Escape to the Chateau DIY

This is a great series. Being the owner of a two story brick Victorian built in 1855, we can identify with the trials and tribulations of bringing an old house back to life, and still having money to eat on. I don't understand how they can afford to keep going unless they are being compensated to some degree by the producers of the series. Anyway, they are definitely brave hearts to take on the challenge.

I really enjoyed this program, Dick and Angel are the perfect couple to present it. Apart from the entertainment value I have really enjoyed the insight to being a Chateau owner. Really hopeful that there will be a series 2 in the very near future.

We love seeing Dick and Angel with Dick's narration including seeing the Chateau's with the local flavor. If only the producer would cut out the recap on every come back from commercial it would be a much better show as others have mentioned. We look forward to it coming back very soon. Hope it will come back again in 2018.

David Higgins says it all for us, a terrific series for lovers of France but completely spoilt by the recaps and to-ing and fro-ing between the various locations. A much better idea would be for each episode to concentrate on one Chateau and follow the story through with no recapping after the adverts. Most people have a memory span longer than the adverts. I have complained to c4 about this but of course no one has bothered to reply.

I am not a chateau owner but I followed the original series with Dick and Angel and enjoyed it immensely. Even more interesting to see other British people buying up these beautiful houses and returning them to life after many years of being abandoned. A lot of hard work goes into restoring these places and requires a lot of dedication.

In each episode there are several homes being featured on each episode and the owners are seen tackling various restoration work, some of which causes a lot of stress due to timescales for events booked. Yes, there is a fair bit of recapping, but to be honest I do not mind this, seeing the houses become lovely family homes after years of neglect. A thoroughly enjoyable series, there is a lot of humour and quite often Dick and Angel Strawbridge appear to give advice. Ten out of ten.