Bad Karma?

Well the last few weeks have been eventful and therefore work on the house has slowed somewhat. Mani's Dad Pimpo, has been helping out at the house and one night went over to the house after work. Unfortunately, he slipped on our steep stairs and broke his right leg. It was a clean break through both the tibia & fibula which meant a trip to the hospital, an operation to put steel rods in his leg and plaster. Amazingly, the plaster came off after two weeks but Pimpo is now house-bound for at least another 5-6 weeks. Donations of red wine (Rioja preferrably but he's really not fussy) are welcome!

Not only this, Vitor our builder developed a lung infection and also had to go to hospital and was off for over a week. So works on the house slowed down quite a bit and with Mani and I both really busy and stressed at work, weekends were hard to focus on anything but recovery for everyone!

There also seems to be a leak coming from what we think is the guttering at the back of the property. This explains the roof in the bathroom that is caving in but also the rising damp in the master bedroom at the back. So we will need to fix the guttering and hopefully the weather will warm up so that allows the walls to dry so we can paint!

The deadline for hearing about planning permission is the 22nd June, so by then we will know if our application for the extension has gone through and we can start on the major works. God knows I can't wait to get the sledge hammer out and knock down the bathroom as a bit of stress relief!

In the meantime here are some pics of where we are at with inside...


The old kitchen, now the bathroom and utility room




Ditto



Hallway

The damp wall in the master bedroom

Newly plastered stairwell & a new wall on the right

Oops, how did this get in here? It's only my fav picture right now... :o)