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19 March 2009The walls are going up and the roof tile is also going on at the same time. No hard hats available.pklongball
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21 March 2009We are looking out the living room window opening.pklongball
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21 March 2009The lady brickie is starting to raise the walls in the bedroom over the now poured lintel. There will be two casement windows in this wall.pklongball
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21 March 2009Here we can see a wall and the lintel now poured and the blocks going up on each side of what will be a big slider window.pklongball
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21 March 2009This is a view of some blue pipe installed today. The Aircon company staff installed the copper tubing, electrical and drain lines for the 3 AC units that will be installed later but we took advantage of the open walls to hide some of the piping.pklongball
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23 March 2009This is the exterior living room wall about half way up and you can see the double blocks and cavity. This wall is almost ready for form wood to make the window and beampklongball
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23 March 2009Lady brickie hard at work and the walls are rising.pklongball
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1 AprilLay brickie working her way up another interior wall. Not too much more block and the walls will be uppklongball
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15 AprilHere we have a machine not seen by too many people I'm sure. My builder uses this bread dough mixer to mix his render or plaster to an absolute smooth consistency. When they apply this stuff it is really smooth and easy to work withpklongball
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15 AprilOne of the crew getting ready to make a batch of bread? Preparing the hopper for the plaster is what she is doing.pklongball
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15 AprilA shot of the plaster crew loading in a batch of water and plaster to the mixer. The mix really comes out nicepklongball
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15 AprilTwo of the team loading the powder mix and water into the bread mixer. When this dough comes out it is ready to apply to the walls and make the nicest, smoothest plaster I've seen. They are very happy the weather is more humid and wet now as the rendering process comes out better if the stuff does not dry too quickly.pklongball
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