Well, I know it's been a few weeks since I've posted anything to the construction blog, but those weeks have been busy with a lot of other things, most of which weren't related to the construction. Plus, the house is still going fairly slowly. Actually, it's not that slow, but it's hard to see big changes like you could at the beginning of the construction. As a result, I'll probably continue to put up pictures every few weeks, but not every week. So, here are some new pictures:
All of the walls were completely finished in terms of forming them and covering them with a layer of cement, so the next step was to cover them in a sort of paste to help protect them and let the paint adhere better. I don't know what this would be called in English, but they call it "Repemax" here. Anyhow, here's Freddy mixing some Repemax.
Here Harvey is putting on some Repemax. This picture is looking from inside the TV room to the garage. In other words, the TV room doesn't have to coolest view in the house.
Once again, here is this weird tree branch that Honorio and I planted. Sure enough, that thing's sticking, and a few weeks ago it started putting out buds. Now they're leaves. Within a month or two, I'm expecting a new-growth forest in the backyard.
Here you can see the window frames with Repemax (above) and without (below). We're hoping to get the actual windows put in as soon as possible.
Another with/without picture: Here are the fixtures and drainages for the washer, dryer, and sink in the garage. We were going to have a laundry room in the middle of the house, but it's now a TV room. Or a guest room. So come visit us!
Harvey (above) and Oscar connect some tubing to feed water to the solar panels we installed for hot water.
The solar panel guy with his son, installing the panel.
August 9, 2008.
Moving the panel. Denting the roof. All in a day's work.
August 10, 2008: With the finished solar panel.
As you can maybe imagine, this is the first prominent solar panel like this in Berlin. As a result, the regular load of bored hicks stopping by the property to rubberneck has boomed. Since most of them have no idea what that thing on the roof is, though, we've been considering saying it's an anti-theft bomb that senses when someone's stealing from the house, and destroys everything in a three-block radius.Either that, or we'll say it's a UFO that we found in Angela's family's coffee field.
Anyhow, hope you liked the pictures. I'll try to get some more up soon!
