Hi all, does anyone have any recommendations please for someone who delivers wood? It’s for our woodburner. We’re in La Trimouille. Thanks

Hello and Happy New Year!

A friend of ours has kindly offered to do our timber framing calculations for the new roof on our barn, however, he says he needs the local regulations???

Does anyone know where I might find these for our area - or even where I might start in terms of getting them?

Thanks all

Kit

PS: an extra thanks to the conveners of this forum - it is a real life saver, and nice to feel part of something, especially in these early days 

hello everybody , when buying a new car from a dealer do you just wait for the carte gris to be posted to you ? we were given WW plates by the dealer . thanks

I visited the Christmas Market in Place Marechal Leclerc this afternoon.

It really does not look very inviting, being entirely enclosed by 2m high barriers with one entry and exit point at the southeast corner of the square - manned by (fairly low grade) security guards who give you a grilling about what you have on your person. Some people were actually being searched.

Once inside, there was a good range of stalls selling a wide variety of handmade crafts - including a young woman who had brought along her lathe and was making bowls etc and explaining the process - it made me wish I'd brought mine along!

Light refreshments were available and it was altogether enjoyable. Just a shame about the prison camp appearance...

Hi, all! I couldn't find a thread, to post this on, I hope it's okay to do it, here. We are looking to pet/house-sit; having found ourselves without heating, for a few weeks. We live in MM, but are willing to travel. We are both hard-working, meticulous, and trustworthy, and are available after next week. Thanks so much for reading! Joanie.

Hi

We recently had a Linky meter installed by SRD acting on behalf of Soregies. The installer left a very nice set of information including details of how to access the meter remotely. Excellent I thought! No more need to read the meter and send in readings.

However, I have failed to get registered on the Linkyparsrd site as apparently my Linky meter isn't talking to my LinkyparSRD account! I have emailed Soregies and am awaiting a reply. Did anyone else have the same problem, please? The error message reads .... "Erreur The PDL ne depose pas d'un compeurLinky communicant!

Thanks
Chris

Hi - me again!

I have noticed a few times on this forum the suggestion to go back to the notaire.  

I dont think i realised that we could access the Notaire after the legalities of the house purchase had taken place.  

I have vague memories of our estate agent telling us to send an IBAN to them in case we had a refund on the payments (we didn't do this - is it too late?)

And more generally, do we just drop in, ask for an appointment - how does it work?

Any information welcome.  

Hello all,

We have a not yet habitable house on the outskirts of La Trimouille.  

Although we are far from moving in (no electric, bare walls etc) having a water supply would be very helpful.  I have a couple of questions:

• Who is the water company for the area?
  
  
• We have a meter (currently on 0) and a French bank account, but not an official french address - can we do this with our English (Welsh) address?
  
  
• How is water billed - for example is there a standing charge or is it by the litre only?
  
  
• We dont yet have a Fosse or any type of drainage - would this be an issue?
  

Hi all, has anyone had any experience buying lime plaster and hemp locally please? We can find lime plaster in most places, but have tried to buy the hemp online with no luck, as don’t deliver to our area. Castorama do it, but out of stock for home delivery and we were wanting it delivered if possible. Thanks

Hi can anyone advise me where I might get a new car battery with fitting, preferably where they speak english in Montmorillon?

Hi    Looking for someone to empty 2 septic tanks at a friends house.    Does anyone know someone local to Montmorillon.   Thank you

Hi 

Someone kindly gave me the link to this site.  Is it a website not an FB page ?.as whenever i type it in page not found.  I have to go back to link person gave me to access the forum ?

Hi all, 

We are looking to open an online account before moving at 
End of the month.. i have a revolut but tbh prefer a traditional bank for a decent amount
Of savings. 
Looking for ones with a local ish presence and english speaking. 
Looked at BNP and SG but seen quite a few negative reviews.  Hsbc is being recommend a lot and 
I see braches Le Blan, Poiters and St Benoit if i had to go in person. 
Anyone use HSBC and experiences, i am assuming english speaking advisers. will mainly be online 
and not locally ?.

Thank you for any info

We have some items of furniture and some bits and bobs to give away for free. Does anyone know of any local charities who pick up please? We don't have a van so can't drop off a corner sofa and bedroom furniture etc. Thank you.

Hello all,

My partner and I are considering investing in a few tools and wondered if anyone had experience / could advise on good places to look for things like cement mixers, petrol chainsaws and possibly a small generator?

We are not yet connected to the mains power, so we are looking for either self-powering tools or a small generator to run them from.  

Up till now, we have worked on a small solar kit which has worked well for our needs, but it won't support the bigger demands of the larger tools.  

Thanks all

Kit 

Hi 
Hopefully moving to Montmorillion next couple months.  I saw three vets on google but only one had many reviews. and quite a few recent were not good.
 Also preferably one that has an english speaking vet ( yes we are starting french but live in Spain, so no french as yet ).

Hi. Just wondering if there is anyone local to Moulismes that is available for a days gardening work , with the potential for it to become regular ?

Me again, sorry for all of the questions. Has anyone any recommendations where to buy 1 or 2 tonnes of decorative gravel/ stones for the front garden? We just went to Big Mat in Montmorillon and they wanted to charge 157 euros for a 1 tonne bag, including delivery. The delivery price was the off putting bit. It was 78 euros for that and we’re only down the road in La Trimouille.

Hi all, Does anyone have any recommendations for the best place you’ve found that sells exterior masonry paint please? I seem to spend most days at Mr Bricolage at the moment, but they can be a bit expensive for some things, so just wondering if anyone has found anywhere they recommend. Thank you

I live in Adriers, which has a generous smattering of English speaking natives, as well as a lot of French people who would like to improve their English.

I think a weekly discussion group - ideally 50:50 French: English - in which we held bilingual conversations about current topics of our own choice could be popular. Each session would be free, but with coffee, tea, petits patisseries available for a nomimal charge

I've put together a presentation which I plan to take to the Mairie at the end of August (when they're all back from holiday!) but in the meantime I thought I'd take a sounding to see if anyone here would be interested in coming along. Day of the week to be decided.

Let me know what you think.
Brian