For those who would rather see the results of the CEB Micro House building and our other adventures in Belize as opposed to reading about them, MAC and I have a huge trove of photos and videos which I will find a way of incorporating into the blog as soon as possible However, the combination of an i-Pad, Google Chrome, my GoPro and other people’s images in various applications isn’t conducive to the posting of this media at the present location and with the existing resources so it will have to wait until I get home when a ‘downpour’ of images will appear in this blog. Here are some of my photos and videos of the CEB Micro-House Project. MAC will add hers in due course. Bob & MAC Build a House
Today we rose at 6 a.m. as usual but there was a significantly less amount of energy in our rising end MAC who had been coughing during the night definitely did not feel that good. We went to breakfast but there was a general feeling that everyone was feeling the pace of the heat and the workload. I felt really tired and drained. Nevertheless we proceeded to the site where the preparation for the application of stucco was well under way. We fixed a few small areas of the chicken wire which needed to be bedded against the bricks and then the stucco work started. This is back-breaking work and consists of filling a square board of wood on a short handle called a ‘hawk’ with stucco mixture which is the consistency of a thick gravy and then placing the hawk up to the wall and scraping off the stucco onto the wall with a ‘float’ or rectangular flat metal applicator and them smoothing it out over as much area as possible. This is not at all easy especially as the wall is rough ...
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