Rapid Progress!

Its beginning to really look like a house now.  This is the front view.  Bedroom on the left, kitchen living room in the center and offices on the right (no walls as yet) with the garage/storage room underneath. 

Manuel is using his jig to make the wire supports that strap around the rebar cages.  There is a pile of his work visible on his left.

The walls of the master bedroom are up!

Lorne waves from the front door!

Mario passes Pollo a bucket of concrete from the wheel barrow wheeled over by Jerules.

Pollo pours the concrete into the blocks for the living room wall.

The rebar is put in place on the roof of the bedroom.

Sun sets on a day of work.

The storage room and small single car garage.  The water tank will be under the floor.

The plastic water tank will go inside the concrete retainer under the floor of the garage.

A new day brings the workers to the roof top of the bedroom.  Preparations are in earnest for the roof pour of this section of the house.

The day ends with only the electrician left doing his part to get the wiring in for the ceiling fixtures before the concrete.

The electrician.

The walls are up to roof height for the kitchen/living room.

The ceiling for the garage/storage area is started.

Looking from the kitchen through the non-existent walls to the offices over the garage/storage room.  The ceiling supports for the garage/storage room is almost totally in place.

Enjoying the view from the offices.

Looking the other way - from the offices back through the living room/kitchen to the bedroom.

Getting the foam blocks into place on the roof in preparation for pouring the roof over the bedroom.

The supports for the overhang over the terrace outside the bedroom.

The tractor has a "special" job tomorrow.

Side view of the garage under the offices.  There will be a terrace outside the offices too.  (no walls for the offices yet).

Foam blocks are in place for the roof poor tomorrow.  There will be a terrace on top of this roof,  this is the view to sunrise.

The view south to Los Barriles town and La Riberra.

The view to Gail and Jeff's house.

The tractor is building a ramp with the fill dirt in preparation for the big day tomorrow.

The men will have a hard day's work tomorrow.  They have to work quickly to pour the whole roof in one day.  It will all be done with the cement mixer and wheelbarrows and bucket of concrete.