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  1. Hi My wife is accompanying my daughter to Pau to help her find accomodation for her 'Year abroad', her 3rd year of her university degree. I am hoping to find a chambre d'hote for 1 week in September, around the 18th to the 25th. They will need to be as close to the centre as possible. Any offers please? Kindest regards. Tony
  2. Hi I am in Portsmouth and own a used car sales company, www.northendmotors.co.uk. I buy and sell the odd LHD car. If you want to keep your French car and sell it when you arrive back in England, then let me know what you would like to get for it, I could buy it for the company or I may be interested for my own use, to leave at my house in France! I am currently looking for an insurance company that will aloow me to leave a UK registered car in France and use it when I visit on holiday, maybe upto 8 weeks per year? Anybody do something similar? Kindest regards. Tony
  3. Nubeginings Did you have any luck with your mason? Thanks Tony
  4. Thanks Sue Do you wash the walls first, only our crepi is the rough finish, the hose with the pressure/trigger attachment won't touch it. Or do you just spray and leave it to work? Oh, what formula do you use, bleach to water? Thanks for your help Tony
  5. Hi Jay Thanks for the link. It does almost convince me that I have 'trentepholia', just a couple of questions I need answering to be 100%, please see my latest post.  
  6. Hi Val_2 Thanks for your posts, you seem very sure about this problem which is very encouraging for me. Do you have any idea why the rash seems to not like settling on the areas with the lintels behind the rendering, and the concrete beams, you can just make it out on the photo in my earlier post link. Our house is a concrete frame on the south elevations filled in by the red brick that seems pretty standard (in the south west). You can see where the concrete frame is, by where the pattern of the red stains are, also the window lintels are apparent by the same means. I just wonder why the algae would not form on the parts of the render where the concrete is behind, and only where the red brick is behind? This is my only reservation, if you like, as to the algae theory. If indeed something is bleeding through from the brickwork, it would make sense that is doesn't bleed through where the concrete is, does that make any sense? I have tried scraping the rash with a key, it just shows solid white crepi underneath, this supports the fact that it isn't bleeding through from the brickwork. I would value your feed back. Kindest regards. Tony
  7. Pachapapa HLMs? & H2S? I bet it turns out to be obvious! Tony
  8. Hi Pachapapa The bricks are the standard red style with the holes in them and the fluted edges. I don't know if they are fired, I assumed all bricks were. The link you posted shows problems with stone, so I guess the point is that I don't have stone! Sounds logical, I guess I just thought the translation 'Sick Stone' was a loose one. So probably not 'Sick Stone' then! This does point toward the other suggestions of a fungus of some type. Thanks, funny how when you hear things out-loud, they sound different! Tony
  9. http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/2439130/ShowPost.aspx I did ask this question awhile ago without any real conclusions, I can't remember how I got the picture on the post! But you can follow this link. Thanks again
  10. Thank you, I hope he has seen it. Probably quite simple, but I cannot work out how to get a picture on my post? I have tried just copy and paste but it won't let me..............help please
  11. Hi I have a dark red/purple rash on the south elevations of our exterior walls, the walls are covered with white crépi. The rash is only on the elevations that are exposed to the southern sun and not the shaded areas or the north elevations, which get far less sun. Also, the rash does not cover the parts where I assume there are lintels above the windows and what looks to be the concrete beams that run horizontally along the elevations. Behind the crépi is a red brick. The French builder we have been using regularly is not familiar with the problem. One of his specialities is applying crépi, so I am surprised he has not seen theproblem before. The temptation is to say it is a lichen of some sort. If I scrape it with a key, it reveals the bright, white crépi underneath. It has been suggested that I have a problem called 'Sick-Stone'. Apparently this is where the acid from the bricks bleeds through the crépi render and manifests itself as this rash on the surface. They said the only cure would be to remove the crépi render and then seal the brickwork underneath. And then re-crépi and paint, if required. Any thoughts or knowledge of this anybody? Kindest regards. Tony  
  12. Hi Val Could you get yourself a nice big farmyard cat? I've read the cat is a natural predator of the fouine. Regards, Tony
  13. Hi Cooperlola My wife and I are moving to France in a couple of years and I am hoping to carry on in the used car retail business. I have noticed the lack of independent used car sites in France and your comment that cotisations are payable on turnover could be the reason why. If I sell say 6 cars in a month at 5000.00 euros each retail, that is a turnover of 30,000.00 euros for the month. The gross profit could be say 5000.00 euros, less TVA and preparation costs. And then of course advertising and so on. Maybe I will end up with some wages! If cotisations are due on the turnover then there won't be a lot left for wages!? Have I understood you? Tony
  14. Hi Steve Noticed your post stating you are gardeners....................We have just had a Schedule/Estimate from an English couple for gardening work and pool maintenance. They have been doing something similar to you for around 7/8 years. The first cut was in March and we had an email from them apologising that it took 10 hours and not the 6 hours they quoted. But now the garden was under control then it would take considerably less time in the future. They would also like to add an hour per visit for extra strimming work, above the original quote. The garden was not out of control, on the contrary, we have been paying a French guy 2500.00 euros a year to cut and strim it. Getting a reliable service is not easy anywhere these days, so I don't really want to be too padantic about the quote, but at the same time it feels a bit wrong, just to accept the rise above the quote. What do yer think? Tony
  15. Hi My wife and I are moving to the Midi-Pyrenees and I would like to carry on business in the Used Car Trade. I am reasonbly upto date with the various trading options, compliments of the 'Naked Accountant', but am wondering why there are very few used car dealers in France. I am wondering if there is a tax on turn-over, which would be quite prohibitive, when you consider the return on investment in the used car industry is really quite small. If there is an accountant, or anybody else for that matter!, that could help me, I would appreciate it. Kindest regards. Tony
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