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cement used in the cellar to prop up the beam ... lorra damp in there, the end of the beam is well rotted as it enters teh wall. I can't believe the previous owners, they were just trash. Who has only half a roof done? Who puts cement everywhere over damp lime and stone? who waits until ceilings are caving in before calling out the plumber? who cancels the dustbins and just throws the rubbish in the cellar? I've never known a house so hard to square design wise. Designed as part of one greater house, a hotel for 350 years, in the 1950s it was divided, 2/3 / 1/3, and my 1/3rd became a photography shop (bricked up window downstairs was for dark room.) [the design worked ok when taken as one whole building. Divided and on it's own: no windows in north south west (except the small one to south downstairs) ... no square walls anywhere, front door that used to be a window? stairs in the wrong place.] Put up heavy brick walls but don't engineer any additional supports that lead to sagging floors. Then in 1984 the Carrez family bought it (and the barn) for 35,000 francs. They did precisely fukc all expect replace half the roof and install a new Viessman oil boiler in 1998. Every pane of glass put through in rear garden metal framed arbri shelter outside the back door, old hotel outside toilet .. let the neighbour's tree grow so the roof caves in, working chimney's demolished, wiring.. total hotchpotch of add ons and just get by, pathetic earth wire in cellar barely (not) up to job .. and then wait for the floor in the lounge to more or less collapse then get a builder in to make a bodge job repair with cement and leave a floor with 400 year old sagging beams because ... I guess that's why I paid 29k (plus 17 for the barn just over 4 years later) Really the entire front room black/white tiled floor needs to come up and new joists laid. It's going to be tricky to get extra support under the sagging beams as in line with the coal chute.

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cement used in the cellar to prop up the beam ... lorra damp in there, the end of ... [more]	LP12	10:52:57
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>> You did choose to buy the place.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:32:26
>> ur like ebinezer scrooge u r .. or gollum	LP12	11:43:56
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>> see this ! ,stick it up yr arse	LP12	13:26:03
>> So you were expecting sympathy..	Free Thinking Doggie	13:59:40
>> See above u narcissistic bird brain. I'm not like you, stop projecting.	LP12	14:12:54
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