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marjon said:
Afternoon folks :).

Well the renewal of the residence card saga goes on:rolleyes:.
Forms filled, copies made and my payment record to the BG health system printed (to prove up to date) good to go👍.
First visit to the notary for 2 of the forms, She said you don't need this form. I said they gave it to me, so just stamp it. All stamped up for less than £5👍. She also asked where is the notary deed to prove you own the house:eek: (it doesn't ask for that lets wing it;)).
Off too the bank now to pay for it, bit of discussion and another £5, but I have a receipt👍.
Off to the immigration office. Another queue and then the dreaded "15 min break" sign appears in the window:vb-groan2:.
So I get to the counter and handover the fistful of bits of paper, Only to be told I need an "official" bit of paper to show I am up to date with my health insurance payments:mad:.

So if you now think I am about to walk across town (4miles) To get a bit of paper?
Nope isn't happening today, the "grumpy old lady" behind the counter wrote me a note for what I needed. I was sure I could get that online.
I dont like standing in queues and soon lose enthusiasm. So the will to deal with red tape has dwindled to nothing, off ome I go.

All I can say is the L322 wont have any DPF problems after all this :D.

This is now the 3rd time I have had to do this and they have all been different needs for the same thing, don't understand it, don't try, I like living here and its only a small pain for large gain I hope, next card should be 10yrs.
Oh and managed to order said "certificate of continuous health cover" online lets see how long it takes to get an e-mail:).

J
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Sympathies mate.
Back in 1978 I had to apply for a carte de séjour in Lille as I was working there and would be there 8 months. The previous incumbent had written me a long letter telling me what I had to do. It helped a lot but he had left out some important bits. So me and my mates set off to a police station in a suburb to start the process off by getting the application forms. Easy enough you would think.
Ho no.
They only give them out first thing in the morning. So we climb the stairs, go into a sort of ante room and wait, with about 50 other peeps, almost all of North African descent. Eventually one of a pair of tall doors opens and into the room step two uniformed Gendarmes and a third person in a suit. The suit takes a pile of cloakroom tickets out of his pocket and, flanked by the Gendarmes starts handing them out.
It rapidly became obvious why the two plods were there as the Noraffs started fighting for the tickets and had to be physically pulled apart.
We were totally unprepared for this, and there were a lot of girls in our group, so we just looked on mystified, until the pile ran out, the suit turned round and went back through the doors, meanwhile the two plods started shouting at the crowd, including us and literally kicked the ones who tried to hang back down the stairs. Only the ones with the tickets would eventually be given a form.
We regrouped to a café.
We realised we'd be unlikely ever to get our forms this way, so we decided to go back in, and just walk through the door, with the prettiest girls, (of which there were a few!) in the front.
It worked!
The suit gave us the-only-to-be-expected down-the-nose look, but with a glimmer of a smile on his face as he said "To what do I owe this invasion?" Meanwhile the girls are handing out passport sized pics of themselves to the plods and smiling a lot!
We got our forms.
We then proceeded to fill the forms in and then went through having to go to 5 different police stations filling in different stuff and providing various documents before they finally gave us a receipt for our applications. This took several weeks.
And that was all we had.
For months!

Eventually they did send us our proper, pink Cartes de Séjour with our pics in all duly stamped up.
I never kept mine once I came back, wish to flip I had now.

So it is a bit unbelievable that you have to do all this just to renew them.
We also have heard of people being told to bring certain documents to a meeting only to be told they didn't need so and so but they did need so-and-so. So really do sympathise. Patience and a good temper really is at a premium. Best of luck with it all.;);):):)

Would it be any easier if you spoke fluent BG?
 
Well things have gone from bad to worse.
I watched a YouTube on airlocks and stuff and a bloke was showing how if you had a by pass circuit on the system, and you leave the valve wide open it could cause similar problems like ours.
Not being sure I popped up to the airing cupboard to have a look. There wasn't.
As I was standing there looking at the whole thing, luckily, I heard the pump start, or rather a sort of weird hum start coming from it and right in front of me it started leaking and steaming from the electrical box on the side of it. I rapidly hit it with the rubber hammer, not too hard, thinking "It must have jammed" this made no difference, so I switched the pump speed to "off" and the noise etc continued! Again, no diff.
So I ran down to the control panel next to the boiler and switched the whole system off.:mad:
So we have gone from poor heating but good HW to none of either.
W is sitting with a small fan heater aimed at her feet.
We are still awaiting the plumber. We are expecting him before the end of the afternoon.
He'll be getting work!
Good thing we still have the immersion.

If he cannot do anything for a while I think I will try to drain the system down to below the pump, and go back to it. But not today.
My detestation of plumbing is now extreme. I almost prefer electronix on cars. :rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Well things have gone from bad to worse.
I watched a YouTube on airlocks and stuff and a bloke was showing how if you had a by pass circuit on the system, and you leave the valve wide open it could cause similar problems like ours.
Not being sure I popped up to the airing cupboard to have a look. There wasn't.
As I was standing there looking at the whole thing, luckily, I heard the pump start, or rather a sort of weird hum start coming from it and right in front of me it started leaking and steaming from the electrical box on the side of it. I rapidly hit it with the rubber hammer, not too hard, thinking "It must have jammed" this made no difference, so I switched the pump speed to "off" and the noise etc continued! Again, no diff.
So I ran down to the control panel next to the boiler and switched the whole system off.:mad:
So we have gone from poor heating but good HW to none of either.
W is sitting with a small fan heater aimed at her feet.
We are still awaiting the plumber. We are expecting him before the end of the afternoon.
He'll be getting work!
Good thing we still have the immersion.

If he cannot do anything for a while I think I will try to drain the system down to below the pump, and go back to it. But not today.
My detestation of plumbing is now extreme. I almost prefer electronix on cars. :rolleyes:
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It started leaking so yer whacked it wiv a hammer. Thas wot tratterers would do.
 
marjon said:
Afternoon folks :).

Well the renewal of the residence card saga goes on:rolleyes:.
Forms filled, copies made and my payment record to the BG health system printed (to prove up to date) good to go👍.
First visit to the notary for 2 of the forms, She said you don't need this form. I said they gave it to me, so just stamp it. All stamped up for less than £5👍. She also asked where is the notary deed to prove you own the house:eek: (it doesn't ask for that lets wing it;)).
Off too the bank now to pay for it, bit of discussion and another £5, but I have a receipt👍.
Off to the immigration office. Another queue and then the dreaded "15 min break" sign appears in the window:vb-groan2:.
So I get to the counter and handover the fistful of bits of paper, Only to be told I need an "official" bit of paper to show I am up to date with my health insurance payments:mad:.

So if you now think I am about to walk across town (4miles) To get a bit of paper?
Nope isn't happening today, the "grumpy old lady" behind the counter wrote me a note for what I needed. I was sure I could get that online.
I dont like standing in queues and soon lose enthusiasm. So the will to deal with red tape has dwindled to nothing, off ome I go.

All I can say is the L322 wont have any DPF problems after all this :D.

This is now the 3rd time I have had to do this and they have all been different needs for the same thing, don't understand it, don't try, I like living here and its only a small pain for large gain I hope, next card should be 10yrs.
Oh and managed to order said "certificate of continuous health cover" online lets see how long it takes to get an e-mail:).

J
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There's no standard process over her also, every thing changes every time you go depending on the person dealing with it do you not have a card for your health cover ? We also have a tax OIB number so thay just log on and get all your details not Keen on that but it was needed every thing has become more difficult since B----t now the blue passport is a joke in the EU 😕😕😕
 
Well the plumberer has been.
I talked him through the whole saga and at the end of it he said "Well I would have done the same as you and in the same order."
So I was quite chuffed.
Mind he wouldn't have got watter running out of pipes in an airing cupboard. 🤣 🤣 🤣
We agreed that the steps taken indicate the need for a new pump and a new motorised valve as the old ones are dodgy and noisy. and they don't owe us anything.
He also recommended a UPS Grundfos pump as I think has been recommended on here, without looking upthread.
I asked how much the parts would be and he gave me some figures. I then asked when he could do it. He looked quite surprised as he thought I would be doing it! So he'll be doing it in the next few days.
Don't begrudge the money, the system is so good it has cost us nearly nowt over the years in repairs and parts.
I asked him if he wanted to see the antique boiler, so he had a look and we chatted about it, the thermocouples and pump overrun stat.
Good chat. Decent bloke.
He also said, "Don't get rid of it"!!!

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end. :):):)
And from now on I will regard gate valves as useful only as fishing weights ...

... and I don't go fishing!!!
;)
Have a nice evening all. :):):):)
 
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