We really make progress again after the extreme long monsoon this year.
The formwork is back to the rental company and we picked up the formwork to make the base of the outdoor stairs to the upstairs yoga/meditation room.
The first layer of foundation blocks are in and this evening, with the support of the laser, we succeeded to spirit level the first layer of blocks placed on the slab foundation. We used a special grater to do that. A hard job and lots of sweating still with 27 degrees C in the evening.
It's a base to make the block laying for the further foundation, the hollow-core slab floor elements and the walls of the house a bit more easy.
The blocklaying for the workshop/tool-storage is finished and the roof construction to place the roof-elements is in and anchored with galvanized screw anchors into the last two top layers of the masonry.
Last Friday the BK isolated roof elements, with a 15 years quality guaranty, arrived.
Also we got our paint sprayer. Tomorrow I will have the first experiences with that machine.
We picked up a work-table and storage racks to place inside the workplace already. So next week it will be functional.
I poured a concrete lintel above the entrance door of the workplace and placed a special galvanized grid on the inside for some burglary delay.
And yes, we also had some new maintenance to do. Our washing machine did not work any longer. I needed to dismantle the machine and try to find what caused the problem. Cleaned all the inlets and outlets of (little) dirt and sand (we have our own water well) but still the machine did not work.
Step by step I checked the system, pumps, electricity, etc.. Finally I found the source. The three valve water inlet.
I needed to buy a new tool to unscrew a special kind of screw but succeeded. It worked out three inner valves did not work because of accumulated chalk.
All together it took me half a day to solve the problem. A new experience and... working well again.
The pallets of Q-Con blocks are at our site for about three weeks now. One of the pictures below shows why it is not possible at all, sad about that, to work with wood here. It shows the underside of the pallet in only three weeks nearly totally eaten by termites.
A big surprise last week was that we discovered we are/were not the only builders at our site. Under the entrance gate of the labyrinth we discovered a pigeon nest with two beautiful newborn birds. At the moment they are getting their first lessons to fly. Great to see and enjoy.
Frans Captijn
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