Roofing

When you are looking for a property in Portugal agents are often keen to show you ruins and derelict houses with tales of how cheap it is to hire builders and tradesmen to turn the pile into a palace. Beware........we have a problem with a leaky roof and our experience of builders in the Algarve is that the first assumption they make is that as a foreign property owner you are rolling in money, the second assumption is that you are dumb enough to part with considerably more of it than is necessary to get a job done.


Now anyone who knows a Yorkshireman will know we are reknowned for two things, we tend to be a little blunt and we will not spend a penny if a ha'penny will do!!


You can I am sure imagine the fits of apoplexy caused by quotes for a simple roof re tiling job which varied between 8 and 27 thousand pounds. (no typos, that is 8 and 27 thousand pounds)

So having scoured the web for suppliers and instructions on how to make a watertight roof I am returning to Portugal in the next week or so along with a couple of dour Yorkshire tradesmen and doing the job myself. Will keep posting on progress.