Pool House Expansion Project, Day 86-87 - 20-21/01/16

Compost, Paint, Carving, Tile, Shower Shelf,

Day Eighty-Six and Eighty-Seven, 20 - 21 January, 2016

 I came back from walking the girls to find Carlos already hard at it. He was carving out a bowl in the large rock I had placed in the center of the cemetery ring. Here, he has already got the plant inserted, and has started adding compost to the rest of the ring.

Carlos Carved A Planter in the Stone

 Mondays and Wednesdays always start early when Carlos is on the job. He's adding more compost to the cemetery ring.

Carlos Adding Compost to Cemetery Ring

He's not the only one who starts early. Carl's crew is on the job too with Errol edging the wall paint against the ceiling of the Bedroom.

Errol Beginning Final Coat of Bedroom Paint

Tile work is continuing to progress. Here the living room and office, in the background, are almost done, as far as tiling. Of course, the grouting has yet to be done.

Living Room and Office Tile Almost Done

Just as tile has been making its way into the dining room, so it is with the bedroom.

Tile Has Made It Into the Bedroom

Errol is working hard to get the painting finished. It seems, for whatever reason, that the concrete is thirsty and is absorbing enough paint that a second and third coat is often necessary.

Errol Painting Final Coat In Living Room

I mentioned the tiling going on in the dining room and here's the proof. Omar is going full-steam ahead.

Omar Heading Into the Dining Room

Tiling in the west walkway is done. It's just waiting for the grout to be applied.

Westside Walkway All Don but the Grout

I'm guessing, but I think that the tile will be moving into the bathroom in the morning. the bath will have the same tile as the walkways.

From the Bathroom Into the Bedroom

If you look close, down toward the bottom, and just off-center, you'll be able to make out the markings for Dianna's shaving bench which will be added to the shower.

Pencil Mark For Shaving Bench in Shower

There's many more photos than appear in each posting. You can see all the photos of the construction project on Flickr at: https://www.flickr.com/gp/winjama/0wVc3s. There will be new photos added each day of the project.    

Pool House Expansion Project, Day 79-80 - 13-14/01/16

Concrete work, Screens, and Tiling

Days Seventy Nine Through Eighty , 13 - 14 January, 2016

The day got off to a good start. Carlos applying mortar to finish the concrete work for the cemetery ring. That's really looking nice.

Carlos Working on the Cemetery Ring

While Carlos worked on that, Omar and the guys were finishing up stapling the shade cloth to the screen frames.

Stapling the Shade Cloth

Vladimir is marking the frames so they can predrill screw holes for when they're mounted to the window openings of the walkway.

Marking the Frame For the Shelf

And, here's how they look in place. Really gives the house a finished appearance.

Showing Screens From Canal-Side

This also was the start of tiling for the house. Here George is chipping way at blobs of concrete and mortar that accumulated during the course of construction. They want to have a fairly smooth surface to lay the tile.

Prepping For Tile

This is the first bit of tile going down for the walkway. It's quite a striking stone look and feel to the tile. We got it at Boxito in Chetumal. Boxito is a Mexican chain store, sort of a tile, appliance, and fixture store. We also bought the one piece toilets (one for the pool house and one for the Menonnite house) there as well.

Walkway Tiling Has Started

From another angle, this gives you a good idea of the way the walkway will look when it's all tiled up and ready to go. Quite impressive. The texture will also keep it relatively slip-free when it gets wet.

Walkway Tile Going Down

On the far side of the walkway, they're measuring to get started tiling on that side.

Getting Set To tile On the far Side

Boxes of tile. The stuff weighs a ton. It comes eight tiles to a box. They come banded two boxes at a time and it's almost too much for one person to move.

Couple of Boxes of Tile

The far side course is being started now, all to meet up at the south walkway.

Another Course Being Started

The job is moving along now, after somewhat of a slow start. I'm thinking within a day or so, they should be grouting the walkway. And then, moving to the interior tiles.

Moving Right Along

There's many more photos than appear in each posting. You can see all the photos of the construction project on Flickr at: https://www.flickr.com/gp/winjama/0wVc3s. There will be new photos added each day of the project.