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Finally – Visible progress in April – Poco a poco

The sheer size of the property and a lot of issues needing to be tackled in parallel made visible progress very slow. BUT now we are putting the last finishing touches to the first, admittedly small, bedroom. The second bathroom is also coming along nicely. It may just be usable for the first visitors in [...]

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

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The tiler is scheduled – Floors next – Ongoing renovation

Well, having tackled the ceilings and doing  a lot of plastering or better “making good” we have started on the floors. The shop we hire tools from had a little problem as they could, even with three men, not show me how to change the sandpaper on one of the big sanders. Thus I decided [...]

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

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