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  1. Can anyone advise me how to fill in this form from cmpi radiance ? I am a self employed carpenter registered as a micro enterprise. Thankyou.
  2. Does anyone know of a specialist that can lay under floor heating must be registered and speak English for a renovation i am working on in the Gavary area ? Please e-mail me or post a reply. Many thanks Terry. www.terencesenior.com  
  3. Artisan required to quote for underfloor heating in Gavray Area dept 50 must be fully registered and be able to provide references.Please e-mail or post reply Many thanks Terry. www.terencesenior.com
  4. Customers of my husband's are looking to build a double garage and would welcome recommendations from anyone who has employed an english speaking french registered Arcitect.They are in the Villedieu les poels area dept 50. many thank's  
  5. Customers of my husbands are looking for a french registered english speaking architect to provide plans for a doulbe garage. They are in the Villedieu les poels area, dept 50. Anyone have any recommendations please ? Thankyou
  6. I would like to warn people of employing workers on the black. My husband recently quoted  for building work ( he is registered ) and was horrified to find out that these people had been quoted nearly twice as much from workers on the black ! PLEASE do not do it, it is ilegal and stupid when there are many good artisans out there, i know it's easy to employ someone who did a few odd jobs and you think you know them, but you are taking a big risk.Registered builders are registered for a reason.     
  7. Again a big thankyou for all your advise, yes we are going to advertise in the Rendezvous magazine and have contacted someone to sign write the van. We have work upto March but then its very slow so fingers crossed we will be able to generate some work for then we even have 2 large jobs booked in for next year (both repeat customers ) And a roofing job in August, it is just to keep us going until then. Also the person who e-mailed me via private message i tried to e-mail you back but my e-mail was returned. So please e-mail me direct if possible [email protected] All the best Karen.     
  8. Thank's for all your reply's we have really been trying to find out if paying for adds in magazines newspapers was worth the expense as this varies greatly. We have a free add on anglo info normandy but as my husband is Terence Senior he is now 42 out of 44 free adds for builders in Manche so when there were a few it worked and we had alot of enquiries we are so far down the list now it's no good. I have contacted them about paid advertising and we are looking into sign writing the van and advertising with other magazines. Thankyou all for your ideas, we have also contacted old customers for references and this has been good with lovely recomendations from happy satisfied customers to include in adds. We have been very lucky not to have to pay for advertising until now as we have been registered for 4 years so we shouldn't complain ! All the best Karen p.s we are in dept 50   
  9. Can anyone advise please on the best places to advertise as a registered builder in dept 50 Normandy ? My husband is a registered builder and so far we have only advertised with Anglo info normandy, but after a few customers deciding not to go ahead with projects need to pick up some work and wondered if anyone had any good ideas? Many thanks Karen
  10. Has anyone any experiance of a new build ? My husband who is a registered builder would like to build a new house but does not want to employ a company to do it can you buy off the peg plans and manage it all yourself any comments would be helpful thankyou.
  11. Thank's to you all that have replied and cheered me in the knowledge that my husband and i are not mad ! We just couldn't understand someone being so petty when we had been so nice (or so we thought) It put a right damper on the holiday, i'm not bothered about the 15 euros it was the letter that made me feel sick, i will think twice about where we book next year and be more adamant that they must inspect the gite before we leave so there is no room for confusion as they say there's nowt as queer as folk !   all the best Karen.
  12. Just thought i would let all you foodies kbow about a lovely restaurant/cafe that has just opened outside Gavray. they are organic and do wondeful vegetarian dishes also gatteaux's etc all home made in their farmhouse cafe they have a lovely garden for afternoon tea and a small restaurant inside. We have visited a few times now and the food is scrumy ! They are English and open most days ithink they close wednesdays but you are best to book It's called the Doucoeur garden cafe 0233 51 19 53 Happy eating ! Karen.    
  13. We have just returned from a lovely holiday in France and on arrival home we received this letter : Please find enclosed security deposit cheque less charge of 15.00 euros for disposal of 3 bags of rubbish left in our courtyard (having already used the dustbins. i can think of no excuse.) said amount donated to charity. I would like to point out that WE DID NOT use the bins as we could not find them and there was 2 half empty black bin liners and 1 carrier bag also we kindly removed all of our recycling. On depature i asked the owners to check our gite (english) which they refussed to do stating that i'm sure everything will be fine and we will post on your deposit. I would also like to point out that on arrival the owner was asked where should we put our rubbish and he indicated oh over there where we had parked under a covered barn and i  will get rid of them i said i would remove all the recycling although this was not needed. All seemed great no complaints no breakages just me and my husband we were very quiet and kept ourselves to ourselves just chilling out no late night parties no noise. So after receiving this letter i was shocked, i phoned the owner who was very angry that we had left the rubbish i checked no complaint about the gite no damage no breakages yes it was left clean and tidy he was adamant that we had left the rubbish in the non designated area and we were rude careless people to do this saying we were the sort of people to leave rubbish in the countryside! I was so upset, we live in France respect the environment and have had gites ourself and 12 holiday flats back in the uk so we both are very aware of leaving places as you found them in fact i would be more than pleased to have had myself to clean after having seen so many customers over the years. My question is would other gite owners have reacted in this way ? We were so upset by this i would love some feed back to settle our nerves ! Needless to say we won't be going back or recomend the place which we would have done and we just can't get our heads arround their attitude.    thank's Karen   
  14. I have been offered a job working in a shop about 25 hours a week can anyone tell me what is the best way to be paid and what would it cost my employees or me in social costs it will be the minimum wage would cheque d'emploie work? They are new to this (english)and i will not work without it being legal as my husband is a fully registered artisan thankyou Karen.
  15. Hi can anyone help me please? I am trying to find out if there is a school bus that goes from Champrespus Beauchamps or La Haye Pesnel to the institution Sevigne in Granville, i have been to the mairie as the college advised with no luck (it's a private school ) even asked some of the bus drivers with no luck anyone out there with inside information? Many thanks Karen    
  16. Hi everyone, can anyone help me please my daughter is doing her A level French in the uk and is preparing a talk about animal welfare in france, does anyone know of any registered charities sanctury's in Normandy. We are hoping to do some research and would like to visit one. Many thanks Karen. 
  17. SORRY!! I meant to type CAN'T advertise. I get so heated up about this subject and got carried away. We have a guy near us who is not registered and he has 6 months work and is earning a  lot of money. Please therefore check for siret no's when employing people and give the work to genuine artisans after all we are the ones paying into the system for all your benefits. Karen.   
  18. I totally agree with your comments the sooner people wake up to the idea that they are employing ilegal workers the better. My husband is a self employed artisan and we find it frustrating that people continue to employ un registered workers and that these workers get away without paying cotisations they often charge higher rates than registered artisans and blag their way as the people employing them have no idea of the way things opperate in France. So the sooner they can advertise the better.  Karen.
  19. Thank's for all your messages and advice we have just advertised with artisan anglaise and dropped cards off at the immobliers as for pages jaune i was told it would cost about 1,000 euros so quite alot for a one man band!  I think we do need to advertise more it's just where, p.s for anyone interested we are close to Gavray.  Thank's Karen.
  20. Thank's for all your messages and advice we have just advertised with artisan anglaise and dropped cards off at the immobliers as for pages jaune i was told it would cost about 1,000 euros so quite alot for a one man band!  I think we do need to advertise more it's just where, p.s for anyone interested we are close to Gavray.  Thank's Karen.
  21. Hi everyone, my husband is a french registered builder carpenter and we are finding that after 2 years working here there does not seem to be as many job's coming in. There seems to be alot of people selling up in our area after spending all there money and not being able to find work and not many new ones coming over, is it just us or have other builders artisans in Normandy found the same? We were in the south on holiday recently and ther seemed to be alot more work arround, if things don't improve we will be selling up and heading south too! Karen.   
  22. Anyone had any experiance with this company? My husband and i would like to advertise our services with them but have e-mailed them with no respone [he is a self emplyed registered artisan] Just wanted to know if anyone had advertised with them what the response was or if you have used the service and is it any good? Many thank's Karen
  23. Thank's to everyone for you advice and Rita for her private message of good luck. Today we have been to sign on at a couple of agencies loads of forms and loads of information needed! Also dropped cards off with estate agents so fingers crossed.If things don't improve then we may have to move to another area it seems very quiet on the building front in Normandy at the momement, after talking to other builders there seem to be the feeling that there isn't the work arround, and it's raining today, you lucky lot in the south! Again thank's again Karen     
  24. Hi all, further to my last posting of not being able to find work as a buider dept 50 i have been doing everything you kind people have suggested, i have now been told about claiming RMI does anyone know anything about this ? I have downloaded the forms fro Caf and wasn't sure if we are able to claim as self employed any advice greatly appreciated, Thankyou Karen. p.s we do have 2 children and claim child benefit in France and have carte de titre's.  
  25. Thank's Val, i will write to Urssaf and hope for a reduction ! You are right about the brit market and we need to widen our horizons, again thanks for your help, Karen.
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