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Some comments from experience: run cables and pipes in straight lines. Bury plastic tape a foot beneath the surface identifying cable etc below. Photo everything and collate. Recently a stuck air con cable was precision located in a wall by photo. In UK all pipes are needed in pea shingle here they backfill earth what when settled distorts flow of gravity fed water put lots of inspection hatches in for ridding. Make cable or pipe direction changes gradual. Oversized electric conduit. Always have more power than less. Tops of copote walls should angle back into house roof to stop dirt staining outside walls. Councils: to late maybe for you but bosses of architecture / planning often have their own outside business as well as council job and using them expedites bureaucracy ; -(. Fact of life. So much more I've learnt the hard way. Plus my lovely English neighbour who visits twice a year to come onto my land and cut my trees half down and my simple Portuguese neighbours too......and you can't practically do anything

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Happy birthday mate. Your week sounds like the typical two steps backwards, one step forward that we are experiencing with our (much more modest) project ๐Ÿ˜€

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Despite it all the sun shone and a wee birthday celebration looked like a lot of fun

We hope February is kind weather gentle and the road towards your fabulous project unfolding is a lot smoother

Happy Birthday May it be wonderful year ahead

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