“Your new windows are the wrong
color! They have to be black.” “What?”
Julio, the Administrator, told this
to Mike this morning. Since we had written a letter to Julio at the beginning
of our project telling him what we planned to do, and since Julio said OK then,
we said tough luck. When we got to the Neptuno, we compared the windows on our
floor to the windows on the other floors and they don’t look different from the
street. So Mike talked with Julio and we took him out to show him the windows
and he said it would be OK.
The elevator was being worked on
again and Julio told them to let us go up, but Mike said we would walk. After
walking up 8 flights, we walked out onto our balcony and saw Julio out on the
sidewalk with Carlos, the guard, who was talking and gesturing to our condo. Carlos had followed us out with Julio and we told
him “Adios” so he wasn’t involved with our conversation. Carlos has constantly told us things that are broken at the building are our fault and we will have to pay. Yesterday, Mike said
Carlos had told him we needed a new water meter because it wasn’t registering
water use. Our broken pipe also disappeared during the construction and we are
pretty sure that Carlos took it because we’ve caught him several times in our
condo. (Carlos is the one who met us at the door the night we arrived in
Ecuador.) All behaviors which are not appropriate for a guard.
So some of the windows were
installed today.
Including the sliding doors on the
master balcony.
Drain pipes were installed on the
balconies.
Outlets and switches were connected.
Tiles were laid in a pattern on the
floor of the guest bathroom.
And the cabinet was put in place.
The shower floor was tiled.
More work was done in the kitchen.
We went shopping for knobs for the
cabinets at PlacaCentro Masisa in La Libertad.
And when we took the knobs to the
Neptuno, we were greeted with new tiles in the entry.
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