I may well be teaching a lot of grannies to suck eggs....but in case this might be useful to some...

Hello,could the forum give me advice on the following.With our old house renovation we have to dig out the ground floor ,this is to comply with the floor ceiling height regulation.My question is, would they include a plastic membrane across the whole floor area to stop moisture/damp and then the concrete floor on top,as we do in England? Would this be the same in Italy and do they have a building regulation for this type of work?

I am now living in Italy full time having got my residency & ID but I have been told that I need an E121 form to receive Italian Health care can anyone tell me where I can locate an applicationj form one of these? Many thanks

Much to my suprise, in the last few months I've come across a few "foreigners" who have been paying too much for their electricity...and as it's already expensive enough here, it seems a real shame, not to say tragedy! I suppose you could, if being uncharitable, say it is their fault for not doing their research, but personally, I think they were unlucky with their respective estate agents who, having made the sale, could not be bothered to make just a tiny effort more to make sure their foreign clients had some pretty basic info about setting up house in Italy.