A woodburner with a water system needs a lot of gadgetry and safety valves apart from the rads. A cheaper system, if your house is suitable, is ducting warm air from an insert or 'foyer' via 10cm ducting pipes to various parts of the house. I recently paid 170 euros for a fire http://www.bricodepot.fr/montauban/search/node/poele%20foyer I have a system in my farm here in Wales which I bought in France 15 years ago and it's brilliant but you have to get a good source of wood.
When I changed my status to 'maison secondaire' on my French house the insurance premium fell to less than half of what I had been paying as a full time resident with the same cover. It is still a legal requirement there that you are insured for third party liabilities such as when my tree fell onto next door's roof in the big storm. Disaster reimbursement from the state came much later.
You have the advantage over Italians in being able to keep your motoring relatively cheap. I presume you know that EU and Italian rules require that residents reregister their cars and there are supposedly limits to the time a car can be kept in any country. On French and Spanish expat sites these topics are always discussed and it is generally accepted that no EU nation has yet tried to enforce these rules. There are Brits who have kept their UK reg cars in France/Spain for many years with UK insurance. UK road tax and MOT are only relevant in UK i.e. There is no offence in not having these things in any country outside UK. I kept my daughters Fiat Panda at my French house for many years and had a letter from my insurance company that they would cover me on my UK insurance 'other cars' section for use when I was there. Unfortunately that was stopped some years ago. In Spain and France many UK vehicles have local insurance as it is often cheaper. There are many of the 'hang and flog' brigade who don't like using these loopholes. La vostra scelta
You need to find the nearest gas bottle filling depot, they are fairly common. They have all the connections and adaptors for any type of bottle. Usually a bit cheaper too.
This (and UK road tax) have no meaning outside UK whatever DVLA websites say. Not having an MOT is only an offence in UK and you are allowed to drive from the ferry to a pre-arranged MOT test if you intend to come back. Liability insurance in all countries is valid as long as you have paid the premium. Companies are not allowed to squirm out of their obligations or refuse cover on petty matters such as no MOT. Fully comp. cover aspects are a different matter and companies will always try to squirm out of paying. The one day out of MOT or adding spotlights or putting in a (smaller) engine tales are well known.
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I'm not sure posting black humour insulting the Italian people is the best thing to 'shake up' an Italian Community web forum. Best kept in Essex.
On a par with the concentration camp type of 'joke'. Sort of Basildon pub chav stuff.
A woodburner with a water system needs a lot of gadgetry and safety valves apart from the rads. A cheaper system, if your house is suitable, is ducting warm air from an insert or 'foyer' via 10cm ducting pipes to various parts of the house. I recently paid 170 euros for a fire http://www.bricodepot.fr/montauban/search/node/poele%20foyer I have a system in my farm here in Wales which I bought in France 15 years ago and it's brilliant but you have to get a good source of wood.
This inter Europe checking of databases is in its early days. Police in Spain and France have been pretending they check details for years.
When I changed my status to 'maison secondaire' on my French house the insurance premium fell to less than half of what I had been paying as a full time resident with the same cover. It is still a legal requirement there that you are insured for third party liabilities such as when my tree fell onto next door's roof in the big storm. Disaster reimbursement from the state came much later.
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Does this also apply to Italians with second homes? If not this would be a breach of EU rules.
You have the advantage over Italians in being able to keep your motoring relatively cheap. I presume you know that EU and Italian rules require that residents reregister their cars and there are supposedly limits to the time a car can be kept in any country. On French and Spanish expat sites these topics are always discussed and it is generally accepted that no EU nation has yet tried to enforce these rules. There are Brits who have kept their UK reg cars in France/Spain for many years with UK insurance. UK road tax and MOT are only relevant in UK i.e. There is no offence in not having these things in any country outside UK. I kept my daughters Fiat Panda at my French house for many years and had a letter from my insurance company that they would cover me on my UK insurance 'other cars' section for use when I was there. Unfortunately that was stopped some years ago. In Spain and France many UK vehicles have local insurance as it is often cheaper. There are many of the 'hang and flog' brigade who don't like using these loopholes. La vostra scelta
You need to find the nearest gas bottle filling depot, they are fairly common. They have all the connections and adaptors for any type of bottle. Usually a bit cheaper too.
This (and UK road tax) have no meaning outside UK whatever DVLA websites say. Not having an MOT is only an offence in UK and you are allowed to drive from the ferry to a pre-arranged MOT test if you intend to come back. Liability insurance in all countries is valid as long as you have paid the premium. Companies are not allowed to squirm out of their obligations or refuse cover on petty matters such as no MOT. Fully comp. cover aspects are a different matter and companies will always try to squirm out of paying. The one day out of MOT or adding spotlights or putting in a (smaller) engine tales are well known.