jen: The first thing people see
when they come in.
Erin: Yeah, exactly. And what
we're trying to get
our honeymoon suite ready,
and that's part of that,
is that having that lovely
entrance up to that suite,
so we couldn't really leave it
Smurf blue.
Dick, voice-over: It's no
surprise to Jen
that Erin is getting hands-on.
Jen: We always used to joke
at uni
that Erin actually missed
a calling to be a plumber,
because whenever anyone had
any problems
with anything in their flat
plumbing-wise,
they'd call on Erin to pop
around.
Erin: I'm no expert plumber,
you know, but, you know,
I'll give it a go.
It's one of those things that's
quite a useful skill to develop.
So I'm really pleased.
I think it looks just so much
more in keeping with
the period property.
So, yeah, it's really good--
it's a good job.
Dick, voice-over: Time to
compare progress
with Team JB.
JB: And voila!
Erin: Ooh. Wow.
So you actually have done
quite a lot.
JB: Wait, why are you saying
that for?
[Laughter]
Erin: Well done, guys.
JB: I was really hoping
for marble floors.
We decided to dig in to that,
but it was just a dirty tile.
So, yeah. [Laughs]
Seth: The problem is that we
have broke
almost every single hinge, so
the doors now can't go back on.
Erin: Oh, right.
Seth: So it's gonna stay
al fresco for--
Erin: A while.
JB: Make it sound positive.
Come on.
Erin: So whilst we've been
hard at work,
you guys have been--
- Breaking things.
Erin: Breaking things, OK.
Beyond repair.
It's gonna be a big job.
I think we just need to create
a bit of a mood board.
JB: Mm-hmm.
Erin: And see what we can...
JB: I know the mood already,
and it's not a good one.
So added to the to-do list
spreadsheet,
we now need to probably fix or
cut off some of the frame
of the doors, replace, paint,
reinstall, change windows.
Dick, voice-over: If JB can't
get those doors back on,
this solarium could end up being
a very breezy breakfast room.
In the south of the country,
just a baguette's length from
the French Pyrenees,
is the stunning 11th-century
fortress
Chateau de Brametourte,
located close to the idyllic
village of Lautrec,
a once ancestral home of artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
We first met chateau owners Paul
and Alison last year.
Paul: We've got about 60 people
we're expecting.
And I've got a list as
long as your arm
of things I've got to try
and finish.
Dick, voice-over: They were
building an outdoor kitchen
and terrace for weddings
and events
between juggling jobs in IT
and HR to fund renovations.
Alison: It's
gobsmackingly-shocking
how much we have spent,
and we haven't finished yet.
We're probably gonna have to
pay 3 times what we paid
for the chateau by the time we
finish renovating it.
Dick, voice-over:
The Brits paid £650,000
for the chateau 12 years ago.
And this year they have a new
project to expand the business.
Last year we found this little
hole in the floorboards
in the room above,
and when we peered down into it,
we thought we could see
another room.
Dick, voice-over: They found
this abandoned chamber
located under their original
keep,
which they intend to renovate.
Alison: Come have a look.
Come have a look.
Dick, voice-over: Abandoned for
hundreds of years,
it shows the building's previous
life as a fortified castle.
Alison: This is an old
arrow slit
that used to look into
the original moat
that's been filled in at some
point in the chateau's history.
Dick, voice-over: Paul and
Alison want to turn the space
into an additional guest suite.
So I've got to work out,
how can you make a window
that at the moment looks
into soil.
Dick, voice-over: And the
subterranean location
brings an even bigger problem.
Alison: This has had these
dehumidifiers going now
for over a week, and it's still
feeling damp.
Paul: We were hoping it would
dry out, but it hasn't.
So there's obviously too much
water getting in there.
We're gonna have to dig
a big trench all along the side
and about 3 meters deep,
so all the way below ground
level and below this floor level
and put in a drainage pipe
to take away the water.
So that's gonna be
a big job.
Dick, voice-over: It certainly
will be.
And digging a 3-meter trench
will make a big mess.
But with their wedding season
kicking off in just two weeks,
they'll need to work fast
to make the place picture
perfect by then.
Alison: I'm stressed, darling.
Are we gonna get it done
in time?
Paul: Paul it all up, put
gravel down.
Alison: And all in a week,
all in a week.
Paul: Two weeks, yeah.
Alison: No, no, it's got to be
done in a week,
otherwise the plants won't
come back.
Well, what does that mean?
- Yeah, it'll be done.
- It will be done in a week.
- Two weeks, yeah.
- No.
- Two weeks.
- One week. We need the plants.
- It'll take two weeks.
- Two weeks is too tight.
Paul: It'll be finished
in two weeks.
It'll be finished in two weeks.
Dick, voice-over: I think
they're in agreement.
Paul: Right. I need to go get
some lunch.
Alison: There you go.
Dick, voice-over: At
Chateau de la Motte-Husson,
I'm determined to get Angel's
beloved van de van moving again.
Yep, the spark went all the way
through there.
[Engine grinds]
It's got enough fuel, which is
something now.
Dick, voice-over: After several
unsuccessful attempts...
Right.
I'm calling in reinforcements.
I feel like I should always have
a bigger cup.
Man: Right.
Dick, voice-over: Namely,
Shane the mechanic.
Right. What I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna go get
the starting handle, yeah?
Shane: OK.
Dick, voice-over: To set up
the timing,
we have to crank her by hand.
Unbelievable.
Shane: Have you got the cranking
handle in position yet?
I've got to take this front
cover off to get at it.
- That's locked, yeah?
- Yeah, it is. That's something.
Dick, voice-over: Shane works on
setting up the distributor
while I check the battery.
What?
You can't have zero volts.
[Beeping]
It might be a remote kit.
Angel: You good?
Shane: Did you take this off,
then, Dick?
Dick: Nope. Why, what's missing?
Shane: No, nothing's missing.
The basket that holds the thing
is bent.
Dick: Are you trying to say that
I'm [Indistinct]
[Laughter]
Angel: But it's gentle.
Gentle heart.
Do you still love me?
Dick: Right.
Angel: And the van is still
living,
because it is fantastic,
isn't it?
Dick: But it's a trailer.
As a trailer, it'd work,
wouldn't it?
[Chuckles]
So we've got electric, we've got
spark at the right time,
we've got fuel.
So there's absolutely no reason
why this won't start.
[Engine grinding]
It wants to go.
Just needs more juice.
Dick, voice-over:
This has to work.
Shane hooks up some cables
to jumpstart the engine from
his van.
[Engine whirs, starts]
[Cheering]
It was much safer when
the engine didn't work.
Good.
Thanks, many. Thank you.
Good job.
It's got another 20 1/2 years
in it. Come on.
Shane: Yeah.
Dick: It'll make 60.
Good.
It still lives.
Doesn't matter what we do,
we just can't kill it.
Dick, voice-over: The van de van
is all good
to return to wedding duties
in the grounds.
In the Pays de la Loire,
fiancés Erin and JB are busy
with the first stage
of transforming the stunning
Chateau de Bourneau
to Renaissance-style splendor,
ready to host weddings
and events.
On the agenda is a honeymoon
suite.
Erin: We like doing the DIY,
but the creative side of things,
we might need a little
bit of help.
Dick, voice-over: Luckily,
interior designer Jo
is among the many friends
lending a helping hand.
She has a specialist know-how
to put Renaissance charm
back into this palatial space.
Erin: There's no features
really left.
Jo: No. I completely understand
that.
So what have you thought about
doing in here?
Erin: I mean, heh heh, now this
is where the budget comes in.
I really...[Laughs]
I really like the idea of
bringing it back
to like a chateau, you know,
so it really feels
like a luxurious chateau
experience
and putting in paneling.
Jo: Originally, paneling
was oak
to be made offsite,
put together,
et cetera, et cetera.
That is a very expensive...
Erin: How much--
Jo: undertaking.
Erin: How much are we talking?
Jo: [Sighs] For a room
this size, um...
probably 50 to £75,000,
I would think.
Erin: Oh, my god.
OK, so no, we won't.
Jo: We're not going with that.
We're gonna do something
different.
We're gonna try and emulate
that effect
but on a slightly better budget.
The key thing that'll make it
feel more Renaissance,
more traditional is probably
adding
what we call a dado rail.
But essentially a piece of wood
that runs about this height.
Then to get the effect of
paneling,
I think you'll need to go and
get some molding, essentially,
some carved wood, that we'll
stick to the wall directly
and then paint. OK.
The other way to add in
some luxury in here
is adding in some velvet.
Get a chair from [Indistinct],
something like that,
and then you can upholster
in a velvet.
And instantly, you start
thinking--
Erin: Luxury and chic.
Jo: Yeah, exactly.
All those sort of things.
Erin: Lovely. I love this color
of sheer.
It's really nice.
Dick, voice-over: Jo's help is
also needed
to tackle the bigger problem in
the troublesome solarium.
Erin: So this is the solarium.
Jo: Gosh, but what an amazing
space to have.
Erin: Yeah, it's cool.
So we really want it to be
beautiful,
but you can see,
we've got a bit of an issue.
So the main thing is this lovely
pebble dashing.
Jo: Yes, I would assume was
a later addition.
Erin: Later added, exactly.
Jo: But the problem with pebble
dashing
is it's just a nightmare
to get off.
And really, if you want
to get this up
and working and things
like that,
we probably have to think of
another alternative.
Something that's contemporary
for, well, the 16th century
is to [Speaks French]
or trellising, essentially.
Erin: Oh, OK.
Jo: So you put a trellis
over the top of this,
so this will act as
a background color.
People won't really realize it's
a pebble dash.
Erin: Sure.
So you mean, what, like a--like
garden trellis?
Jo: Yeah. And then that's
painted white.
So it almost feels like
you're in a garden,
even though we are inside.
You can then have the option to
grow something nice up it,
bit of greenery,
camouflage it,
make it aesthetically pleasing.
And you will never notice it.
Once you come in and you've got
that amazing view
and it's a nice entrance,
no one's gonna look back
and say, "Ooh, do they have
pebble dashing under there?"
Erin: Great.
The art of distraction.
Jo: Exactly. Exactly.
It's a key thing. Key thing.
Erin: Lovely. This is exactly
what I wanted to hear.
Dick, voice-over: With so
much of this vast chateau
needing refurbishment,
Erin needs all the budget-saving
DIY advice she can get.
At Chateau de Brametourte
near the French Pyrenees,
with just 10 days to go before
their wedding season starts,
Alison and Paul are trying to
complete the ground works
for a new subterranean guest
suite under the original keep.
They're laying drainage along
the side of the building
and digging a light well
at the front
to allow in natural light.
Paul: I guess this is where
we find the body
that's been buried, right?
Dick, voice-over: They need to
excavate a 3-meter trench
and clear up the mess before
guests arrive.
So they've hired in the big guns
to speed up the work.
Paul: I think at the end
of the day,
making a decision about hiring
a digger
is much more sensible,
especially since Alison's away
getting the dogs shampooed
and we're here digging the hole,
so I think we're gonna use
the digger as much as we can.
Dick, voice-over: Dogs Champers
and Truffles
immaculately coiffured,
Alison returns
to check on progress.
Alison: How have you been
getting on here?
Paul: Well, we dig a big hole,
as you can see.
But there's quite a lot of
digging to do still,
so we've got to go 3 meters
down.
Alison: How far are we now?
Paul: Probably only two meters,
so it's quite a bit bigger
we've got to get that hole.
Alison: Oh, Champers is scared.
Paul: Champers, come here.
Come on.
Alison: Good girl.
Paul: Yes.
Dick, voice-over: There's more
digging to do,
but the opening is finally
revealed
after being blocked by soil
for centuries.
And here we are looking through
the window
for the first time ever.
Dick, voice-over: Inside,
stonework that provided
a military stronghold more than
500 years ago
is being repointed for the new
luxury guest suite.
Days later, work has progressed
apace.
Alison: So loads has happened in
the last several days.
Dick, voice-over: Drainage laid,
the trench at the side
has been filled.
The entrance has new gravel
and stonework
over the light well for
the window.
But there's still one crucial
thing missing.
Alison: We've still got a great
big hole here
down to the window,
but we've found an iron monger
to deliver a grid
based on our design.
And I'm just really excited to
see that get fitted.
Dick, voice-over: Paul's back
with the final
piece of the puzzle.
Paul: Hello, darling.
Look what I've got.
Alison: Oh, great.
Paul: The new grill.
Dick, voice-over: Fingers
crossed it fits.
Alison: It's OK. Going.
Paul: Yeah.
Alison: Oh, yes.
Look at that.
Paul: Yeah, look at that.
Perfect, eh?
Alison: Look at that.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Paul: Look, takes my weight.
Alison: Takes your weight,
then it can take my weight
for sure.
Paul: Yeah.
Alison: Ha ha ha!
Paul: Hey!
Alison: [Laughs] Yes.
Dick, voice-over:
Just in time,
as the wedding guests are
due to arrive.
Over in Pays de la Loire
at Chateau de Bourneau,
Erin's interior design friend Jo
is showing her a mockup
of the paneling for
the honeymoon suite.
Erin: Absolutely hit the nail on
the head. That's wonderful.
So that's the dado rail that
you're talking about.
Jo: Exactly. What it does, it
provides a nice
horizontal structure for
everything else to be built off
and gets the feeling the room is
more formal
and gets back to that
16th-century feel.
Erin: It's beautiful.
No, I really love it.
Dick, voice-over: To put their
designs into action,
it's time to enroll
the men folk,
JB and Jo's husband Thomas,
to turn strips of 40 millimeter
wood molding
into the crucial dado rail.
Jo: You put two together.
Erin: Oh, yeah.
JB: Sort of like--OK, yeah.
Jo: They'll need to be
glued together.
So a much--a thicker line
across there.
Do you see?
Right. We'll leave you to it.
JB: Heh. Thank you.
Erin: Good luck.
OK, let's go find something
else, Erin.
Erin: Yes, love to.
See you, sir.
Good luck, boys.
Thomas: Let's give it a go.
JB: How--how...
How have they managed that?
Thomas: They've escaped again.
Dick, voice-over: Don't worry,
they're not idling.
Instead, they're remodeling
a couple of chairs
left behind by the chateau's
former owners.
They could be perfect for
the honeymoon suite.
Jo: I suggest what we try
and do is take out
these cane seats, just so they
don't get
in the way or get paint on them.
Erin: Perfect.
Jo: Do you want turn that one
upside down?
Erin: Yeah.
Jo: See what's going.
Erin: Let's have a look.
I assume it's screwed on,
is it.
Jo: Yeah, brilliant. OK, so...
Let's grab a screwdriver and
we'll try to get that off,
then we'll paint it white,
and then hopefully,
before not too long, we'll have
completely new chairs.
Erin: Excellent.
I can't wait.
Dick, voice-over: Over in
the honeymoon suite,
JB and Thomas are following
strict instructions
for the dado rail.
JB: So that is up.
So I'll place the corner first
on the note and on the mark.
Yeah.
Thomas: Yeah.
JB: Change of position.
So that wasn't a gas pipe?
Are we sure?
Thomas: It didn't smell good.
JB: It's probably the glue.
Hopefully it is the glue.
[Indistinct]
Thomas: OK.
JB: There's something metallic
running along this way.
Dick, voice-over: Come on,
chaps,
best to check you're not going
to strike gas,
water, or electricity before
hitting the nails in.
JB: Further along.
Thomas: Third time the charm.
JB: Good.
I'm very pleased with that.
Thomas: Yeah, that is pretty
damn good.
JB: We didn't hit any gas pipe
or heating--
well, maybe, we'll find out.
But...[Laughs]
Thomas: Find out as water comes
through the kitchen tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah.
Dick, voice-over: Fortunately,
Erin and Jo
are blissfully unaware of the
potential dado disaster.
Erin: How do you think the boys
are getting on next door
with your instructions?
Jo: Oh, um, I hope OK.
It's gonna be quite a challenge
trying to put fixed frames
on it,
which obviously exactly
horizontal and vertical
is always challenging.
But I hope they haven't
fallen out yet.
Erin: Well, as long as they're
not just sitting there
having beers or something.
Jo: I'm sure they're not.
Dick, voice-over: They wouldn't
dream of it.
Thomas: Stage one. Cheers.
JB: Cheers.
Good work.
Mmm.
Dick, voice-over: Grab a beer
break whilst you can
because believe you me,
getting the chateau
ready for events means you're
gonna be very busy
for a long time ahead.
Back in Chateau de Brametourte
near the Pyrenees,
with work safely
out of the way,
Alison and Paul's wedding season
is now in full swing.
Alison: Everything is looking
wonderful.
The guests have been asked to
stay at the front here,
just before the ceremony,
and they've all come a little
bit earlier than expected.
IF they saw this place
two weeks ago,
they would have been absolutely
horrified.
[Bell dings, cheering]
Man: It's a pleasure to present
Mr. and Mrs. [Indistinct]
Dick, voice-over: Luckily,
the wedding guests
have no idea about the messy
groundworks
they've just pulled off.
Woman: Beautiful setting,
beautiful scenery.
Yeah, stunning. Maybe one day
I'll get married here.
Man: It's beautiful here.
The views are spectacular.
The chateau itself is wonderful.
And the courtyard they got
married in was just idyllic.
It's absolutely fantastic venue.
Alison: As a team, we can get
through everything together,
I think, and work really well
together.
Don't always agree,
but complement each other
somehow.
Paul: No, don't always agree.
Don't ever agree, but.
Dick, voice-over: Above ground,
the chateau is picture perfect.
And below ground, what was once
a damp, disused chamber
is now an inviting bedroom
with repointed walls
and ensuite facilities.
Paul: Really happy how the
room's turned out.
Alison: I am really looking
forward
to taking people down that
staircase
and telling them the story
about that suite
that didn't exist before,
and to have your own arrow slit
there
right beside the bed, too,
is fabulous.
Dick, voice-over: Another
successful renovation project.
And I wish Alison and Paul luck
with their ongoing business.
Next time,
our place has a check up
after a hard winter.
All I'm doing is just relieved
every time I press
a button that works.
Dick, voice-over: Erin and JB
aim to cook up a storm
for their first guest party.
Erin: The French do not like
meat that tastes like shoe.
JB: [Chuckles]
Dick, voice-over: And panic
sessions
as Tim and Margreeth launch
their vintage bar.
Tim: I'm really panicking now.
We're about an hour away
from this
being anywhere near cookable.
Now I feel stressed.