Dictionary of French Building Terms

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Essential language for maintaining or renovating property in France

Whether you own a home or work in France, this book will help you to communicate with French tradesmen.

• Accessible and comprehensive, the most up-to-date and easy-to-use dictionary of French building terms
• English–French and French–English
• Includes hundreds of technical words you won’t find in an ordinary dictionary
• Will help you to avoid costly misunderstandings and talk to French tradesmen with authority
• Covers tools and equipment for every aspect of carpentry, construction, decorating, ironmongery, metalwork, plumbing and heating
• Also includes terminology for financial and property matters, and an appendix of useful phrases
• 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.
• Also includes a guide to the alphabet and an invaluable section on numbers, percentages and decimals. Not something you want to get wrong when you're embarking on the project of a lifetime!"

Editor Richard Wiles is an expert on home renovation, DIY and interior design. He is a translator and has written and editedover a dozen books on home improvement and France. He has contributed to Living France and Everything France, and produced Successful DIY, an English language version of the French Guide Pratique du Bricolage.

"...the practical know-how to turn your pie-in-the-sky scheme into reality." THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

"This is what we have been waiting for.." LIVING FRANCE magazine

"Includes hundreds of up-to-date words that you won't find in an ordinary dictionary!" BRIT MAG

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