Hi Electrickerists

[axidentalist]

Hi Folks.
I joined the form a few years back and have received several mails asking if I'd like to deactivate my account, but I knew I'd lose the link if I did

deactivate it. So after more than 3 years, I'm ready to receive wisdom. 4 of us bought a old abandoned house in Spain a few years back. 2 people left

early on when they realised the place needed gutting and starting again. We had to buy them out. Well we'd already started smashing the place up and so

it was effectively worth less than when we started, so onwards and er, upwards. We paid 'em off what they'd paid for their part, and continued.

Now it's starting to look like home. And a home needs a bathroom. And a bathroom is a place to get electrocuted. Not that the place didn't already have a

bathroom, but completely unconnected to the hot water system we've installed. Or connected by one hot feed, which is on a length of rubber hose.

So anyway, I can honestly say I have absolutely nothing to contribute in the way of electrical advice. I can use a multimeter across the terminals of a

battery or to test the voltage on a household socket. I own a standard hand-held multimeter. But testing the resistance on my new ground spike would be

beyond me.

I do read advice on the web before asking for it, usually, but most things when you rebuild a house are just common sense. Nearly everything we've done

here, and it's a shed load, has been carried out by referring to our library of books abandoned to the boot fairs of England, such as the excellent Time

Life series published in the late 1970s in the UK.

But electrics are very site-specific. And that's why I'm here. So far I've got a new consumer unit and a ground spike. Hope to hear from some of you

soon.

Mac.

 

[Blademan_98]

Hi, perhaps you could contact a local electrician to help you?
Without experience, you could do yourself and others a lot of harm.
Good luck with your rebuild.
B

 

[Richard Burns]

Congratulations on posting.
You will need to know the Spanish electrical requirements rather than the UK ones as they will differ significantly (despite that fact that we are all one European happy family with the same standards!)
Testing an earth rod for a domestic property in the UK would need a specific tester. One could use an earth fault loop impedance tester for an approximate reading or an earth resistance tester for an accurate value. They are not cheap.

 

[89330]

Will the project require any official certification once it's "done"? From what I have seen, Spanish reg's are a bit more lax than they are here or in the UK, but there are still rules, especially if any officialdom is involved.
But at least you are being sensible about it and admitting that you can't wire up a bathroom from instructions off a shaky youtube video!

Buena suerte!