This blogspace chronicles the ups and downs of our house renovation project in Vale de Prazeres, Portugal from first purchase in November 2019.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
While we wait for the new door and windows to be installed the work inside the house has slowed dramatically. However, there is still some investigation work to do.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
After a day off from the renovation work, only to do housework instead, I returned today to get more of the wall framing installed. I am rapidly running out of suitable drill bits to put holes in the new tiles, these things are so hard for the first 60-70% of the tile thickness even the specialist tile bits are being destroyed even with water cooling.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
Now that the floor is finished it´s time to make the walls nice. The plan is to install a false wall and actually insulate the cavity which should help keep the warmth in during Winter and keep some of the heat out in Summer.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
Now that the workshop has been cleared out, it seems much more spacious - I can't think why
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
Having taken a brief break for Christmas and the New Year we are now progressing well with the kitchen. We now have new tiles on the floor, all ready for the grouting.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
The past few days have been pretty bad weather (mau tempo). bringing heavy rain and strong winds all across Portugal. Atlantic storm Elsa made her presence known on Thursday, we had trees down, roads blocked and flooding all over the place.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
More than two weeks since the house purchase. We have been doing quite a bit of work, mostly investigation, working out how and why what was done, was done! Some things are a little confusing, not how we would have done it back in UK.
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
Choosing the house was based on many factors but as everyone says - location, location, location!
We thought about, and probably hoped for, an isolated farmhouse somewhere in the middle of nowhere with plenty of land and lots of fruit and olive trees - just like some of our friends here. But is that really what we want?
- Details
- Written by: Rick Nason
The process has started.
We are now owners of a house here in Portugal.
We have waited quite some time to find something that will suit our needs, not only for the present but for the time when we are old, less mobile and less able.
The plan is to provide updates to this log at last on a weekly basis to document our experiences.