Welcome to Mostly Musing - My Travel Blog

This blog is about our travels to Baja California, Mexico in our Classic 1976 GMC Motorhome. We have traveled there since 2005. I hope any readers enjoy the blog and I appreciate any comments.

This years travels to Baja begin from our Victoria driveway the end of October 23rd, 2013.










Saturday, March 24, 2012

Progress Will Not Appear To Be So Rapid Now March 23, 2012


They have started the facing on the center roof.  The center roof overhangs  the roof terrace.  Underneath this overhang are opening windows and an extruder fan for extra ventilation for the kitchen/living room.

Street view, the winter patio now has pony walls.

This is a distortion of the overhang on my office, it really is square.  


Front view minus the supports for the overhangs.



They are smoothing the facing on the overhangs.


This looks promising!  The cistern is in and the floor of the garage/storage/laundry room has been poured!

It looks sort of cave-like as the ceiling is so low.  It is just over six feet high.  The things on the walls are supports that were nailed in for planks to be laid across while they poured the floor - by the bucket.

Looking from where the car will go to the laundry/storage area.  It looks larger than it really is.

Now for the sad part:  When we spoke to the contractor the day before the floor pour Lorne was very explicit when he asked that he ensure the floor slopped to the outside so that any water would flow towards the doorway...... Well guess where it flows? That's right - towards the back wall.  This is not good.  It doesn't rain often here but when it does it pours sideways as much as 30 inches in a matter of hours.  The back of this space is where there will be storage shelves.....  I guess we will have to have a "conversation" with the contractor on Monday.....

The winter patio and the windows to the master bedroom.  The dirt has been removed from the hot tub site.

Staircase to the roof terrace showing the storage areas underneath the stairs.
 The north wall of the winter terrace shelters from the wind.


The winter terrace.

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