Kitchen building continues Spanish style

Friday 9^th March

We awoke to another beautiful day, albeit a bit cold to start, with the wind having died down. After breakfast, we got ready to continue building the kitchen. However, J discovered that we had an extra 70 cm unit with doors, no doors for the sink unit, and that the wall cupboard that we had nearly completed was 70 cm high rather than 35 cm high ie far to big to fit on the wall…..why we did’nt notice this whilst we were building it the previous day is a mystery.

J decided that we would keep the big wall cupboard, put legs on it and use it as an extra cupboard against the boiler wall. Rather than start building, we decided to take the extra unit back and get the missing doors, handles, hinges, screws, 4 extra legs etc…… and order another wall cupboard. Beltran man seemed unsurprised to see us and was amused about the mistakes ……poco problema….a small problem. We took the door furniture home and told to return at 6 pm for the doors and new cupboard.

We started building again at 10.30 am, and with a short break for lunch, had completed what we had and loosely arranged the kitchen as it would be like, including the sink, by about 3 pm. The sink is much deeper than we thought, and J quickly realised it was a washing sink, and the “drainer” was in fact a washboard. Also, the long worktop was marginally too long to to allow a fridge freezer to fit in, and the short bit of worktop was too long and partially blocked the doorway. Also, there was a gap between the door on the corner unit as there was no need for the other door, and we decided that this should be blocked off with a similar piece of matching wood.

After much debate, we agreed 1.2cm to be cut off the long worktop and 23 cm cut off the short bit. We loaded the worktops into the car and took them to Beltran, and the saw man quickly cut them to size with no charge. The wall cupboard had yet to be made, but someone quickly knocked one up ……..but made up out of wooden chipboard rather than blanco (white) chipboard……..less haste, more speed. We had’nt realised this was our cupboard, but Beltran man saw the error and told the guy to make another one with blanco !! ….which he did in about 10 minutes. On getting it home, the cupboard still looks wrong …..90 cm long but with 2 x 35 cm doors……but we left it in its polythene wrapping for another day !!

They were suddenly very busy, so we took our cupboard and doors without ordering the new piece of wood for the corner unit, and went home. J showered whilst I popped out to Mercadona for wine and shopping. After showering, we went out to dine at the Argentinian’s restaurant and had an excellent menu of the day @ 12 € …. leek soup, fried pork fillets and flan, washed down with his fine house wine @ 8 €.