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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 19:15:52 GMT 1
Today's new property has a huge chunk of land with no near neighbours but just 10 minutes to town. No toilet inside or out so no idea what they did, the power supply and fuse box is by the kitchen sink and the shower room is a bit bright but will make a nice home. Can only post three pics will reduce the sizes of the others tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 19:25:04 GMT 1
Modernish shower but no bog anywhere
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Post by suein56 on Nov 29, 2022 19:51:54 GMT 1
"You can have a hot shower but no toilet" ..
Not even a composting-type one hidden in a cupboard or an outhouse ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 20:25:01 GMT 1
Nothing that you could see, there must have been something somewhere in the garden but most of it is completely over grown. The sink and shower waste just goes through the wall into the garden and no tank. It gets its reports next week but thats a waste of money as nothing conforms. 9 people getting a bit of money out of the house it was an inheritance one and its not a life changing amount
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Post by pcpa on Nov 29, 2022 21:07:14 GMT 1
They were wise to hack down the sapins before putting it on the market, it must have looked dreadfull before that!
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Post by Nifty on Nov 30, 2022 8:50:40 GMT 1
"You can have a hot shower but no toilet" ..
Not even a composting-type one hidden in a cupboard or an outhouse ?
The people who lived in one or our last places in ww2 used to do what their animals did. I was told that once or twice a year they would go down to the stream a few hundred meters away to do their laundry. I am not sure of what their concept of personal hygiene would have been like.
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Post by annabellespapa on Nov 30, 2022 9:25:44 GMT 1
We viewed a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in Normandy many years ago, it also had a very large steel barn attached, we viewed the house but at the end we said we had missed viewing the bathrooms, the French agent said did you not see the row of immaculate shovels by the barn door and the excellent roses in the garden...
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 30, 2022 12:00:29 GMT 1
Both houses I have bought since coming to France had no toilet. There were no showers or even hand basins anywhere, although the first one did have a standpipe against an inside wall with a rusty bucket hanging on it. The second one had evidence of pipework having been stripped away from clips on the wall but no drain pipes anywhere. I'd say your place was a cut above mine as regards to interior decoration. You could see where all the furniture was placed because the wall was a different colour, leaving a silhouette of what had been there.
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Post by pcpa on Nov 30, 2022 12:24:46 GMT 1
My place is like that, some internal walls are still bare cement render not plastered or even painted in 55 years, all of the lighting points are still pieces of zinc and tar paper conduit hanging down a few inches with cables dangling out into brass douilles with 25 and 40 watt candle bulbs the whole ensemble shrouded in 55 years of congealed duck fat cooking fumes, flies mosquitos and spiders webs, you have to wear gloves and disinfect yourself afterwards just to put in a low energy light bulb.
Aside from a couple of curtain rails and the ballon there is not a single rawlplug or wooden plug in any wall, not a single shelf, mirror or wall mounted cabinet has been put up in the 55 years and like Aardvark you can tell where the furniture was by the shading on the walls.
I am still digging 55 years worth of wine & beer bottles out of the so called garden, over a tonne of scrap metal has already come out of there and been weighed in and about 20m3 of concrete fence posts, footings, haunchings etc have been remblai'd into the concrete duck pond which was discovered after excavating 55 years of domestic rubbish.
It took them twice as many steps to dump their rubbish there as to have put it out for collection.
But hey! We all have thrown something away that we later regretted!
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Post by robertarthur on Nov 30, 2022 18:26:54 GMT 1
@ Mysty, nice little fuse box: 2 or 3 fuses? Puissance souscrite 3 kVA (15 A) or perhaps 6 kVA (30 A)?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2022 19:31:03 GMT 1
They were wise to hack down the sapins before putting it on the market, it must have looked dreadfull before that! Picture number 2 has an un cut tree the trunk is huge will take a picture next time im there. The cut trees need to come out they look scrappy cut down but would have put the house in the shade.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2022 19:32:28 GMT 1
We viewed a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in Normandy many years ago, it also had a very large steel barn attached, we viewed the house but at the end we said we had missed viewing the bathrooms, the French agent said did you not see the row of immaculate shovels by the barn door and the excellent roses in the garden... That's fine on a good but what happens if your in a rush.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2022 19:35:00 GMT 1
@ Mysty, nice little fuse box: 2 or 3 fuses? Puissance souscrite 3 kVA (15 A) or perhaps 6 kVA (30 A)? I did not pay much attention to it when i was shown the house I kept saying I have seen enough I want to buy it but the chappy said I had to see everything including the renault 5 pancaked in a barn that had lost its roof. All the electrics would need a light refreshing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2022 19:39:24 GMT 1
A Ukrainian style bed well before the colours were well known to us from the war. The bedrooms were in the attic and not a bit of insulation. Nice old terracota floor tiles, not sure if you can see them in the picture.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2022 19:42:07 GMT 1
Both houses I have bought since coming to France had no toilet. There were no showers or even hand basins anywhere, although the first one did have a standpipe against an inside wall with a rusty bucket hanging on it. The second one had evidence of pipework having been stripped away from clips on the wall but no drain pipes anywhere. I'd say your place was a cut above mine as regards to interior decoration. You could see where all the furniture was placed because the wall was a different colour, leaving a silhouette of what had been there. That house is like paradise compared to the first house we bought, no bathroom no nothing did come with rats but was cheap.
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