More plaster work
Well, we were supposed to be close to the move-in date at this time, but we are still a couple of months away. The house is plastered, in the dried-out areas they have started the sealer/primer, but we still have to get built the columns for the Pergola on top of the Dining Room, the […]
Plaster work
November 6, 2016 It has been a long time since I last posted. I somehow lost the link to the Editing page, turns out I had two Google logins… The plaster work, —which is NOT AT ALL plaster, but cement mortar— is a LONG process. The more arches, edges, corners and other features you have, […]
Roofing the second floor
July 8, 2016 The Boveda ceilings on the second floor, in the Guest Bedroom area is done first. On top of it will be the Mirador, a covered steel structure allowing ample view of the surroundings. They have been working all week on it and it is almost done. See the upper part of […]
Concrete floors
November 6, 2016 Pouring the concrete floors is one of the big last steps towards the completion of the structure of the house. In our case, we still have to add roofs over the Mirador —the third floor of the house—, the roof over the Garage/carport area, and the pergola over part of Jim’s […]
Building the second floor
June 13, 2016 We are up and going…we are four and a half months since we starting excavation. All the fancy arches and building of the Hot Tub delayed us a little but everything is running smoothly. Hot Tub in the… we don’t want to call it The “Spanish” court out of respect for the […]
Roof over First floor
May 25, 2016Wow, I can’t believe it had been seven weeks since my last post. The house detailing and Interiors are keeping me really busy.The Boveda ceilings (the exposed brick ceilings) are going in. It is a long, tedious process, as the brick is installed one by one and they form a flat arch […]
Walls on First floor
March 1, 2016 Today, Tuesday, they started the brickwork. They are going so fast, I have to keep up with them, making sure the windows widths and sill heights, the recessed niches, and other openings are correct… Oscar and I fine-tuning the locations of arches and corner closets in the Master Bedroom. They are building […]
Aljibe-underground water tank, 2000 gal
February 2016The city water in Ajijic, while “unlimited” it is not pumped through the system 24/7.I don’t know what the reason is, but the way it works is that each house has its own ALJIBE —reads ALHIBE)— connected to the street lines and it fills up every time the street system is pressurized.This gives […]
Structure-start of masonry work
Week of February 22, 2016 A Forest of castillos… Oscar is telling me that when they build the brick walls, they only build 3′ in height at the time and fill in the adjacent castillo with concrete for support. They also build at the same time a portion of the intersecting wall for rigidity. The […]
Foundation Rock work
January 26,2016 The excavation was finished as planned last night. Large gravel and Lime powder was delivered to the site. Today four people started on the foundation work. Come Monday, we will have a team of eight. Oscar estimates that it would take three weeks to do the foundation. PROBLEM #1 The stump of the […]