I’ve included some photos of the house before we started work, we had to look back for photographic evidence to supply to Patrimonio for their meeting re Mum and Norm’s roof and it was nice to see the progress we
November 2007
We were shocked and three of our family nearly killed in November! At the end of the garden was a small ruin that had been unoccupied and used for storage only. One day two Spanish workmen turned up at eight
October 2007
We hit a big hurdle in October, the local police visited the house with a denuncia for us to stop work on the roof. You have to understand that it was a year since Domingo had quoted for the job
September 2007
July and August were extremely hot and we took comfort in being able to take weekends and not having to toil with manual labour at the house, hence there aren’t any updates or photos for this time. Mum and Norm
June 2007
Had we been waiting for this, it was finally San Juan, the one day in the year that we can legitimately burn rubbish! We lit the fire before dark and spent hours shovelling wood, rubbish, garden cuttings and anything else
May 2007
The back wall has finally been picked and rendered! Because we don’t see it this part of the house was left to last. Mum’s first replacement new window was installed at the back of the house. We can finally spend
April 2007
Our house name arrived! I had organised a sign ‘Las Cabañas de Camellos’ but there was a translation error and we ended up with ‘Las Cabañas de Camelos’ which means a smelly bait house! Luckily the sign ended with pictures
March 2007
The workers swapped back to Mum and Norm’s house now and started work on the lounge which is situated next to our bedroom. The walls were bad and falling apart, so this section was taken down and rebuilt. We made
February 2007
The kitchen was delivered in lots of boxes and after a couple of fittings it was complete, it looked just like the computer simulation! Josh installed our outside lights and Jerome got really frustrated building the glass brick shower walls.
January 2007
We missed our deadline of being in the house before Christmas, although the main building work was completed we still had weeks of tiling and painting to finish. We didn’t have electric, although the wiring was all in and tested