I realized at this point you have all probably forgotten why I came on this missions trip in the first place. Due to the fact I haven't written much about the construction to date. My apologies; I have been caught up in all the other awesome things the good Lord is showing me here in Bayono land.
So, here is were we are to date...
(Weeks run Wednesday to Wednesday)
Week 1:
- Erected temporary electrical shed, installed solar panels, finished installation of satellite dish. We arrived on a Wednesday and had to have the complete system up and running by the following Saturday morning(two and a half working days). We had an appointment with someone in Hong Kong at 8am Saturday to fine tune the satellite dish. We had everything ready by 6pm Friday night, and we were not missing any components, and it all worked first time. PRAISE GOD! We had communication with the outside world!
- We installed the floor joists and planed them level.
Week 2:
- Installed bracing between pilings to stabilize structure
- Completed exterior wall framing (with 10' ceilings!)
- Tom very diligently ripped EVERY wall stud to the same thickness! There are a lot of wall studs.
- Installed stairs from ground level to 1st floor
- Completed interior wall framing
- Started Laying beams for 2nd floor.
- Started planing wood for floor boards. Unfortunately that was short lived because our bench top planer quit working.
- Laid second floor joists.
- Started constructing and erecting roof truss system.
- Started ripping floor boards to consistent sizes
- Construction of main stairs started
- Construction of main stairs finished
- Roof truss system completed! Hooray. This was very hot hard work.
- Started guttering system
- Laid some flooring
- Installed battens for tin roofing
- Started tin roofing.
- Built water tower. Hoisted tanks
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