woolybananasbrother

BUT, whatever happens, do not put the flue from a central heating boiler in the same chimney as a wood burner (or vice versa of course). My heating engineer says it is a definite nono.

But prices are definitely on the slide too. Don't oversimplify Brit appeal. So many buy the big old expensive ruin with acres of land but after a bit they gravitate towards small and warm and practical. Seen it a thousand times (that means lots and lots).

Must be a trick of the light my dear sir. I apologize

Or is he daft enough to beileve that Brits are daft enough to pay over the odds...?? Are they? Many still are I reckon.

[quote user="Just Katie"] Yes Gemini Man, of course I knew he was being smutty but women get very good at ignoring.  If it was said face to face it is very easy for most women to continue the conversation and nobody would have a clue that it was picked up upon.[:)] [/quote] Who was being smutty?[6]

That's more like it Ernie, but why the tin (plastic) roof on the left bottom? Wife enclosure? Mine's to be 1970's too. no muckin about.

Dont ask.

I also think it is a mistake to try and turn a simple cheap peasant cottage into an upmarket bourgeois residence. The initial quality is just not there. So you end up with a few original features (how I hate that world) and a kind of B n Q modern British house. I saw a he ll of a lot whilst househunting.

Sold the bl  oo  dy place for a little modern house with character. NOW I think there are better things to do with life than be a slave to a heap of stone or Brico projects, and that starting over again I would have bought modern with cellar and garage underneath and saved a lot of money, heartache and worry. The day I sold the house you can see in the clip in the previous post or so was the day a weight was lifted from my shoulders.

Ideally it should have some sort of air circulation to dilute and or drive away any possible concentration from a leak which would be potentially explosive of course. Cellars are the worst possible option as gas sinks and concentrates and can't get out.

How? I only doubted the wisdom of trying to make silk purses out of elderly sows' ears? Except to make money of course by flogging them to fluffy eyed Brits.[6]

Love it babba, love it.

Cowoman, surely you can stand a bit of rigorous discussion and a different viewpoint.[6]

This is fun, a great game between buyer and seller. And both sides know the rules until an external is introduced who upsets the applecart. Trouble is that there are still a few easily picked poickets out there.[6]

game.. word missing.... gas.... add in any space... not below stairs...... ahhhhhhhh so TWINKS

definitely bendy dear and not getting sufficient appreciation[6]

Pads, noone wants to grind anyone down at all. But at the same time you dont want to chuck it away. And yes I get strange looks when I ask for the furniture to be moved to spot damp and to see the electrics and the rest (wont go into details). But I do get cross when I see people suspending natural scepticism when they come abroad and paying through the nose. Buying Brits are not walking charities to be milked as many French vendors believe and many Brits confirm. I am sorry to say that the agents do not always help either though some are brilliant. And TWINKLE has earned the right to my heart, though why the hell she whould want that battered old thing I dunno.

I am in France and have been for 12 years except of three days a week over a few years when I went to teach in a Belgian uni and have just sold and bought so I am bang up to date. And I am a fluent French speaker and have a Francophone family. And think my function here is to have a bit of fun and also shoot fluffies in the fluffy hunting season. And I am also in love with Twinkle, but that is another story. I have interrogated agents and notaires over months and sellers and buyers and have formed strongish opinions. Some of these you are beginning to discern. They may not be nice but they are realistic. And I cant type[6]

Never have below you, simple rule and preferably not indoors.[6]

Shoe menders jon. Unless you have it to chuck away. And precious few of us do. By the way, I been ther and done it many many differtent ways and places. France is just another stopping place. If these precious new owners knew they had spent say an extra 20 or 30 thousand quid just to buy a few smiles on peoples' faces would they really be happy. Get real.[6]

Frith I wish my family had never returned to Europe from SA but gone to Aus or NZ.

Nah, our little TWINKLY one is bringing things back to basics.[6]

Great big suckers you were. Of course they (any vendor) can afford to be nice a friendly and leave their stuff. You probably paid much more than they ever dreamed of.[6]

Been there, its a girl thing and even worse, a woman thing[6]

Suckers more likely. Get them to sign a promesse de vente immediately and the vendor is tied down. No problem. Paying asking price is crazy mainly.