cabman

Just checked Flybe for Southampton - Limoges in February. Starts 27th March. That's still a start anyway!

Excellent advice in the previous thread. I would add that cleanliness is the main key to plaster workability, especially the mixing water. Clean containers, clean tools, clean water every mix.

I guess the simplest check would be to park about a metre in front of a wall and mark which direction the beam moves from main beam to dipped.  Or am I missing something here?

We had this in our previous house and ordered the wall cupboards made with solid chipboard backs. I think some cheaper ones are thin hardboard which is not good enough. Backs were drilled (4 fixings per cupboard) and accurately drilled, plugged and screwed into the plasterboard. We used Fischer plugs & 50mm#10 screws but there are loads of heavyweight plastic plasterboard plugs on the market. Each wall cupboard was bolted to it's neighbour with 2 bolts. Some cupboards were loaded up with china etc. and never caused a problem. Tiling tightly up to the underside would have helped with stability as well. The only time things get difficult is if the room is out of square or needs packing out to maintain a straight line of cupboards! Good luck!

I'm wondering why all the new construction at Limoges airport. Surely not just for AirFrance & Ryanair's one or two flights a day. We watch and wait with interest.

I'd appreciate some advice on two related topics. We will be returning to UK from Creuse on January 1st. Should we anticipate busy or quiet roads in France on this holiday? Presume Autoroute service stations open as usual?   Also it seems we have three basic choices of route for this journey to/from Calais. I've tried all three at various times, and still can't make up my mind. 1) A1 and around east side of Paris to Orleans. 2) A16 via Amiens and western side Periphique towards Orleans. 3)A28 via Rouen and across country via Chartres etc. Mappy favours the first route. What's favourite for you regular travellers?

I was interested to see the mole-blaster kits in Bricomarche. Can't get them in UK, no moles in French garden, but have got moles hills all over the lawn in UK though. What about UK customs if I tried to bring a kit into UK?  Problem do you think?

I agree with previous replies, dry lining is probably favourite, but more expensive. As space is at a premium, have you considered chipping the offending concrete off and re-rendering? Can you hire a Kango in France? I would have thought once started, concrete would part from the old limestone with a conventional cold chisel. I feel trying to ram concrete into a 1cm gap behind board would be slow, difficult and impossible not to create voids.

Sounds like your blocks are red terra cotta. Some are load-bearing, some are not, depends on the thickness and the quantity of the webbing. Would it be possible to add a trimmer joist and fix into the adjacent substrates? Difficult to picture it from your description.

What size are your tiles? Provided they are quite large, you would probably need spacing of around 8-10mm. The pros lay them to a tightly stretched line like the bricklayers use. Lay the tiles with the high spot on the wiggle just not quite touching the line, or you will get a bend in it. You must start and stay square. Start from a square in the middle, marked on the floor. Remember your Pythagoras? 5x4x3 triangle in any measurement is always a perfect rt. angle. You'll need a straightedge or spirit level across the faces. Happy laying!  

Cacknanty,  thank you for that information. Seems you may have a different Rosieres model as I think our chimney vent is a 3-position lever at the rear of the hot-plate.(unless someone knows differently) I'm currently back in UK, but you've certainly provided a basis for further experimentation. You're also braver than me to have got your system so well sorted already!  

There is a scam similar to your experience, usually applied to used cars. I guess it would work just the same with rentals. Read all about it here:  http://www.used-car-advisor.com/car-buyer-scam.htm

I've been lurking in these excellent forums for some weeks, and can't seem to find anyone with a similar problem. We've recently acquired a lovely house in Creuse, near Bussiere Dunoise.  Heating is by night storage heaters, backed up by a centrally placed oil-fired cooker.  Problem is I can't figure out how to light and/or extinguish this cooker. The nights are becoming chilly! It's a not so old-looking Rosieres fed by a tank in the cellar via an electric pump inside one of the kitchen cupboards.  The control valve for the cooker is a Toby DVR. The pump has no apparent make but is plugged in to it's own socket and has a little red  knob on the top. I guess the burner needs to be ignited by a match under the hotplate, but what first? If anyone has or knows these cookers I'd be most grateful for a step by step instruction, before I singe my eyebrows or worse!