Galicia life and experiences as seen from Mer near Sober

Archive for March, 2007

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

Ceilings are us – The visible renovation begins.

So we bought a telephone line (ADSL) with a house attached.  
We got our basic living quarters up and running and ripped out the first wall – see here – now the tedious work of renovation starts.
The existing warped and partially rotten existing ceiling in some rooms made the decision for a top down approach easy.
A [...]

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Furniture arrival – Galicien style – Organisation and support

We like the fact that no large vehicle can actually get near our house.
On our little calle / camino, squeezing through a normal sized car is not for the faint hearted.
This can be a bit disadvantageous when the super large furniture van including trailer arrives in the vicinity.
Thank god they called ahead and we could [...]

Thursday, March 15th, 2007