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Archive for June, 2009

The stone walls at the front of the villas are completed and the installations to connect to the mains electricity and water have been installed. We are now concentrating on the dividing stone wall so we can finish the external tiling.

The external tiles are being laid. We start from the swimming pool edge and work outwards to making sure the cuts go against the villa and the swimming pool edge starts with a full tile.

We use a special cement adhesive for the external tiles. This will stop any damp penetrating into the garages below. The external stairs have a special edging tile that gives them a high quality finish.

We have now started the external tiling on the second villa.

The lower level garden areas are now finished and the top coat of back-fill is used to cover the water tanks and waste pipes. The shuttering has been placed to help protect the stone walls from any falling rocks. We have installed the electrics for the jacuzzis and the water pipes for the pool shower and garden water taps. We have compacted the top soil, placed all the steel rods and poured the final coat of concrete for the patio area surrounding the swimming pools.

The Canarian dry stone walls at the front of the villas are now finished. We have built the stone wall by the swimming pools up to the patio floor levels. We can now finish screeding the outside terraces and start laying tiles.

The trenches have been dug for the waste water pipes and we are finishing off the plumbing for the swimming pools.