Gringos de Marimán

In case anyone had forgotten, as the week started the ongoing revestimiento of the outside of the casa continued. So let's circle around the house to check on the siding installation. Last week our crew finished most of the uphill side of the casa, leaving only one corner of the top facade uncovered. As expected, on Monday I found Jorge and Juan tackling that section.

In the meantime, Valdovino and Leo began covering the walls of the entrada to the pasillo.

Our equipo made such good progress on Monday that Mother Nature decided to slow things down a bit the next day. Another ho-hum snow storm worsened the conditions for photos and siding installation.

Thankfully, a high pressure system blew in on Wednesday blessing us with mostly clear weather through the weekend. Moving around the steps, the crew started in on the downhill side of the casa.

With the pasillo entrada finished Jorge and Juan climbed back on the scaffolding to complete the facade over the dormitorio.

Even the leaderhead gained a stylish siding finish. Don't worry all that tape will disappear once the glued joints have dried.

At the same time, Leo worked on the walls along the pasillo. We had a few concerns that the small sections between the windows would take a long time because of the cutting and fitting required, but Leo had no problems with the initial portion.

With the siding finished on one side, the hojalateros reappeared to cap the top of the walls. The remains of the snowfall cast an icy chill on these sheetmetal caps.

During the snow Valdovino warmed up a bit by finishing the plywood covering on the wall leading into the dormitorio.

The other Juan waited for a refill of pirca in order to start on the next part of the wall. On Thursday, still waiting, he crawled under the pasillo to remove the wooden framing. We finally got a good view of our flying terazza.

Speaking of terazzas, on Friday the fierro crew added the steel frame for the stairs to the upper terazza.

The gasfiters kept busy as well. This week they took delivery on a bright new fossa tank for the septic system.

But the priority for the gasfiters was inside the casa. First, they laid down mesh to prepare for the radiant floor heating system.

The radiant system circulates warm water through coils tied to the mesh beneath the finished floor.

The gasfiters laid out the continuous coils over the entire floor. Using radiant heating should provide winter comfort at a significantly lower cost, but more on that a little later.

So here we are with the latest view of the casa. Now we get some idea of the finished look with the flying pasillo and terazza.

At weeks end I enjoyed the sunset over the parcela and looked forward to next week. Hasta la proxima!!