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    bottled gas for cookers

    in House Renovations

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    [quote user="Hillsider"]I am thinking of renovating my typically French dark oak kitchen. The range cooker we like from Conforama is mixed fuel (electric oven / gas hob). Before buying, does anyone know if it is likely that a French manufactured appliance will be compatible with bottled gas?

    [/quote]

    We bought a French Rosiere cooker (elec. oven and one ring + 3 gas rings.) It was fitted with jets for town gas, plus spares for butane/propane. Simply changing the jets and screwing on the regulator has produced flawless performance for five years.

    Internal doors

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    I made mine from the same floor boards but at 20cm widths. Four boards to a door and when planed and cleaned came out at 78,5cm (I like elbow room). But rather than leave a gap in the studwork, the door was hung on its oak post, then the next post was butted up to it for a good fit, then the wall continued. Easier than trying to make a door to fit a gap in my case.

    Child abuse

    in The Complete France Post Bag

    Posted

    I've just done a quick Google and come up with this as the authority:

    Aide Sociale à l'Enfance

    If in turn you check that, you'll retrieve a lot of pages in French, of course, but I think each local authority has a point of contact. Or ring the Maire/Deputy.

    Hope that helps.

    Is Linux the answer to dial-up connections?

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    Purely as a LiveCD, then any of the popular distros should suffice. I use SimplyMEPIS permanently.

    Your second option is to install Linux and set it up for a dual boot. The LiveCD will do it for you. Third is to dump Windows altogether unless you desperately need it.

    Either way you'll be able to browse with the distro's built-in browser - it may come with Firefox, Iceweasel, Konqueror etc. If the LiveCD allows you to access your Windows partitions through something like KwikDisk, then you may even be able to download and save.

    But of course you'll still be restricted to dial-up, but without all the popups and upgrade annoyances. As for security, Linux is rarely troubled by viruses and spyware, yet there should be something built in regardless - AV, anti-spam and firewall.

    Hope that helps.

    Creepy crawlies

    in Wildlife/Nature/Environment

    Posted

    [quote user="chris pp"]

    I've already spoken to Deauville by telephone, but just to say that I've now put a page on my site for "Frelons" which I hope both supplies the basic details about them and allows people to relax a bit.

    http://planetepassion.com/hornet-frelon-vespa.crabo.htm

    Chris

    [/quote]

    Just spotted that the thread has been necroed after more than two years. Although the above link is dead, are the contents available elsewhere, Chris?

    Cheers.

    ants ants ants

    in Wildlife/Nature/Environment

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    We've had every success with ant powder e.g. Nippon. Have you found where they're getting in, and where the nest is? When you say a roof full, do you mean in a grenier, behind plasterboard, under tiles, in and out of stonework? What?

    Hope you get a resolution.

    Caterpillar 1

    in Wildlife/Nature/Environment

    Posted

    If you're on dial-up, then it would be useful to learn how to resize photos. Do you have a paint program of some sort? (The Gimp is free). I shrunk yours to 500 x 375 and 80% compression, and it came out at 28k, about a tenth of your file size, and it took less than a minute to do.

    But that's no help with the caterpillar!

    Meat Free Monday

    in Wildlife/Nature/Environment

    Posted

    Has anybody ever shown that religious diets - don't eat this, that, t'other on whatever days - are beneficial to health? Didn't think so.

    Maybe the dinosaurs and other reptiles went extinct at the C/T boundary because of all the methane they produced. Just as valid an argument as the modern bovine excuse. But the planet recovered and likely always will.

    Meat free Mondays and the like is to salve unthinking consciences.

    Fossil hunters

    in Wildlife/Nature/Environment

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    I'm gaining an interest in fossils as there's so many marine species in the limestone around here. Anybody else into it or can recommend a starting point for exploration from southern Deux-Sèvres? The amber quarries in northern Charente and the cliffs at La Pointe du Chay near La Rochelle are beckoning for a day out.

    And no, no jokes about living with old fossils! LOL.

    Cheers

    Teleconnect - problems galore

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    A strong letter by recorded delivery got me a personal call from their team, delivered promises, and a wedge off the bill. All tickety-boo.

    It's also helpful to know how to interrogate your modem should you perceive connection problems. You'll have an idea if it's your end or theirs, and how your local exchange is performing. You can cross-check that with sites offering free ADSL speed checks.

    Plant hire (mini digger, mixer) in Carcasonne area,, White paint

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    I suppose a lot depends on where you're applying the emulsion. I've found that the acrylic stuff (plaque de platre - sous couche and murs & plafonds - [top coat]) - Brico-Depot, are excellent value. Price is basic as well.

    At least you can get rooms finished and go over it later if you want to pick out a wall in a different colour with UK emulsion.

    Undercoat - €5.27 for 10 litres

    Top coat - €7.43 for 10 litres.

    Cost of roof replacement

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    [quote user="John Sergant"]... The price…78 000€

    Does this sound about right ?

    [/quote]

    Nothing sounds right until you've got at least three quotes, vetted the artisans, and got some feedback from other jobs they've done. And usually that can't be rushed.

    And whatever it takes, make sure you understand WHY certain costs/work need to be incurred. Sage nods can hurt the pocket. [;-)]

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