House with exposed beams

Tuesday 23^rd January

Tommy and Ricardo arrived early at 8.00 am and started wiring work, and requesting light pendants and bulbs for each room, which we didn’t have, so we drove to Malaga first thing, getting there about 9.45 am…..both Carrefour and Aki were still closed, as they don’t open until 10.00. We could’nt find pendants in Carrefour, so went to Aki and bought 5 pendants and a nice light for the front room.

Arrived back to the house about noon, and Ricardo rapidly fitted most of the downstairs lights (except the front room as it needed some special 3 way switch), and wired up the boiler, so we had hot water at last. He then disappeared for the day, but at least we had a bit of light and hot water.

Tommy seemed generally fed up and de-motivated, as he seemed to be doing most of the work, and did’nt have the materials or tools for the jobs that needed fixing, and J had to jolly him along. In the afternoon, he started hacking off the plaster and cement from the outside of the house, exposing a couple of timber beams……not what we had expected ……

We still had no light upstairs, and toilets had started leaking, the upstairs shower tap leaked. However, we were able to have a shower in the upstairs bathroom, and proved it was possible, albeit in very cramped conditions.