Mr. Wood
This is an exciting part, the stairs are all starting to get installed now. They are all being made by hand out of wood — by one person. He doesn’t really speak mandarin, and works on his own ultra-slow schedule, but the stairs should be pretty good in the end.
His main tool
The entrance, partially fitted with the new stairs
Metal work
Just in time, the metal is all in place ready and waiting for some of the stairs that are being finished up as we eat lunch.
Toilets
Not terribly exciting, but here are shots of the plumbing being installed directing waste into the well.
A glass dining room
It’s been decided– Rather than cover the entire roof with concrete slabs, as assumed earlier, 1/4 of the surface will be turned into glass! And here’s a series of photos showing the entire process:
Getting the wind engineer to inspect the work to be done.
Building the glass frame
Passing the glass up onto the roof – no problem
It’s only 9+12+9 glass.
Viewing into the dining room
Looking towards the view of the trees above. This should make for a pleasant dining room
Digging a hole
Time to build a well. Not quite the fun kind for getting drinking water or simply falling into. But watching our worker disappear into a 2m deep pit is something special. Along the way he discovered plenty of broken porcelain cups as well.
