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The Internal doors are now fitted, we have chosen brushed aluminium door furniture to match the clean lines of the doors.

We have used up and over garage doors bought from Suministros Jose Luis Cabrera S.L. located in the industrial zone in Playa Blanca, they provide a very good installation service and always make return visits if you have any problems.

The lower level patio doors have been installed and we have tiled the lower patios to match to top terraces.

The garage floors have been laid.

It is very important to get this right, any floor that is going to have cars driving over it must be laid correctly. First of all we set in uPVC expansion joints (not available in Lanzarote but can be ordered through TECNOL who will import them for you). These have a duel purpose, they are laid level so we can use them to level the concrete screed and they also act as expansion joints which stop the floor cracking. Any floor over 25msq should have them.

The concrete is ordered as ready mix, this is also important so that we have a good consistency of sand to cement mix. This is a a very strong mixture of HORMIGON HA-25/B/20llla. We must lay the floor quickly as we have to wait approx 4 hours for it to reach the correct consistency for us to polish out the lines left by the straightedge. We use a wet mixture of cement and compact-tuna on the hardened concrete surface while it it still slightly wet, this creates a really tough bonded surface that will not crumble under the wait of cars.

The aluminium balcony’s and railings  have been fitted as well as the gates fro the stairs.

We have finished the downstairs tiling of the patios and the rear stairwells.  I have fitted a metal galvanized edging to the stair treads for added strength and for long term wear and tare.

The villas are moving on quickly now, we are repairing the pavements at the entrance of the villas and cleaning up the gardens.

Both basements have been plastered and we are now ready to screed the floors.

The bathrooms have been grouted and the plumber has now started to install the bathroom suites.

Carpentry and joinery – we are working on the pergolas to be fitted in each villa.

The aluminium doors and windows are currently being installed.

The electrician has started pulling through the cables for the lights and plug sockets now that we have secured the villas.

We are decorating the insides of the villas and have used a cream colour internal paint to go with the darker floor tiles and will use a beige wall colour for the second villa which has lighter cream tiles.