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Electricity
All of Spain has the same voltage as the U.K. give or take a few volts. 220 v The only difference is that it is supplied with a choice of the number of kilowatts 6 12 or more depending on your requirements. The higher the number of kilowatts the more expensive per unit it becomes.
All your electrical appliances from the U.K. will work here. All you need to do is change the plug.
Electricity in Spain is expensive compared with all the other services. Here you get billed every Month. With an estimated bill every other Month, The average cost for electricity is approx 100 euros a month.
If you are building a new house you will get what is called a "builders supply" This you don't pay for. Once the house is finished the electric company then install a meter and you start paying from this point.
If you are going to live in the middle of nowhere then get a generator as backup. Sometimes when it rains here the power will go off for some time. This is due to water getting into open junction boxes. The electric company here don't seem to care and leave cables and conections open to the elements.
All of Spain has the same voltage as the U.K. give or take a few volts. 220 v The only difference is that it is supplied with a choice of the number of kilowatts 6 12 or more depending on your requirements. The higher the number of kilowatts the more expensive per unit it becomes.
All your electrical appliances from the U.K. will work here. All you need to do is change the plug.
Electricity in Spain is expensive compared with all the other services. Here you get billed every Month. With an estimated bill every other Month, The average cost for electricity is approx 100 euros a month.
If you are building a new house you will get what is called a "builders supply" This you don't pay for. Once the house is finished the electric company then install a meter and you start paying from this point.
If you are going to live in the middle of nowhere then get a generator as backup. Sometimes when it rains here the power will go off for some time. This is due to water getting into open junction boxes. The electric company here don't seem to care and leave cables and conections open to the elements.
Gas
Only large Towns and Cities have natural gas. If you live in the countryside and want to use gas, butane in bottles is available but you must have a contract with the gas supplier. Suppliers will not give you a contract until they inspect your appliances to make sure they are safe.
Gas boilers here are quite efficient and inexpensive to run. A bottle of butane costs at the time of writing 11.60 euros and is about the same size as a bottle of calor gas in the U.K. 35 kilo.
Changing a bottle can be tricky until you get used to it because the connections are fiddly.
Gas appliances from the U.K. will work here but you must change the regulator. The U.K. regulators do not fit the Spanish butane bottles.
Phone
In the countryside land line telephones are few and far between. If the house you are thinking of buying does not have a phone ask where the nearest phone line is. Even if it is close by, expect to wait a long time to be conected, this can take sometimes up to two years and repeated calls to telefonica. If you don t want to wait this long for what I can only discribe as a C**p service. There is an alternitive, we have been conected to a high frequency radio phone which means we also have broadband internet access. The company is called Iberbanda and the web address www.iberbanda.es . This only takes a couple of weeks and the service is good. A prepaid phone card is also a good Idea, they cost 5 euros and it s a bit inconvenient dialing an 18 figure number before the number you want, but you get up to 3hrs talk time to the U.K. to a land line, and approx 22 mins to a mobile in the U.K. It dosen t even show up on your bill as a call.
Only large Towns and Cities have natural gas. If you live in the countryside and want to use gas, butane in bottles is available but you must have a contract with the gas supplier. Suppliers will not give you a contract until they inspect your appliances to make sure they are safe.
Gas boilers here are quite efficient and inexpensive to run. A bottle of butane costs at the time of writing 11.60 euros and is about the same size as a bottle of calor gas in the U.K. 35 kilo.
Changing a bottle can be tricky until you get used to it because the connections are fiddly.
Gas appliances from the U.K. will work here but you must change the regulator. The U.K. regulators do not fit the Spanish butane bottles.
Phone
In the countryside land line telephones are few and far between. If the house you are thinking of buying does not have a phone ask where the nearest phone line is. Even if it is close by, expect to wait a long time to be conected, this can take sometimes up to two years and repeated calls to telefonica. If you don t want to wait this long for what I can only discribe as a C**p service. There is an alternitive, we have been conected to a high frequency radio phone which means we also have broadband internet access. The company is called Iberbanda and the web address www.iberbanda.es . This only takes a couple of weeks and the service is good. A prepaid phone card is also a good Idea, they cost 5 euros and it s a bit inconvenient dialing an 18 figure number before the number you want, but you get up to 3hrs talk time to the U.K. to a land line, and approx 22 mins to a mobile in the U.K. It dosen t even show up on your bill as a call.
Water
If you are thinking of buying a property in the countryside (Campo) then don t just assume because it has a bathroom and kitchen,with things called taps,that water comes out of them. Lots of properties in the countryside come with a water right which will entitle you to so many hours a month or week. Ours where we live, is three hours per month. This does not sound much but it is 10 litres per second. When we bought this house we were told it had a water right. But we had nowhere to store it. We had to have a water deposit built at considarable cost. Even though we had the water right with the house, we still have to pay for the water that we have each month. This is not a much money about 15 euros a month. We assumed that because we had the right, the water was free. Nobody told us. This caused us a small problem.
Always ask before you buy a property about, water and deposits and the quality of the water. Mostly in the countryside you will be supplied agricultural water this is fine for washing but do not drink it. We buy bottled water to drink.
If you are thinking of buying a property in the countryside (Campo) then don t just assume because it has a bathroom and kitchen,with things called taps,that water comes out of them. Lots of properties in the countryside come with a water right which will entitle you to so many hours a month or week. Ours where we live, is three hours per month. This does not sound much but it is 10 litres per second. When we bought this house we were told it had a water right. But we had nowhere to store it. We had to have a water deposit built at considarable cost. Even though we had the water right with the house, we still have to pay for the water that we have each month. This is not a much money about 15 euros a month. We assumed that because we had the right, the water was free. Nobody told us. This caused us a small problem.
Always ask before you buy a property about, water and deposits and the quality of the water. Mostly in the countryside you will be supplied agricultural water this is fine for washing but do not drink it. We buy bottled water to drink.
The picture below is of a water deposit in the early stages of construction.
If you have found the property that you want and it has no water right or water connected, all is not lost. You may be able to have a bore hole drilled for water. In nearly all mountainous areas you will find water. This process costs approx 60 euros per meter, and there are occasions where a depth of 100m or more is required to find water. You will then need a pump to extract the water. The cost of pumps vary depending on the amount of water per second you have in your well, the cost can be anything from 350 euros too 1800 euros.
If you have found the property that you want and it has no water right or water connected, all is not lost. You may be able to have a bore hole drilled for water. In nearly all mountainous areas you will find water. This process costs approx 60 euros per meter, and there are occasions where a depth of 100m or more is required to find water. You will then need a pump to extract the water. The cost of pumps vary depending on the amount of water per second you have in your well, the cost can be anything from 350 euros too 1800 euros.
