Finishing Touches

Tuesday 13^th February

Tommy, Ricardo & Franchico arrived promptly at 8 am and started clearing house of tools and equipment. Franchico painted the street wires outside (the ones Ricardo had been told to put in aluminium trunking by the Police), whilst the others loaded, and they then dismantled scaffolding, loaded it and Ricardo and Franchico were off to their next job….a very frantic hour. Weather hot and sunny …up to 22C

Tommy finished his coffee…having been told off for drinking coffee whilst there was work to be done, and I went to Ferreteria to get hooks and screws for washing line, and door handle for small bedroom…….

The process of buying the door handle was reminiscent of the Two Ronnies best known sketch……..fork handles/four candles, with Ronnie Barker asking for similar sounding items, and Ronnie Corbett as the hardware shop-keeper going out the back and bring out the wrong thing. It was exactly like that, and the girl went back 5 times to bring out an assortment of handles, locks, big ones, small ones, right and left opening ones. On the 6^th attempt, she brought out a door set of 2 gold handles and catch and associated bolt and screws…….and I said I’ll take it !!......Needless to say, J took one look at it and said they were too big…….which of course they were. I’ll try and link to the Two Ronnies sketch if its on youtube .

I took the railings and security grill up to the roof terrace for J to paint negro
(black), whilst I started cleaning the front door with solvent and then painting with neranja melio (orange primer).

We then went to Coin for a new number 4 that Juan had broken, and to the Ferreteria for light pendant fittings which Tommy said he needed, and after lunch, painted the front door all afternoon, whilst J “supervised “ Tommy doing snag list jobs.

We drove over to Pizarra to check if tiles available, but they were not ready. However, looked at kitchen sinks, as they had a nice aggregate sink with an unusual drainer for 114 or 135 €, dependant on colour.