WEEK 4 - APPROACHING THE ROOF

yes you're right... the bath has nothing to do with the roof :) But wanted to show you the bathtub with the shower space behind it. Its set and Mark is now working on connecting the water pipes.


Apparently the trained eye might see from this picture that the left side of the house had already dropped a full 2 inches. While Mmalae was plastering, Mark put in new beams and a shutter board in the new celing space. Because the roof is so unsecure, they have had to create access to it from inside the house. Mark has put 4 braces inside the roof space and 3 from the floor to the ceiling level, besides the steel beams. He feels it is now secure to start trying to remove the asbestos sheets from the roof. Watch this space....


The last of the bashing down of walls took place this side of the house this week. The wall going from the kitchen to the dinning area had a huge crack. So Mmalae and Mark removed it to match the other side, put a good lintle in and will brick it in above the lintle next week. The front part of the roof (over the dinning area) actually started giving way this week, but is stable with bracing. Thankfully the steel beams were already in place giving much more support to the rest of the roof. ceiling space.

WEEK 4 - FRONT ACCESS TO THE HOUSE

With most of the bashing done on the interior of the house... the rubble needed to go somewhere. We had wanted to have a wheelchair accessible enterance, so it made sense to use the rubble to this end. Mark decided to use retained wall blocks to hold the shape on each side of the ramp.


J helped Mark by lifting the paving bricks to be used later. Mark has moved much of the rubble to make the gradient of the ramp up to the vernada level.


By Friday.... still a ways to go but making good progress. Some even have flowers in already. 2 more rows to go to get to the veranda level.

WEEK 3

Mark and Mmalae found the electric box in rather a precarious situation. The wires were just plastered into the wall. They apparently need to be in pipes inside the wall. So Mark started trying to figure out the wiring. You can see him half in the roof doing just that in the next picture.

The wall between the lounge and kitchen is now completely out and the 2nd steel beam is in (you can see them both in this picture). Wow its amazing how much more light it is in the lounge. The guys also took ou the doorway space in the enterance way. Mark was pleased that the kitchen and dinning area's windowframes do not have wood bora and don't need to be replaced.