Azur Restorations Building Tips Paint.

This month in the Brittany Central Journal, Azur Restorations has contributed another building tips article. It’s a continuation from Octobers issue – “Does your brush hold French Paint?”

Here is an extract of this month’s article;

When you’re painting your home, only the best paint will do. The only paint that will give you the ease of applications and the smooth even Finnish are English. The forums are filled with decorators and homeowner discussions on the pain they have with French paint. So what the fuss?

At first glance the main issues with French paint are the lack of quality, colours and value. Dulux once explained that the price of Paint in France is due to fact that; “The French are not mad about decorating their homes and therefore paint is not in demand”.

Is the ingredient of your standard interior paint the key to answering this topic? There are two ways to make emulsion paint, the first was developed in the 1950’s, and it was a miscible solution, consisting of water, mineral spirit and pigment. This evolved into a immiscible solution, (where two liquid agents don’t blend), water, a suspension of solid colour pigment in oil and a liquid polymer to bind everything together, which is what we know of today.

It is no easy feat finding out the exact components, no brands want to provide the ingredients and formulations for which 366 million litres that are sold in the UK alone. Most brands only declare those ingredients that the law requires them to declare (the ones classified as hazardous).

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Beginner guide to roof rafters, gables and hips.

Of the Many Shapes of the Roof the gable will be Found Most Suitable for the Beginner. Marking off the Wood for Cutting is Simplified by the Use of a Steel Square as Explained by the quality Building Tradesman on the French Riviera

THERE are various shapes of roof such as lean-to, gable, hip, hip and valley, gable and valley and Mansard.

For the average do-it-yourself man just starting on rafter cutting perhaps the gable roof is the most suitable.

First, one should be familiar with the names of the different parts of a roof. Span is the overall width of building taken from outer edge of wall plates.

Run is the horizontal distance from wall plate to a point directly under ridge. This as a rule is one half of span.

Rise is the height of roof at centre of ridge (see Fig. 1).

The steepness of a roof is known as its pitch and pitches most commonly used are one-half, one-third, one-quarter and one-sixth. A roof with half pitch is half as high as the building is wide. If it is third pitch it is one-third as high as it is wide and so on.

Fig. 1.

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Azur Restorations English builder on the french Riviera Content Update

http://www.azurrestorations.com which is a website advertising an English building renovation contractors based on the French Riviera who have updated their content and structure. As such, the layout should be more straight forward to follow with a new navigation layout, as well as being clearer with regards to what services are on offer.

Please feel free to view, and make any comments or suggestions which you think would improve your visit.

The following links are new:

http://azurrestorations.com/BuildingServicesGallery.php
http://azurrestorations.com/AdvicePage.php
http://azurrestorations.com/FrenchBuildingForum.php

I would also like to invite everyone to use the Forum page. It is open for use, it is a developing forum, to be used as a customer facing tool so you can reference any building question which you may need answering. The questions or topics could be anything from getting a second opinion, to, finding out your local building codes.

I look forward to your comments.

Azur Restorations

Azur Restorations first publication in the “Central Brittany Journal” in the building services section.

This month Azur Restoration has had its first published article within the building services section of the magazine. The magazine is aimed for an Anglophone audience in France, and I have made it my aim is to try and change the consensus that using French building products are inferior to British.

As with all things in life, there are differences, be it language, society or religion. But what make these aberrations are the alliances we make during the journey of life. In turn this effects how we grow and develop.


As an English builder, I am always looking at the materials and methods we use today, comparing them to the past as well as what’s used elsewhere. Each month I will be writing about a building subject and looking at the effects in history and if it contributed to deviations in similar product produced in different countries.


In October’s issue (88) of the Central Brittany Journal, I have explored the problems with French Paint and asked if it is the paint or the brushes which are the problem?

If you would like to read the article but you’re not able to purchase a copy, please go on the CBJ website and look at the PDF. Alternatively, go on http://www.azurrestorations.com and select advice & information.

Bathroom And Kitchen Contractor

This is http://www.azurrestorations.com advert for one of the services we offer on the French Riviera.

http://www.azurrestorations.com. English Construction Contractors on the French Riviera - working across St. Tropez, Cannes, Antibes and Nice. We carry out everything from Maintenance, Refurbishments, Painters and Decorators, Kitchen and Bathroom refurbishments.

New Bathroom Installation - Completion

My Last post was was Day six of the new bathroom installation. Day nine - completion day has been and gone. There was on snag, which was the due to the toilet reservoir not stopping once filled, but this was easily corrected.
The Client wanted to use the bathroom suit they'd already purchased, so a custom unit was built to house the basin.

The client was happy. I'd rather have had the opportunity to complete the paint job myself (Limited budget), but this is a near perfect in/out job.

Here is a visual of the work involved -

Day six with the new bathroom. Evacuation for the toilet, shower and sink installed. As well as mains water for the tapes. Still can't get over how much easier it is using PVC pipes compared with the old copper ones. I was always rubbish at soldering, so its a relief.

Just got tiling and final fix before completion. Planed for ten days start to finish, so all is going well. Building Service on the French Riviera - Azur Restorations