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She doesnt look the cleaning type to me...walking around in an array of different coats with a baby on her hip. Who watches the baby while they work...? looks like a death trap for a small child.
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I was thinking along the lines of one of those old cesspits that preceded the fosse system...
I think we had ours emptied, filled it with rubble and left it - it wasn't in the way so we just covered it over again and the one existing pipe from the house was capped. Quote:
Then in 2006 the Mairie told us we HAD to install a fosse, no ifs or buts or 'only if you can afford to'...we had to borrow the money to get it done. The place un-sellable without it.
) Properties are still sold with non-conforming fosses and the new owners are told they must put in a new fosse to the current regulations. But the mairies seem very relaxed about when that should be - around here, I don't know of anyone that has been forced to have the work undertaken and it's all very well for the mairie or whoever to say 'borrow' the money but - as you'll know - banks here are careful about lending and borrowing may not be possible.I think part of the difficulty is the authorities cannot enforce the regulations across the board. The elderly in rural France can't afford new fosses - this applies to our neighbour - in her 80s, survives on a small pension from her late husband, etc. Having a fosse put in would wipe out her income for about 3 years. She's an ideal person to receive a subvention from the state... but the state doesn't want to take on the responsibility of upgrading the sewage arrangements for all the income-challenged elderly in rural France so doesn't enforce the regulations for anyone. IIrc, there was a 2012 deadline for fosses to conform... yeah, right.
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And wanting to start cleaning while they were trying to drill through 3' thick walls!
I interpret it as someone not being able to get to grips with the enormity of a big renovation.As they can't understand how heating, pipes, hot water, cisterns, waste, electrics, plumbing projects will happen or their timescales... they focus on what they do understand which is... cleaning, decorating, making cushions and curtains, hanging a picture...
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When David & Anne went off to Slovakia to renovate that massive Château in A Place In Slovakia they had no end of trouble from the authorities making sure they didn't touch anything of historical importance.
So what MadBetty said about the local Mairie is spot on. They'd be all over the place like a swarm of bees. Unbelievable that the waste from the toilet was going directly into the moat! ![]() tim |
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what else do you think they would have done with it in the 16th century?
tim The Château was last lived in during the mid 1970s. Surely it had been updated since the 16th century. Besides, this has already been explained up-thread. |
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Straker dude, get back online here, this thread is being taken over by plumber/planning official poindexters.
Wonder how randy old Dick and his eyebrowless latest missus hooked up ? |
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She looks like hard work. I reckon it takes her all morning to draw her eyebrows on.
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That's it exactly.
I think we had ours emptied, filled it with rubble and left it - it wasn't in the way so we just covered it over again and the one existing pipe from the house was capped. It's all changed a bit (are you surprised?! ) Properties are still sold with non-conforming fosses and the new owners are told they must put in a new fosse to the current regulations. But the mairies seem very relaxed about when that should be - around here, I don't know of anyone that has been forced to have the work undertaken and it's all very well for the mairie or whoever to say 'borrow' the money but - as you'll know - banks here are careful about lending and borrowing may not be possible.I think part of the difficulty is the authorities cannot enforce the regulations across the board. The elderly in rural France can't afford new fosses - this applies to our neighbour - in her 80s, survives on a small pension from her late husband, etc. Having a fosse put in would wipe out her income for about 3 years. She's an ideal person to receive a subvention from the state... but the state doesn't want to take on the responsibility of upgrading the sewage arrangements for all the income-challenged elderly in rural France so doesn't enforce the regulations for anyone. IIrc, there was a 2012 deadline for fosses to conform... yeah, right. ![]() ![]() A strategy that would only ever work in France
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Straker dude, get back online here, this thread is being taken over by plumber/planning official poindexters.
Need to see some explanation of where the money's coming from this week otherwise it's like Homes by the Sea - Property porn for the well-off. .... Better to sell that wallpaper surely to a museum/gallery to fund the rest of the work? Or is that too practical for Angel when she could use it to turn the walls into a scrapbook instead? |
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I laugh how the narrator calls her Angel and Dick calls her Angela
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Jeez! She can't even put wallpaper on straight! Explains the eyebrows.
![]() Massive cracks in the turrets. A metaphor? |
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Where did they get the extra money from
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Yes, far better to build a helter-skelter than do the basics! Think how much money and time he could save if he got rid of her! Quote:
Where did they get the extra money from
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Poor old Dick looks f###ed
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Yes, far better to build a helter-skelter than do the basics! Think how much money and time he could save if he got rid of her!
Tracy-Anne told us he went off to do a paying job elsewhere. Bit vague but I suspect the real details would reveal what a sham the whole endeavour is. Those kitchen units look top notch and they had a professional in to fit them? They are spending a fortune, way beyond what we are being led to believe. That room the parents are renovating too....I just don't believe those two have brought it back into that clean, ivy free state that they showed. I noticed freshly plastered bits of wall in there too. It's bollox! |
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It gets more ludicrous by the minute.
Those kitchen units look top notch and they had a professional in to fit them? They are spending a fortune,, way beyond what we are being led to believe. That room the parents are renovating too....I just don't believe those two have brought it back into that clean, ivy free room that they showed. I notice freshly plastered bits of wall in there too. It's bollox!
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I laugh how the narrator calls her Angel and Dick calls her Angela
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I'm watching on +1. The place they want to live is a desert in France, No-one lives there (except Brits who find it cheap). These places are sold by the French who have inherited them. Most of them will live in Paris and will have a home by the sea in fashionable coastal resorts.
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I love how the colours make this look an ideal place to live, It's miles from civilisation....
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Wonder how randy old Dick and his eyebrowless latest missus hooked up ? Angel Adoree, she was on Dragons Den, Theo and Grumpy Woman invested in her Vintage Patisserie. |
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Dick is heavily invested in her vintage patisserie. Ooh, matron etc..
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They're offering fishing in the moat. Anyone? Thought not.
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I googled them, they have the same agent apparently.
Angel Adoree, she was on Dragons Den, Theo and Grumpy Woman invested in her Vintage Patisserie. |
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I'm watching on +1. The place they want to live is a desert in France, No-one lives there (except Brits who find it cheap). These places are sold by the French who have inherited them. Most of them will live in Paris and will have a home by the sea in fashionable coastal resorts.
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I think we had ours emptied, filled it with rubble and left it - it wasn't in the way so we just covered it over again and the one existing pipe from the house was capped.
) Properties are still sold with non-conforming fosses and the new owners are told they must put in a new fosse to the current regulations. But the mairies seem very relaxed about when that should be - around here, I don't know of anyone that has been forced to have the work undertaken and it's all very well for the mairie or whoever to say 'borrow' the money but - as you'll know - banks here are careful about lending and borrowing may not be possible.
