Everyone was up before dawn for a 6:45am breakfast. After a quick stop off at the builders’ merchant we were back on site by 9am. The main aim for today was to get the walls built but the forecast was very wet so we were all hoping that this wouldn’t slow us down too much.
A large pile of sand had been delivered but it had a lot of stones viagra 100mg pills mixed in, so my first job was to sieve it all so that it could be made into cement. AJ, Nick and I also constructed a ramp to allow easy access into the foundations and then followed the bricklayers around pointing (filling the gaps in between the bricks with cement). During our short lunch break we walked to the village hall where an outside caterer had prepared chicken and vegetables. Fortunately our hotel provided me with a vegetarian packed lunch in advance!
The afternoon was filled with more of the same – mixing cement, laying bricks and pointing. We worked until dark, by which time we had laid almost all of the exterior walls (including 5 windows) and the beginnings of the interior walls. We stayed for an extra hour to wait for and unload a large delivery of wood which will be used to construct the roof before heading back to the hotel for dinner.
Everyone is already very tired but pleased with progress so far – fortunately the rain wasn’t quite as bad as we’d expected!
Hi Howie, great to see you’re making so much progress with the project. When are you back in the UK? John’s pictures have arrived we’ve got one for you. He started at school last week and it seems he is settling in well. xxx