2 PM today we stopped working. This building process year for us now is finished.
I bought for myself an end of the year present, a Stihl chainsaw, and it was just delivered this morning. So now time for a beer with ice to celebrate the end of the year and all the things we created together. We are 'closed' for about one and a half day ;).
Several personal beer Chang 'trophies' from this year are already waiting to become part of the construction work of the main house. Far not enough but... every day a bit will bring a lot at the end ;).
This evening we have a New Years party with Karaoke in the next door village restaurant and tomorrow, after early morning church, an engagement party of the daughter of German/Surin friends.
The last couple of days we cleaned up our construction site and did preparations already to go on next year. The workshop is finished and electricity, consumer unit, lights, switches and outlets are fixed and working. A small workbench, storage racks and a steel cabinet are in. So finally we could store the things we had to keep in the second guest pyramid (because of the long rainy season). We only have to place the outside tiles on the walls.
We made the preparation and first welding for the veranda to build of the main house and put the rebar and wire mesh for the ground floor. Unfortunately we needed to order three extra sheets of wire mesh because we just did not order enough last time. They will come next week.
After that we can place the electricity- (for the ground floor outlets) and water and sewage pipes in. In a couple of weeks we think we can pour the concrete of the top layer of the ground floor.
After that we will order the special (load bearing) 15 cm thick wall blocks.
In the time waiting for them we can complete the second guest pyramid.
So, enough new work to do.
Have a happy and healthy New Year and thanks for following us.
Frans Captijn
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