Just how much cheaper us the resident tarrif compared to non resident? I just divided my bill (over two months) by my usage, and arrived at just under 28 cents per kwh.How would that change if I became resident?
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(Re Woodburners )Are CO detectors widely available and mandatory as in the UK? I reckon we all should have them. Not seen them locally.
Fri, 12/14/2012 - 16:44
I was just about to wire up my workshop to the ENEL box this morning and discovered that the LIVE (Brown) and the EARTH wires are connected together at the meter tails, I was expecting the NEUTRAL and the EARTH wires to be connected together, has
Sun, 12/02/2012 - 06:48
I'm running the latest firefox but the website is painfully slow (and has been for a month or two) -any comments?
Tue, 09/06/2011 - 16:08
Just tasted the latest batch of our home made orange liqueur, absolutely fantastic, bright , bright, orange (just like tartrasine ho ho!
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 15:37
Just wondering how feasible it is to buy a container and fill it with stuff in the UK and ship it out to Puglia? I rather thought I could use it as a workshop / store afterwards...but is it a runner??
Mon, 11/15/2010 - 15:40
I wondered if anyone could explain how to calculate the car tax in Italy, I know it is to do with horse power etc but is there a useful website like our own DVL site which can allow one to find out how much tax is paid on say....
Mon, 11/09/2009 - 14:10
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The UK press are now referring to "PIIGS" hence including Italy . Italy is still in recession at the moment. As regards being "quids in" if you own a house in italy that's all very well if you can actually sell your house. In reality your house is only worth what someone else will pay for it. Just as well we bought for the "feel good' factor!
Sign up for on-line billing with a direct debit to your bank account easy peasy.
Woops-the snifters have had had more influence than first thought- I can't count. I seem to have underestimated the bias angle..maybe tomorrow......... Incidentally ALDI does a really good Malt whisky at a very reasonable cost-hic
http://www.macslab.com/optsolar.html Worth remembering that the winter bias for solar panels is actually quite large, although I've just had a couple of snifters I reckon for my latitude of 40 degrees in Puglia the optimium angle for maximum winter solar gain is 57 degrees. Check out the link above. Ciao Billy
PVs are good idea, and with a fairly large array you could "top up" your thermal store with an immmersion heater-not bother with the heat pump and use a stufa and solar thermal panels as the main means of warming up the heat bank.Certainly lots to consider, I was even toying with the idea of a wee wind turbine dumping its "excess load" into the thermal store too.
An aerial can boost your mobile broadband dongle reception. Nick has a good post on the puglia chat forum try out the link. I'm going to get one.
Mobile broadband reception
Excellent Badger- I really need to improve my Italian - however it seems the latest business fashion from telecom firms and energy providers is to make the pricing structures so complicated that most people are bamboozled and therefore less likely to change provider. The ENEL pricing is like something out of Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"-mind you British Gas has a similarly confusing pricing arrangement..well here goes!
When times get tough the natives generally turn on immigrants-it happens all over,sadly.
Another thought, can you still sign up for the dual price option with ENEL ie cheaper (half price) from 19.00 till 0700 with a three phase supply?
Thanks Badger something to mull over for sure.