Even our insurance for the mill has been fantastic value too.

Capstone Mortgages are currently forcing clients to have expensive home insurance, even signing people to the policies without them knowing, once that is done they bombard the client with threats until they give in and pay for home insurance twice.

In France things have been much more simple and the only mistake we made was to not move all of our UK money to France before the pound collapsed against the Euro.

Work is progressing well and now that my wedding day has been enjoyed and a total success I will be able to start creating this blog into a proper archive of how to buy and renovate a large French project. Regarding Capstone then if you want to read more about how a UK mortgage company is getting away with pressuring people into taking out two insurances then read on here.

We should of spotted this because we had a good fund here in the UK that we transferred our renovation budget from, this went into our BNP Paribas account and then we used that to pay the builder. With hindsight we should of pushed the money over sooner, as soon as the pound started losing significantly against the Euro.

That said as we know some banks went to the wall overseas and people lost all their money so its was a difficult call in some respects. Our finances are now in France but soon we will be looking to get our property mortgaged to enable the final phase to be implemented.

I will document the process we used for this so that others will be able to see how we did it and follow the same path – thats if it works out to be the right one of course, we are now implementing the second phase of the project which covers the rebuilding of the kitchen and the renovation of the structure at the ground floor (the mill is on 3 levels).

Our finances are in place for this phase which will take about 3 months and then once that is complete we move inside, that will mean in three months time all exterior and structural remedies will be complete, this includes the complete re-roofing, windows, doors, stonework etc etc

The next bit will be just as expensive I am sure but time will tell just how much