Sunday, March 2, 2008

And finally - some pictures

So, the moment you've all been waiting for. Pictures of the house-building.

Team 2, in front of the second house, before we started to dismantle it.


Preparing the timber frames.




The best way to move materials around the site. Note the old house in the background: we picked it up and carried it to this location, to clear the site for construction. It finally collapsed last week.
Also visible, is Sarath, our driver and all round hero.




The frames go up. This is heavy work. Heavy. Very heavy.




The roof tiles are on, and the walls are going up. Not shown, is Myn, who has been responsible for getting the wall panels painted in good time to dry and be put up. And then painting them again, once they are up.


The best "before & after" shot around. This is the Second house that we built, alongside the third house, as it was before we took it down. Actually, we more or less nudged it, and it fell down. We are currently half way through building the new house on its site.
That'll do. I've got hundreds of pictures, and not all of them are completely dull. However, this should give you a taste of how we build a house in two weeks.

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