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Now totally used to gas bottles but would like to share with you all my experience of my first weekend in Spain seven years ago.

All my flatmates had gone to their villages for the weekend. I arrived on a Friday night and to my horror found gas bottles for cooking and hot water and didn't have a clue how to use them. So my first weekend here was spent eating telepizza takeaways and having cold showers. I also broke the blind in the living room and couldn't get onto the balcony. Great start!!:o

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Originally Posted by MnM (Post 5589261)

Noelrosie,

Have you thought about installing a gas tank? That is, of course, if you've got the available space. Usually a builder who would have installed underfloor heating should have recommended that instead of bottles.

I think it's more cost effective AND obviously you don't have to refill as often, but again the tank needs to be housed and x metres away from the house (and any other houses in the area) and all other security measures that need to be taken.

That is definitely something to look into when we make the move out here permanently!
xxx

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Originally Posted by Compost Mentis (Post 4334264)

The property I'm buying has a rudimentary kitchen at the back, with a hob set into a worktop, and the piping and connection for a gas bottle. I am a bit concerned about having a gas bottle indoors, I'm not sure if I will need planning permission to put it outside in some kind of housing, as I don't have a garden, and I'm not sure how far my boundary goes. I will check that out. I was wondering whether it's common and safe to have a gas bottle indoors. I know that nothing of that sort is totally safe, and there have been mains explosions as well as the odd bottle going up, would just value your thoughts. :)

it shoudnt be a problem at all

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Originally Posted by helenba (Post 5588333)

i dont know were you all live we are in almeria we dont have are bottles in side the house one it is not safe no ventalation iit is needed. ares are kept out side in a cupboured and piped into the house .water heaters should be out side as well on a wall with a cage round them .last year a expat died as his gas was in side the house no ventalation .my husband used to be a caravan machanic would not dream of having the gas inside. be safe every one get your gas outside sorry helen.

I think that would make around 75% of all Spanish properties uninhabitable then.

Why would the water heater need to be outside? Boilers/water heaters in the UK are normally inside. I can see the lack of ventilation for products of poor combustion (carbon monoxide) being a large issue with caravan's - they are generally small with limited ventilation, but most UK & Spanish properties have their boiler inside.

Not everyone lives in a villa by the way - the properties in my town frequently dont have an outside to store bottles, what about apartments etc?

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we hae a old farm house and would still have all are gas out side water boilers in spain are run off gas bottles it is not safe you need to vent them out side im sorry if ive up set any of you but gas bottles in side is not safe if you are in a apartment you need to have them checked every month make sure you have a window open when using them for ventilation .all of are gas bottles are out side it isnt a problem its best to be safe than sorry. helen