The extractor hood has arrived!

In this piece, we already mentioned the need for an extractor hood. This is the one we chose: the Concord by Falmec:

Concorde , for its sleek, modern look: // sleek modern look:

Well, it took some doing, like many here, to get it here. It's a model that isn't sold in Spain, so it has to be ordered directly from Italy. We saw it at Murripatrizia: cappa-falmec-serie-design-concorde-parete-120-inox-800-m3-h . And the oven we wanted can also be ordered there for a reasonable price.

The webshop shows a shipping price that's a bit higher than for one appliance, but less than the price for two. Logical. But no, a week later an email saying the courier wanted an extra €90, making the shipping costs higher than the total for the appliances ordered separately. We didn't do that, so we canceled the order.

So, just the extractor hood. After three weeks, an order confirmation. And then it can take up to five weeks for them to deliver it. Luckily, I paid through PayPal, so if the delivery fails, you won't lose your money. It is, after all, Italy, right? After five weeks, I inquired: where is it? There was a slight delay in production, but it would be fixed within two weeks. Well, add three or four more weeks to that. Your order is on its way! With a tracking link. Which unfortunately didn't work. Yes, within Italy. But as soon as the shipment leaves Italy, the partner courier has to handle it, and that tracking wasn't working. "Your shipment number was not found." After a week and a half, I called again. "We'll look into it." The tracking now showed that the package was on its way from Spain to Genoa again, "due to customs issues." Hello, this is Europe, right?

But they said they would look into it again. That never happens very quickly, by the way, but takes a few more (working) days. WORKING DAYS! Hahaha! Working days. Oh, my apologies, no jokes about the poor little brother in Europe.

The tracking wasn't working.

A week later, suddenly, I received a phone call from a courier: I have a shipment for you.

The box was a bit dented. But the courier wasn't fussy. "If it's damaged, we'll come pick it up again."

Luckily, that wasn't necessary.

Hanging it was quite a job. The pipe through the wall, in particular, wasn't easy. The pipes on the hood are 15cm in diameter, but 15cm plastic pipe doesn't exist. At least, not here. There's 16cm, or 20cm as the next larger size. We did have a piece of 16cm left, because that's also the size for irrigation water pipe. The builders had neatly made the hole in the wall 15cm, as requested. Hmm. Well, Engineer Jansen has an electric jigsaw, so a strip was sawed from a piece of 16cm pipe so that you could squeeze it together and press it into a 15cm hole. With a lot of cursing, it worked. Just a bit too short to easily secure the bend outside, but oh well. It worked in the end.

Then I screwed wall sockets onto the wall and branched them off from the wall socket for the oven.

The wall socket at the bottom, with the three holes, is for the power supply for the oven. It has its own electrical circuit, so to speak. There's also a thick cable with three thick wires in the wall for that purpose. And I wanted to branch off an extra wall socket from that, for the electricity for the cooktop and the extractor hood.

But, if you look at the clamps, there's not much room to clamp a thick cable. The wires were only half "in." We call that "Anstey-style." Let alone that I can still squeeze in a cord for my outlet. Grgll. Just buy a new one then. There were two kinds. One exactly like the old one, but also one with more space between the clamps. I bought that one then.

Looking closely, I saw that I had the internals turned upside down, so the earth was in the wrong hole. The little pins in this socket don't prevent such mistakes. A plug unique to Spain!

And yes, it still needs plastering.