[Normandy to Gatwick]

Thanks Will,

Cost is not a major constraint, time is. I will check the site link you gave.

Regards

[France-How to avoid the Brits]

Last time I was in Paris, I was askwed for directions no fewer than

five times over two days, four by Americans and one by a Brit. All in

poor French!

Would you have preferred to be asked in English (American), at least the tourists tried to speak French.

[Normandy to Gatwick]

I need advice,

I have to get from Villedieu Les Poeles to London Gatwick to pick up a

flight at 0900 on a Friday morning. No car. Does anyone have any good

ideas about the 'best' way to do the journey. It is probably shameful

to admit that I have not used public transport ( in either country) for

many years hence I am totally out of practice.  Any / All ideas

welcome.

Many thanks in advance

[France overrun by les rosbifs?]

""""Chartered Marketer"""

What is a "marketer" ???????  ( or 'Marketeer" as in a later post )

Regards

[central heating]

Try      www.plumbingpages.com or www.diydata.com

Regards

[An End To American Influence?]

WJT,

My apologies for misleading you ( and others), I do not know the

individual family referred to by Adrian Squires, my use of "they" was

related to the US  Airforce as an organisation who fly in food

stuff on a daily basis for their personnel and families who are

stationed in UK and who do not wish to use locally produced goods or

services.

Apogies once more for the 'confusion'

regards

[Is this a forum or a member's club ?]

What a shame, the mods appear to have deleted a reply that I wanted to reply to, well, never mind !!!!

[An End To American Influence?]

I believe they also had deliveries of American bread and milk flown in

daily from the USA so that they did not get the 'nasty local stuff',

and some people think that Brits in France act strangly where food is

concerned!!!!!!!!

[Is this a forum or a member's club ?]

.

Flying - How about - Harvard, flying pig (Varsity), Hastings,

Shacklton (tail dragger version), Devon, Dove, Heinkle 110 (Confederate

Airforce USA), P51T, Beverly, C130, Cambera PR2, Hunter T4, Meteor T2,

Lightening T7, Buccaneer S2C, Phantom FGR2,

Quillan,

Based on the lack of single seaters in list I'm guessing you were a Nav,   how close am I ?

Hunters at 229 OCU and Vulcans at Waddo were more my scene, when the UK had an airforce that is.

Regards

[Oil filled or electric radiators?]

Ian,

Having very quickly checked your 'rule of thumb' method I would say

that the results are at least 33% over the top, if not more, certainly

in terms of watts ( I dont do BTUs !!!!!!).  Doing the

calculations properly using U values, air changes etc is not

particularly onerous and gives you a much more accurate heat requirment

figure. Whilst you can, as you say, always turn it down, it is not

particularly cost effective to install a bigger system than needed.

Regards

[floor tiles - how heavy?]

I have 90 sqr m of tiles, they occupy 1 + 1/3 standard pallets and I

seem to remember the weight being quoted at approx 1800kg for the load.

I cant find the paperwork so its all in the memory so may well be

innaccurate. The number seems to tie up with La Guerriere though.

Hope it helps

Regards

[What's the point of living north of the Loire?]

Rum, cigars and Russian missile sites

[Leylandii]

Jond,

How do you get the roots out ?

Our whole garden is surrounded with the b******s and we feel exactly the same as you about them.

We tried winching a root out and all that did was move the anchor vehicle sideways.

Regards

[Pedibus]

Just checked your link, thats pretty cool!!

[Pedibus]

so basically its nothing to do with a bus!!!! How very odd!

Regards

[Pedibus]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a 'pedibus' ?????

Regards

[Google ads]

Correction, I thought you all meant on the individual threads. Not the forum listing.

Sorry.

[Google ads]

I dont get them, could being on firefox make difference????

[Conecting a hob to bottled gas?]

Thanks for the GSB translation.

Regards

[Conecting a hob to bottled gas?]

Jim,

Thanks for info, but what is/are "GSBs"

Regards

[Replacment of Old Oil heating.]

This is my personal view,

Gaz de ville ( ordinary mains gas ) is the cheapest fuel supply for CH,

LPG ( GPL in France) is the most expensive. Oil is next to Gaz to

ville, electricity is next.

The biggest source of heat loss is lack of insulation. There is

absolutely no point in pumping heat into a building if that heat is

escaping to the atmosphere. As an example - my master bedroom in

Normandy needs 190 w/m sqr if uninsulated to maintain a 21 deg C delta

T ( -1 to +20) If insulated with 200mm of fibre glass loft insulation

that heat loss reduces to 3.5 W/m sqr. No contest! insulation rules OK.

The average (uninsulated) house will lose 30% of all heat input through

the roof. This is heat (energy) you are paying for and not getting any

benefit from.

I could get quite carried away with a discourse on heat etc but,

suffice to say, if you can get gaz de ville it may well be worth it, if

you already have oil its down to cost effectiveness calculations and

amortisation.

I still think the bottom line is insulation ( and control) to maximise

what you have before you make any changes. After all, the maths are not

difficult, - its not rocket science.

Regards

[Conecting a hob to bottled gas?]

Jim,

Can you point me in the right direction for twin bottle manifolds? I

remember years ago seeing an auto-changeover twin manifold but cant

remember any makes etc.

Regards

[Sans engagement]

Hoabriat,

An interesting response, you are of course fully entitled to your

personal viewpoint. However, I do not imagine that there will be a lot

of agreement with you on this forum.

Perhaps you should stick to being in a wonderful, civilised country

with free broadband and leave the rest of us to our whining about soup

kitchens etc. I dont personally need an evangelist telling me how

France can be improved. I leave that to the French, its their country.

Many Regards

[Conecting a hob to bottled gas?]

I suggest you run the majority of pipe in copper, not many

copper-eating mice as far as I know. A short flexi to the regulator and

similarly a short flexi to the hob. Its probably a good idea to fit an

isolating valve at the hob end of the copper before your flexi

connection. Only a suggestion of course.

Regards

[How do electric meters work ?]

How do you know you have been receiving low volts ?. I assume EDF have

an equivalent system to UK where the tolerance on voltage levels is

quite wide. You have to get them to fit a recording voltmeter over a

period of time to prove that the volts were outside the legal

tolerance. Godd luck, I wont hold my breath for you !!!!!!