Where we are at now

Okay so some insulation up in the roof.... next job was to get the stud walls up. We decided to go with the metal studs instead of 4 by 2s and we were glad we did! The ease of putting these things up is incredible not to mention about half the price of wood! So by now the house is really taking shape!
After getting my head around the french electrical regulations the job was really easy! In my opinion its better than the UK ring mains.
In between these jobs we have been clearing some of our land and deciding where we want to put different things, that we will be talking about in the future such as veg plots, chicken coops, geodesic dome greenhouses and my new experimental love Aquaponics! I am not a doomsday prepper or anything like that i just have a real passion for growing my own food and my wife enjoys eating it!
So where are we at right now well we are in the process of working on one room in the house to get it insulated and plasterboarded (drywall) up before the winter really sets in. As at the moment we have our caravan in the barn and sharing it with our 9 month old puppy Nelly.

First few jobs done

Okay so we bought the House and the sale went through a bit late but it did happen... things as we are learning do not happen when they are suppose to in France .. everything takes a bit of time. Our house because of the land attached had to go to an agricultural body just in case any of the local farmers wanted to buy the land and luckily for us nobody else wanted it.
So we started clearing the land immediately around the house mainly so we could access it! Bit of a jungle so to speak...
So after clearing we put some windows in and replaced some of the tiles on the roof to make it weather tight and started with the insulation... what a mind field! So after many hours of online research we settled on a layer of foil backed bubble wrap to keep the heat out in the summer and 10 cm of fiberglass... trying to keep all the beams exposed we plaster boarded (drywall) in between the eaves. I will post some photos of the roof space soon...

Part one

So where do i start, its been an interesting year for my Wife and I... for one thing we became just that and tied the knot in April, we decided to leave our jobs and take an extended honeymoon. So started to travel round France in a Camper-van. On route we both came to a decision that we did not want to return to the UK. We glanced upon a run down cottage with a couple of outbuilding and a barn with a couple of acres... it was really cheap as it needed a complete overhaul so we bought it and set about making our dream of becoming self reliant. After months of waiting the sale finally went through at the beginning of September and we got the keys to our new home! Well we would have had keys if there where any doors...
We have now started work on the house to make it habitable i will post some photos of our progress and tell you of our ups and downs along the way. I hope you enjoy this Blog and it may inspire you to follow your dreams even if sometimes it is a leap into the darkness.

Trying to live a simpler life.

This blog will be about our journey!