Recent content by Mercuryrev

The French can be very lax, or they can be extremely difficult. Especially if the local mayor has any reason to dislike the house owner. A tin of M&S biscuits, going to the Remembrance service and helping clean the church seem to have helped in the Mayoral relations. After Brexit we may have...

Thanks very much for replying I believe there are building regs in France, but as far as I can discover nobody bothers following them! French logic rules! The beam end of the joist sits on a notch cut into the top of the beam in the centre of the room, so would a 10mm (or greater) timber...

First post, so please excuse any lack of info and my 'improving' DIY knowledge.... Restoring our upstairs bathroom in a 250 year old farmhouse in France and need to get the floor as level as possible. I am installing a shower tray in an alcove and had to replace two joists, which I levelled...