Stone56 said:
We had the fire department deliver 2 loads this week so 24 cubic meters nice having a shower int it price has gone up but the vegetables like it 😀😀
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Nice. We can 'only' store 12000 L.

Stanleysteamer said:
Boyo wants water to his property for watering etc. i.e. he doesn't want to have to pay for it.
so has been looking into getting someone to make a borehole for him
30 metres deep.
So he was all chuffed to tell me tother day that he has finally found someone who'll do it... €5k. :eek:
Not saying that is an unreasonable sum, not that I have anything to judge it by, but I did say he needed to think seriously about capturing the water coming off his roof like we do. Not in exactly the same way as that would entail major works to put in an underground tank and pipes, but to at least have a system of butts like lots of us do in the UK and indeed we did before all the Frog stuff took off. He is at least thinking seriously about it.

Can't help thinking that €5k buys an awful lot of water. Our bills have dropped but not by a huge amount once we started pumping our own stuff for watering the plants.
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Yes you can buy a lot of water for that. We had/have (long story) a borehole 110m deep and ones along those lines cost about 10 grand, although we didn't pay to do it, it came with the house because there is no water. Your neighbour should probably bear in mind he might also need three phase electricity to operate it (we do), depending on depth.

We recycle waste water and store as much rain water as possible but are planning a new bigger underground tank.

Stanleysteamer said:
I've forgotten. Where do you store it? And can you drink and cook with it?
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Our water is straight out of the ground and untreated so although we cook/wash with it we can't drink it. Currently we have a water softener so the water in undrinkable anyway and its customary to drink bottled water in Iberia anyway, so we use that and also for water added to food when cooking, also for boiling for tea/coffee.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Boyo wants water to his property for watering etc. i.e. he doesn't want to have to pay for it.
so has been looking into getting someone to make a borehole for him
30 metres deep.
So he was all chuffed to tell me tother day that he has finally found someone who'll do it... €5k. :eek:
Not saying that is an unreasonable sum, not that I have anything to judge it by, but I did say he needed to think seriously about capturing the water coming off his roof like we do. Not in exactly the same way as that would entail major works to put in an underground tank and pipes, but to at least have a system of butts like lots of us do in the UK and indeed we did before all the Frog stuff took off. He is at least thinking seriously about it.

Can't help thinking that €5k buys an awful lot of water. Our bills have dropped but not by a huge amount once we started pumping our own stuff for watering the plants.
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I am talking from personal experience.

It is not really possible to say how deep the bore has to go in order to get access to a good and sustainable year round supply. We were given an estimate of around £2,000 for 30 metre drilling (it is costed by each meter depth) but eventually ended up as having to be 45 metres. The deep water that was released came up smelling most unpleasant and filled the entire valley! When tested it was pure and tasted lovely, if you could bear the smell!

I will not bore you with all the details of what happened next but in the end it did cost in excess of £10,000 - and this was in year 2000 - but it had to be done as we didn't have an alternative supply.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Me and boyo more or less finished off the job of clearing a 2 metre margin around the "field". in places it's a lot wider, we got a bit carried away.
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.

I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.

As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.

Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
:(
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It may be the same insurance company but issit the same underwriter.
 
Hippo said:
It may be the same insurance company but issit the same underwriter.
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It is with axa, as I understand it. I find it hard to be able to tell the diff between an insurer and an underwriter, but I'll certainly bear this in mind when I write to them, so thanks for that! :)
I did once have a Kit Car insurance policiy that was underwritten by Lloyds of London which I felt was ....interesting.
 
derwendolly said:
I am talking from personal experience.

It is not really possible to say how deep the bore has to go in order to get access to a good and sustainable year round supply. We were given an estimate of around £2,000 for 30 metre drilling (it is costed by each meter depth) but eventually ended up as having to be 45 metres. The deep water that was released came up smelling most unpleasant and filled the entire valley! When tested it was pure and tasted lovely, if you could bear the smell!

I will not bore you with all the details of what happened next but in the end it did cost in excess of £10,000 - and this was in year 2000 - but it had to be done as we didn't have an alternative supply.
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We drilled 50 Mts and that was approx 5 grand in 2004 but didn't hit water So I pulled the plug at 50 but we had a big heap of sand for 5g 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
 
Another hot day today.
Got up early to go to the CPAM to hand in all the forms to claim money back from the state for various medical things W has had this year and last. It opened at 0830 so got there bang on to find we were 6th in the queue.
But then it will be shut for August.
Then picked up Molly's ashes and made an appt for W to finally see the doc re her shoulder.
Rallye Montagne Noire will be in full swing this weekend, so the centre of town is closed off. It will be as noisy as usual, and as boring. Just cannot get into modern cars. Rallying or not. :rolleyes:
Slung the blackcurrant mix into a filter bag thing over a big pan, using a sun umbrella as a support. It is still dripping very slowly.
Once finished, add the sugar syrup and bottle. (Shouldn't really but we are not going to find a big conatiner to leave it in for the supposed 3 months. It isn't wine we are making.)

Got stopped by "le pleaud" tother day just as we had got onto the mountain road, first time for AGES.
Waved in and the blokey has a very intense look at the front of the Pluriel. Comes to my window and asks if we are British. (It isn't only Brit plod that ask daft questions!) Meanwhile I had reached for my "baise en ville" to get out my papiers etc.
"Yep" sez I. "Are u on 'oliday or du yu leeve 'ere?" quoth he. Not stoopid, as if we did, what were we doing on Brit plates. "A bit of both, we have a résidence secondaire 'ere." "Where?" I give him the name of the hamlet. "OK c'est bon" and he waves me away. Didn't want to see papiers for either me or the car. Very strange. I think we must be integrating a bit!
He weren't the gendarmes routiers, he were the town poliss.

Had dins at lunchtime as we is off to hear some jazz this eve.
Have a lovely eve one and all!
:):):)
 
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