Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
chauffage avec manutention
English translation:
heating with materials handling (logistics)
French term
United Kingdom
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chauffage avec manutention
-l'accessibilité aux commerces (accès à pied ou passage de commerçants ambulants vs. commerces éloignés sans passage de commerçants ambulants)
-elements de confort (existence ou non dans le logement d'une salle de bains, d'un téléphone, de WC, de marches intérieures, de marches extérieures au logement, nécessité ou non d'effectuer des manutentions pour le chauffage)
No other definition is given. The only thing I can think of is that their home is heated perhaps by a fire, and so it needs heavy lifting (firewood, coal) etc in order to make it work. Is this other people's interpretation too? If so, then i fear a much longer paraphrase is going to be needed!
Thanks.
Jun 5, 2012 01:02: MatthewLaSon changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/46411">Wendy Cummings's</a> old entry - "chauffage avec manutention"" to ""heating with materials handling (logistics)""
Proposed translations
heating with materials handling (logistics)
First, my answer is not posting (so if you see three or four duplicate answers, it's because of the system isn't working right)
Second, this is how I read "manutention" here. It, imho, has to do with materials landling. I could be wrong, though.
manutention = handling (of materials; getting them all there for the heating system to be installed)
expédition et manutention = shipping and handling?
I hope this helps.
"heating including servicing..."
with materials handling (logistics)
I think that they mean providing heating with all the materials needed (logistics).
I hope this helps.
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Heating maintenance services
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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-12-07 21:09:44 GMT)
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You could always say:
"Heating installation and maintenance services"
though.
"Whatever your heating system needs, HMS can help... We carry out the design, installation and maintenance of heating systems, including:- Gas boilers, fires, convectors, water heaters ...etc"
"Maintenance Services - Quotehedge currently has over 100 Maintenance Contracts, which range from residential properties through to large commercial premises. We maintain heating...etc"
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
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heating with servicing
(nécessité ou non d'effectuer des manutentions pour le chauffage)
whether or not it is necessary to carry out servicing/maintenance on the heating system.
I read this as meaning that in some cases perhaps the boiler needs to be serviced if there is a heating system in place, or unbloclking of flues, or even perhaps just a chimney clean if the homes have open fires or plug in heaters. People have died from carbon Monoxide poisoning because flues were blocked
Discussion
PLEASE REMEMBER: The context is factors likely to contribute to an old person being put into care, so I'm not sure if having a heating system with a maintenance contract would be a contributory factor, however if these "manutentions" have to be carried out by the old person, then that would.
I proposed "materials handling" (just a guess).
manutention = handling (logistics of materials: getting them all there for the heating system to be installed)
Best of luck!