On April 1 the road is dug up and the sewer extended to the front of the barn. Connecting the 2 pipes is complicated because of the height difference and the short space between them.
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Mains Sewage Connection
Friday, April 2nd, 2010CAD : France Electricity plan – plan d’installation
Friday, March 26th, 2010The free trial versions of AuroCAD and ArchiCAD now have the ‘save’ and ‘print’ functions disabled so they are no good for planning your electrical installation. CYCAS3 is free for non-commercial use an easy to use CAD package, there are no electrical symbols included with the package, but there are some to download here. CYCAS3 [...]
French Wiring – Lesson 1! The GTL, Consumer Unit and Wiring Regs
Sunday, February 28th, 2010French Wiring – Colours! New installations should use brown for live, blue for neutral and green/yellow for earth. The chart shows that these colours should have been used since 1977. The definitive reference on French wiring (the Leroy Merlin catalogue!) states that the live wire can actually be any colour except blue or yellow and [...]
Gaz Cylinders – Butane or Propane – Regulators, Connectors and Pipework
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Four companies have accounted for over 90 percent of the LPG sales in France: Totalgaz – http://www.totalgaz.fr/moving-to-france/gas-bottle Primagaz – http://www.bouteille-de-gaz.fr/majic/pageServer Antargaz – http://www.antargaz.fr/-2-4-5-5_Accueil_Particuliers_Nos_produits_Les_bouteilles_de_gaz Butagaz – http://www.butagaz.fr/Particuliers/tarifpart.aspx You need to pay a deposit whe
French Barn Mains Water Connection
Thursday, November 26th, 2009The total cost to get the water 4.2 metres from the water main to the front door is 1,069 Euros. Référence contrat: SIAEP GATINE AFFERMAGE EAU TRAVAUX D’EXTENSION, DEPLACEMENT, RENOUVELLEMENT Code Description des travaux et prestations Unité Qté Prix unit. en euros Total HT en euros Tx TVA 1-TERRASSEMENT 1213 Sciage des chaussées exécuté sur [...]
ADSL is connected
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Ordered broadband on the 13th of August, arranged for phone connection on the 18th at 2pm. France telecom engineer arrives at 9am and seems a little surprised that there no windowframes that he can drill through to feed the wire through, and no skirting boards to attach the phone point to. Engineer leaves at 2pm [...]
Wind & Solar power – Cheaper and less hassle than connecting to the grid with EDF
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The sooner I can use my laptop at this barn, the sooner I will be able to stay there and hopefully move the project forward. At the moment there is no mains electric, I have used a generator to power the concrete mixer and power tools when necessary. But petrol generators are expensive to run [...]
