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Start of bedsit construction in garage/cantina. Each of the leveling strips took 3 hours. It would have been easier to pour a concrete levelling slab but it was August and all the Italian tradesmen were on the beach paying 10 euros a day to rent deck chairs and a few metres of sand.

New drainage line cover with Bo's stamp of approval

Damp-proofing to walls and floor, start of the top insulation layer.

Insulation in and bottom tracks complete, ready for floor.

Timber floor laid throughout, living to left, bathroom far right, kitchen near right.

Timber floor to living area laid.

Above, note water heater on wall to right supplying existing bathroom upstairs, will remain connected this winter for guests in upstair front room. New bed-sit will have its's own water heater built in. Left, new filter to soften water, nice lather from soap now.

Insulation and ducts and pipes in.

Windows in and damp proof membrane installed right up the wall.

Left, dry lining on end wall. Above, heater installed, Les likes my artistic plumbing.