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  1. You could contact rondy themselves. But they seem to be wholesalers specialising in supplying hypermarkets. In which case your door-opener may have been a one-off with little spare parts back up. Aurec sur Loire 43110 France  Telephone, fax and webTel: 33 04 77 35 10 12 http://www.rondy.fr      
  2. What message do you get when you try to click into an ITV Channel from the Programme Guide?
  3. I assume you are renting unfurnished. Your six month right to end the lease because you intend to live in the property comes into effect six months before the end of the rental period specified in the contract. Presumably your contract started in Nov 2003 hence you can serve the notice in April 2006. If the tenant wants to end end the lease they only need to give three months notice at any time. Take care because if you do not serve the notice at the correct time the lease is automatically renewed for further period. http://www.laforet.com/louer/infos.php
  4. If you have received a quite of 800 euros then someone has visited the site. When we had the survey donewe made sure that we were there to suggest improvements (ie cost reductions) to what was being proposed. You need to track down the technician who surveyed the work, and find out what he has planned. As far as the Consuel is concerned they are an independant body who issue a certificate saying that the internal wiring, ie the part beyond the main fuseboard meets the required standard. In theory they come out and perform an inspection, but for many new-build projects, if the work is carried out by a major recognised electrician then he is allowed to certify his own work, and the work is only checked on a sample basis. This won't apply to you and hence an obvious problem. If you have carried out the work yourself they are likely to want to go through it with a fine tooth-comb. I am sure others will let you know how they got on. Its not insuperable but if you drop for a "jobsworth" you could have fun! and they cahrge for reinspections. Edf will not do any work connecting your supply until they have the certifaicate in their hands. As far as the actual connection is concerned the norm is to fit a box at the edge of the property, which allows remote reading. You will have seen the yellow box hidden in the hedge, dented by delivery vans....There is then a cable from there to near your fuse board where they mount the fuse, and the meter , a link to the fuse-board that you have fitted (aren't they big? 40 circuits, two-way relays, programmers, disjoncteurs, delestage etc etc) and hey-presto.
  5. If your friends house is isolated, the Mairie is probably saying that it won't pay to extend the network to the mill rather than that it won't allow the work. There is probably no harm in your friend enquiring the cost of the work and offering to pay the bill. As far as radio links are concerned they are expensive, and for many of the satellit internet solutions you need a phone link to form the return link anyway. I hope the mobile signal is strong in the area, looks like it will be the only modern means of communication.
  6. Now whereas I thought there was an an art to using them, the Dutch thought they were just plain art. http://www.hurktoilet.nl/sculpture.htm
  7. And as we are talking about Hydrochloric Acid DO NOT mix with bleach, unless you want to recreate some WW1 mustard gas.
  8. Who/ what are they? Insurance Co?, brokers?, French? / English? Where are their details to be found?
  9. You need to take proper professional advice on this,otherwise you could end up paying avoidable tax.Your problem is that you will need someone who understands the rules both sides of the Channel, and they are rare and/ or expensive However a few pointers.... >As I understand it, the money from our primary residence is >tax free but any income from our buy to let >house is subject to cap gains. If we paid off >this mortgage and then decided to sell it -would we >be subject to capital gains on the entire amount OR >just the difference between what we paid for it and >what we sold it at ( exc our personal >allowance and running repair costs if that still stands) You pay income tax on income and capital gains tax on capital gains. So until you sell it no capital gains.There may be some benefit in keeping the loan on this house as the interest is an expense which reduces your net income and hence your tax. The fact of having a loan makes no difference to the taxable gain. The gain is what you sell it for, less what you paid, less any major improvements carried out. >Also if we were then using the rent to live off in >France, would we be taxed on that too? - and >by who? Uk or France or both? The net income would be taxable in France if you a resident in France. There are ways of avoiding it being taxed in the UK. >Is there a way of making our seondary residence our primary residence before we move to france so that we do >not have to pay capital gains? Are there any rules re selling primary residence or indeed secondary after you have become resident in France. You may be able to reduce your capital gains tax by living in the property for a reasonable period , (minimum six months?),before moving to France, but the benefit of this will depend on how long you have owned the property, the size of the gain etc etc. Once you are in resident in France it can't be you main residence. > >Finally, if any of you experts had a choice - pay >off french mort or pay off secondary buy to let >mortgage, all being equal, what >would you do - or is there another way. See above.But it really depends on If you need to realise the money from the buy to let. Do you want to keep a toe-hold in UK. Do you think UK property is going to fall? Can you manage the property remotely. All very complicated. Remember we aren't experts, more like the bloke down the pub, and he isn't always right. GET PROPER ADVICE!!!
  10. See thread "New Ryanair Routes" (currently at 7 August). Bad news for anyone who flies into Stansted to connect with Stansted -Dinard.
  11. Here is graph of the exchange rate http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/cgi/fxplot?b=GBP&c=EUR&rd=*&fd=1&fm=1&fy=2001&ld=31&lm=12&ly=2004&y=daily&q=volume&f=png&a=lin&m=0&x= I ask the basis on which the rate is calculated, or just calculate my own weghted average. PS You will have to copy and paste the link.
  12. From BBC News P&O Results Ferry review P&O's ferry arm reported a 25.1m loss. "We are confident that the ferries review would demonstrate our determination to put that business right" said P&O chief executive Robert Woods P&O is due to announce the results of a review of its ferry business at the end of September, Looks like prices will be going up again, for fewer sailings.
  13. The PIN side of UK Chip and Pin is slowly coming into use in France. It requires the card readers to be changed for new models, so it will probably some years before 100% acceptance, especially in petrol pumps! I suspect it would be virtually impossible to get a French card without a French bank account, which is itself pretty difficult, unless you can demonstrate that you have or are actively in the process of obtaining a property/ address. No doubt dozens of people will now appear to tell us that they have hard a card for years.
  14. Many villages have spent a lot on money putting cables both electric and telecom underground. We arrived about five years after this had been done in our area. To serve our new house would have been a simple job, using one pole. To maintain the visual harmony the cable had to go underground, entailing a simple road crossing in a country lane. We were required to pay the additional cost. The technician who carried out the survey was veryhelpful and tried many optionsto keep the cost as low as possible.
  15. Any use? http://www.lesproviders.com/arti/dossiers/index.php
  16. I always thought it was a natural progression from the old-style Turkish ("Shower Tray") toilets. To me they seem offer a good compromise, vandal resistant and more hygenic than the UK model: once you have mastered the "hover" technique!
  17. Perhaps thats why the parent compant is called "LastMinute"
  18. Until about a year ago you could use any banks card in any banks machines. However the EU decided that to promote the Single Market it was not right that banks should charge their customers anymore for drawing money from a machine when they were abroad, than they would pay for a withdrawal in France, after all a euro is a euro. The banks didn't like this potential loss of income, so they decided to introduce charges for using any machines other than their own, whether inside France or not: There is more than one way to skin a cat! I notice that Soc Gen published their new charges from 1st July, so I suspect that CA may well have intoduced their new rates at the same time. If you took out a Soc Gen Carte Bleu after 1999 you are allowed one free "Foreign" withdrawal in France after that it's 1 Euro a shot. They usually notify these changes in the guff that comes with your statement. All this makes it even more important to choose a bank with a handy branch!
  19. If you are not a business EdF still has a monopoly. The EU competition regulations required free competition in all countries and markets by I think 2002. The French Government insisted on a delay and the private market will not be opened up until 2007. 1st of July 2004 brought in competition for all businesses and organisations. So you are stuck with the liitle blue square for the time being unless you want to wait a bit longer......
  20. Perhaps Lidl dishes always speak in German? I suspect you are on the wrong astra satellite, which means you only will only need to move it a little bit. Can you give the name and frequencies of a couple of the channels you are picking up?: look somewhere in the menus. Then we will have confirmation of where we are starting from and alos the type of box you have, Analogue or Digital.
  21. Unless you are lucky and have signed with someone very very kind, its gooodbye to your deposit,which is why you pay the deposit in the first place. If the artisan/shop had incurred additional expenditure in ordering or making special items they could, though it is rare, pursue you for further additional costs incurred.
  22. Its probably the maximum they are allowed by law. French Sunday trading laws are , fortunately, strictly enforced unlike the old UK system.
  23. Any of the dial up providers. The favourites seem to be tele2 , tiscali, or free.
  24. You have to remember that the fees on small value deals are higher in percentage terms, and that the cost of the geometre may well be included. If you have a mortgage then the costs go up again. That said if you look at the calculator on http://www.rjsa.valdoise.notaires.fr/Services/frais_calcul_avertissement.htm You will see that for a 20000euro purchase the fees should be about 2500, plus any additional costs for geometres mortgages etc. You will also note that half of the costs are in fact the various stamp duties.
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