Thanks Norton, will take you up on the offer but might be a few days because wife picked up a cold from the grand nephew and don't want to spread it around
Also another note is that the electricians were on site and moving along fairly fast, trying to stay ahead of the rendering
Rendering almost finished on inside walls
Bedroom 4 all power boxes installed, still need to render wall between bedroom and walk in closet
Living room 2nd floor
Wires pulled into some of the boxes, I'm assuming green is ground but not sure which is hot and neutral for blue and brown
Front of house 2nd floor rendering finished
Here's a video walk through I did yesterday
Coming along Denis, it always seems the build slows after the concrete beams and blocks go in.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Dennis
Thanks for sharing the video, I hope you are happy with what you are seeing now that you are there on site.
I hope not interferring too much.
Just a point to note, in the video at about the 1:25 mark you walk into the ground floor bathroom and I can see light coming through between the Q-con blocks.
They must have not put any grout/cement in there when laying the blocks.
I know it will be rendered but the render doesn't hold the wall up.
Good Luck for the rest of the build.
That's always the main arguments for Q-con blocks as opposed to the "old-fashion" cinder blocks: That the connecting mortar and the thin rendering - made by the special (not so cheap) mixture - will not be needed so much (as at the cinder blocks), thus a huge saving compensating the much higher cost (4 - 6 times), shortening the working time as well.
Then, in a case of an extensive saving on the mortar, I am afraid - when a well aimed facer goes wrong and the aimed head of the husband swerves aside - at the end of the day the head of the house will have to call a village brick layer to fix the hole in the wall.
Hi Ootai Thanks, I do my morning walk through to see what they'll be working on for the day, so far I have caught a couple mistakes before they happened. I don't stay too long because I don't want someone handing me a trowel because I wouldn't know what to do with it. I seen the the cracks in the bathroom but with all the rendering they put on I doubt it will be a problem, there's bigger holes where they blow out the back side on power outlets then fill them in and the walls don't have much structural support mostly there to keep the heat and bugs out
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Stopped by site this evening and step extensions completed, except for a couple after putting the tape to them that need minor modifications
Some electrical work was also done today
Just a couple of pics of how they're doing it, most of the work done is on 2nd floor, first and second floor have all the wires pulled into the outlet boxes and some of the switch boxes
The ceiling crew has also arrived, we found a room to rent close to site for them, wife just came home and said she seen them sitting outside of room drinking, i'm guessing getting primed for there start tomorrow. It's getting a little crowded at construction site with 3 crews there already
Inside ceilings about done cement sealer being put on inside and out
Two recessed ceilings in 1st floor living room
Soffit metal installed, he tried to pull a quick one and not put up venting in the soffits, I seen the solid sheets setting in the house and questioned him about it, he said it was for the soffits, I told him they needed to be vented he acted like he forgot he kills me with his short memory that's his usual excuse
Just realized that the video 3 that I had posted didn't upload the full video so I'm posting again, I'll probably get another one posted this week after the painting.
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