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🌱🏡 Eco-Friendly Renovation in France | Wood & Construction

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The experience

🌱🏡 Join us in a unique eco-friendly renovation project in the French countryside 🇫🇷✨
We are restoring a charming old stone house using natural and sustainable materials like wood, straw, and earth. It’s a hands-on experience where you can learn and contribute to creating a beautiful, cozy, and environmentally conscious home 🌿💛
Happy to host you.


What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.


What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.


Requirements

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

We’re looking for motivated people who enjoy working with their hands or are curious to learn DIY and eco-construction skills. Tasks may include painting, carpentry, straw-clay plastering, basic electrical work, plumbing support, and general renovation help🛠️

No experience is required, just a positive attitude, willingness to learn, and a bit of energy 💪😊

This is a great opportunity to slow down, connect with nature, and be part of a meaningful project while experiencing authentic rural life in France 🌾✨

Here is the schedule for the coming months:
* March 30 to April 10: Replacing the floor (leveling and reinforcing the joists): 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* April 12 to April 24: Fabricating exterior window sills, manufacturing fixed windows, and installing joinery (fixed and operable) 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* April 27 to May 8: electrical wiring installation and preparation of interior shelves and thermal insulation framework 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* May 11 to 22: earth-straw plastering 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* May 24 to 29: lightweight earth-straw thermal insulation 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* June 1–12: insulation and finishing of floors + partitions 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE
* June 15–26: wood siding on the facade 4 SPOTS AVAILABLE
July and August: finishing of the upper floor (plumbing, electrical work, flooring, etc.) 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE (late July only).

End of 2026: Ground floor: ventilated double walls. Partitions, flooring.
2027: Kitchen (brickwork), bathroom, finishes, ground floor electrical work, etc.
2028: Renovation of outbuildings.


Activities & Shift

We’ll be on the construction site from around 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a lunch break of 1 to 1.5 hours.

In the evening, there are all kinds of activities available in the village (yoga, dance, rock climbing, badminton, chess, etc.).


Rules

There aren't many rules as such. Kindness is the key to success. A safety briefing will be held every morning to ensure that everyone stays safe.

Lunch is prepared on a rotating basis, and dinner is prepared individually.