Thursday, January 19, 2012
Most walls are up to full first floor height, electrical sockets/ switches being positioned.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Rebar structure going up, foundations and footings being concreted in.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Most foundations and footings under concrete, work started on walls.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Most foundation trenches and footings dug. First blocks being laid.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Piles of rebar have been prepared and work is well advanced with the footing excavations and foundation trenches.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Grid layed out and ground broken. Manually digging footings.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Service quarters pad raised to the same level as the main house pad. Driveway prepared with compacted sub-grade. Building grid being prepared prior to starting work excavating foundation trenches & footings.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Building pad is complete, bending rebar continues
Saturday, October 29, 2011
The heavy rains have passed and work has resumed. The level of the building pad is been raised with heavy grade compacted rubble. Steel rebar is being prepared.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Bad weather this week has hampered progress. Workers haven't been able to arrive and the ground has been too wet to use heavy machinery. Some fill has been delivered & compacted.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
All sliding doors/windows, interior doors and cabinets are installed. Interior of guest house painted, likewise ceilings in main house.
Saturday, October 08, 2011
The lot has been cleared where necessary and work is underway excavating sand to prepare a compacted rubble & subbase building pad.
Friday, October 07, 2011
The project was finished a few months ago, but the curtains only went up last week. So here are the photos of the completed, furnished home.
Friday, October 07, 2011
The replacement window panes finally arrived and have been installed. The house has been cleaned top to bottom and painting of ceilings has started. All cabinets installed.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Double glazed Krombeplast windows arrive all the way from sunny Vladivostok via Guatemala and Casa Nova, Managua. Installation almost complete 5 days after delivery.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
All windows now installed, just waiting for replacements from breakages to arrive. Kitchen bar built. Site generally cleared up. The light at the end of the tunnel is blurring into view...
Friday, July 15, 2011
Just a few profiles remain to be installed and more than half the panes are now in. Corner mitered floor to ceiling windows in upstairs bedrooms. Mosquito screens due to arrive this week. Driveway area taking shape.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Steel rebar and form work complete for the swimming pool and swimming pool light in position. Work has begun pouring concrete for swimming pool walls.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Most small and medium sized window profiles installed and some panes are in. Floor tracks cut and ready for large window profiles. Kitchen marble counter tops and cabinets almost ready.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Swimming pool rebar for base and steps done, just the walls now remain. Gypsum PermaBase walls for internal and external closets, including surf board closet.