Yet another milestone achieved

We had visitors from Germany, my very lovely niece Alexandra came by with her family, unfortunately their car broke down on the way  so the plans we had to got together to the market etc did not work out, but they got all their car stuff fixed in the end and got to the eastern side of Italy for a weeks holiday.

Meanwhile Niklas did not waste much time and has been quite busy on his holidays. First he hired Dennis to help with some work in the kitchen that was difficult to do alone - and then he paid a visit to Carla in Garessio, she who sells all the magic material for construction. The end result is a beautiful new roof in the kitchen prepared for some magic light system, beam under the bathroom so we will be safe in the bathtub, and even a start of tiling in the bathroom.

So where are we now in our plans:

• paint the living room with transparent color - check
• put in a beam to support the floor of the bathroom - check
• new ceiling in the kitchen - check
• fix the walls in the kitchen - check
• paint the bathroom the final layer - check

professional equípment

 

niklas at work from morning to eve

 

the new ceiling in the kitchen

 

niklas applying proper fix

 

this is just a teaser .. it will be great!

 

 

We also had a longish procedure about moving our electric meter. I thought this was going to be easy, call ENEL, ask them to move the meter from the kitchen to the cellar. Ha, was I wrong! They don't like the meters inhouse anymore, had I known that we may not have bothered and just set a little white box to hide the meter in the kitchen. Now we have to make another hole outside in the wall to fix the very ugly box that we had to buy for 60 plus Euro and then the technician will come and move the cable three meters for another 250 Euros. The company representative said we could not have the meter in the cellar because it was too damp. Of course it is much dryer outside (not). But their word is law, so only to nod, pay and think 'wish I had not mentioned this'. 400 euros later..

poor electric meter does not know yet it will have to move out
 

Ah and we went to the beach, as we do once in July. It was great, the water was magical.