We had four days of basically british weather during which nothing happened but there has finally been a break in the constant drip..drip...and things have got moving again.
This picture is looking across what will the living room and terrace and it seems we have most of the rebar down for the ground floor foundation beams done here. In the distance you can just the markings of the foundations for the guest house so it is good to get that part going as well.
This is just to the left of the picture and will eventually be the kitchen. This is slightly further behind as it was started after the main building.
Incidentally this is the end of the first month of a 8 month project and we feel we could have been a little further ahead than we are today. We feel we got off to a great start with the electrics, water, camp all going in quickly. But then a week of constant rain brought a halt but that also then compounded the problems with our road.
We have now just about fixed the road. We wanted to get stones down to prevent it from becoming total mud but the stone people didn't want to bring their truck in till the road dried and until the stone stuck came in...the cpac truck wasn't going to come in. So for the past couple of weeks the concrete has been mixed by hand but hopefully now with road fixed, stone down we can get a couple of cpac trucks in and finish off the foundations reasonably quickly.
Next week we are buying, concrete slabs, roof and plumbing materials - which will be a fairly big cash outflow - but hopefully within the next six to eight weeks we can get the roof and be a little more constant in workflow regardless of rain.
I am by the way using Nigel's super technique for larger pictures - thanks for the tip.