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.
This is the East wall separating our house from the adjacent lot.
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| This is just the First floor. |
The wall with the two half arches is between Jim’s Studio and the stairwell along the East wall.
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| Jim’s Studio from his little Terrace on top of the Dining Room. |
Part of the balcony is built, the half-round part is still missing.
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| This ladder is the ONLY access for now to the second floor. The bricks get THROWN two at the time up and the buckets of mortar and concrete make it up the ladder one by one… |
The rainy season started a few days ago. Our street is one of the worst ones, the Torrent drains are clogged and the profile of the street, which should bow not only in cross-section but also from E to W —so that rainwater could get to the ends of the block from where it would run to the lake— is flattened out, so water collects creating a little LAKE. I just wrote to the Chapala Infrastructure Department…. we will see what happens.
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| This is ALMOST in front of our house. |
June 30, 2016
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| West wall of the upstairs, Guest Bedroom in the back, Jim’s Studio in the front. |
The roof over Jim’s Studio will get two rows of Solar panels and the top of this first-floor roof will get one row.
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| I modified the design of the windows in this South wall and I compromised the integrity of it. After this little wall with windows was built, I felt in my GUT that due to the numerous openings and having cut short one concrete castillo, I don’t want big steel beams at 20 degrees slope to rest on it as I can see it shear. I talked to the structural engineer, he agreed with me and my solution so we will show later how we fixed it. |
July 8, 2016
Aiming ever higher, nice photo of the Maestro projected on the Mexican blue sky.
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| Working on the top of the East party wall |
These are the two large steel beams – ready to come up. These beams are the result of my “Gut” feeling I had when I saw that the small windows you see below “killed” the integrity of the wall for supporting the slanted roof.
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| The steel beams will take all the load from the roof beams |
Looking up from the side yard.
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| Scraping the Sky… |
The exterior stair to the Mirador will start on the second-floor balcony.
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| The center 4″ steel pipe goes all the way into the foundation wall, through the concrete castillo. |
Looking out the window from the Guest Bedroom
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| North, mountain view. |
The west wall of the upstairs Studio has the dala/lintel installed over the terrace door and the Armex for the sloped dala/beam. Where the door lintel meets with the sloped dala, we will have one of those big steel beams set, parallel to the street wall ( with the little windows at the top),
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| This sloped roof will have 12 solar panels on it. |
The same door as above, before the pouring of the dala. I am confirming with the workers the future
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| From left to right: Cristino, half of me behind the castillo and Miguel. |
This is the stairwell before the stair is built. It will be two ramps of steps, in the same direction, with a 38″ intermediate platform. The stair is 51″ wide and will allow in the future, —IF NEEDED— the installation of an Acorn stair lift. There will be a wrought iron gate installed at the platform, to allow safety separation between our cats and dogs. The left wall, not visible in this photo is the real stone wall seen in the Terrace photos.
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| The arched window at the top will have right in front of it and above the top landing a Skylight . |
All second-floor wall construction is done, we are just missing the flue of the first floor Terrace fireplace, so we are moving on to the Roofing post.
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