Sometimes you win, and sometimes you do NOT !

Sometimes you win, and sometimes you do NOT !

Ben’s been working on this floor. This is the bedroom. We call this room the apartment, but it’s really bedroom eleven La Chambre Onze. And this floor was just a little bit of rough condition. It was passable. It could have been used, but there were actually pieces of it missing. Because in this area,

Where this wall is now in front of us, the room was configured differently. There was a bathroom and then a kitchen there. And there wasn’t the same flooring in that section. So we decided to replace the whole floor. And this is. What is this? It’s chestnut. Right? Chestnut. Sorry, I was thinking oak..

But this is actually chestnut. And Ben has been working on this for the last couple of days. You can see here this green felt he’s putting down between the beams and the flooring. And that’s to help block sound transfers. So when people are walking on the floor up

Here, we’re not necessarily hearing all their footsteps. Below you’ll also note there’s a bunch of insulation that’s been blown in. And so that will also actually help a lot of the sound. And it’ll also help with sound coming up. So below us is the main kitchen. So hopefully this room won’t be noisy

When people are chitchatting and cooking and banging pots in the kitchen. So very exciting to see this floor being put in. It’s just another space that’s just getting closer to being finished. And it’s really great. These two rooms, this room that I’m in,

This bedroom, and then there’s like a little sitting room in front of it, which is here make up what we call the apartment, because this used to be a separate apartment from the house. And this doorway that’s here now was actually walled off.

So there was no access to the space from the main corridor and the chateau. There was a separate staircase that came up from the side. And in fact, that’s the remains of the staircase. That hole in the wall, that’s the remains of where the staircase came up.

But it came up and then turned into this room. So that was sectioned off completely with its own entrance, with a kitchen and bathroom and a bedroom, actually two bedrooms. And it was in a little apartment, but we’ve kind of reconfigured it now. So we call it the apartment,

Even though it’s really just bedroom eleven. This is going to be a little sitting room. So you’ll enter into this little sitting room and then go on into the bedroom. So it’s like a little two room section. This is supposed to be our bedroom. It’s just above the kitchen.

And right next to it, just outside this door, you can see there’s this little narrow servants staircase that goes down and that comes down into the butler’s pantry. And so this would give us our space right here. We have a little sitting room

And a bedroom, and then we’d have very easy access down into the kitchen area. So that was the plan. And coming through here is the main upstairs corridor, known as the corridor of doom. We’re basically at the end of it, through the arch. On the end is the grand staircase going down.

Let’s just check out, we’ll just go down these stairs, and I’ll point out here on the landing, you can see there’s a bunch of conduit and venting work. So there’s going to be a wall built covering all that. So it’s going to get all encastre,

As they say in French, but, like, put inside of the wall so it’lll be covered. The only thing left here will be this pipe that’s sticking out above the window. This window looks out into the butler’s pantry. There was a window here in this staircase.

I think this was to give it light in this little stairwell. So we saved that and we’re going to put that back up. But I have this pipe coming through, and they just said there wasn’t really any easy way around it.

So we’re going to just build a soffit around that, and that’s what it will be. And then we come on down to the staircase. You’ll notice there’s some dark spots on the stairs. And. And if I turn around, you can see that there’s moisture and water coming up the step.

So that bottom step is stone, and then the steps above it is all wood. So if this looks like it’s a problem, it is ! It’s a real annoying problem. This is really the only place we have a moisture problem in the house, and it’s really centered where the stairway is.

Now, unfortunately, we’ve had some bad luck in here. We actually had this floor dug up and reset to try and resolve the moisture problems, but you can see that it did not work. And so we’re going to do it again, and we’re going to pull up this floor.

All of these tiles get pulled up, we dig it all out, and then what we do is we lay gravel in the bottom, and that allows a place for the water to settle with space around it to be able to evaporate away without having to come all the way up.

The problem with when this was done originally is that this stone step was not taken out. So there is still the same dirt coming up under the step that’s holding it up. And the moisture is just coming up. It’s right there and then up the stone. We have the same exact problem.

In this corner, you can see we put a second beam right here. It’s just a post and it’s not connected at the bottom. It’s supposed to be connected in the bottom, and that’s to help support the ceiling. Behind it is another wooden post. So this was just to help reinforce it so

It’s structurally okay for the moment, but there’s a lot of moisture that’s wicking up, and that’s because when this floor was dug up, it wasn’t dug underneath where that beam is and the gravel put down there. So all the water just wicks up through

The earth, which is really just, what’s underneath is just dirt. And so we have the moisture coming up there and under this deck. It doesn’t come up anywhere else where there was the shop. So it’s just. Well, it’s unfortunate because this has to basically be completely redone this floor.

And it’s been a very sore point in the renovation of the house, this particular area. But it’s pretty bad. And so it really has to be addressed. And you can see the moisture on the step. And the moisture just, oddly enough, it skips a step. It skips every other step.

We can see it’s there, then it’s fine, and then it’s here. Then it’s fine, and then it’s here. I don’t know what that’s about, but it’s what it’s doing. You can see our little utility room. And look, there’s what they call the collector.

This is a manifold for the plumbing going to all the different rooms. In fact, I had not noticed this before. So you can see lav machine. Lav. Oh, lavabo, WC. Salle de bain trois, I’m assuming, is lavabo. Lavabo is bathroom sink, and WC is the toilet.

I assume that’s all for three and lav main and Salle de bain, bath and shower. So these are all the cold water pipes for the bathroom. That bathroom is right behind this wall that I’m looking at. It’s a bathroom. So those are all the pipes for that bathroom.

And then the red ones are the hot water pipes. The is for. This is the water closet that says WC. So you can see there’s going to be a sink here and a toilet there. It’s just a simple little powder room,

As we say in the US, with very dirty window but great views looking over the valley over to the next village of mariac. And if you come out that Salle de Bain, those are the pipes for four, is right here. So this is the Salle de bain.

This bathroom has a lot going on. It’s got a shower, a bathtub, a sink and a toilet in it. So it’s actually going to be one of the well equipped bathrooms. And I just saw a fantastical beast. It’s a r\Ruby. So Mark asked me to open all the doors and windows. Hello, Rue.

Because we’re having a beautiful day today. Yes, it’s a beautiful day. And we’re just, like, airing out the house because it’s been closed up all for a long time. We’re in the back of the house. There’s lots of sun here, so it’s actually quite warm and delightful.

You can see our views of the valley. And someone is so demanding. Yes. She’s like, pet me, pet me, pet me. All right, now I’m stuck petting the cat.

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