By Richard Wiles
This crucial dictionary and word booklet presents each time period you must recognize while purchasing, keeping, renovating or construction a house in France. available and complete, it contains the technical phrases you will not locate in a typical dictionary for instruments and gear and each point of portray, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It additionally equips you with terminology for making plans structural alterations reminiscent of extensions and selecting barriers. An appendix of emergency words will make this a booklet you have to maintain by means of the telephone perpetually. even if you personal a house or paintings in France, this ebook may also help you consult French tradesmen with authority and steer clear of high priced misunderstandings as you pull down the language barrier brick through brick.
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