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Water supply

Posted: Sat Sep 2, 2023 7:24pm
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Curly

Posts: 25

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Location: Velez-Rubio

Joined: 1 Oct 2016

I have a holiday home in the campo at Velez Rubio and I suddenly lost my water supply on Wednesday evening.

Unfortunately, I returned back to the UK on Thursday without having time to sort out the problem locally ( I still had no water supply when I left).

My suspicions are that it has something to do with the storm that occurred over the region on Wednesday evening, but I still have a nagging feeling that my bank may have mucked up my direct debit payments to the water company and I may have been cut off!

The water meter is intact, there's no sign of any meddling within the meter box, and I've received no threatening letters (although I have no postbox I imagine the water company would affix some sort of warning to the front door or gate if they were to commence some sort of recovery process).

Does anyone have any similar problems in the vicinity?

Sarah67

Posted: Sun Sep 3, 2023 1:18pm

Posts: 32

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Location: Velez-Rubio

Joined: 17 Aug 2017

Posted: Sun Sep 3, 2023 1:18pm

Hi. I’ve got a house in the mountains in velez on the way to Santa Maria de nieva and I am always having water problems. All of a sudden you will have no water , then it comes back on. I also had a problem with direct debits ect ad they never got paid. Even my solicitor never managed to sort it out. The only way I sorted it was to go down the offices with a translator and got it sorted that way. I still don’t receive emails in the form of bills so I just have to make sure there is ample money in my account so that when they decide to take it it’s there. If your meter is in tact they haven’t cut you off. They would usually cut and seal the pipe. Hope this helps. 

Curly

Posted: Sun Sep 3, 2023 8:30pm

Curly

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Posts: 25

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Location: Velez-Rubio

Joined: 1 Oct 2016

Posted: Sun Sep 3, 2023 8:30pm

Sarah67 wrote on Sun Sep 3, 2023 1:18pm:

Hi. I’ve got a house in the mountains in velez on the way to Santa Maria de nieva and I am always having water problems. All of a sudden you will have no water , then it comes back on. I also had a problem with direct debits ect ad they never got paid. Even my solicitor never managed to sort it...

... out. The only way I sorted it was to go down the offices with a translator and got it sorted that way. I still don’t receive emails in the form of bills so I just have to make sure there is ample money in my account so that when they decide to take it it’s there. If your meter is in tact they haven’t cut you off. They would usually cut and seal the pipe. Hope this helps. 

Very helpful.  Thanks, Sarah.

I'll try and make some sense of all the direct debits I have to pay someday.  I don't know who or what I'm paying for half the time!!

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