Well the chaos has begun but not in a good way, it would appear that a letter from the Junta de Andalucia granting consent to the works is not enough to get the builders on site.
On Tuesday we had a meeting with our builder who read through our consent letter and put it on the coffee table, he said he'd not seen a letter like this before and although it gives consent it's not a licence like he'd seen before.
He called our architect and explained what we had received , Juan said he could not comment without seeing it so we e mailed him a copy. Now in the rest of the modern world an e mail is pretty quick but it would have been quicker to walk in to town with it .
The next day he got in touch with the builder who called us to explain that it's not a licence, when he gave the reason it was obvious why, we haven't paid the fees or taxes yet and they can't be billed until he submits a cost for the works to the local town hall along with the detailed tech spec.
So how long this time ? A couple of SPANISH weeks, so that's a month then, arr.
After the problems I had getting my PC delivered you would think that I would keep well clear of parcels but , we needed some scaffold for doing jobs around the cortjo and I spotted some of this inter lock stuff with a platform etc on
Amazon spain, not being able to pass a bargain and the fact that the stuff at the brico won't fit in the car in I went !
Three days later I get a text saying I have a parcel to COLLECT in town, collect , the whole point was , it won't go in the car !!
I have called them but no help as they don't get my Spanglish, I have sent a text in Spanish explaining , we wait to see.
Well the big day has arrived and the lovely wife is now working on filling the other half of the glass of life, yep she's a nifty fifty and the day went well, she arose without the PMT and with a PMA ( positive mental attitude )
I knew she would come around in the end, life's too good not too, being here and not having to work , what's not to like ?
So the lovely wife worked her way through two large cups of builders, (currently the only sort were going to see is Yorkshire gold hard water) and her stack of cards followed by several skype's and the day was up and running.
Still insisting on a no fuss day, the lovely wife set about staining the new window for our current bathroom that's part demo part in use as we try to make changes without loosing the benefit of the facilities, all prompted by a bargain set of sliding glass etched doors in a local store at 70% off. They were ex display but like mint, probably due to the lack of customers that was causing the closure of the store in the first place, also their size was causing them to be difficult to re home being 270 x 250cm high.
Come to papa their going to fit right in as the room is 500 x 400cm and 350 cm high, having more in common with the changing room at twickenham than a family bath in a Cortijo. A room much in need of some filling up.
Our plan is to have a walk in shower to replace the leaking tray, ditch the Perspex screen and have glass blocks, I'd seen the blocks in the brico at vicar for 1€ ea and three for colours but they only had a aluminium strip for the end to tidy it up, the lovely wife was not so keen, I offered that you can get curved block's for the edges and a double curved corner block but alas not at the brico .
So whilst at the local builders merchants the lovely wife spotted a glass block display and , yes the curved blocks when she enquired about them the guy quite apologetically advised they were 25€ ea plus IVA , 30€ ea and we need 17 ! Plus the other 80 blocks and cement at a tenner a sac.
I really do like that aluminium it would match the track on the sliding doors any way. The lovely wife keeps saying it must coordinate or be tie'd in or what ever.
I wonder if those Perspex doors would scrub up and fit back ?