Posted: Sun Oct 1, 2017 7:03pm
Hi, partner and myself moved to Urcal late March, from what we know, you can pay utilities by standing order once youve been in touch with the relevant companies, Galasa does the water and obviously depending on use it's in the main cheap, we have just had a very high water bill for the previous two months but two contributory factors were a skimmer system leak we didnt realise was being topped up by the automatic pool top up device as well as problems with the irrigation system, now theyre both fixed her bills should return to normal of around €45.00 a month, she could give you more precise numbers as can/will others on here.
Electricity via Endesa and/or others is on a par with the UK and gas comes in bottles, Repsol etc, around here the gas guy as we call him comes every Friday afternoon, signalled by him driving his truck around honking his horn lol. Usually gas bottles are about €14.00 or so.
Partner is just about to pay the Spanish rates/council tax some time in October so you may need to factor this in (unless youre seller is very nice and very kind and is paying it as a gesture of goodwill lol) and pays the yearly equivalent of what she paid for TWO months back in the UK.Approximately €250 against what must now be close on £1600 !!
As for house insurance are you meaning that you are only coming late October and wont be here for two months or meaning you only intend residing for 10 months, going back to the UK for then in which case you'd probably be best off buying 12 mths cover and just locking up and leaving or getting a property management company or neighbour to keep an eye on your property, depending on exactly where your "near Huercal Overa" property is, around here the street lights are on all night and neighbours tend to do an unnoficial neighbourhood watch lol so youre much safer here than in the UK.
If youre close to Urcal there's a nice Spanish run bar with events thru the week, there was a jamming session Wednesday and theres darts every Thursday, everyone is very friendly/chatting and it's easy to socialise.
Any other queries you have just ask away, there's someone with reasonably good knowledge of most things lol.
Welcome to the area and enjoy the peace and quiet and being able to relax and chill out.
Buenos Noches lol.