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Starting point of gite renovation and latest picture of progress with floorplans of each gite. Click on each image for a larger picture.
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jeudi 22 septembre 2005Gite heating
Installed the electric radiators and towels rails in the new gite. We've got a booking in Fraise gite at Christmas so they will definitely need heating, unlike in the Summer. Fortunately we had planned to install heaters, so installation was very easy. Just a simple connection to an existing heating socket. However the towel radiators we forgot about, so I had to run some new circuits behind existing walls. Not an easy job threading cable behind plasterboard etc. Lots of string, bendy bits of plastic and another person poised by a small hole in the wall ready to grab anything that moves.
Electric heating (well electric) is very expensive to run in France and we did consider other forms of heating the gites. The downside of the alternatives is that the capital outlay (installation cost) is much much higher than for electric heaters, and for the most part the gites are unoccupied during the winter months. So the electric heaters seemed a reasonable trade-off in terms of installation cost versus running costs.
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Gite heating
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Copyright 2006 Ian Haycox
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