A fabulous day down here today. Wall to wall sun and in the low twenties. After shopping this morning, we had a mixed salada, chips and a long drink for lunch on the terrace at Lentisco’s. That still enchants me because it is just a jolly nice way to have lunch. You eat, drink, and watch the world go by in the warming sun.
O! yes and then there is the building. On our inspection trip up to site last night (after the builders departed) we noted that they had put the main ensuite bathroom window hole bang in the middle of the outside wall and they had the lintel ready to put in place first thing this morning. This would have meant that our double size shower place would only have been 750mm wide. OK on length but not able to turn round to walk to the other end of the shower. Thus I had to be up at half past seven (still darkish) this morning (after dreaming and worrying about it all night) so that I could go to site before the builders arrived to re-check what we found last night. Then when the builders arrived I shot up the camino, you could almost see their faces saying ‘what now’ after yesterday. Anyway after a bit of plan searching, they agreed to remove the ceramic bricks and move the window along so that we will have about one meter width in the shower, enough not to crack your arms on the walls when you’re doing your hair. That corrected, they have moved on at a fair pace today again. A lot of the north facing side, except the front door area, has been done and the bedroom section on the south side is well on it’s way. The west kitchen walls will be finished by tonight. One presumes that tomorrow (if it’s not a Saint’s day) they will work on the west and south lounge walls.
We have been warned that this frantic pace will slow down as we get into the plumbing, electrician-ing and plastering phase. Fine, as long as there is progress and the weather keeps improving we will be OK.
To finish we have today taken delivery of the 175 cement blocks that I mentioned the other day. Three pallets of 75 blocks each weighing about thirteen kg. We set off this afternoon dry building a wall along the camino side of the caravan and portacabin. I said that if I laid just one layer today I could take my time and finish perhaps three layers by early next week. Well it is hard to do just a little and then leave it so we ended up doing all three layers and perhaps we may add one more if it all seems stable enough. This will act as a further wind break, we hope, which will help should we have more winds, we will see. Now I am ‘kerry packard’ and my back and arms are aching like mad. I’ll just have to sit in and watch the rugby this week end to recuperate, I may have no option.
E: Many a slip twixt cup and lip!!
Chief editor, yeahhhhhh!!!!!
BTW we have seen a fabulous front door for the house. It incorporates old style Spanish with modern elegance and security. More on this later if we get to buy it.
O! yes and then there is the building. On our inspection trip up to site last night (after the builders departed) we noted that they had put the main ensuite bathroom window hole bang in the middle of the outside wall and they had the lintel ready to put in place first thing this morning. This would have meant that our double size shower place would only have been 750mm wide. OK on length but not able to turn round to walk to the other end of the shower. Thus I had to be up at half past seven (still darkish) this morning (after dreaming and worrying about it all night) so that I could go to site before the builders arrived to re-check what we found last night. Then when the builders arrived I shot up the camino, you could almost see their faces saying ‘what now’ after yesterday. Anyway after a bit of plan searching, they agreed to remove the ceramic bricks and move the window along so that we will have about one meter width in the shower, enough not to crack your arms on the walls when you’re doing your hair. That corrected, they have moved on at a fair pace today again. A lot of the north facing side, except the front door area, has been done and the bedroom section on the south side is well on it’s way. The west kitchen walls will be finished by tonight. One presumes that tomorrow (if it’s not a Saint’s day) they will work on the west and south lounge walls.
We have been warned that this frantic pace will slow down as we get into the plumbing, electrician-ing and plastering phase. Fine, as long as there is progress and the weather keeps improving we will be OK.
To finish we have today taken delivery of the 175 cement blocks that I mentioned the other day. Three pallets of 75 blocks each weighing about thirteen kg. We set off this afternoon dry building a wall along the camino side of the caravan and portacabin. I said that if I laid just one layer today I could take my time and finish perhaps three layers by early next week. Well it is hard to do just a little and then leave it so we ended up doing all three layers and perhaps we may add one more if it all seems stable enough. This will act as a further wind break, we hope, which will help should we have more winds, we will see. Now I am ‘kerry packard’ and my back and arms are aching like mad. I’ll just have to sit in and watch the rugby this week end to recuperate, I may have no option.
E: Many a slip twixt cup and lip!!
Chief editor, yeahhhhhh!!!!!
BTW we have seen a fabulous front door for the house. It incorporates old style Spanish with modern elegance and security. More on this later if we get to buy it.
2 comments:
LOL Poor devils didnt know what they were letting themselves in for :)
Cracking along tho...soon we wont be able to see what has been done from outside. If you do get any last minute dodgy weather at least it wont stop progress (as long as they can get there )either. Its looking good ....we are so pleased for you both.
S,D,I and O xxx
Thank you it is all rather good isn't it. Love to you, Steve, Ivan and Ollie and the mogs from us both
Dad
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