Yeah, we had one in the last house, and it was great not messing with a kettle. Just unsure if it's a day 1 purchase or down the line. Makes sense to just fit it in straight away though.
Spain House Build - PLANNING APPROVED
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Yeah, we had one in the last house, and it was great not messing with a kettle. Just unsure if it's a day 1 purchase or down the line. Makes sense to just fit it in straight away though.
Yeah. Think the sink unit is 100cm and the hob is 120cm. We could switch those around. Would then give ~25cm from the wall.
I'm not particularly a huge fan of the shaker style for this kitchen. Especially not that specific one as it was a bit more fussy than a plain shaker style. Makes the uneven drawer lines look wrong. Having them plain would blend in much better.
Cheers, it's definitely something we keep bouncing around with. I think for me it's that i don't want a load of dishes piled up on the island. Especially as it's going to be pretty central to the whole room. If something is going in the island i think i'd take the financial hit and make it the hob and then move the sink to where the hob is now.
Funnily enough my friends parents have just bought a place over here and completely gutted and renovated it. They've got the hob with a built in extractor and hate it as they said any bit of water turns it off and then want to swap it. I joked i'd have it
Have actually found a Beko one for €800 which isn't as bad as i thought. I think my main hesitation is the venting of it, it's going to be solid concrete floor, so need to do some reading on how effective it is as surely it needs a bit of power to pull the air from the hob, then force it down some ducting and then along ~3m to outside.
Funnily enough my friends parents have just bought a place over here and completely gutted and renovated it. They've got the hob with a built in extractor and hate it as they said any bit of water turns it off and then want to swap it. I joked i'd have it
Have actually found a Beko one for €800 which isn't as bad as i thought. I think my main hesitation is the venting of it, it's going to be solid concrete floor, so need to do some reading on how effective it is as surely it needs a bit of power to pull the air from the hob, then force it down some ducting and then along ~3m to outside.
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@roccles I agree, that does probably work better. I might run it by the wife, although she's keen on the symmetry. Otherwise i wonder if i could rework the surfaces so that the hob is closer to the oven, then move the sink further over to the left so that it's spread out more.
@jpaul Islands aren't ideal for eating i don't think. It's more just for company i always found. Sometimes if i made tea in our last house, my wife would sit on the stool and we'd chat. It's fine for breakfast or a quick snack too, but whilst there's space for a laptop i'd never want to sit there with one properly.
@jpaul Islands aren't ideal for eating i don't think. It's more just for company i always found. Sometimes if i made tea in our last house, my wife would sit on the stool and we'd chat. It's fine for breakfast or a quick snack too, but whilst there's space for a laptop i'd never want to sit there with one properly.
Depressingly slow!
Mid July the developer spoke to the planning department and was told it was virtually done and just needed a final sign off by the secretary, we knew that nothing happens in August and so hoped this'd be done by the end of July, alas that came and went. August was then a shutdown month pretty much everywhere. However last week we got a call to say the town hall now are waiting for an Agricultural survey from Valencia before it can be signed off. The estimated date for this is now mid October.
The annoying thing now is it's started to be questionable whether we'll be in by next summer which i was really hoping for. Luckily we're pretty happy in our current rental and we've got it for an unspecified amount of time so no pressures of having to move again in the future etc. We've bought sofas/beds/outdoor stuff etc and so are comfortable surrounded by our own stuff.
The current place also has loads of oleanda (sp?) hedges and olive trees, so now is the time to try and take some cuttings and then we'll try and plant on our land in the hope they get ~12 months growth ahead of us moving in.
Careful with the Oleanders, I only found out that they're poisonous last time I was out
How to grow oleander
All you need to know about growing and caring for oleander.www.gardenersworld.com
Haha i didn't either until a few weeks back, i was climbing through them trying to attach some cables to a wall behind them in the garden, after about 20 minutes my wife shouted over "Oh, be careful you can get skin issues from those similar to hogweed"
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So, tomorrow (12th Sept) is officially the last date for Valencia to deny the application, since the local town hall have heard nothing they will just approve it sometime in the next 2 weeks, or at least that's what we've now been told.
The developer has been chatting to an interior designer, who sent over some possible ideas for final design. I'm caveating this by saying we've had no interaction with them, so this is purely them coming up with something. It's an interesting one as they've clad the outside walls in stone etc which is something we wanted but wasn't in the budget. There's also some other things included which we didn't spec but like, so would be interesting to see the final cost.
Back of the house (we wouldn't have the grass)
Front of house - We won't have that front wall closing it all off, also the garage isn't that close to the house
Cupboard in the hallway. I really like this. Just depends on space as i'm trying to source an old double wooden door which might not give the space for any cupboards on the wall.
Lounge Area
Kitchen
The developer has been chatting to an interior designer, who sent over some possible ideas for final design. I'm caveating this by saying we've had no interaction with them, so this is purely them coming up with something. It's an interesting one as they've clad the outside walls in stone etc which is something we wanted but wasn't in the budget. There's also some other things included which we didn't spec but like, so would be interesting to see the final cost.
Back of the house (we wouldn't have the grass)
Front of house - We won't have that front wall closing it all off, also the garage isn't that close to the house
Cupboard in the hallway. I really like this. Just depends on space as i'm trying to source an old double wooden door which might not give the space for any cupboards on the wall.
Lounge Area
Kitchen
Was €81000 so worked out at €2/m2. It was relatively cheap for the area, but also have to consider there's no drinking water/mains electric so it's always hard to value.
Well yeah it would, but when i say there is none, i mean it's not available at all!
Over here in rural properties drinking water is pretty much unheard of. We will have agricultural water as a mains supply, it's not safe for consumption though. It'll be fine for irrigation and should be fine for showering/washing (once filtered on site). We'll then also have a water deposit which we'll need to fill up with drinking water for cooking/drinking. You can generally get ~10,000l for €100 delivered by lorry.
Electrics we could probably get access to, but would need a new pylon which would be 30k. We've instead decided that that money is better spent on a solar system with huge redundancy.
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In theory it should last a fairly long time. We might even drop down to a smaller tank for freshness.
We usually get through around 16l a week for drinking water at the current rental. Even if we doubled that to account for cooking, it's 30l a week which lasts around a year at 10k litres. Dropping to a 2k tank would be around 2 months which probably works better. Mainly depends on how much of a drag it is to get deliveries!
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Yeah possibly. We do buy bottled now, it's just a bit of a drag. Especially when cooking pasta, boiling potatoes etc and you have a huge plastic bottle on the worktop. Having a tab just makes life easier, especially if you have a plumbed in fridge for ice/water.
Also you're right on my appalling maths. Work has absolutely destroyed my brain this week!
Also you're right on my appalling maths. Work has absolutely destroyed my brain this week!
Remember when i said planning was going to be between the 14th and 25th? We're still waiting. The developer is now getting really frustrated and trying to get in touch with the local mayor to get things signed off.
We had decided on the tiles for flooring (same tile inside and out). However we got a sample to bring home and it looked very different to the one in the shop. We checked around and it seems the one in the shop is the anomoly and maybe representative of 5-10% of the range and the one we brought home is more like how it would be and my wife isn't a fan as there's much more blue/grey rather than stoney colour.
We've not got another sample for this which we like. It's around €10/m2 more expensive but at 200m2 it's not a massive cost in the grand scheme of things
We had decided on the tiles for flooring (same tile inside and out). However we got a sample to bring home and it looked very different to the one in the shop. We checked around and it seems the one in the shop is the anomoly and maybe representative of 5-10% of the range and the one we brought home is more like how it would be and my wife isn't a fan as there's much more blue/grey rather than stoney colour.
We've not got another sample for this which we like. It's around €10/m2 more expensive but at 200m2 it's not a massive cost in the grand scheme of things
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
WE HAVE PLANNING APPROVAL
Now to see how long everything else takes!
WE HAVE PLANNING APPROVAL
Now to see how long everything else takes!
Be in by Xmas
Ha i dropped in that the developer told us he'd have us in by the end of Feb 25 so he better pull his workboots on and get stuck in!
Haha yeah. No chance of Feb. If it’s end of July we’ll be happy.
Not sure prefabs are much cheaper but guess it hugely depends on on requirements. When I was looking there wasn’t much in it though.
Not sure prefabs are much cheaper but guess it hugely depends on on requirements. When I was looking there wasn’t much in it though.
Yeah. I guess that’s the same everywhere.
We’re really confident in our builder and honestly can’t find anyone who has said a bad thing about him. The downside to that is we’re probably spending maybe 10% more than other builders which adds up but it feels worthwhile.
We’re really confident in our builder and honestly can’t find anyone who has said a bad thing about him. The downside to that is we’re probably spending maybe 10% more than other builders which adds up but it feels worthwhile.