Summer

So soon we are into the month of April and although we still have winds in the late afternoon it does seem that summer has arrived. The pool is ready apart from the canopies that need to go back onto the gazebos, but we are waiting for the winds to drop more first as we don´t want them blowing off!

The drains are once again causing us problems as the surveyor from the Town Hall said they would! This time it was over the Easter period and instead of calling out the usual Spanish drain contractor we tried an English Company who were pretty impressive. They actually came when they said they would and also charged the Community less than we have paid on the previous three occasions.

What was more important was they were able to confirm what the surveyor from the Town Hall told us last year in broken English. The drains it would seem are built to a standard passable by the Town Hall (any court case to get the builder to pay for the work needed would fail) The problem is that they are built for residential properties and not as in our case empty or holiday homes in the main. We simply do not have enough water flushing through them and the debris sits in the well of the drain which then over time blocks and sends the effluence back up the pipes and comes up into the apartments sinks and baths!!

Apart from regular flushing (at least twice a year) the drains need "benching" which I understand means concreting round before the problem can be solved and we are getting quotes for this at the moment