Hi everyone
Just wondering if anyone has used Llatje to drill for water? The last time we were over we gave Xavi 100 euros to get a man to look at our finca and give us a price for drilling - no word from him since!(over weeks now)
Has anyone any advice about drilling?
Angela

hi , a mate got a quote who lives near Bitem ,  the drilling ,pump and generator came in at 15,ooo euro....seems like a lot of money , although he is a up the top of a valley so the depth was something like 150m

Well, we finally got our quote for the drilling- 15660 euros! We have been told it's 180 metres down. We don't want to spend that much so I think  we will build a cisterna instead.  We were quoted 75 euros per metre. The company who drill get the permission - we checked that already.

Hi Jools
Could you send us their telephone number - we may as well try them.
Many thanks,
Angela

We have just had the Tot Llatje water diviner wave his wands over our property. Very impressive.

He has marked the spot where the divining rods went wild and judges that there is a very good supply of water 150 metres down. Current drilling cost is 76 € per metre plus IVA plus pump and 3 phase generator. Not cheap, but if it provides a good supply of potable water, well worth it in the longer term.

IMO you cannot compare the cost vs tankering in water. It is a capital investment, not an ongoing expense, so has to be looked at in a different way.

PB

You won't get potable water from the majority of wells because of all the pesticides and nitrates used on the soil. Don't forget all the Brits who haven't bothered with proper septic tanks and just dug pits. 

PS. In Catalan language mags a bore hole is averaging 44Euros a metre. P'raps it's more if you are British.

But it does happen elsewhere.  Try buying building items from Gisbert.  Soon as they see you are a Brit the price inflates, as do housing prices.   A friend of mine went to look at a house near us, and as soon as they walked in the price rose by 30,000 Euros, and when I took another friend to look it went up even more.

Well that is kinda the problem??? We all thought drilling was @65-75 p/m and yet Paulo put rather a spin on things (cheers for that!) Someone once told me there is a box a Stansted that reads "leave brain here" before going abroad. How many people have been done over with 40-300% commission on property and after they found out they've been had, then they get all upset. We will pay any  and I mean ANY amount's of money for the biggest load of crap cause we know no better. That crux of the story is , English are doing it to English #(English beeing the term used for non Spanjard's!!!) and English are being done by the likes if Gisberts and so on. We are gullabe and beleive all to be good and well out in the Sun. Don't get me wrong, I am not being negative, I love to the place and will settle down here The point I am trying to make is people should be more aware of what things cost and what work is involved and stop being led by one or two idiots that talk out of their arse  and we then beleive them cause of the "limited amount of info" available.