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DIY – How to stretch 25 Amps – Avoiding blowing fuses – saving energy

Like a lot of old properties we inherited the dangling 10Amp circuit breaker in a small dark cabinet. Luckily we where introduced to Pablo in Monforte and set him the task of rewiring the property basics and put in a decent distribution board. New feed to each area 16A 2.5 wire for sockets and 10A [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Pump failure – No shower today – ….

Well, sometimes things happen at the right time. Like this Sunday our central pump decided to fail gradually. Tripping the RCD more and more often. We managed a shower each in the evening resetting the switch every so often.
I phoned Pablo, our electrista y fontaneiro, who promptly came round this afternoon. A quick check by [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2008

It helps to buy a telefone line with a house attached

I’ve read  a a lot about problems with Telefonica and telephones not to speak Internet in Spain.
Maybe I’m lucky or maybe this is Galicia or it may have helped that we bought a telephone line with an actual house attached.
I asked the agent to help us get a connection and that I would like ADSL [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007