Gringos de Marimán

Ok, here's your last chance to appreciate all the detailed work that goes into making a slab. Monday and Tuesday the crew completed all the final wiring for the ironwork, finished adding the molding boards, and added boards across the length of the floor to use for leveling concrete.



Wednesday the concrete trucks rolled in and out all day.



Of course the wheelbarrows again saw a lot of action. You can also see the levelling process in action.



Meanwhile Valdovino provided the finishing touch by smoothing the surface and placing fierro to tie down the floor boards.



Here Juan mans the vibrator to make sure all those cracks were filled. You might think it looks a little damp, but the real fun started about a half hour later.



At this point the rain started coming down in buckets. Pinhead wanted to stay for all the action, but I bailed out and headed home to make a fire and dry out. Heavy rain continued throughout the day and all night. Needless to say I had a few worries about how the slab would fare.



The next day the surface appeared quite wet, but the maestro assured me that everything was fine. Only a small section remained to be finished and by gosh it looked like a real nice slab.



You can see that the pinhead still gets really excited over some things, like sitting on fresh slabs.


At this point the concrete had to cure a bit, so we had time to go for a hike. Here's some more pictures from parcela 31. We originally contemplated buying this site because the views are so outstanding. We eventually picked our lot instead, but I'm trying to convince the pinhead that he'd like living here.



We headed through the woods, one of the best places to go to appreciate fall. You might be surprised at the dense bamboo in these bosques.



Ok, back to work. The crew finished pouring the last little bit of concrete and then started marking the room locations on the slab with chalk



On Friday the flete delivered a pile of wood in preparation for the start of framing on Monday. The final task for the was to coat 2x4's with carbolineum to protect against all that rain.



Next week we start framing, hasta la proxima!!