Spain House Build - PLANNING APPROVED

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Brilliant. Definitely, and hopefully with the water & electrics the price will shoot up
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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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Martynt74 said:
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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And roughly how long do you think 10k litres will last?
That ugly big pylon would be aesthetically awful as well
 
Deep said:
And roughly how long do you think 10k litres will last?
That ugly big pylon would be aesthetically awful as well
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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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At that sort of level you may as well buy bottled?

I remember years ago at my grandparents villa we used to buy bottle water as it was just more reliable than tap water.
When i say reliable I guess I mean it was pretty much guaranteed not to give us spanish belly ;)

IIRC it was so cheap it was laughable. Came in 10 litre containers.

Not sure whats going on with your maths tho as 30 x 52 is like 1500, unless you mean 30l a day not week?
 
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!
 
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


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