Construction progress reports from within the Nicaragua area

 

E1: Swimming Pool part 2

Swimming pool mostly finished. Exterior painting underway. Flat concrete work for walkways and pool perimeter.

E1: Swimming Pool part 1

Swimming pool poured. Base coat paint applied to house.

E1: Roof Paneling and Ceilings

Roof machimbre mostly complete. Swimming pool staked out. Ceiling grid going up.

E1: Roof Structure and Fine Stucco

Roof structure going up and fine stucco work on walls. Black rock work on columns and terrace walls.

E1: Structure, Walls & Stucco Complete

All walls are up and stucco complete. Timber on site to start work on main house roof structure. Septic system through to tanks installed, electrical cabling underway.

E1: First Floor Stucco

First floor stucco and ground floor ceilings being sprayed on.

E1: 1st floor slab, 1st floor panels

First floor slab poured a couple of weeks ago. First floor panels going up.

E1: First Floor Slab Preparations

Stucco ground floor walls and preparations for first floor slab.

E1: Ground Floor Stucco

Ground floor stucco.

E1: Ground floor panel up and ready for stucco

Ground floor panels up and ready for stucco.

E1: Panels going up

Ground floor panels on site and going up.

E1: Foundations poured, Emmedue panels on site

Foundations and footings poured, first delivery of Emmedue panels on site.

E1: Erecting rebar 1

Work progresses with foundation excavations. Some footings poured, some columns up. Electric meter connected

E1: Foundation Excavations and Rebar Preparation

Manual digging of foundations trenches and footings. Footings and rebar cages preparation.

E1: Pad Complete

Building pad complete. Water and electric hooked up. Builders shed up. Large rocks for landscaping in final resting places.

E1: Site Clearing and Raising Pad

Site cleared and work underway raising and compacting pad.

D1: Interior painting, finishing up

Interior painting underway and general finishing up. A lot of material has been brought in to smooth the level change between the main house and casita/ garage area.

D1: Base coat paint

Floor tiling almost finished. Cedro macho veneer on exposed steel girders. Rock and brick trim almost complete.

D1: Tiling floors and bathrooms

Work underway tiling floors and bathrooms.

D1: Swimming pool form off. Tiling bathrooms.

Swimming pool form off. Custom concrete tiles for bathrooms.

D1: Swimming pool form

Swimming pool form up. Gypsum board ceilings almost complete.

R10 Swimming Pool and Painting

Swimming pool, painting and ceiling repairs completed.

D1: Tiling roof, Ceilings going up

Roof is mostly tiled and ceilings going up. Wall successfully moved creating a decent sized bedroom from previously small upstairs room. Ocean facing kitchen wall modification completed.

D1: Steel Roof Structure 3

Roof structure going up. Some aluminized steel sheets in place. Work continues with stucco.

D1: Steel Roof Structure 2

Work progresses getting roof structure up and stucco.

R10: Pouring Swimming Pool Walls

Acrylic additive poured directly on slab prior to pouring walls. 3500psi (1:2:2) concrete with 2 gallons acrylic additive used in walls.

R10: Plyboard form for swimming pool walls

3/4" plyboard interior walls to assure uniformity; rough lumber for exterior walls where finish isn't important.

R10: Pouring 3500psi Swimming Pool Slab

Rebar finished off and 3,500psi slab poured in a single 7am to midday session. Optimum weather conditions; dry by day and rain through at night. Inside the house work progresses repairing the ceiling edges.

I1: Tiling Roof

Roof tiling underway. All corners have been rounded. Aluminum grid going up in downstairs area for ceiling.

D1: Steel Roof Structure; Site Clear-up

All walls are up to full height. Steel roof structure started on west end of house. First delivery of 5,000 clay tiles arrived this afternoon. Big site clear-up operation has been happening over the last few days.

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