johnycarper

Can anyone advise please do all properties have to have the survey done or is there an age limit.i.e new gite. Thanks, John

Can anyone tell me if all property needs the survey doing or is there an age limit,would a 4 year old gite need to be done. Thanks, john

   Thanks for that and if i had scrolled down the forum a bit i would have seen the other thread. Thanks for your time

Can anyone tell me how long the survey is valid once you have it done,and is there just one survey that covers it all. Thanks, John

Thanks for all the replies it will put our friends at ease and not be expecting a big bill. John

Can anyone help please as we have friends who went back to England earlier this year and were told at the sale of their house that they will have to pay next years taxes.I have said that i cannot believe that you will be liable for someone else's taxes,can anyone confirm for me please to put their mind at rest. 

no its there only home and they have paid tax in france for just over 5 years so that should hopefully not be a problem. John

Thanks for that it is waht i believed but as always they have a friend who has a friend and then all the usual doom and gloom comes out.I will tell them the good news. John

We have a friend who is selling up and going back to uk,I am sure its on this site somewhere but can someone tell me the tax they will have to pay when they sell.I thought i read somewhere that after 5 years you do not pay any gains tax in France. Thanks for your help, John

Thanks for all the replies i downloaded for free ccleaner as suggested and it seems to do the same as the one i paid for and more,i will now delete the paid for one and just use ccleaner. Thanks, John

   I am after some advice and to ask if people think the following are any good. I have a computer scan programme called "windows clear"made by Weskysoft inc and it supposedly scans my computer to check for errors or any damaged systems and then fixes it,every time i use it now it says that i have over 100 registry errors.It is supposed to repair them but i get the same every time i scan,is this sort of thing a waste of time and is there a better way of checking and fixing any problems. Thanks, John 

      Thanks for all the replies and i think it is a jet of some sort as its smells of diesel and is well gunged up as its the first time its been replaced in the 5 years we have been here,but we have a new guy this time and he seems a lot better and more thorough.

we have just had our oil boiler serviced and the engineer when he left had fitted a gicleur 0,60*60 i have never seen one before and wondered what they are.It looks like a bolt with a small piece of stone attached. Just wondered if anyone can tell me what its for. 

can you send me the link for the company in the states as i may be interested to try them. Thanks, John

thanks for that it now works,and thanks to everyone else who tried to help. John

no i do not have chrome as it seemed to get a few negative comments on here,i do not have the icon below. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar.

Hi I have windows xp home edition,and i use google and its the latest version as i do check to see if there are any updates. Thanks , John

At one time when i wrote on forums like this I was able to click a box at the top to do a spell check,after a recent update it sems to have disapeared can anyone tell me how to get that back .

I have been advised to get a avi player and to honest have not got a clue as to what they are,I want one to plug into my tv so i can watch films on it as i am told this is the future(again). can anyone advise on a good model to buy and any help would be appreciated,I do not want to use my computer to watch films so need one as i say to plug into tv. Thanks, John  

just found this on another wildlife site,as i asked the question there. No, not mole crickets, not even Field crickets BUT voles, so not even an insect. They will be either Common vole, (Campagnol des Champs), or Field vole, (Campagnol Agreste), or perhaps both. Strangely the English name Field vole doesn't correspond with the French Campagnol des Champs AND the Common vole isn't present in the UK.... ....BUT there is a sub species the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis) found on the islands of Rousay, Mainland, Sanday, Westray and South Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The subspecies was introduced to the islands 5,000 years ago, possibly on the boats of Neolithic settlers. http://www.arkive.org/orkney-vole/microtus-arvalis-orcadensis/#text=Range So you can tell them that on the other forum. Confused?

long story but the windows video player on my computer does not work so wanted to put  aprogramme on that i can use all in one.

I am about to buy a programme to download home films from my video camera onto my computer and then burn them to dvd,can anyone suggest which is the best to buy.I want it simple and easy to understand but there seems to be a huge choice out there and so i would like to go with others experiances. Thanks for your time, John 

I am sure this will be easy for someone but its beaten me,when i used to write on forums on the tool bar there was an icon for checking the spelling but its now gone and i cannot work out how to get it back. Any help please. 

      Can anyone advise a way to allow our guest to get Internet access in our gite,it is situated about 100 metres from our house.We have an orange box and we can pick up a signal on a lap top in and around the house but want to boost the signal to give the gite guests a signal,I have seen a box you plug into your mains that is supposed to give you a bigger circuit for a signal. Any help would be appreciated, John  

Thanks everyone for the link and advice it looks like the answer,can anyone tell me if you put this inside the barn but a vent its OK,the reason i ask is that our barn roof is very high and a sharp slope and i don't fancy getting up there .I thought about cutting the pipe inside and putting the vent by one of the breather vents to take out the gas. Thanks for all your help, John