Monday, October 25, 2021

Friday, 10/22/2012

 Friday's work included more backfilling of the floor.  They build a ramp of dirt so that both wheelbarrows and a bucket brigade could be used to move dirt.  We started at the back wall and moved toward the dirt pile.  The pile looked so huge that we thought there'd be enough left over to make a driveway or something.  At the end there was a small amount left from what had been the wheelbarrow ramp.  Two big dump truck should have held 28 tons, which was all moved from one place to another by hand.  In the process, we pile the fill about one block high, water it down with a hose, tamp it with a gas powered tamper, then start again.  The neighbors remained great, energetic workers so we were done by noon.  The next group will be able to reinforce the floor with steel fencing and rebars and cover it with a layer of concrete.  There is a group scheduled to the first week of November, and is the only group scheduled for the rest of the year.  Esperanza really needs help.


Above is Francisco and Alexandra.  They will have a good, solid house when it is finished.

Here is the worksite on day one, with the next shot showing how much fill was needed.  We filled and tamped it to within 3" of the top of the top block.



John Muskopf

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