¡ADVENTURE!

Mike, Javier, Manuel, Jorge and more assistants met us at the Neptuno 9 a.m. today. (The elevators still aren’t working.) After walking up 8 flights of stairs, they were quite ready to do some demolición.

The kitchen will be totally gutted including the drop ceiling. We will replace all of the cabinets for a budgeted $280 per linear meter ($90 linear foot) which includes doors, shelves, and any specialties like wine racks, spice racks, etc. 

Maid’s quarters were common when this building was constructed, but we feel that space will be better used as a guest bedroom. Two walls, a bathroom, and an outdoor sink were removed; tomorrow part of the outside wall will be removed so that slider windows can be installed nearly the entire wall that faces the Bravo Mar. It will make another beautiful view.

There was a half bath added to the main bath after initial construction, which created a zigzag wall and a “throne” for a toilet. Our plan is to remove that zigzag and create a nice large bath with double vanity/sinks.

The electricity needs to be updated including a new breaker box.

We also got the bank to do the paperwork required to open a bank account so that tomorrow morning we will be able to go and sign everything. This was accomplished thanks to Mike and his office manager, Luis, making copies and writing letters of recommendation, and taking everything to their bank funcionarios.

The building administrator, Julio, needs to approve any changes that we want to make that would change the way the outside of the building looks. That meeting happened today and Julio was very accommodating about all of our plans. Mike is going to write a letter outlining our plans that we will then give to Julio for his records.