Brilec
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John, it's ony the MCBs which are double pole in France. All the "consumer units" are designed this way. Everything else is single pole switching.
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[quote user="Ciel Bleu"]
"Under French tax office guidelines, the same one year period is accorded for the sale of the principal residence where another is purchased prior to finding a buyer"
Caroline
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I think it might be a little more complicated than that.
When we bought our house, the previous owner had moved out some time before. However, the Notaire said that he would not be liable to CGT for two reasons. Firstly because it had been his primary residence for more than 2 years, and secondly because he had owned it for more than 16 years in total.
This was all said at the signing of the Acte.
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[quote user="Alcazar"]
BOTH wires from the EDF switch to my "board" (which was just that, a piece of board), were blue,
Alcazar
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Both mine were green/yellow. I did have 6 ceramic fuses, and 6 circuits, but three of the fuses were in the live feed, and the other three were in the neutral.
One new three core cable contained two circuits, black was one live, green/yellow the other, and blue was common neutral. No earth connection to be seen, but these were heaters in the bedroom and bathroom - class I. All the earths were connected together in a large box, but not to earth, so if there had been a fault on one of them, the whole lot would have been live.
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Yes, in case you hadn't noticed, France is not actually a part of Europe.
To be fair, I bought a new convector heater last November, and it did come with the new unified colours, so perhaps they are just lagging a bit.
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[quote user="Apero"]
Agree with all the above andyh4, though do we still need a green card?[*-)]
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No, your UK insurance must cover you for the legal minimum requirement in France. You will probably want to sort out better cover, to be the same as driving in the UK.
Some UK companies, such as Churchill, give this automatically.
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Yes, I have a couple of the £25 tickets to use up, but got one of the ten ticket ones too while it was still £190, but at least they last for 2 years, assuming SF are still in business.
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Thanks for the warning, we have always been offered Frontline up to now, indeed our vet always asks if we have our own, or do we want him to sell us some.
The other bit which I find interesting is the talk of injection. We have never had this, our worm treatment has always been a tablet. But then our dog will eat anything in a bit of cheese.
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Yes, this does make it quite clear that radar detectors, which only detect radar waves are illegal.
Quote En revanche, il reste strictement interdit d'utiliser des systèmes capables de brouiller le fonctionnement des radars ( anti radar ) ou d'en repérer par eux-mêmes leur présence ( détecteur de radar ),
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Credit Mutuel charges possibly vary from area to area, but in Mayenne, we pay now 2.54€ per month for our CM account with a Maestro card. We also had to pay I think it was 18€ for the card. The account is called Eurocompte Tranquillite.
This charge seems to have come down recently, as it was 3.50€ or more last year.
The other thing to check is which card you want, as there are at leat 3. You can have a cash card only, to get money out of the hole in the wall. Then you get the Maestro card which is only for use in France. After that there is the Visa card which can be used outside france. The costs go up with each one.
You also pay more if you want card protection, which they will probably try to get you to take on.
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[quote user="Nearly Retired"]
"Good deal" ...er......IMHO.....no!
I'm still working my way through a batch of Speedferries £25 each way tickets. I can travel anytime during the day - especially when they have a sailing!
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You pay as much as £25 each way?
If you buy a 10 ticket voucher, you can travel for £21 each way at any time, for any duration. No surcharges either.
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Took our large dog to the vet yesterday for a rabies booster (in the UK though).
Firstly, there was no requirement for a blood test as it is a booster, the only requirement here is at the first vaccination.
Secondly, the vaccine has just been re-licenced in the UK and is now valid for three years.
For clarification, this only affects UK homed animals. If you take your dog/cat abroad for more than 3 months then it will come under local regulations, which in France is annual rabies vaccination. However, failure to do this will not affect a return to the UK provided that the UK pet passport is still within its dates.
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No requirement for daytime lights.
Unless you are on two wheels.
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You have to remember that bad weather will stop the fast catamarans running before it affects the larger conventional ferries.
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We even had one french estate agent who not only put up the price of the property between the time we booked the appointment, and the time we went to see it, but he also insisted that we sign his bon de visite, which had the price stipulated too. He said that we were agreeing to pay the new price, even though we had not yet seen the property.
We went along to see the place, just to waste his time at that point, as we had absolutely no intention of buying. It wasn't even worth the original lower price, let alone the new inflated one.
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When we were looking, in one immobilier there was a notice, or poster on the wall, with information on what percentage of properties were sold by immos, notaires etc. Something like 50% were sold privately.
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I think it depends on the amount you want to transfer each month. HIFX and some others have a minimum threshold. Paypal is more expensive than moneybookers who only charge 1.80€ per transaction, up to 350€, and 3.50€ for larger amounts.
If you set it up saying that you live in France, and thus have your french bank as your primary account, then the charge is a maximum of 1.80€
Guess who didn't know this until too late?[:@]
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You have already sauid that you have a friend who will translate for you, so this should not be an issue.
Bear in mind that the Notaire has a responsibility to ensure that you understand what is happening, and as such, your friend's name will be included in the documentation as the official translator. This is probably to get the notaire off the hook if it later transpires that you signed something without understanding fully.
Our notaire was very careful to explain everything very carefully, though he only spoke french, he did do his best to ensure that we fully understood what was going on, and we did have the french estate agent with us who did speak good english.
Save your money. Actually the legal "fees" in france are mainly taxes, the notaire only gets a very small part for himself, rather less than a solicitor in England would end up with.
You can, of course, opt to have your own Notaire as well, the costs are no more, as the fee is divided between the two of them. So if you could find a local english speaking one, it might be the other way out.
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Where have you been looking? Sorry, I don't mean what area, but which agents etc?
Can't speak for Dept 10, but in the area we bought (53), we certainly found it well worth while looking at the french language websites of the french agents and notaires. We so often found the same property advertised on an "English" site for considerably more.
We ended up buying through a very french immobilier, and got a very good deal.
Some we found useful, in which you can specify the area and type of property were.
Hope this might help.
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The down side is when the computer doesn't show a fault. Then they are totally lost.
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[quote user="Sunday Driver"]
The DVLA also refer to cars with a current foreign registration, stating that if they are to be used in England for more than 6 months, they must be permanently imported. Given that your son has no fixed UK address, I don't see how this can be achieved. In practice, I suspect it won't be a problem.
Perhaps if questioned, he could produce his french driving licence, french insurance and carte grise, light up a Gauloise and babble away in some heavily accented french patois. [;)]
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But does he not return to France for any other breaks, Easter, Christmas etc? The time of import resets each time the vehicle goes into the UK, so as long as each stay is not more than 6 months, no problem.
By the way, if you saw the number of Polish registered private vehicles on the UK roads, you wouldn't be worrying.
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Thinking about it more, I suppose you are able to keep north of Rouen and go over the Pont de Normandie, I end up a little further south, and have to go through Rouen, then onto the A28 south for a bit. I have never managed to 80 through Rouen!
Even so, it takes me at least 10 minutes to get to the autoroute from the ferry terminal at Boulogne, and your 10 minutes at the other end, only leaves 10 minutes for the various toll booths (even with telepeage), and there are quite a few parts of that route with speed limits way lower than 130kph.[:D]
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You don't say why you are selling after such a short time.
If you are just a property speculator, then tough as far as I am concerned, you take a chance to make money out of others and sometimes it doesn't work out.
On the other hand, if your personal situation has changed, forcing this on you, then I have some sympathy, but it certainly would appear that you will not show a profit by the time you have taken the costs of the purchase into account. And remember that if you have not lived there full time, CGT will not take into account these purchasing costs, they will just want 16% of the difference between the price you paid net vendeur, and the price you actually receive.
Also be aware that "ideas" you might have about the property will make s*d all difference to the value.
Sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear, but it just happens to be my personal point of view.
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Can I just reply to the original post, and say what good news this is. I had hoped that the recent sale of the ten ticket vouchers etc might have beed a way if introducing capital to the company, lets hope they are successful in this.
The only regret I have regarding Speedferries is the overcrowding at Dover, not their fault. But was there never any possibility of them using the (now old admittedly) facilities in Folkstone?
By comparison to Dover, Boulogne is such a joy to use.
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As Chris says, there are many bubble/foil/foam products available in France. Go for a stroll round any large Brico. The product is also much cheaper than any similar in the UK. So easy to fit too. All you need is a staple gun and a large pair if scissors.
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