Dan, you should be singing 'Noggin on Heaven's Door'.

The chateau should be renamed “Chateau de la Noggins”. 😂😂😂

Dan started with a spade and wheelbarrow with a semi flat tire to machinery and amazing tools. How his world has changed.

To think that a year ago, I had never heard of a noggin and now I’m so excited about them! 😂

The clamp carrying trick was genius!

We're totally floored by your accomplishments.

It's good to remember the true meaning of noggin day and not just get lost in the feasting and the gifts.

Novel idea for transporting the noggins. Using your brain to save your feet. Not only are two rooms floored, I am too!

Cannot contain myself, super excited for that 3rd monstrosity of a wing...

I love how you keep transforming this sad ruin, into something a person can live in. Amazing work!

Mowing your lawn like a regular home/chateau owner.

After all that gardening I was so happy to see a NOGGIN video again !!! Next week will be fantastic, it will be like going all the way to the beginning again ... just faster, better, more automated !!!

Reopening the bbq area was so uplifting. Like a parks and gardens season opening. One day when your smoking cigars in the den, whilst spying a winged beast from your monocular through the French doors of the balconette. You’ll remember the times you lads all sat around drinking, smoking and farting sharing a laugh and showing each other calluses, thinking about who planted what trees and Ofcourse, if you screwed in those last lot of noggins that time 😳. No really, how fondly you will recall these times with your fellow chateau builders. You’ve all grown in wisdom and knowledge n mateship together. Those forests will always be a home to those memories.

You're working smarter, not harder. The new equipment has made things easier for you too. I can hardly wait till the second roof goes up.

It is really exiting what have you achieved almost by yourself in such a short time. Keep it up!

What an achievement. Completely roofed by the end of the summer! Wow.

To be fair, I’ve been so looking forward to the next part, it looks fascinating and I love the window sitting all on its own surviving all the weather throws at it. Take care 🌸

Haute couture straight from France. These days, the stylish man of the world carries handy men's bags from Louis Nuiggon. ;)

I’m lying here in my hospital bed wishing for more noggins going in and feel a little bit cheated. But well I did enjoy the bit that you did show us. Lol. You are getting to near the end of things there, it’s very exciting and can’t hardly wait until Monday. Have a great weekend Dan.

A Noggin Suitcase! How lovely🎉

Once again, you absolutely amaze me with your ingenuity by clamping several noggins together and carrying them like a purse 🧨🧨🧨🎆🎇

Using the clamps as noggin handles. WELL DONE 👍😀

Yeeeees❤️❤️❤️And Nearly 500000 subs.. i started here with a few hundred years back

I think creating floors in the middle section will give the chateau greater strength.

Good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening! 🎉

Using the large clamps to transport the noggins is using your noggin wisely. This is exciting! 👏☺️✌️🐾🐾🇱🇷

Chateau looking very majestic against the blue sky..... so far so good. Rhododendrons are a gorgeous colour. You're getting niftier by the minute Dan! LOL

Well, you can do it Dan, you have accomplished so much in a relatively short amount of time. When I first saw the building, I thought it would be a miracle to be able to resurrect it. A miracle has happened in the name of Dan and his mates. You have the vision you have the ability and you’re doing it really really well. Thank you for the videos Dan I do enjoy watching the progress. It’s a beautiful area, beautiful gardens and I love the dogs 🐶!!👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

I wish you would produce longer videos, I'd dang sure watch them. Y'all take care.

Maybe thinning out the trees has helped the flow of underground water to fill the pool?

In his latest book "The Chateau and Me" well known TV presenter and historical Chateau renovator Daniel Preston remembers " I have never had thigh muscles like that before or since he chuckled"

Keep up the great stories and vision of your work Dan, … I am getting a bit old and slow but there is no bloody way in the world I am going to disappear under the grass until you get this chateau fully renovated !

💕Up up & away to get all the roofs on together making you watertight for autumn & winter💕

Grand staircase to a landing at the central window, splits into stairs on each side above the entry doors but won’t constrict the height, and staircases continue in those above door spaces. May not work for your space but a girl can dream!

So efficient carrying all those noggins at one time. Love it.

That was definitely the kiss of approval at the end 😀🐶

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Using your noggin is mostly what it's about, including the simplifying of moving the noggins from where sawed to where they will be installed.

All the joy of spring turning into summer. Dan you are a star.

I am bouncing with excitement! It is so thrilling to watch you accomplish every single step even if it's just cutting noggins that is a big step forward! I can't wait to see what happens on Monday, I'm going to warn you though, I'm going to be waiting very impatiently for it. Lol! I hope you guys have an amazing weekend!

Clever idea on transporting those noggins! 👍👍

Hey, Dan! Good to see you today!

This episode showcases the man snd his mission, in the joy of his fullness(?) This is one of the happiest Dans that I’ve EVER seen. I started following as you were stealing shingles from one barn to put them on, but that’s another time and another chateau. I’m happy for you, and your happy life is infectious. Thanks for sharing your life, work, and passion, as always. ❤️☮️🏰

The next month will have some great videos and make a huge difference in moving forward. Can't wait!!

You are a master at putting these noggins in place Dan! So excited for you. All the best. Your grounds are looking so nice. Can't wait for this section to get done!!! All the best.

Loved the shot looking up at the noggined floor. Scrumptious!

Every day of work you do bring the end that much closer, keep the faith.

I’m excited to see what this is! The race to the top is on

I love plans coming into existence.... roof on in autumn.... epic

Hand in the air everyone and sway - “We are the noggin’s, we are the future, we are the one that make a brighter day so let’s start noggining!” 😂😂😂

1:53 Finally... Noggins, the musical !!!

So exciting! Thanks for the update Dan. Very pleased you’ll be roofing in summer not the depths of winter. When you and Nick were finishing the lining in gale force winds - omg that was scary!!

I'm sooo excited we are getting soooo close to the final "5" floors... the ROOF 1,2,3 go on!!

My 85 year old Mum is now watching and looking forward to each new episode.

So amazing to be reminded of how far this project has come and also how far it has to go. Dan your get-on-with-it attitude is inspiring and many of us mere mortals would have been daunted by the size of this challenge. Also we must remember all the extra work in setting up the camera in twenty locations a day!

“The nice summer sun” ….. I hope you feel that way roofing during the summer heat

Nice voice, and another talent of Dan’s 👍

Exciting project, love watching those floors go back in, step by step, noggin by noggin the beautiful chateau is coming back to life again.

Lol Dan you are the only one with noggins. Your dogs have so much fun.i cant wait to see Nick and you to take the middle on. Ill see you Monday

That is the cutest ride-on lawnmower that I have ever seen. So glad that you got one Dan. A Noggin day.....Yippie!! This chateau is really coming along very quickly!!

Go for it guys. It’s been an amazing process so far

A noggin song! I have tears in my eyes.

You've come so far, if you can get the floors and roof on by the end of the year, you've cracked it. I'm so excited like everyone else for you, Dan. 😊🇬🇧

Love the use of the clamps to carry the noggins. I'd never have thought of it. But now I know what to do if I ever have to do something like that.

Your working smarter, figuring out the best way to take things up in bulk. Nice.

I would love to see Dan leave an open area on the 3rd wing to run a materials elevator. There will be tons of render alone that will need to be lifted up to the upper floors before this place is finished.

That has to be the most interesting looking lawn mower I've ever seen.

I'm french, and It's really Amazing what you do! You give me motivation for my home! Thanks you for the rénovation for the french patrimoine !

There's always *something* to do...

maybe there being fewer trees sucking up the water means the water can now fill the pool

It's really amazing that you've come this far so quickly.

Love seeing the old footage along with the current work …. You have come so far in a short time!!!!

You’ve invented NOGGIN CARRIERS!!

Hello from 🇨🇦My parents use to say “ watch out for your noggin, or take care of your noggin.”

Big Dan, thank you for the Beatles noggin song, that made my day, been a Beatles fan for 60yrs !! We'll see ya Monday

Well that's using your noggin

Oh, Dan, what a pretty cement mixer!!

Ode to the noggin, love it. 🎶🙂

Dan it’s just phenomenal how much Y’all have done You yourself with all your hard work kept things full speed ahead even when Nic and crew weren’t around so WELL DONE ❣️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Houses that size or indeed smaller, would have at least two staircases - one for the family, guests and the second, usually, the lessor staircase, for the servants.

So fun to discover hidden spaces. It's a castle 🏰 most everyone would love. Bravo for chasing the dreams we can never fulfill.

Ohhhh this is going to be Exciting whoooo 👍💫

There was Noggin the Nog, and Nog Bad the bad, but you are probably too young to remember. Looking forward to the arrival of the Viking army and watch those floors fly up.

What an exciting milestone Dan!

What beautiful grounds now that you have created the garden area and made some paths through the woods. I love this project. Monday will be exciting!

Dan, you're noggin us off our feet with the creativity in this one.

Dan please wear safety glasses Hugs to the family 🐶❤️🐶❤️

Onward and upward we go! Loved some noggins today and looking forward to singing hail, hail the gangs all here! Have a lovely weekend Dan!!!

The progress is unbelievable! It really will be exciting to see how you etthis part done. Well done, Dan!

Love it! Working smarter not harder. Bet you wish you would have thought of that earlier to carry the noggin. Lol

Haha Love the Noggin Carrier and tune I hope our Noggin excitement takes the boring out of the task for you!

Can’t wait for this big push 😁😁😁Just look how far you’ve got Dan. So impressive ✅✅✅✅✅✅

At one with the noggins 🙏

amazing progress after seeing all the debris and foliage in the chateau

Exciting stuff Dan! Enjoyed your noggin song & your noggin carrier 🙂

We are almost done!!!! Pretty soon we will be clothing the Grand Dame in Fabulous Clothes!!

Roofs in summer - such a concept! I just remember you and Nic toiling in the pouring rain - in harnesses - putting on those roof coverings. But it's amazing to see how the chateau has changed in just, what?, 18 months? And the rhododendrons I spied briefly are beautiful!

Looking forward to this part of the rebuild. Do it safely. ❤

Good morning team Dan ❤ Coming in from a freezing cold day way down here .., It’s Official we have our own “French Château top of the Pops chat breakers” 😂 This month is going to be epic and exciting 🙌🫶👍 with the whole team on site See you on my Tuesday Hopefully the boys are feeling better ❤🙏

I enjoy that you are rebuilding back history instead of tearing it all down and try to rebuild like it was but new they way allot of projects do where I live in the us😢 congrats to you have loved all the progress and where it is now keep up the amazing work brother 💪😎💪