Day 4 on site

Today we learnt even more new skills, more bricklaying and steel fixing, with an added bonus of flower arranging.
The back door was in place when we arrived on site, and Marie the 2nd year (day) apprentice was on the case, doing the back wall with the skilled workers. Greg & Andy were up on the scaffolds like old hands, Tony was the bucket boy, until Andy called it a day. Gerry & Jodie learnt to fix steel, making the reinforcement for the beams that sit on the brick work at about 2000. The tools were sophisticated, two pieces of rebar, stirrups, tie wire and a nail. Our skilled worker was a good teacher, and we were both quick learners.

Here is the link to the You-Tube clip Day 4
Gerry and Jodie also hatched a plan to stay out of the sun, by offering to help the man next door with his flower arranging. He taught us to make betel nut decorations for weddings!

The morning went quickly, with rambutans and longans for morning tea. After the break it was removing the bricks stacked in the house and getting ready to spread the sand screed and then lay the slab.

Lunch was again a quick trip to the local resort - our food brought in from elsewhere. It is a pleasant place, but if in Australia would probably be closed down by the NSW Health!

After lunch we laid the slab, buckets of concrete were carried up and spread by hand, with trowels and a leveling (?) device. It will be interesting to see how it was finished off and looks tomorrow. The You-Tube Link: The Slab.