pachapapa

She lacks sprezzatura...but not alone...it would seem.

Too much gallic pessimism can cause a "flush of "honte"". http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/04/03/le-sort-des-diplomes-etrangers-est-indigne_1679664_3232.html

Possibly PTZ until end of 2014.

Rules will vary according to department. I live in deux-chèvres and the prefet is currently a woman.  I dont bother to enquire about the rules. My next fire, depending on the weather, probably hedge clippings at the end of april.[:)] Edit 14:59  04/04/2012.

[quote user="Chancer"] Thanks! I have a huge dictionary but it wasnt in there, perhaps its under paques. [/quote] I have le plus petit Larousse 1980 Edition. It's in there.[:-))]

[quote user="pebejay"]Thanks for this, Pachapapa. Where did you source the information? As you are also in the Deux Sevres I would be interested to see if it is the same syndicat d'eau. It is interesting to see that they would, if necessary, do the work themselves.[/quote] Link to relevant legislation: http://goo.gl/geYzU Link to simpler public service web site: http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F20554.xhtml I am with the Sources de Seneuil a very small operation.

[quote user="Quillan"][quote user="pachapapa"][quote user="Quillan"][quote user="idun"] I used to wonder why some people's water bills on here were so low. And now I realise. We had to have a fosse septique, but our waste water went into the mains drains and so we paid double. I found it an excellent system. [/quote] I only found out because our second years bill was double so I went to mayors office and asked. They told me it was for water in and sewage out. I told them I had a fosse so they sent me a new bill for half the amount. [/quote] Obligation de raccordement aux égouts Le raccordement des immeubles aux égouts disposés pour recevoir les eaux usées domestiques est obligatoire dans le délai de 2 ans à compter de la mise en service du réseau de collecte des eaux usées. Il est réalisé sous la voie publique à laquelle les immeubles ont accès soit directement soit par l'intermédiaire de voies privées ou de servitudes de passage. Tous les ouvrages nécessaires pour amener les eaux usées à la partie publique sont à la charge exclusive du propriétaire. Pénalité en l'absence de raccordement Si l'obligation de raccordement n'est pas respectée dans le délai fixé, le consommateur court le risque de se voir infliger une pénalité pécuniaire : sa redevance d'assainissement peut être majorée (augmentée) sur décision du conseil municipal, dans la limite de 100 % de son montant initial. La commune, après mise en demeure, peut procéder d'office aux travaux nécessaires, aux frais du propriétaire (y compris les frais de gestion), même sur le domaine privé. Really! Are you sure? I feel the need for a little chat with the Secretary of your Mairie to learn the reasons for this unique situation. [/quote] I have just sat down to write the cheque and I can assure you what I have said is correct. If you have a fosse then perhaps rather than contact my mayor's secretary you might like to contact yours and ask why you are paying double. For your information my bill is broken down as follows 140,40€ Consommation Eau, 24,00€ Location Compteur, 30,24€ Redevance pollution de l'eau. Total bill is 194,64. Rather than just type what you want in French you should provide a link to the text for without it your French comments could be written by anyone including yourself. As I said before how things are interpreted at regional, deparmental and local level, as experience has shown time and time again (not just by me but by many others on the forum) can vary a lot.   [/quote] I do not have a fosse toutes eaux, the house is connected to a main sewer which is connected to a pumping station delivering the collective effluent to the treatment plant. I do not pay double so no need to contact the local secretary. However it would appear that a collective sewage system is available in a public road adjacent to your property; it would also appear that the local mayor has neglected to make satisfactory arrangements to ensure your connection to the public collective system during a period of 7 years.

[quote user="Chancer"] This has been proposed by my scuba diving club for easter Sunday. At first I thought it was organised by my friend Pascal but he is not a she!! Anyway its an underwater easter egg hunt in a nice cold quarry, but i just dont get the "Pascale" bit, is it something "Paquish"  or "Eastery"? [/quote] Easter. Agneau de Pâques, agneau pascal. In french cuisine a lamb cooked for 7 hours minimum...it's disgusting.

[quote user="idun"][quote user="sid"][quote user="idun"] I used to wonder why some people's water bills on here were so low. And now I realise. We had to have a fosse septique, but our waste water went into the mains drains and so we paid double. I found it an excellent system. [/quote] I didn't understand your reply Idun... You had both a fosse and mains drainage? Surely that's not correct? [/quote]   Yes Sid, we did, all the houses on our estate did. The drains were made to take the grey water from the septic tank and the sink/bath water etc( which didn't go into the septic tank, but directly into the drains). It was really good. No cleaning out anything disgusting at all like filters. I had never realised that we were at odds with other fosse users until I started reading on here. Why the toilet waste didn't go directly into the main drains, I don't know, but to me it felt like an excellent system. It meant that we never ever put stuff we shouldn't down our toilet, just bodily waste and appropriate toilet paper.   The first house on our little estate was built in 1979, ours in 1982/1983 and the others that followed all were on the same system. Was the rest of our village the same? I do not know, but probably a lot of them, just by the discussions about water bills, if any friends had had bills half ours, I would have been wondering why. [/quote] The methods of treatment have changed since 1979, in that time period grey water and used water were separated, this is no longer the case even for a system of assainissement non collective an additional difference is that the lotissement may have had system solely for the lotissement.

[quote user="Quillan"][quote user="idun"] I used to wonder why some people's water bills on here were so low. And now I realise. We had to have a fosse septique, but our waste water went into the mains drains and so we paid double. I found it an excellent system. [/quote] I only found out because our second years bill was double so I went to mayors office and asked. They told me it was for water in and sewage out. I told them I had a fosse so they sent me a new bill for half the amount. [/quote] Obligation de raccordement aux égouts Le raccordement des immeubles aux égouts disposés pour recevoir les eaux usées domestiques est obligatoire dans le délai de 2 ans à compter de la mise en service du réseau de collecte des eaux usées. Il est réalisé sous la voie publique à laquelle les immeubles ont accès soit directement soit par l'intermédiaire de voies privées ou de servitudes de passage. Tous les ouvrages nécessaires pour amener les eaux usées à la partie publique sont à la charge exclusive du propriétaire. Pénalité en l'absence de raccordement Si l'obligation de raccordement n'est pas respectée dans le délai fixé, le consommateur court le risque de se voir infliger une pénalité pécuniaire : sa redevance d'assainissement peut être majorée (augmentée) sur décision du conseil municipal, dans la limite de 100 % de son montant initial. La commune, après mise en demeure, peut procéder d'office aux travaux nécessaires, aux frais du propriétaire (y compris les frais de gestion), même sur le domaine privé. Really! Are you sure? I feel the need for a little chat with the Secretary of your Mairie to learn the reasons for this unique situation.

In my role as Shylock the month end loan shark I now & again transfer from Rothschild in Suisse to a bank in the UK. The modus operandi will be similar under the SEPA rules; in effect the transfer will be credited to the target account in the UK after it's reception, this is called the "date d'acceptation". I always insist that the beneficiary advises me of the date the account is credited i.e. the "date d'acceptation" and if I am not informed then I stop the transfer. The credit in the account will only become active on either D+1, D+2 or D+3 as previously agreed when arranging the transfer. I have never done this with a french bank but it works like clockwork with banks in Suisse.  https://www.creditmutuel.fr/becm/fr/banques/becm/actualites/SEPA/moyens/virements.html P.S. There are changes to be introduced inn the next couple of years.

Bonjour Chancer, here is a drawing of the one I cut in half, over the years had 2-3 of them, the weak point is the seating below the diaphragm. I'll never buy anything made by Honeywell ever again, I promise.[:P] http://products.ecc.emea.honeywell.com/france/pdf/d03-ft-fr0p1033ge23r0509.pdf

What I do is to drill 10mm holes in the frame uprights stick 10 cm lengths of reinforcing bar with a dab of resin and catalyst on the end, same in the wall with stone or parpaings, shutter the sides and xfill with a strong mortar. Cheaper than foam![:)]

[quote user="pebejay"]Thanks for your responses - certainly food for thought.[/quote] Thankyou! Very gracious of you. Just a word on grants, loans and tax credits. Your post suggests that despite owning a house for 6 years in deux-sèvres it would appear from the tenor of your post that it is a "résidence secondaire, if this is the case you will find it virtually impossible to get any assistance. The only exception to this situation that I can remember off hand were dwellings within the catchment area of the lac du cebron as a portion of the water is used for drinking water.

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I have high pressure, at night with the chateau full at the top of the hill, it can touch 10 bars, plus high hardness with resulting deposits. As a consequence the valve seating gets corroded and the valve will not seal properly allowing a continuous drip of wxater through the security group which is nominally set at 7 bars. At the moment I have an italian reduction valve 3/4 " which has survived longer than the 1/2" french reducers. Once the seating is notched the valve is useless and difficult to take apart, easier taking hub nuts oa the front of a volkswagen; I finally resolved my curiosity by cutting one in half with a diamond disc and an angle grinder. The design is quite smart with a spool valve fitted with a flat "O" ring seating on a brass seating, on either side of the valve there are springs with one side having a screw adjustment bearing on the spring. The spool has different diameters on the high pressure and low pressure side; the low pressure side has port connecting to the larger diameter side of the spool valve so that when a tap is opened and water flows the counter acting springs control the pressure differential across the valve but when the tap is closed the pressure on the low pressure side increases immediately pressurising the larger diameter and closing the valve. If the ring and seating are in good condition then Zero flow.

[quote user="Quillan"][quote user="pachapapa"] In the event of you opting for NOT connecting to the collective municipal system two things will happen; firstly the local authority will examine your system with a "tooth comb" to make sure that it is in complete conformity with current regulations...you will be surprised what they will find wrong if they really put their mind to it; secondly you will be charged for the treatment of sewage and any capital works already completed or planned for the future, the charge for treatment will be in accordance with your clean water consumption. So in effect you will be paying anyway whether connected or not. [/quote] I think this must very much depend on where you live i.e. regional and even local interpretation of whatever legislation there is. Our water bill is exactly half of our neighbours. The reason being is that they are connected to the main sewer system and we are not. Our neighbour is charged once for the water they consume then the figure is doubled because the waste has to be treated. In our case we only consume water and our waste is treated and distributed on our property. We did actually look at connecting to the sewer system but the cost due to the location of our fosse would require a 'lift' pump with macerator to lift the waste some three metres. No pressure has been put on use by the mayor to make this connection even though the sewer is within a few metres of our boundary and has been there for about seven years. I did ask about help with the cost but got the famous French shrug so I would be very interested for future reference if you can indeed get a grant. [/quote] The OP has had a house in deux-sèvres for 6 years. I have had a house in deux-sèvres for 16 years.

The groupe de sécurité is set at 7 bar by the manufacturer so the dripping will only start at that pressure. Worth opening the red valve on the groupe now and again to ensure that it flows freely. If the chauffe-eau is upstairs there may be static pressure difference with the gauge in the garage, maybe the gauge is not accurate.

It does not make a lot of sense not connecting to the collective system. The 2 year period normally includes a reduced charge for the actual connection to the collective sewer; after the completion of the 2 year period the connection fee will effectively be the rate for the job and very likely to be much more expensive. In the event of you opting for NOT connecting to the collective municipal system two things will happen; firstly the local authority will examine your system with a "tooth comb" to make sure that it is in complete conformity with current regulations...you will be surprised what they will find wrong if they really put their mind to it; secondly you will be charged for the treatment of sewage and any capital works already completed or planned for the future, the charge for treatment will be in accordance with your clean water consumption. So in effect you will be paying anyway whether connected or not. They will then probably remember that you have a well that could be used to reduce your water consumption, they will peruse the records to see if your well is registered with the local mairie, they will wonder if it is sealed in accordance with the regulations, they will wonder if you have a pump with an approved meter to record the consumption of water.

[quote user="Quillan"]He does not know the name of the pre Euro currency for Spain, he keeps calling it a Pesos which I believe is currently the currency of Mexico and stopped being the currency in Spain around the 1850's. Spains currency prior to the Euro was the Peseta.[/quote] A peseta is just the diminutive of peso... ( Oh shite! How stupid of me popping in a "thesaurus" type word[:)]) Well at least wolfie got the spelling right.

Chirac : "Personne n'a dit autant de mal de moi que Sarkozy !" But will Jacques be able to persuade Bernadette to vote for François!

[quote user="Quillan"]For 99% of us on the forum, including yourself probably, this is of little interest because we have no vote we simply have to accept what we get. Anyway Sarkozy will get reelected anyway.[/quote] Angela is not so sure apparently... http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,824873,00.html ...but then she is not gifted with your matchless skills in political analysis!

 I can't do this because the forum is written only of IE9. Would you care to edit this or alternatively explain it in simple, plain english for the likes of people such as PPP.

Do you mean under the regulations up to and including the 31st Dec 2011 Or do you mean under the regulations enacted in July 2011 and applicable from the 1st Jan 2012 or do you mean something else?

The complete list of the signatories validating candidates with 500 or more supporters was released at 6:00 A.M. today. http://istockfile.prsmedia.fr/uploads/20120331095606_fe5f0f1c6abb754c4d3fd5b403871d95.pdf