Wow!! It’s quarter past seven and I have not started writing the blog yet, well I suppose I have but I’m late. It’s been a really nice busy day, just like I like them. We have dared to go to a furniture (muebles) showroom today and have both fallen for a settee type of arrangement that will fit into the lounge area of the house. It’s a sort of a four seater settee with an ‘L’ shape end. Each of the three seats has a pull out leg rest section and an adjustable head rest (not electric, been there, done that) and then we would want a two seater settee as well. The place has beds, tables, chairs and some amazing objects d’art. The people there are very helpful so I have warned them that we will return quite soon.
I put the fourth and final level on the wind shield wall along the caravan today. I used my shiny new wheelbarrow and instead of walking twenty times along the wall carrying two heavy bricks, I walked along the wall just five times and carried five heavy bricks each time, how’s that for economy of scale. With the camino banking and the wall we are now about 1.5 metres under the top of the wall. We hope it make some difference, we don’t think that it can do harm. XXXX (fingers crossed).
The builders have finished the outside walls today. They have marked out all the rooms and interior walls and they are now putting the inside cavity walls with polystyrene sheeting between the two walls. The bricks that they use are thermal bricks and with the double thermal walls, we are happy that it will be as well insulated as it can be. With the outside walls being in place we can now sort of see the shape of it all. We have a meeting most mornings with Dario to fore-warn him of the types of doors, and colours of stone cladding that we will want on the bottom quarter of the exterior walls. To say that we do not speak much of each others’ language, we do very well with these meetings. From now on, because they have finished the outside walls, we will not be able to see much of what they are doing each day, which will make our site visits at seven o’clock, when they have gone, even more exciting.
It’s has been a lovely day today with no wind and warm sunshine.
I put the fourth and final level on the wind shield wall along the caravan today. I used my shiny new wheelbarrow and instead of walking twenty times along the wall carrying two heavy bricks, I walked along the wall just five times and carried five heavy bricks each time, how’s that for economy of scale. With the camino banking and the wall we are now about 1.5 metres under the top of the wall. We hope it make some difference, we don’t think that it can do harm. XXXX (fingers crossed).
The builders have finished the outside walls today. They have marked out all the rooms and interior walls and they are now putting the inside cavity walls with polystyrene sheeting between the two walls. The bricks that they use are thermal bricks and with the double thermal walls, we are happy that it will be as well insulated as it can be. With the outside walls being in place we can now sort of see the shape of it all. We have a meeting most mornings with Dario to fore-warn him of the types of doors, and colours of stone cladding that we will want on the bottom quarter of the exterior walls. To say that we do not speak much of each others’ language, we do very well with these meetings. From now on, because they have finished the outside walls, we will not be able to see much of what they are doing each day, which will make our site visits at seven o’clock, when they have gone, even more exciting.
It’s has been a lovely day today with no wind and warm sunshine.
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