Renovating a property involves a lot of shopping - often for boring things; today, for example, I've bought 1,300m of plasterboard tape, and 4,000 staples!
Unlike today's treats, many of the things we buy are big and/or heavy and need to be delivered. Which takes a bit of coordinating. Mainly to make sure everything is onsite three minutes before it's needed. And no longer. Otherwise it will invariably be in someone's way and either get tripped over, or need to be moved
Recently part of our focus has been on the four and a half bathrooms, with doors (complete with door linings) arriving on the 4th. And wall and floor tiles arriving on the 16th
The 4th came.... and went
No doors!
Saturday morning (the 7th), we were relaxing at home after a hard week, when my phone pinged. A delivery team asking if they can bring something today
We don't live that near the house, so we needed to jump in the car quickly, so we could get to the house five minutes before the van
As we arrived at the village our faces fell. It's a fiesta and all the entry roads are shut. Oh dear!
We park up and walk to our house to find this
The house hidden by a tarpaulin, while the village play pelota in our street
Double oh dear!!
I frantically scoot around the village looking for the closest access option. While Mark works out how to navigate past the tarpaulin, pelota players and spectators
Finally, we meet up with the delivery drivers about 60 metres from the house, assuming its the doors and we can.carry them that far back to the house
But no
The delivery is the doors - which are four days late. AND the wall tiles. Which are nine days early
Our delivery weighs 1034 kilos!
Fortune favours the bold, and at that moment pelota play stops for lunch
Quick, reverse down the very narrow one-way street, Pointing the right way, even if technically heading in the wrong direction
Navigating balconies and plants along with a railing and bend in the road
After some very fast unloading we have tiles and doors. They even left us some pallets, so as not to ruin our new concrete floor
Obviously, we now have the job of humping 1034 kilos upstairs :-(
As my new friend in the village said: 'You couldn't make it up!!!'
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