Here is a view from the bedroom roof looking down at the workers preparing the roof of the garage/ storage room (also the floor of our offices). They have laid the wire, formed the rebar forms for the cross beams, placed the styrofoam, and are now covering it all with wire.
The concrete crew from above. There is Manuel again filling the buckets with rock. Mario is on the mixers this time.
Here you can see the placement of the covering wire. Note the rebar cages that are standing up. Concrete block will be placed between these for the walls and then these cages will be filled with concrete to make the castillos - the vertical beams.
The video shows the loading of the concrete into the bucket of the backhoe and then the backhoe taking the concrete to where the men are forming the support for a set of stairs off the deck outside the offices.
The shadows are getting longer, we thought they were going to pour the floor/ceiling Friday but no - they carried on, finishing at 8:15 - making for more than a 12 hour day for 15 men. They had to string lights as sunset is about 6:30. We picked up chicken and chips, beer and soft drinks for them to have when they were finished. That certainly picked up their mood. They were pretty weary by the time the day was done.
Most of the men took Friday off as they had to go up to La Paz for medical things. This left a small crew for Friday.
3 comments:
I think you have a very serious crew here - no goofing off and hard working. In this you are very fortunate. At this rate the house will be finished in a few weeks.
very impressive!
Duane
I do consider all of the ideas you have introduced on your post. They're really convincing and can definitely work. Still, the posts are too quick for novices. May you please lengthen them a bit from subsequent time? Thanks for the post.
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I really like this blog and the pictures are great; but I'd sure like to see the forms for the pool and more frequent updates...
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