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.
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...
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.
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.
Assembling window frames and cutting tracks in tiled concrete floors to reduce height of the base profile above surrounding floor. Steel rails painted.
Shipment of double glazed Aluver windows arrived from Guatemala. Roof on service quarters/ garage. Cabinet installation continues. Steel railings going up.
Cabinets getting assembled & installed. Interior doors being hung. Garage block work finished and timber roof structure going up.
Walls are up for the service quarters and garage. Cabinets and doors have been delivered but not yet installed. Photos of roof top.
All the walls are primed, all ceilings skimmed and primed. Blockwork for retaining wall almost finished. Trench dug in front of house for tidal defence barrier.
Base coat of paint has been applied to most surfaces. Steel rebar and cinder block retaining wall being built around compacted subbase pad. A/c equipment going in
Bathroom tiling and fixtures mostly done. Some slight issues being seen with the concrete cantilever stairs.
Work continues attaching ceiling board. Bathrooms have been tiled. All floor tiles grouted.
Ceiling board being attached to aluminium grid. Most floor tiles down, a few areas remain to be grouted. Work has started tiling the bathrooms.
Aluminum grid for suspending ceiling is complete. Most floor area is now tiled, both upstairs and downstairs. Showers getting plumbed in.
Aluminium grid being hung for suspended ceiling. Floor tiles going down. Electric cables being routed through PVC tubes above ceiling back to main circuit panel.
Electrical wiring getting run back to the main circuit panel. Sheathing work continues. Shower plumbing being installed.
Last items of grey work getting finished off including closing in water outflow tubes from roof gutters and parapet. Circuit box getting wired up.
Smooth parge coat almost complete. Galvanised steel roof on. Roof terrace parapet being built using insulated concrete.
Anti corrosive painting of steel roof girders complete and galvanised steel roof sheeting going on. Upstairs walls complete and getting parged.
Fine parge and piedra laja being applied to ground floor walls. Rough parge on 2nd floor walls. Steel roof frame almost complete and being painted with anti corrosive.
Most second floor walls are up. Parging interior and exterior walls. Steel frame for roof almost ready. Rebar for roof garden retainer.
Work continues with the second floor walls. A start has been made on the steel roof frame.
Second floor concrete pouring is complete and work is now continuing with the upstairs rebar structure and walls
All second floor rebar is down and tubing for electrical cables and water pipes is in place. Concrete has been poured for about a third of the upstairs area.
Most of the rebar is now laid for the second floor and the majority of the tubing for water and electric cables are down.
Walls and girders with structural tubing support steel rebar strengthened concrete floor. Work is currently underway laying the rebar.
Heavy gauge steel girders hoisted into place in preparation for second floor.
The concrete has been poured for the stairs and all the walls are up to the level of the first floor.
Most of the block work for the first floor is complete and preparations are underway for the second floor. Formwork and rebar for stairs is complete and ready for pouring.
Block work well advanced, but this being a two floor house there's plenty left to do. Rebar structure for stairs started.
Most of the rebar structure is in place and a lot of cement has been poured into the foundations. Block work for walls has started at the southern end of the house.
All foundation trenches have been dug and much of the rebar structure for the spread footings and foundations are in place.
Deep foundation trenches are in the process of being dug. A large amount of sturdy rebar for the foundation and wall systems has been prepared.
Site preparation and early metal work