Ceiling - part 3

On Saturday, May 27-th, about 15 cubic meters of concrete made the top layer of the ceiling.
Give it at least 2 weeks to harden. During the first week I was there almost every day to water the concrete.

Ceiling - part 2

My builders layed down steel-bar reinforcement on top of the filigran plates. The reinforcement was carefully planned (I got a special engeneering project for that).

Ceiling - part 1

We've chosen prefabricated ceiling (so called filigran or unigran). 14 boadrs, each about 2-4 meters wide and long were mounted in less than three hours in the morning of May, 23-rd. But the ceiling is not finished.

The ceiling is under way

Props and heavy machinery appeared on the construction site.
Great weather for making the ceiling.

We have rooms and a sky above our heads!

A week after, walls of the ground floor are done together with lintels (pol. nadproża). In the photos you'll see formwork (pol. szalunek) of stairs and Schiedel-like chimney.

It's one of the few great moments during the construction time. Extraordinary feelings soon to be forgotten...

Up

It was a pleasure to go each day and see walls going up and up into the sky.











Shots taken in April 27-th and 29-th.

White walls

All that happened before had beed just a prelude.
We waited for the DAY.
Finally in April 22-nd a transport of "Silka" blocks (made of sand and lime) had arrived at my site.
The material is clean, white and soon became 18cm wide home walls.
Two day delay of the transport frustrated me and my buliders but when they started brickalying the effect was visible immediately!
Despite cloudy and even rainy days the view influenced my imagination and heart started to beat faster.