1076 Building work wanted

[QUOTE=kanea]... im not a lover of the white gas tanks.[/QUOTE]

You might want to consider oil, but I understnad that the oil tanks need to be buried. Another option is wood-burning stoves. Lunigiana is full of trees and there's nothing like the smell of wood smoke!

One option to consider is a "stufa", which is a small wood-burning stove that chucks out a stack of heat.

[QUOTE=kanea]Can any one reccomend where i can buy a kitchen and bathroom locally.
I currently have no gas to the property, any one reccomend the best type of heating to install, im not a lover of the white gas tanks.[/QUOTE]

Maybe we have missed your location? Local to where?

Apparently, read on the forum, the gas tanks can be intstalled underground.

We recently had a gas tank (green one!) buried in the garden. All quite painless. We did not have to buy the tank, it is owned and maintained by the gas company. We had to fund the digging of the hole - cost was 1000 euro, expensive but we 1mm of topsoil and then bedrock so it took some time and some serious excavation equipment. I suggest you approach your local gas supplier (possibly an agent for AgipGas) to see what they can offer. Gas is certainly the favoured product in the rural area where we are - all the local Italian use it.

[QUOTE=Lock]We had to fund the digging of the hole - cost was 1000 euro... [/QUOTE]

Things vary a lot depending on your local gas company. We are in the process of relocating and burying a gas tank (it's too close to the house and therefore now illegal, it seems), but we are not having to pay either for the tank or the burying.

We paid around 100 euros for some bureaucratic purpose or other, but that - so far - is about it.

Mind you, the job isn't complete yet... you never know what surprises lay in store - will update you when it's finished.

Mike Johnson

[QUOTE=DavidandLinda]Maybe we have missed your location? Local to where?

Apparently, read on the forum, the gas tanks can be intstalled underground.[/QUOTE]

Sorry,
Casola Lunigiana

[QUOTE=kanea]Sorry,
Casola Lunigiana[/QUOTE]
It's not really a question of where you are in fact that is totally incidental.
In any case it is now law that all gas tanks be buried (sooner or later existing gas tanks overground will be eliminated but any new ones must be buried)
Your best option is GPL gas if your area is not on a methane mains network.
Oil is dirtier,creates pollution,is not so economic and you'll be forever getting burners cleaned /changed etc.If you'll be living there then you can consider wood burners which are economic but do require work (you'll have to order the wood,usually by end of June max.) get it delivered,stack it where it'll not be too far to take it in,cover it well, and keep burners or fires going during the day in winter.... In any case and especially if you aren't living there all the time your best option is still gas at least it's quick,available everywhere,delivered,clean and if you turn up at night in winter in 5 mins you've got the house heaters on...different story with wood burners.

I've just returned from visiting a friend in Tuscany and she has just replaced her central heating boiler with one which runs on compacted wood shavings. I had never heard of this but apparantly it was the cheapest option. You buy bags of these things and tip them into the boiler once a week. If you are interested I can find out make price etc.
Linda

Pellet boilers are very ecological and should give savings of 50% on gpl. Try looking at [url]www.lavia.it[/url]. Excellent quality Pellets seem to be buyable at around €3.60 for a bancale (about 80 bags). Our idraulico says that after 4 years to recoup the installation costs we will save a great deal on heating costs. We also intend to add solar panels for summer use.

Sebastiano, we only had our overground gas tank put in 3 months ago by the Gas Co. ????
will we have to pay to have it put underground ? when did the law change ??

we had our put in about 15 month ago overground. We had 4 different quotes from 4 different companies and none of them said it was compulsary to have ti underground! i've got to say that it wouldn't have been a good option for us as the garden is on a slope!! one company suggested we had it burried but at our expense.
Nath