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This essential dictionary and phrase book includes every term you need to know when buying, maintaining, renovating or building a home in France. Accessible and comprehensive, it includes the technical words you won’t find in an ordinary dictionary for tools and equipment and every aspect of painting, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It also equips you with terminology for planning structural changes such as extensions and determining boundaries. An appendix of emergency phrases will make this a book you’ll want to keep by the phone at all times. Whether you own a home or work in France, this book will help you talk to French tradesmen with authority and avoid costly misunderstandings as you pull down the language barrier brick by brick.
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Provence Life magazine, July 2007
Just what is the French for monkey wrench? And how can I order 20 meters of copper pipe? This essential dictionary and phrase book includes every term you need to...
Whether you own a home or work in france, this book will help you to communicate with French tradesmen and avoid costly misunderstandings. Includes hundreds of up-to-date words that you...
If you've just returned from a fortnight in France with dreams of owning a property there, the Dictionary Of French Building Terms: Essential For Renovators And Homeowners, by Richard Wiles,...
There is a wealth of information for the would-be DIY expert or newly appointed project manager. Wiles has organised his vocabulary thematically; choose from the various sections such as 'Building,...
Those that undertake the big move to France are often seduced by the rambling farmhouse, the tumbling cottage or the crumbling chateau. Projects that would be a sizeable undertaking in...
Taking on a renovation project in another country can be costly enough even if you speak competent French. This book can help reduce those costs further by helping you understand...
