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  1. any solid pipes underground from the house to the fosse are not glued.  The stuff in the drainage field is never glued.
  2. Inside the house you can glue, underground you can't (in Dept 65 anyway), you can glue up to the point it goes underground.  Liquid gunk might not leak, but the smelly gas stuff might.  Suck it and see I suppose.  I hate gluing the stuff as it means you have to throw it all away when you need to change things around.   Another of the "lets keep people in business" ideas that seem to be common over here.  I hopefully brought a load of my rubber sealed push on stuff from the UK that I had lying around... none of it is compatable.. ho hum. Fossy Blokey is turning up next week so I will see what he does and keep you posted.    Flucrum... they do have some "joining" pieces with rubber seals to allow to fix broken pipes, but they are only about 20cms long and rather expensive.
  3. apparently, if you cover the pipes with gravel/earth, they could shift and the glue crack.  We also live in an area of seismic activity...although the earth has yet to move for me!  The pipes you buy are normally 4m long and are "flanged" at one end so one pipe fits into the next.
  4. Thanks for that.  Yes, I've got all the pipes (and coudes... and the rest) as i'm also making provision for future bathrooms (in my dreams anyway).  The reason I asked about gluing is that I heard you might have to heat seal them.  I would have thought that this would give the same problems as gluing though.  I'll leave everything "dry" i.e. pushed together and get the SPANC man to advise if there are any issues with it all after Fosse bloke has finished.
  5. I'm doing the same thing, although I've got a 25m run.  Does anyone have any info on how the underground 100mm pipe is joined? Fosse bloke says it is "interdit" to glue them so I am worried as they might leak.  
  6. Many thanks for all your advice folks.  Rubber manchon with lots of very large circlips did it in the end.  I had to chop the concrete back a bit though.  Not a nice job, especially as dozy wife kept flushing the loo whilst I was working on the outlet pipe.  New Fosse being installed next week... so Manchon thingy will be going spare once old fosse has been emptied and then refilled with sand.  Any one need a 2nd hand one in Dept 65?
  7. I'm getting everything ready for a new Fosse and this includes connecting all the original pipes to the new 100mm plastic one going into the Fosse.  Most of the pipe work is OK and won't take much to connect it all in.  However, I have a 130mm concrete pipe which I can't move without ripping out and raising the bath, which I was hoping to avoid.  Does anyone know where I can get a connector to connect 100mm plastic to 130mm concrete?  I did something similar in the UK with the old concrete waste from an outside toilet (i'm not really that old!) to the 110mm new stuff.  Any ideas?
  8. just to add my 2c worth.  I've got an old ferme, all downstairs rooms (that have not been carrelaged already) smell damp and musty so I am putting in a screed (think it's called chape in France) with a DPM and dry lining the walls. I also tried buying "polythene bleu" from various builders merchants.  After lots of odd looks the best I got was "polythene vert".  For additional information/discussion have a look at the screwfix.com forums.  I ended up going round in cicles about DPM or no DPM, or "what is rising damp anyway".  I'm also getting my fosse man to dig a ditch around the house and then fit a plastic sheet and field drains.  I think that the ditch will solve most of my damp problems. Best of luck    
  9. Seems to be that your saga is no nearer completion.  We're still going through our protracted "negotiations".  I was under the impression that with the new rules materials no longer qualify unless done by a registered French builder/artisan, i.e. no Brico costs.  Have you counted into the CGT calculation that you can offset initial costs of buying the property?  I've been trying to calculate what our "friends" would end up paying as they say 000's but I disagree.  I believe you can use 7.5% of the original purchase costs as figure to offset against CGT, but I have heard that could possible get away with more if you can itemize the bills, e.g. half the original Notaire/Immo costs.  I'm still investigating as to what initial "costs" can be included.  In our case, if you take of the immo/notaire costs and then the 1000Euro that everyone gets, then the actual gain (taxed at 16%) they pay is nominal (as we're only talking of 2 years increase). I'm not sure of the UK tax position though but I would have thought that with £17000 worth of CGT allowance between them then no UK CGT would be forthcoming.
  10. Thanks for the feedback everyone.  In answer to the same question: yes, it was a holiday home, but the agreement was drawn up when we actually moved here and there are lots of clauses allowing one family (or both if both want to relocate!!) to have the use and to make sure the other family don't lose out.  I will keep you posted on developments.
  11. Phylisbide: I'm glad you've managed to get things sorted (over a year WOW).  I don't think we will be so lucky.  We are actually living in France now (with kids in school) so it's not just a holiday home for us.  Before we left the UK we all signed an agreement with clauses that dealt with the issues of what would happen if 1 couple wanted to sell (average of 3 valuations with 6 months for the other couple to decide and complete) or if there are issues with the way the "partnership" is going.  We've just had another meeting with the other couple and they don't want to use the agreement as a vehicle to sell, they are going to come up with a price which will be based on a) their valuation of the property, b) compensation for them having to sell earlier than expected i.e. a perception of what the house would be worth in 12-18 months time and c) recouperation of all shared maintenance costs they have spent on the house so far.  If we don't agree with their "fair" price, then they want to revert back to the agreement which deals with grievances, to force us to sell what is now our home. (oh.. and we pick up all the Notaires costs).  We have no opportunity to negotiate or have an input into the price they will ask us to pay.  Compare this to what you have negotiated and I think we are being taken for a ride.... We don't think this is fair.  Has anyone else been through this?  Is there a legal way we can progress this?  Does anyone know of a French Lawyer who deals with this, or is it a Notaire's job.  Is it English law or French law?  Any advice would be helpful.    
  12. Did any of this get sorted out?  We're having the same problem with agreeing sale price.  The other people have heard that the house prices are going through the roof.  We've been told 8% for the next year.  They want to get the house valued now, so they know how much money they roughly have (no problem there), so that they can go and find another property around here (no problem with that either). But then they want it valued again in 12 months and not sell it to us for another 6 after that!  We suggested that we get 2 valuations, a 3rd if they differ by more than 20%, average it all out and give them an extra 5% for good luck... considering we're finding the 8% notaires fees we think this is fair.  Unfortunately they don't, apparently we're trying to rip them off.  Does anyone out there think we are being unrealistic?  We think this is fair to both parties.  Considering that they will be finding a property at this year/last year prices and then realise the price in the current property at "next" years prices, we think that this is morally wrong.
  13. It depends where you are in relation to the satellite as to where you point the dish.  Use the following link to figure it out http://www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm find your Easting and Northing position by using multimap and once you have the calculated angles use a compass to point the dish.  It worked for me only after I made an adjustment to the vertical alignment as the chimney I fixed the dish to wasn't vertical.  I get a better signal in the Pyrenees than I got in England.
  14. I live very close to Tarbes in the Pyrenees and I've just fitted a satellite dish (80cm) to my chimney and got it working OK. I thought I would be too far south but it works fine. The best site I found was http://www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm you type in the angle of where the satellite is (in my case Astra2 for Sky at 28.2 degrees), then the latitude and longitude of where you are (you can get this from www.multimap.com) and Voila! as they say down here.  It gives you the compass bearing and the angle of the dish PLUS the bit about turning the LNB thingy.  Took about 30 seconds.  I had to make a slight adjustment to the angle of tilt as my Chimney leans by 8 degrees.  The wife gets to watch Match of the Day ... just like blighty but without the grey skies.
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