Raising the Roof !!!

Hi again,

Another excellent day's work on House Number 18.

We had our usual 5.45 breakfast and were off on the bus and on site by 7am. Number 18 was looking well after our day yesterday. Here's the house before we started today, and our erstwhile leaders getting started on the day's mixing ! The morning was spent preparing for the roof. We poured concrete into the final channel layer of blocks and completed all the per-requisites by lunch time. That's Ciara and me working on the roof preparations. We had early lunch and afterwards examined the roof mock up that had been prepared for us to work from (great idea !). Raising the roof was a very meticulous task needing the greatest planning and precision, but with perseverence (and the help of a few strong men from the next house !) we managed. We reckon the crew next door are ringers ... professional builders. They are local Thai and seem very well versed in building and roofing. So we watched and learned and borrowed !

Here we are having a well earned break when the roof trusses were in place. Although we didn't finish the roof today, it was a very significant moment in the build when the front roof truss was installed and we all celebrated with Sarika, our home owner. Here she is with our Northern Ireland Habitat emblem - the famous green T Shirt. It's great to have our Green Tee Shirts here, as we really stand out and every now knows the Irish Team in the green shirts !!

The aim for today was the roof trusses and to finish all the pointing inside the house as we need to paint tomorrow. We didn't quite manage to finish all the pointing before we left, but it's almost there and we look forward to another great day tomorrow at Number 18. It's hard to believe that we're passed the half way mark and there are only 2 days building left.

We found a lovely motto on one of the houses (pctured), which I've decided to adopt. It says 'May the Roof above never fall in . .and the Friends gathered below never fall out'.

Now there's a thought to end the day on ...

Good Night !

Kate