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  1. Apologies Nick, and for the TLAs...S
  2. Nick, I suspect that you will have a 'deselecter' as part of the TR section of the GTL, this will cut of the supply to the water heater UFH and typically the washing machine if your consumption approaches 12KW. This is how our new build works and I believe is typical. The only problem we have come up against so far with the build in this direction is that in spite of the drawing provided the cooker outlet is behind the sink. I asked why and was told thats where they always put them, so now I have to move it. We have decided to go gas for the hob mainly for diversity. I think we will put in two single ovens as the doubles are so very expensive in France for the reasons outlined above in other postings. I want to b locally for support reasons. Bonne chance...M
  3. ErnieY, that article was interesting if a bit over my head. Did once see a coil spring made of concrete and it flexed about 30%...m
  4. I think that many new floors are now built block and beam over a vide sanitaire. Even for renovation where planning is invoked, certainly our new build is block and beam with the blocks being made of polystyrene.....m
  5. Should that have been 'fell of my throne' The price price for the connection is a bit cheaper than we paid. I had read that if tout a l'egout (sp ?) was available and you have a new project it's mandatory to use the egout. bonne chance   .....M
  6. Hi all, I'm faced with the same problem with our new build. The outer skin of the wall is Bouyer Leroux http://www.bouyer-leroux.com/web2/p89_murs_bio_bric.html block with 100mm doublage on the inside face. Unless I can find an aternative method I'm going to use the metal strip cupboard hanger, full width accross the room. I will chemical bolt this to the outer skin using the mesh slieves provided a la : leroy-merlin Réf. : 64830066 Probably overkill but I can't just hang them from the 13mm placo skin and without the chemical bolting how do I fix to a multiwall block ?  Sky hooks don't apear in the LM online  dogalog
  7. Hi Nectrarine, hope you and FT have this all sorted now but in case you don't and for the benefit (I hope) of those on the forum that struggle with the 'slings and arrows of outrageouse networks' There  are a couple of command line tools that 'even' come with MS Windows ;-) ping and traceroute tracert or some such in windows. Also your ADSL modem/router (Livebox)should have a system log, which might look something like this: 1/1/1970 0:0:0> Ethernet Device 0 Detected 1/1/1970 0:0:0> ATM: Detected 1/1/1970 0:0:0> ATM: Setting up vcc0, VPI=0, VCI=38 1/1/1970 0:0:0> Dynamic NAPT is enabled 1/1/1970 0:0:0> CfgMgr: 'Shtm.dlz' module loaded. 1/1/1970 0:0:0> CfgMgr: 'Washer.dlz' module loaded. 1/1/1970 0:0:0> Washer - washer_reg called! 1/1/1970 0:0:15> ATM Connected 1/1/1970 0:0:15> ATM layer is up, cell delineation achieved 1/1/1970 0:0:15> ADSL connected 1/1/1970 0:0:15> PPP1 PPPoA Connected 1/1/1970 0:0:15> PPP1: LCP terminated at peer's request. 1/1/1970 0:0:18> PPP1 Session is down. 1/1/1970 0:0:18> PPP1 PPPoA Connected 1/1/1970 0:0:21> PPP1 CHAP Authentication success 1/1/1970 0:0:22> PPP1: PPP IP address is 86.144.230.34 1/1/1970 0:0:22> PPP1: PPP Gateway IP address is 217.47.23.91 1/1/1970 0:0:22> PPP1: DNS Primary IP address is 194.74.23.91 1/1/1970 0:0:22> PPP1: DNS Secondary IP address is 194.72.5.65 1/1/1970 0:0:22> NAT/NAPT Session Start: interface ppp1, WAN IP is 146.147.30.76 1/1/1970 0:0:22> Initialized Dynamic NAPT. 1/1/1970 0:0:22> Initialized NAT Virtual Servers. 1/1/1970 0:0:22> Initialized DMZ host. 1/1/1970 0:0:22> No Static Session Information is defined. 1/1/1970 0:0:22> PPP1 Session is up. 9/3/2007 6:31:28> Received time from Time Server 129.34.5.25 Above you can see the 'ATM Connected' that at least tells you that you have a connection to the exchange. Then 'CHAP Authentication sucess' you have sucessfuly loged in to your provider. Then DNS servers are found, so your PC can convert those URLs to IP addresses. The last line is setting the internal clock via NTP from a server 129.34.5.25 out over the internet. Just to confirm things I have pinged and tracerouted the first point off my equipment. tulip:/usr/sbin> ping 86.144.230.34 PING 86.144.230.34 (86.144.230.34) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 86.144.230.34: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.978 ms 64 bytes from 86.144.230.34: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.947 ms 64 bytes from 86.144.230.34: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.909 ms 64 bytes from 86.144.230.34: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.14 ms tulip:/usr/sbin> ./traceroute 86.144.230.34 traceroute to 86.144.230.34 (86.144.230.34), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets  1  host86-144-230-34.range86-144.btcentralplus.com (86.144.230.34)  0.974 ms   0.797 ms   1.113 ms If you have a rainey evening, try finding this information from your PC, then when things go astray you might have some ammunition to fire back at FT. Bonne chance..M
  8. Hi all, I've read this thread with some amusement at the musings over the SCART socket, I believe the story was that the set manufactures would only include it if it cost them nothing and I think they must have got close. Back to RG45 as a phone sockets, I've had them put in our new build and judging by the price from Legrand they must have been assembled on the thighs of dusky maidens, E45 EACH I was looking at the power over ethernet specs the other day and the ringing should be separate pins and the 48 volts on another set, and it's only enabled when the providing device senses a POE device on the end...yeh  still I allways liked the smell of ozone and burning plastic M
  9. Ventilation Mechanicaly Controled, only in frenche......
  10. I have seen it done using a Variac and the roughly the method you describre. The math is by substitution, I found the method via Google. Technicaly the reslts are complex but I believe only the resistive element is ever required in this case.....s
  11. Ours took 11 months for a plot within 500m of monument...........
  12. We are in the early stages of having a house built in France. The first option offered by the builder was electric underfloor. Reading around on the net I have seen several heat gradient graphs showing distance from the floor against temperature. Above floor heating generally using high temperature sources heats the top half of the room more than the bottom. Underfloor conversely heats most near the floor. Making it slightly more efficient 20-30% (claimed) and highly suitable for high ceiling rooms. I would be interested to hear from others on actual running costs. Also experiences with Tempo the EDF charging scheme. Strebor
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