Monday, November 13, 2006
Disaster strikes
It should have been a simple matter of knocking down the internal walls of the house so that we could start the renovations on the house we bought in Arzachena back in July of this year. So the 'geometra' gave the go-ahead.
Instead, the internal wall which formed a tiny cupboard turned out to be a supporting wall and when it was removed the roof came crashing down - and into the house of our new neighbours who we hadn't even met.
But worse was to come. We've just found out that we might also have to raze the house to the ground and rebuild from scratch, which means the bargain home I fell in love with on a chance viewing at the beginning of June might not be the bargain we initially thought.
Updates coming soon.
Emma Bird is the director of www.howtoitaly.com and the co-author of Starting a Business in Italy: how to set up and run a successful business in the Bel Paese.
Instead, the internal wall which formed a tiny cupboard turned out to be a supporting wall and when it was removed the roof came crashing down - and into the house of our new neighbours who we hadn't even met.
But worse was to come. We've just found out that we might also have to raze the house to the ground and rebuild from scratch, which means the bargain home I fell in love with on a chance viewing at the beginning of June might not be the bargain we initially thought.
Updates coming soon.
Emma Bird is the director of www.howtoitaly.com and the co-author of Starting a Business in Italy: how to set up and run a successful business in the Bel Paese.
