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6 March 09'Today the Q-Con blocks were delivered to the site. Total on the truck was 2,000 blocks. The walls will begin soon.pklongball
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9 March 2009Moving the Q Con blocks into positionpklongball
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9 March 2009This is the beginning of the wall work. Nothing dramatic yet but needs to be done. Two ladies were assigned the job of moving the 2,000 odd blocks onto the floor area in selected places to make them ready for the wall team to start installing them.pklongball
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9 March 2009Moving the blocks from point A to point B is backbreaking and sweaty work and always the ladies get this job.pklongball
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11 March 2009More block to be installedpklongball
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11 March 2009Stacks of block waiting for installationpklongball
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11 March 2009One of the team using a saw to make a small channel in the block top to place the steel rebar between the blocks. This rebar is seated into the column and will hold the block wall to the columns for some more stabilitypklongball
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11 March 2009We now have a small team of 2 men and a woman working on the walls. The first process will be to start a course up to a level just below any window openings or on a wall with no window about half way up. They will stop there to begin another wall. Once all the walls are started with the outer course we will call in he electrician to start installing the conduits in the cavities for all the plugs and switches.pklongball
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11 March 2009Wall man fixes a wood form to the floor to make the corner walls for the store room bedroom wallspklongball
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11 March 2009The outer kitchen wall up o the level needed for the lintel beam install. On a wall with no windows a beam will be built in about halfway up the height of the wall.pklongball
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11 March 2009Laying the rebar into the block groove before the glue and the next course of blockpklongball
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11 March 2009Here we have a start on the outer bathroom walls and one interior wall between the bath and 2nd bedroompklongball
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