Dick Strawbridge follows the fortunes of Brit Mandy and her American business partner Steve, who have decided to build a swimming pool to entice more paying guests to their stunning cliff-edge chateau in the Dordogne. Desperate to increase income at his chateau, Michael invites Angel Adoree to help out with an experiment to do afternoon tea for the locals.
As Jonathan and Michael prepare their chateau for the big wedding, they have a sewage problem that threatens to take the whole first floor out of action.
Jonathan and Michael prepare for a wedding day with 45 guests, and a swimming pool continues to cause problems for Mandy and Steve.
Dick Strawbridge helps Donna McDougal, who believes a horde of ancient armour was hidden in her chateau's lake. New parents in the Dordogne juggle their baby with converting an attic into a bed-and-breakfast suite, and Limoges chateau owners Colette and Paul launch an ambitious new menu.
Dick Strawbridge and Donna McDougal's search for the armour in the lake continues. Tim and Krys struggle to get the attic converted in time for the first guests of the season.
Billy and Gwendoline want to hire their chateau out for weddings, but things are not going to plan, while Clive and Tanith hold an open day at their hotel to win over the locals.
Billy, Gwendoline and Michael locate their heating problem, but it means Billy faces the tricky task of repointing the chimney 20 metres up - despite being scared of heights.
Paul and Karen rent out their chateau as a holiday gite, while Dick and Angel try to keep costs down when shopping for baths.
Billy and Gwendoline need help tracking down the wild boars causing chaos around their chateau. Paul continues the task of converting his water tower into an office.
At Billy and Gwendoline's chateau, Billy and his father try to level a patio so it can pass health and safety regulations. As Paul and Karen struggle to get the office conversion finished in time, a huge damaged pine tree needs to be cut down.
Tim and Margreeth run their chateau in Picardy as a B&B, but are also planning to sell timeshares and build an upmarket caravan park to expand the business.
Nicole visits Angel to ask her about wallpaper she found in her chateau. Tim and Margreeth prepare for Easter when their chateau will host 30 guests, but there are kitchen problems.
Nicole and Stephan make a drastic decision and prepare for a party to celebrate the renovation of the main hall, while, Paul and Alison make the final preparations for a wedding.
Stephanie wants to plant a romantic rose garden for her singles weekend, but she cannot operate the digger. Dick and Angel need to rescue a children's trampoline from their moat.
Tim and Margreeth start to research their new business idea, Stephanie's big singles night arrives, while Sophie and James put on a walking tour. Last in the series.
Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree return to offer advice to more Brits buying chateaux in France, as well as helping new and established expat owners. In the opening episode, Dick joins Elaine and David as they look around an 1850s chateau with 25 rooms, telling them what to look out for when buying such a vast property. The programme also catch up with Tim and Krys from the first series, who renovated rooms for a boutique B&B in the Dordogne, but have been struggling to juggle parenthood with running the business.
Tim and Krys have their first gastronomic weekend, and the pressure is on to make sure it runs smoothly. Belinda and Lee are hosting their biggest event so far with music, dancing and a slap-up meal for paying guests from the surrounding towns and villages. However, it seems they might have underestimated the wine requirements of the British contingent. Dick Strawbridge visits Angela and Steve to lend a hand with a precariously dislodged beam holding up the roof of one of their chateau turrets.
Anna and Edward host another big wedding, but Edward is put out of action and with the food delayed and the weather threatening to take a turn for the worse, Anna has to work hard to pull it off without a hitch. Dick visits Tim and Rebecca as they run into structural problems on their second B&B guest suite. With only one guest room up and running, they're in a race against time to double their income by the end of the summer season. Paul tackles a leaking outbuilding to finish the cinema room, while Karen does all she can to bag their first wedding booking.
Emma and Paul plan to host locals - including the mayor - to view the work they have done on the front of their chateau. However, Paul has first to design, build and, with a bit of advice from Dick Strawbridge, fit two heavy balconies from scratch. Elsewhere, Mariam and Johnno get their antique fireplace fitted, create a stylish sink out of a copper bucket, and host a `thank you' meal for their builders
Dick Strawbridge helps new owners Erin and JB, who have discovered rising damp after recently moving into their fairy-tale chateau, complete with turrets and a moat.
Dick Strawbridge fixes up his temperamental vin de van at his chateau, while Erin and JB start work on their honeymoon suite and solarium/sun room.
Erin and JB host a 90th birthday party, and a family begin working on their Yoga retreat. Elsewhere, the day of the wedding party arrives for Tim and Margareeth.
Dick helps Erin and JB fix the rusty hinges on their solarium doors. Tim and Margareeth decide to launch a foodie weekend, and May and Jack prepare the yoga room for guests.
Erin and JB launch their chateau business by opening it up for a tea party for the locals, including the mayor. May holds her health and wellbeing retreat using her new yoga studio for the first time.
Musicians Ben and Billie want to start putting on foodie events at their home, while Dick Strawbridge helps his father-in-law clear a stubborn tree trunk on his land.
Nicole and Stefan work on turning the ancient gatehouse of their castle into an apartment. Billie visits Angel to pick up ideas on natural table and room designs for the food event.
Dick Strawbridge visits Ben and Billie to help restore Ben's traditional wine press, and Johnny and Ashley finish off their work on the library ceiling.
Ben and Billie host Sam Brown's Ukulele Orchestra in their ballroom and show her their new music studio. Wendy and Marcus launch their wedding business with a raucous hen party.
Nicole and Stefan continue their renovation of their historic chateau in Lucheux, as Stefan uncovers a fireplace and tries to discover where an arrow slit is situated so he can create a window. Ben and Billie host their foodie evening with a pop-up restaurant in their orangery.
New owners Jayne and Steve need to get four en suite bedrooms ready for their new B&B business, while Justin and Annabelle are turning their chateau into a family home.
Dick visits Stephanie to help get the original chateau pizza oven working, while Annabelle and Justin return from holiday to find their chateau infested with bees.
Justin and Annabelle put up their newly renovated exterior chateau shutters, while Jayne and Steve complete their second en suite bedroom.
Justin gets things ready for a visit from his 95-year-old grandmother. Jayne and Steve battle a giant four-poster bed. Dick helps Stephanie with the boiler for her mum's apartment.
Stephanie finishes her mother Isobel's apartment. Painted and decorated, it now has her fathers framed pictures on the walls, a stunning 200-year-old mahogany canopy, plus furniture. Elsewhere, Jayne and Steve finish the Oriental Room and are ready to take in guests. Last in the series.
Stephanie has a month to convert her old stable into a studio for the launch of her art weekends, but when she doesn't see eye to eye with mother Isobel about the design, renovations could take longer than anticipated. Belinda's promised a heated outdoor swimming pool on the chateau's website, so Lee starts constructing a solar panel system. Dick saves cash by getting creative on a new lighting project for Angel's treasury.
The Strawbridge family heads to the beaches of Saint-Malo with Angel's parents to seek out chateau inspiration. Ithaca and Alex's fundraiser in northern France is a logistical nightmare, but becomes a hot ticket. First impressions are important to Angela and Steve, who get stuck in a last-minute fix as they try to restore their chateau's electric gates before the first rental guests of the season arrive.
Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree return to help more British people making French castles their homes or running businesses from them. DIY fanatic Fiona contends with sub-zero temperatures as she sets out to renovate a chateau bedroom for her daughter, who is due to visit in two months, while new owners Erin and JB aim to transform the first floor of their property's south wing.
Erin and JB test run the orangery as a new events space by hosting their A Midsummer Night's Dream-themed party for a group of friends visiting from the UK. Tim and Sasha set out to utilise their chateau's empty original bathing pool. Fiona hosts a party to celebrate her chateau's 845th birthday using an old dungeon as a wine cellar.
Debbie and Nigel start landscaping their five-acre grounds and risk a flat-pack fall out. Also requiring urgent attention is the tired roof terrace at the rear of the chateau which currently isn't watertight. Sarah and George run into trouble with the chateau's electrics as they host their first-ever wedding. Dick gets to work re-levelling the chateau's long driveway and Stephanie turns her attention to a new, modern apartment in the chateau's old stables.
Kent couple Lydia and Gary embark on the adventure of a lifetime trying to find a chateau that could also be run as a donkey sanctuary. Ben and Billie start a complicated project creating a new honeymoon suite complete with a luxury bathroom. However, coping with the wonky walls soon gives Ben a headache.
Ben and Billie have a tricky task on their hands as they push to install the jacuzzi bath in the honeymoon suite's bathroom. Ben and Vanessa breath new life into their very own ballroom with gold leaf and a hand-painted ceiling fresco, complete with paintings of their children. Meanwhile, at Chateau La Perriere, Karen has lots to learn as she takes over the reins from the caretakers.
Angela and Steve continue to renovate their Monet suite, but the decision to install a bathroom in the bedroom leads to further problems. Amy and Marc start to reinstate a medieval well in the garden at Château Les Rosieres, and Alison and Zion visit a derelict place that has lain abandoned for years.
At Chateau de Lalande, Stephanie and Gerry go bold with a colourful project in the tower staircase that Stephanie wants to turn in to a pigeonniere - a place to keep pigeons. In cognac country, Sarah and George are under pressure renovating a bedroom in time for a wedding in just a week's time. Cameras also return to Chateau de la Ruche, where Tim and Rebecca's gite conversion has moved on to the next stage.
Matt and Helen hope to attract wedding parties by converting their orangery into a reception venue, putting pressure on Matt's DIY skills. Sarah and George begin to convert their cellars into a tasting venue and even find time to learn some cocktail making tips at a local distillery, while Ben and Billie's ballroom restoration gets under way.
Angela and Steve's wine store conversion gets even more challenging, as planning permission means they must create a stone arch for the three-metre-high new doorway that matches the other doors at the chateau. Abbie, Clive and Karen get inventive with the bar area in their function rooms and their top-of-the-range LED dance floor arrives, while Edward faces his fears as he attempts to fell a 100ft oak tree that is threatening to damage the building.
As Angela and Steve come to the end of their wine store conversion, they get inventive to safely install the heavy three-metre-high double doors and have some creative ideas for the interior. Arguments bubble as the finish line comes into sight for Abbie, Clive and Karen's function rooms. Near Bordeaux, Edward tries to help Anna learn new DIY skills as they try to make glossy entrance signs for their chateau.
Questions are raised in the south of France when mortar refuses to set during Janet and Philip's ambitious turret project. At Chateau Lagorce, Anna and Edward hope to make the dream of their six-year-old son Charles a reality when they try to build a tree house on a grand scale. Plus, Ben and Billie's ballroom restoration project reaches the decoration stage - meaning Billie must face to her fear of heights to paint the ceiling.
It's a huge day at Chateau de la Fare when Janet and Philip's new turret is finally ready to have its spire installed. The pressure builds in the run-up to the reveal event where they've invited the local mayor. Having struggled with months of delays caused by the winter floods, Julia's new pool is nearing completion and she's determined to bring her artistic talents to the project.
A national timber shortage threatens to scupper Stephanie's plans to decorate the Marquis salon at Château de Lalande with expensive wallpaper in time for a Christmas party. In the Dordogne, Abbie, Clive and Karen erect a heavy spiral staircase and install complicated lighting on the terrace roof and at Château Mareuil in the Nouvelle Acquitane, Belinda and Lee try to bring an air of mystery to a unique Christmas party for their neighbours.
In Northern France, Tim and Margreeth decide to create a well-being and mindfulness experience in their vast woodland, starting with a sensory "barefoot path". The job turns out to be less than zen. Matt and Helen take on the restoration of a horse-drawn carriage and Helen faces the challenge of upholstery. At Château de la Fare, Janet is back from the UK and keen to help Philip finish their third guest suite. However, something as simple as the paint colour causes concern.
At Château des Lys, Tim and Margreeth continue with their woodland mindfulness project as they plan to add a yoga area under an ancient linden tree. However, rain threatens Tim's grand plan to build a log sweat lodge. In the Dordogne region of France, Abbie, Clive and Karen juggle DIY and the raspberry harvest to get ready for wedding season.
In Picardie in northern France, Ithaca and Alex start to prepare for their annual fundraising brocante and flower fair. However, despite meticulous planning, the rain threatens boggy ground and a total washout. Tim and Margeeth try to turn an old stable into a cheese and wine-tasting venue and must learn some new skills along the way. New owners Alison and Zion make a start on repairs to their long-abandoned 19th-century château, but even with an 18-metre cherry picker, some jobs prove too tricky.
Amy and Marc receive an award for their renovations and host a picnic in their garden for 60 of the organisation's members. However, the garden is criss-crossed by open trenches for all their ongoing plumbing and electrical work. Becky and Mark are under pressure to complete their final guest room, but they still find time to introduce their daughters to two new kittens. In north-west France, Philip and Angelina are flat-out preparing for the event season. The moat must be navigated to smarten up the château'senormous shutters and Angelina makes over a kilometre of bunting.
Amy and Marc have a mountain to climb in the garden ahead of the picnic and also need to make their dining room into a showpiece for the event. When the bridge connecting them to the mainland starts to crumble, Philip and Angelina are forced to take action. Belinda and Lee start an adventurous project turning an outbuilding into a two-bedroom gîte.
Living in a château is a constant battle with maintenance, and for Erin and JB it's no exception as they try to combat a leaky roof. Erin also has a creative art project to enhance their Yellow Salon for an anniversary dinner party. In Cognac Country, Sarah and George take on the challenge to makeover an entire estate cottage on a tiny budget, wanting to create a family bolthole for the busy wedding season.
Storms and bad weather have spelt disaster for Erin and JB, as part of the original mediaeval foundations of their island have collapsed into the moat. Trying to fix it all themselves, JB's engineering skills are put to the test when they try to raise the heavy stones. Stephanie's tartan apartment project for Gerry continues as she rolls up her sleeves to sand blast the hayloft beams. Sarah and George agree to host the local town fete, but with a septic tank being installed just days before the event the grounds are far from picture perfect.
In the Dordogne region, Abbie, Clive, Karen and Ross undertake a complicated project, by converting a car park into a new terrace and dining area. Elsewhere, in the Loire Valley, Ben and Billie continue their renovation of two holiday apartments and while Billie upcycles more furniture, Ben uses his specialist knowledge of creating music studios to construct a soundproof connecting door.
At Château du Doux in the Dordogne region, bad weather threatens to derail Abbie, Clive and Karen's first wedding of the year. Elsewhere, in the Loire Valley, Ben and Billie near the end of the renovation of their two guest apartments. Ben has his work cut out to put up a chandelier with no lighting fixture, while Billie attempts to paint new life into old furniture.
At Château de Gere near the border with Spain, Trish tries to combat invading sheep by building a fence, but is more than happy to take a delivery of their fertilising manure for her no-dig garden. Near Cognac, at Château de Brives, wedding season has begun for Sarah and George. While Sarah shows off her new floristry skills George has the important role of MC.
At Château Mas du Pradie, after three years of hard work Julia is on tenterhooks hosting her first ever wedding, but the unseasonal hot weather adds high pressure to her workload. At Château de Gere, Trish races to complete a back-breaking patio project in a bid to host a campfire party where she introduces a culinary American delicacy to her French neighbours.
Down at Château de Seguenville, Becky and Mark embark on their own huge gîte project. The floor has to be dug out, but the digger can't even fit through the entrance. In the Loire Valley, Guy struggles to build a flatpack spiral staircase, while May spots some safety issues that have to be addressed before her yoga retreat can commence.
In the Dordogne, Nick gets demolition-happy in a bid to finish opening up the entrance hall of their derelict château, but Nicole is worried he'll come down with the ceiling. It's a big day for Becky and Mark as the new floor in the gîte is laid. Mark has to manage thousands of gallons of fast-flowing concrete. Wendy has grand plans to build an elegant wedding garden for couples to wed in, but Marcus has to figure out the measurements of the second-hand pergola she's bought, which has lain in rusty pieces for the last three years.
At Château de la Fare, Janet and Philip start their biggest challenge yet - the creation of their largest guest suite, part of which will be in the medieval tower Over at Château de la Boutinière, Alison and Zion press to complete their first ever gite, and with a booking on the cards, the pressure is on to get it done in time.
At Janet and Philip's chateau, they try to complete their hallway transformation before their Christmas extravaganza. It's also all hands on deck at Chateau de Dohem for Wendy and Marcus, as they prepare for their first-ever Christmas-themed murder mystery party. At Chateau de Lalacelle, Terry and Ashley make their own snow indoors by bringing down one of the chateau ceilings, before they can switch on their 5000 lights to start Christmas properly.
At Chateau du Puits es Pratx, Tim and Sasha prepare for the final wedding of the season. A couple who married there 10 years ago are returning with their children for a Christmas they'll never forget. At Chateau des Vieilles Vignes, Nick and Nicole are planning a Christmas party but they don't have a floor. With concrete waiting to harden, there's just 24 hours before the party begins. Meanwhile, in the Dordogne, Tim and Krys have big plans for an unforgettable treat for Tim's son Owen, while also creating the perfect hot chocolate.
Before their annual Christmas soirée at Château Trois Cloches, Chris and Jolyon plan to transform their hallway. They'll need to work harder than Santa's elves to pull this off. At Château du Puits es Pratx, it's the day of the big wedding. However, with flowers, food and photographs to organise, there's lots to do before Tim and Sasha can say 'I do'.
Near Le Havre, Chris and Jolyon are as busy as two elves at Château Trois Cloches, trying to finish their hallway before their annual Christmas soirée with friends and family. Donna and Paul are going deep underground as they hold their Christmas get-together in the château caves. Over in Montmorillon, Belinda and Lee are spreading plenty of holiday cheer, as they serve up an incredible dinner to 60 guests and go chestnut hunting in search of the true taste and smell of Christmas.
In the Dordogne, Tim and Krys spread festive joy by hosting a gingerbread chateâu competition. In Normandy, there's no room at the inn for Auntie Paula at Château de Lalacelle, so in the spirt of Christmas, Terry and Ashley transform a stable block into her new home. Meanwhile, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine at La Grande Maison La Pinelle, Bart and Sarah are going crackers as they want to hold a Christmas extravaganza for 60 guests in their barn.