Renovation & Construction vocabulary (French - English translation)

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Acte de vente - Act of sale


Artisan - Craftsman


Burin - Chisel


Caillebotis - Square wooden decking


Cales - Wedges


Cerisier - Cherry tree


Chantier - Building site


Charpentier - Carpenter


Châtaignier - Horse chestnut


Chauffagistes - Heating engineers


Chaux - Lime render


Clé - Spanner


Cloison - Partition wall


Coffrage - Shuttering


Colle or ciment à carreaux - Tile glue (in powder form)


Commune - Town/village


Coude - A bend (then you choose the angle : 32° 45° 87° etc)


Couteau de peintre - Paint scraper


Crémaillère - Upright Shelving


Cuivre - Copper


Cuve - Vat


Décapeur thermique - Heat stripper


Décolleuse de papier peint - Wallpaper steamer/strip


Devis - Quote/estimate


Ébéniste - Cabinet maker


Élagage - Tree surgery


Enduit de lissage - Very fine plaster


Entreprise - Business, company


Espagnolette - Window closing mechanism


Figuier - Fig tree


Fleur de chaux - Very fine white lime


Gaines - the plastic tubes in which the electric cables will sit


Lambris - Wooden wainscoting/paneling


Lames - Wooden strips


Lampe de chantier - Halogen site lamp


Lasure - Stain


Laurier-sauce - Bay tree


Lave-mains - Hand basin


Lavoir - Wash basin/house for doing laundry


Linteau - Lintel


Liteaux/Tasseaux - Battens


Maçon - Builder


Maire - Mayor


Marin - The local Languedoc name for the wind blowing inland off the Mediterranean


Massette - Heavy hammer, almost a mallet


Mortier - Mortar


Mousse - Expanding foam expansible


Ouate de cellulose - Recycled paper


Papier-Kraft -Kraft paper


Pare vapeur - Vapour barrier


Perforatrice - Jack hammer


Placoplâtre - Plasterboard


Plombiers - Plumber


Poêle - Stove


Porte-fenêtre - French window


Potager - Vegetable garden


Promesse de vente - Document which binds you to the purchase of a house (no gazumping)


Ragréage - Self-levelling screed


Raigneureuse - Double angle grinder to make the saignées


Ramoneur - Chimney sweep


Réducteur - A reducer (connects from a tuyau de 14 à un de 16 for example)


Rremise - Outbuilding


Réseau d’assainissement - Sewage network


Sacs de gravats - Bags for masonry rubble


Saignées - Channels for the electricity cables


Sans soudure - Without soldering


Scellement chimique - Sealant


Serre-joints - Clamps


Sous couche - Undercoat


Stère - one cubic metre


Suie - soot


Taloche - float


Tilleul - Linden / lime tree


Tirefonds - tie screws


Tournevis électrique - Electric screwdriver


Truelle - Trowel


Tuyau - Pipe



Acte de vente - Act of sale


Artisan - Craftsman


Burin - Chisel


Caillebotis - Square wooden decking


Cales - Wedges


Cerisier - Cherry tree


Chantier - Building site


Charpentier - Carpenter


Châtaignier - Horse chestnut


Chauffagistes - Heating engineers


Chaux - Lime render


Clé - Spanner


Cloison - Partition wall


Coffrage - Shuttering


Colle or ciment à carreaux - Tile glue (in powder form)


Commune - Town/village


Coude - A bend (then you choose the angle : 32° 45° 87° etc)


Couteau de peintre - Paint scraper


Crémaillère - Upright Shelving


Cuivre - Copper


Cuve - Vat


Décapeur thermique - Heat stripper


Décolleuse de papier peint - Wallpaper steamer/strip


Devis - Quote/estimate


Ébéniste - Cabinet maker


Élagage - Tree surgery


Enduit de lissage - Very fine plaster


Entreprise - Business, company


Espagnolette - Window closing mechanism


Figuier - Fig tree


Fleur de chaux - Very fine white lime


Gaines - the plastic tubes in which the electric cables will sit


Lambris - Wooden wainscoting/paneling


Lames - Wooden strips


Lampe de chantier - Halogen site lamp


Lasure - Stain


Laurier-sauce - Bay tree


Lave-mains - Hand basin


Lavoir - Wash basin/house for doing laundry


Linteau - Lintel


Liteaux/Tasseaux - Battens


Maçon - Builder


Maire - Mayor


Marin - The local Languedoc name for the wind blowing inland off the Mediterranean


Massette - Heavy hammer, almost a mallet


Mortier - Mortar


Mousse - Expanding foam expansible


Ouate de cellulose - Recycled paper


Papier-Kraft -Kraft paper


Pare vapeur - Vapour barrier


Perforatrice - Jack hammer


Placoplâtre - Plasterboard


Plombiers - Plumber


Poêle - Stove


Porte-fenêtre - French window


Potager - Vegetable garden


Promesse de vente - Document which binds you to the purchase of a house (no gazumping)


Ragréage - Self-levelling screed


Raigneureuse - Double angle grinder to make the saignées


Ramoneur - Chimney sweep


Réducteur - A reducer (connects from a tuyau de 14 à un de 16 for example)


Rremise - Outbuilding


Réseau d’assainissement - Sewage network


Sacs de gravats - Bags for masonry rubble


Saignées - Channels for the electricity cables


Sans soudure - Without soldering


Scellement chimique - Sealant


Serre-joints - Clamps


Sous couche - Undercoat


Stère - one cubic metre


Suie - soot


Taloche - float


Tilleul - Linden / lime tree


Tirefonds - tie screws


Tournevis électrique - Electric screwdriver


Truell - Trowel


Tuyau - Pipe


I think Talloche needs a little expansion - Float could be a lot of things! Concrete float, finishing trowel etc.