Work on site has been progressing well!
Today I visited the site and am now happy to say that on block A we are nearly where we started… Well not quite…
We have now got 5 new slabs (with a properly made fill, DPM and slab thickness) and we have also started to put the reinforcing for the ringbeams. It’s nice to see some new work being done, as well as some of the “old one” being completed!
I spoke to Ntate Sello about some of the next stages, the roof (he says that if there’s a system that can guarantee a one off application that I have his full support in going for it!), the courtyard, the choice of materials, and it is nice that we are on same wave length.
He is not trying to cut corners and is actually trying to build higher spec than we had originally specified! With him on my side I’m nearly sure that we can convince the contractor on some of our choices.
We now await for a truck to go and pick up the stone that we have already collected at the “quarry” so that we can also finish the slabs in block B. Once this is done, both him and me think that work will ready speed up and we’ll be finished in no time… this no time is of course relative, ideally it will match the 12th of august (my departure date).
But for a Saturday site visit it was one of the most gratifying! The slabs are now at 50% and the ring beam at 33%. If all goes as planned we might be back to “square one” by the end of next week!
Today I visited the site and am now happy to say that on block A we are nearly where we started… Well not quite…
We have now got 5 new slabs (with a properly made fill, DPM and slab thickness) and we have also started to put the reinforcing for the ringbeams. It’s nice to see some new work being done, as well as some of the “old one” being completed!
I spoke to Ntate Sello about some of the next stages, the roof (he says that if there’s a system that can guarantee a one off application that I have his full support in going for it!), the courtyard, the choice of materials, and it is nice that we are on same wave length.
He is not trying to cut corners and is actually trying to build higher spec than we had originally specified! With him on my side I’m nearly sure that we can convince the contractor on some of our choices.
We now await for a truck to go and pick up the stone that we have already collected at the “quarry” so that we can also finish the slabs in block B. Once this is done, both him and me think that work will ready speed up and we’ll be finished in no time… this no time is of course relative, ideally it will match the 12th of august (my departure date).
But for a Saturday site visit it was one of the most gratifying! The slabs are now at 50% and the ring beam at 33%. If all goes as planned we might be back to “square one” by the end of next week!
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