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I also noticed in the local vetimarche they were selling straw hats for St. Catherines day. Is this the same Catherine as the wheel.

I always use moneybookers, and have found them very good, for really small or larger amounts.

At long last, the fire is functioning properly. It is so hot and lovely. It was so cheap too. I have antracite on it, very little needed. I am as snug as a bug in a rug. Molly

Nick, can you tell me where I would find the regs please. Molly

I have a nice 14kw Fire, which is free standing, it goes out through the wall, with a lovely black stainless steel tube going all up the outside of the house. When I am in the garden I warm my hands on it. I want to place this inside, am I allowed to do so, and what has to happen to make it safe as it goes through the grenier and roof. It seems so silly to have mord than half the heat going through to the garden. Molly  

Thanks I hadn't thoughof the long matches. Someone has told me they ar not for wood but anthracite, but I am not sure.

I cant seem to light my traditional looking cylindrical Godin fire easily. How best to light these please.

can you only use newspaper, or can you use the glossy leaflets that are put in our letterboxes

Could someone tell me what the long planks of decking are called in french please . Molly  

Thank you VJ for yor time and help. I will make a decision. Molly

Hi Vj How awful to have to try and work something out from my answers. 1) It's black enamel, though the very top bit doesn't seem to be. It has no shine but black. 2) Yes straight through, then concertina thing at an angle. 3) External, four and a half tubes. I am sorry I cant be more accurate. I remember being told the last bit is 50cms after roof line. 4) I think the tube may be on upside down, as it was taken off by a friend and put on the other way, trouble started then. If there is such a thing as upside down! Thank you      

Thank you. I am not at all technical but in laymans terms. It is a free standing fire, no chimney/fireplace. The black auluminium tube goes from back of fire, 23 cms then into wall of 53cm, in the wall it goes through a round breeze block, then into something that to me looks like an elbow with concertina bitd, then straight up the wall. I get a beautiful fire from it, but also the black tar seems to be dripping back down and dripping from the tube by fire.I am so sorry ,If you knew me you would know why I can't explain this or anything in more technical terms. The tube has a cap on the top. I have only used it twice. Thank you Molly

I have a beautiful new Godin. It works works well, except for the sticky tar that pours down the side of it. Is this the wood, or something not right with the fire? Thank you Molly

As I have already mentioned my neighbours have the wretched plant in their garden along a fence.It is slwly coming into mine. I know of its problems and what damage it causes from reading english websites. Can anyone tell me are there legal restrictions to growing it here. Can anyone tell me of a french website that might explain the problem to them. My french isn't anywhere near good enough to explain to my neighbours why they ought not to grow the stuff. Molly

After renovating the house. I have started the garden. Today I have been demolishing two huge bonfires full of iron bits, sharp bits of glass, syringes with the needes in, lightbulbs. I think the entire garden was a ash heap, some now has iron incorporated in it from the bonfire; other soil seems very fine. What would be a good thing to grow on ash, iron? Garden gets sun all afternoon and gets very hot. I also have creeping over from my neighbours garden a Japanese knotweed, which my neigbours refuse to believe is a pest because it's pretty. Thank you Molly

Advice please, I have a new Godin. The black enamel tube from it goes through the wall to outside. Problem is, it passes through first plasterboard, then is near rockwool, then stone. I have nothing around the tube as it goes into the plasterboard; I am frightened it will catch the plasterboard alight. Need urgent advice on what to put around tube on tube or whatever; Whom would I ask if I had a heating person in to do it. A heating engineer or what. Thanks I must be safe from fire; Its 14 kilowatt hank you Molly

a lift thingy for lifting plasterboard. Sorry I don't know their proper name. I live near Chef Boutonne (79) and can't find a hire shop, any ideas please. Molly

I've just looked in search and seen something on Japannese knotweed, but I don't think it's what I have. It's a tall plant with very stubborn roots, called japanese something. Neigbours have it as a hedge but it is shooting up all over the place. Bright green and about 2 metres high. I want to put decking in the area it's growing, dies off to bare branches I believe are good for burning. I attack it all the time, but it still grows. Please how do I get rid of it? Thank you. Molly

I am reading the book renovating a house in France. Sous-tiles (under tiles) are mentioned on page 163. Can anyone tell me more about them please.The house has only  100sq metre roof. Would like to know more, suitability, price, stockists ec. Thank you  Molly

without going into too much info. If "K" owns a house in France and has done for years, but hasn't lived in it and  "P" who lives in it, pays the bills, has done  considerable amount of renovation on it, is there anyway "K" can transfer house to "P" in lieu of renovation debts, can this be done without selling it to them? They are related.  

I have concrete walls in my kitchen I am renovating. Whats the best thing to do with them please? they are not nice. Molly

I think we may be getting somewhere at last. After lots of head up chimney and waggling about we have fitted a pressure equaliser. We have also bought for very old logs, the difference is that the air is not shooting up the chimney so fast. Room is warmer, not boiling. The three bedrooms have the coldness just taken out of the air. Hopefully this will work, so we are bricking up now. Thanks for everyones advice. This wonderful machine is called a automatic draught stabilizer by Georgin Moderator.

Update on our insert problem: At this moment the fire is roaring away. The outside of the fire is cold. I can put my hand on the glass. It seems everything is going up the chimney.Husband is at his wits end, but is determined to win this battle. Someone has mentioned fitting an equaliser to see if that works. Any ideas. Molly    

Yes, if you are moving to 79 Deux Serves area. Molly

Yes, if you are moving to 79 Deux Serves area. Molly