Gite renovation progressing

We just had a meeting with the builders regarding the renovation and conversion of the barn into two new gites. Because of the high price of the work and the withdrawl of most of the grants, I'm am going to do a large proportion of the internal works to save money. The builder wasn't that happy, but c'est la vie. We signed the devi for the major works and he will be starting at the beginning of October 2004, once we are empty. In order to live off just gite income we need five gites, rather than the current three, so the two new gites are important to our future. It is a big capital investment, but it should make us self-sufficient.