Single Malts - and other odd Musings

How I Got My First House - II


I do not have the dates on the photographs and might be off a year or so but I believe this is taken about a year after the previous photograph of me digging the supply and septic system hole and drain fields - the walls were laid by me, on foundation trenches of concrete and rebar that I had completed earlier.  All cement and concrete were mixed, using dry cement and sand/or sand-gravel as needed - I wheel-barrowed all the sand from a sand bank across the road - in the hand made mixing box above.  Once the block walls were completed I installed the floor beams,  a plywood floor (actually the sub-floor but the final floor comes later) and then a layer of one-side-sandfinished tar paper (today it would be Tyvec I suppose) to protect the flooring from the weather as I would be a good long time completing the upper story.  The cement block walls went relatively quickly but the concrete floors (with rebar) that I am working on above took an agonizingly long time.

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