Last evening Carlos arrived on site and finished the central heating electrics so that the plumber could finish and test that the C/H system is fully working. This morning, whilst we were out, Oscar the plumber arrived, got a front door key from Dario in Albox, and proceeded to test out the central heating system. After we came back he showed me that there was not enough water pressure to make it all work. The system, in the casita/boiler room is all electronically controlled and we will be able to use a radio controlled zapper from the house to switch the system on and off. Anyway the electronics, when switched on, have detected low water pressure and therefore will not activate the whole system. We are getting a larger water pump from Fran Marie (builders merchants) maybe tomorrow. Oscar said that he will then come and set it all up on Saturday if we have the pump. Carlos said that he will return tomorrow, Jueves, Thursday, to do a few final little bits. Job finished.
Funny that when Oscar had finished work today he asked me what he should do with the front door key that Dario took off site a while back. Dario, quite unnecessarily, had refused to let us have the key back until the final payment was made. I shrugged my shoulders at Oscar in a typical Spanish unhelpful manner and so he tried to ring Dario for guidance. He couldn’t get through to Dario so he shrugged his shoulders, anxious to be off to his next job, and left the key with us to look after.
We are rocking in the Taberno roads outside Lentisco’s tonight. Note, when any of our gang have folks over to stay (it’s the ‘in season’ just now) they all come up to the Wednesday evening dance at Lentisco‘s. It’s really good for us to meet family and friends and it makes a change for the hosts to have an evening out. At the last count and from what we gather, we will be a party of fifteen at our tables tonight. Total pandemonium but that’s the fun of it all. We usually put some money, probably €10, in a kitty for the drinks and we always end up with a surplus to carry over until the next meeting.
I intend to finish writing this blog when we move into Bella Solana as we will be too busy sorting the house and garden out for the next two or three years. I will write the final blog in a few days time but I will not remove the whole thing from the internet unless a publisher wishes to pay us loads of money to make it into a book or Sunday newspaper serial.
P.S Dario returned this evening to take possession of the key again. Hey Ho.