Do they sell calor gas heaters in spain and are they easy to come by? We have got h & c air con but from what I gather its not very effective.. Going out for 2 weeks at xmas and must admit I am quite nesh, Looked on internet and you can get them in uk for about £65.00. Does anyone know if you can get them and about how much they cost??

Plenty of Butane catalytic heaters on sale, for as little as 70 Euros, bottles of butane, the silver ones are about 15 Euros a refill.

yes, they are very common in Spain (at least they are up here in the mountains) and you can get them from most Electrodomesticos.

We have two, they were about 100 euros each.

However you may have to have your house checked for ventilation before you can buy a gas bottle. That's what happens here, although sometimes they don't bother.

We travel out on the 30th of this month and will be stopping at our nearest electrodomesticos to pick up one of these heaters, they had them on the shop floor last time we passed through so hoping they have some left!

Otherwise my wife is going to find me with vital parts of the anatomy dropping off

Bought ours from Carrefour a few weeks back for 89 euro including a thermostatic control. This is a catalytic model - so should give out less CO that the old fashioned "Super Ser" type my parents used to have but amazingly still sell. They all need plenty of ventilation if you're not to poison yourselves - no problem in our old finca.

We run ours from the Cepsa aluminium gas bottles - the deposit on the bottle was 30 euros - you have to sign a contract, all handled by our friendly local petrol station. You also have to buy a butane kit (regulator and rubber hose) - but Aki (equiv of B&Q) sell them for 15 euros. The hose is lifed - so you must replace by the date stamped on it (5 years).

Correctly specified and installed, heating by Air Conditioning is one of the cheapest and greenest forms of heating around - but does seem to vary from unit to unit. It's ridiculously efficient - even the cheap units ones can produce 3kW of heat for every 1kW of electricity you put in - the expensive units can knock out around 4kW for every 1kW you put in. Compare that to your 1kW electric fire which only produces slightly less than 1kW.

There are problems with them, though. They can dry the air out quite a bit, the vents tend to be positioned high up for cooling which is the wrong place for heating, and the cheaper units struggle - they seem to lack the 'oomph' for continuous heating - easily freezing up outside or having other symptoms.

The official price is €12.30

The official price at our friendly local petrol station is €13 Maybe you have to be Spanish to get the 'real' price.

Or ask for a refill in Spanish ? ;-))

I did. It was my fair complexion that gave it away.

I was impressed the other day, they were all empties in the rack so I went in and asked when they were coming in and he got one from behind the counter for me.
I must be a local. ;-))

Hey Mike,
where abouts do you buy them as I am fairly near on to you, can you get them at the big carrefour in torre??

Yes, or at AKI in the Habaneras centre, almost all the local Ferretaria will also have them, you could try BricoTodo at La Zenia or Punta Prima as well.

Thanks shall have a look