18 Mar 2010 7:46 PM:

hi all, even though we have left arenal I can tell you we had terrible trouble with water ingress in bedroom 2, coming in through the window frame/sill..got up one morning and paddled through to the kitchen from the master bedroom.. luckily the floor is so far out of level the water stayed in bed 2 / hall area, and the masonary as of when we left was saturated....on a high note our air con worked fine, no probs....sorry.... However if anyone needs a good air con engineer P M me and I can put you in touch with a genuine guy who lives in sabbi who will no doubt be able to sort out your systems...he is a good friend and work mate of mine, the only problem is that he is very busy at the moment but I will ask him if he may be interested tomorrow...leave it with you..andy

Community thread: IST ELECTRICITY BILLS

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14 Feb 2010 12:17 PM:

yeah, got a photocopy from our agent but its packed in a suitcase somewhere as we are moving out next week. Will ask Jayne if she knows which case it is in and if its easy to get I will try and work out the structure of the bill and let you know what info I can...

Community thread: IST ELECTRICITY BILLS

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14 Feb 2010 9:20 AM:

hi guys,  I have received a bill from our rental agent for the electricity used between the connection date, 21st of september, if I remember right, to the 21st of Janurary..as we are here 24/7 this may give you a good idea of an average to expect..

Ok, the water heater is on 24hrs and is run down to almost cold every day, Monday to Friday we are out all day till 6.30 ish but the tv dvd sky box etc are all left on standby, the heating is on full blast as soon as we get through the door, as was the air con during late september, early october,  The Tv and lap top permenantly pluged in to the mains and both are  on for at least 6hrs a day, the oven is used every day for up to 2hrs at a time and there are up to four loads of washing a week done in the machine, oh and also the dishwasher will be on once a day. 

Total for the 122 days.- 221 euro, so just short of 2 euro a day. Roughly 55 euro a month..

I can only assume our landlord has paid any connection charges and I think he must have opted for the lower tarrif breaker as the power has tripped off a few times when we have most appliances working at the same time...but 55 euro a month for everything doesn't seem to bad to me, quite happy, especially compared to back home, could easily pay that for two weeks during the winter months and thats with having gas fired heating and hot water !

 

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01 Nov 2009 9:40 AM:

Hi Carlos, just letting you know that the pumps finaly broke down again last wednesday / thursday after a couple of weeks of increasing noise. It was the loudest i have ever heard. You would not have had any sleep if you were here last week, ear plugs or not !....After the time we were without water for three days earlier this year we now keep 6, 8ltr water bottles for emergency strip wash and toilet flushing......should we have to do this??????  I don't think so....Since we moved in (march) we must have had no water 30 to 40 times. Anyway, yet another 'repair' and we have water again..see how long it lasts this time..The pump room looks like pump graveyard, there are five broken ones and two connected to the pipes that are working,,,for the moment..

As for this being connected to the mains, so there will be no more noise story, I am a little suspicious. Those pumps are there for a reason. Behind one of the walls in every pump room there is water storage tank about half the size of the lounge dining area of these apartments. Mains water is piped to here and stored. The pumps then pump water to each appartment. The reason for this is that the mains water cannot cope with the demand. Imagine that your block is fully occupied and everyone runs a bath at the same time, not very likely I know, but people tend to have a habbit of getting freshened up after a day around the pool and this does tend to happen at the same time give or take half an hour or so. Therefore systems have to be designed for maximum demand, so a Booster Pump system is used. A lot of stored water underground, which is then pumped at a higher pressure than the mains to each appartment so if maximum demand is requiered it can be met. It also means that the sprinkler system in the garages have water in the event of a fire and the mains water being off at the same time, again unlikely, but the chance is there. So guys, I reckon these pumps are here to stay, like it or not, all we need is for them to be a quieter and work, not too much to ask is it ? 

Ps. These pumps should not be running 24/7, only when needed,  ie, when a tap is opened, toilet flushed or washing machine swiched on. There should be a pressure sensor that 'tells' the pump to start when a drop in pressure is detected and stop when pressure is back up. It is not surprising that the are breaking down because when they are running all day and night they get extremely hot and this does them no favours at all. Sometimes I can have a hot shower using only  the cold tap when I get home from work , occasionaly dangerously hot. 

 

This message was last edited by andy and jayne on 01/11/2009.
Community thread: Water off in Block 7?

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10 Apr 2009 12:00 AM:

hi all, we are new here since the end of Feb, block eleven, overlooking the big pool, which has now been filled in case anyone is interested. Anyway, to the point, does anyone have an apartment for a holiday let in june for two or three weeks in the complex. Its for our daughter and my mother in law.

Is anyone else living here permenantly?

Community thread: newbies here....

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