Buying a TV for a French Property

[la vache!]

Lucky you, LV! I tried to buy some logs at M. Bricolage yesterday, but they won't have any more until next week! Maybe I'll try Castorama tomorrow . . .

Slightly chilly Mols

Try the small ads in the local paper, or the supermarket, there is always some farmer with wood to sell...although I get mine from a registered supplier now, it is 20€ per corde cheaper than the local farmers I've always used previously so far, on the black.

[Moliere]

No time, m'dear, we're going back to England on Sunday, and we have loads to do! (By the way, it counts as a holiday.)

Oh well, one day . . .

Mols

[Lesblancs]

Hi LV,

but it was only 12°c outside today here!

Just switched off lucky old Arsenal, & looked at the exterior thermometer and the temp here now is 14.6c. Can't remember what it was earlier though.

A fire? You really are in danger of becoming 'girlie'

Bobby

[la vache!]

lucky old Arsenal

Luck has nothing to do with it , just skill and spending no money on prima donna strikers. And no excuses for the fire, after all, I am a girlie, with 2 female cats who are loving it. I even put a vest on the baby tonight because it is so chilly (but don't worry, I'm not so girly as to put on the central heating).
Actually, where I live in Brittany is considerably colder than the rest of Brittany, so said the salesmen who came around a couple of weeks ago to sell me a geothermic central heating system at the small cost of 36,000€.

[Cassis]

Lovely to have the fire on again, though, can't wait to get out with the chainsaw again next weekend to cut wood for the guests and get the next 6 cordes stacked...

Yes. What fun. Spent an hour at it yesterday, managed a couple of stères. 18 to go.
I probably won't cut more than half this winter though.

How much in a corde round your way? Nobody uses cordes as a measure around here (at least, I've never heard them use it).

[la vache!]

How much in a corde round your way? Nobody uses cordes as a measure around here (at least, I've never heard them use it).

It's all cordes around here. This year I'm paying 160€ for oak, last year it was 180€. I get through about 6 cordes a year, that's in my woodburner, the Godin stove central heating in the farmhouse and an open fire in one of the gites. I always buy one year ahead, so will have a lot of restacking to do when next year's supply arrives in a couple of weeks

[Mountain Goat]

Is a corde a cubic metre? En suisse it's stères, and this year, the best stuff has shot up to SFr 139 (€88 approx.) but that's collect and stack yourself (Hornbach near Villeneuve outside Montreux) which is a German building supplies outfit causing a bit of a stir in Switzerland with its excellent prices.

MG

[la vache!]

Is a corde a cubic metre?

No, thank goodness, if I'm paying 160€ for one! it is 3m x 1m cubed, so 3 times the volume of a stère? 88€ per stère seems very expensive, especially if it is all collect and stack. Mine is cut into 50cm and delivered, just not stacked

[Cassis]

A corde varies by region, anything from 2 to 4.5 stères.

A stère is a cubic metre IF the wood is 1 metre long; but if it's cut to 50cm then a stère is just 0.8 cubic metres or thereabouts, as it can be stacked tighter.

We had 15 stères at 1m long delivered in summer (for next winter 2009-10) - currently paying 40€ a stère locally. I know it varies enormously by locality, though.

1 corde de Poitiers = 2,92 stères

1 corde de la Villedieu = 3,84 stères

1 corde de bois calin de Chatellerault = 2,06 stères

1 corde de Chaunay = 2,47 stères

1 corde de Civray = 3,11 stères

1 corde de Sommières = 3,29 stères

1 corde de la Trimouille = 4,39 stères

1 corde d'Angles = 3,15 stères

1 corde de Vouneuil = 3,15 stères

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/alain.bourr ... .htm#corde