Tiling and guttering

Thursday 1^st March

Another warm and sunny day. I got up early, and after breakfast, drove to the ferreteria to buy caucho for the bedroom ceiling, arriving back about 9.30 to find Ricardo already there, and Tommy just arriving……might get some serious work done today.

Tommy started measuring up the tiles for the front of the house, and Ricardo cracked on with the upstairs bathroom lights (3 halogen spots in the ceiling, so not a quick and easy job). It was also messy and dusty as the light holes had to be drilled out of the yeso (plaster) ceiling + channels in concrete, so another big mess !!

Tommy started the actual tiling….we had thought Ricardo would do it as the master tiler, starting around the door 3 tiles high. There was much debate about the border and how it should look at the entrance.

I cauchoed the bedroom ceiling, and painted round the bathroom spots at Ricardo’s request, whilst J cleaned and supported them as she has found it impossible to work and be at the beck and call of both Ricardo and Tommy.

I made several trips to the ferreteria for a casing tube for the terrace lights, and also for a new patio light, as it was in the way of the new guttering which also arrived today. The latter trip involved a lengthy search in the depths of the ferreteria, and the boy eventually found Chinese one priced @ 3,500 pesetas …. so pretty old stock….21 euro !! J didn’t want to buy it, but I felt sorry for the boy and bought it.

Ricardo brought more guttering pipes in the afternoon, and then announced he was going now, and that Tommy could finish everything, as “he needed to go home for a siesta as he had worked so hard” !! …..and the Chinese light is crap …..no good….take it back !!” Tommy worked hard all afternoon tiling and measuring up for guttering.