Thursday, September 29, 2011

A day of exploring

Today was a good do to explore our neighbourhood a bit more. The rain has let up, the clouds have parted and that means the sun was shining. It was really great to feel the warmth (heat) of the sun. The morning was given to a pre-bid site meeting with all bidders, and that went really quite well. The afternoon was set aside for some exploring of shops and coffee shops.


We spotted this young girl waiting with her dad for her sister to come home. She was quite patient, and finally her sister came around the corner and this little girl just lit up with joy.














As we turned the corner towards home we came across these men doing road repairs; all very manual labour but done with great care and precision. These two are doing the final stage of leveling, measuring and packing.









The guys further back are filling the pot holes with rock and brick, pouring liquid tar over them, and then filling the holes with hot asphalt.
All quite the process.









Further down the road, actually rite across the street from us they are constructing a new multilevel building. Today they poured the second floor. Now floors are counted differently here. Ground level is termed as ground level, the first floor above ground level is termed the First Floor, the second above is termed the Second Floor and so on. I had watched over the past days put all the forming and supporting timber in place, and yesterday they tied in the rebar. Today was the day to pour the concrete. Again, it is very intensive manual labour, and men and women work equally here as you will see in the pictures. They worked at this from about 8:00am and finished right about 4:00pm. Enjoy the pictures.






Going to get loaded

Getting loaded with gravel (some got loaded with sand)

Waiting to dump load

Dumping Load(1)

Dumping Load(2)









Dumping into mixer, mixing, and dumping into bucket


Mixing Concrete


Transporting to floor being poured
Dumping onto floor

Sending empty bucket down

Spreading, skreeting, and troweling

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