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Thanks to everyone for their input, it is all appreciated :) The house now is fully legal and has a habitation licence, me calling it a beach house was maybe confusing. It is a single story house built as a street of 4 similar houses around 1960 (one was converted to a 3 story town house about...

Updates as planned, it's shocking how long it's taken to get this to where it's at now. I love Portugal and the people but the admin, bureaucracy and finding people to do jobs is hard work :fp2 The new roof is finished :love: It's plumbed ready for the water system to be mounted. Traditional...

Hi folks, I've been browsing for a while and now seems a good time to join in as I'm starting work on a new project, a small semi-derelict beach house on the South coast of Portugal. The good news is the whole roof is south facing, and we get good sunlight for more than 9 months of the year...

Hi @WYtreasure thanks for the link :) Progress here has stalled, I was told by one of the first builders who looked at the project that it was acceptable to replace the collapsed roof with a slightly reconfigured roof (including a small patio on the side not visible to the public). I've spent...

Just a note to say I've bookmarked this as I'm working on a small house in Southern Portugal and am looking at solar options now it's just about habitable :) More info at https://diysolarforum.com/threads/hi-from-southern-portugal.35322/ Thank to everyone who has made suggestions so far, it's...