Our Bedrooms Take Flight
It’s amazing how quickly things happen when we’re not building walls from large boulders of limestone.
Our rear garden wall took a single stone mason and his assistant six weeks to complete, one stone at a time. In contrast our second story, built from concrete block, went up in a flash. One day they were just starting and then two weeks later they were done. Just like that!
Employing techniques that involved a lot of precision and care, each block was carefully set into place, then tapped gently here and there to ensure it lined up perfectly with the other blocks. A plumb line was used to double check the block’s vertical alignment.
What results are nearly-perfect vertical walls that soar meters above the ground forming the bedrooms within. Topped off with a roof of reinforced concrete beams and polystyrene block, we now have two newly minted bedrooms.
