its a wrap!

finished wrapping the house today and the electrician (blink electric - lothar) has started. was a long week but everybody pulled it together. plumbers move in monday morning and hopefully by wednesday we will have a roof going. we shall see.

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surprise inspection...

max stopped by to check things out. he was tough. left no detail unseen.

we are trying to wrap things up by mid week so the elctrician and plumbers can move in for a while.

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still going.......

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view from living space!

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few more action shots from the week....

'you see....gotta hold your mouth like this.'


BAM!

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and they're off!!!

decked....

and they're off....

stay tuned for more action updates!

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trusses baby....trusses

john ennis and thomas are helping us with the framing. they are pretty much in auto pilot now and it seems to be moving pretty quickly thanks to them. it is not so shaky out there at the end anymore. yeehaw!

life is good.

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here we go !!!!

concrete guys finally finished the upper beams.....

just in time for trusses to be delivered.....

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more block shots

view from driveway @ street

view to north from roof terrace / kitchen / dining

north wall

from east.....kids room / bath terrace

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ummmm.....block

masons have been banging away and it is shaping up. still need to do some serious cleaning on the walls and put the caps on but that is about it.

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BAM!

steel is in.

[MUD]crew

slide show posted later of the action.

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not just another brick in the wall*

The formwork for the retaining wall came off today.









*I gots some Pink Floyd on my mind.

beer, brats and a little slab action

slab is in. we popped open the beers as soon as the mud hit the steel. you can get dehydrated watching people work in the sun all day. we cooked up some sausages a little later in the day to counterbalance the beers.

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The Week in Review

Awesome.

we got steel.........

monday tuesday
today

bring on the bunker bustes...we are ready. we have been tying steel all week with the concrete guys and we got some serious steel action going on. guys are becoming masters with the GONCHO.

hopefully tomorrow we can pour...unless the pinche lluvia shows up again.

kids showed up for a random surprise inspection...they were tough...did not like our design so they began building their own house.

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