Revisamos el rodapié y la lechada.

Because revisamos has the same form in two tenses:

• present: we check / we inspect / we review
• preterite: we checked / we inspected / we reviewed

So Revisamos el rodapié y la lechada can mean either:

• We check the skirting board and the grout
• We checked the skirting board and the grout

The correct meaning depends on context. In speech, intonation and surrounding sentences usually make it clear.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb already shows who is doing the action.

• revisamos already tells you the subject is we
• so nosotros revisamos el rodapié y la lechada is possible, but usually unnecessary

Adding nosotros would only be used for emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

Revisar usually means to check, to inspect, to look over, or to examine.

In this sentence, it suggests a practical inspection of something physical, such as during maintenance, renovation, or construction.

It is a regular -ar verb:

• yo reviso
• tú revisas
• él/ella revisa
• nosotros revisamos

So revisamos is a completely regular form.

Because the two nouns have different grammatical gender:

• el rodapié is masculine
• la lechada is feminine

In Spanish, nouns normally need an article, especially when talking about specific things. So here we use:

• el for the masculine noun
• la for the feminine noun

Even if English might sometimes drop the, Spanish often keeps it.

In Spain, rodapié usually means skirting board or baseboard: the strip along the bottom of an interior wall.

A few useful points:

• singular: el rodapié
• plural: los rodapiés

This is a very common Spain-Spanish term. In other Spanish-speaking countries, other words may be more common.

Yes, in building or tiling contexts, lechada can refer to grout or a grout-like mixture used between tiles.

However, lechada can also have other meanings depending on context, such as a liquid mixture or slurry. So the surrounding topic matters.

In a sentence with rodapié, the construction/renovation meaning is the natural one.

Normally, y means and.

Spanish changes y to e only before words that begin with an i sound, for example:

• padre e hijo
• España e Italia

But la lechada begins with an l sound, not an i sound, so y stays the same:

• el rodapié y la lechada

The written accent shows where the stress falls: ro-da-PIÉ.

Without the accent, Spanish pronunciation rules would suggest a different stress pattern. The accent mark makes the correct pronunciation clear.

Also note the plural:

• singular: rodapié
• plural: rodapiés

The accent stays.

Because each noun has its own article, and they have different genders.

You cannot use one article for both here, because:

• rodapié is masculine
• lechada is feminine

So Spanish naturally says:

• el rodapié y la lechada

If both nouns had the same gender and were closely linked, sometimes one article could cover both, but not in this sentence.

Yes. This is a very normal Spanish sentence structure:

• Revisamos = verb
• el rodapié y la lechada = direct object

Spanish often allows flexibility in word order, but verb + object is completely standard.

You could also say Nosotros revisamos el rodapié y la lechada, but the version without nosotros sounds more natural in most contexts.

Because these are things, not people.

Spanish uses the personal a mainly before specific human direct objects, and sometimes pets or personified beings. For example:

• Veo a María
• Llamamos al técnico

But with inanimate objects like el rodapié and la lechada, no a is used:

• Revisamos el rodapié y la lechada

So the sentence is exactly what you would expect.