{"id":33,"date":"2008-05-04T18:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-05-27T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:16:48","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I borrowed a few builders’ props from my father, and we very carefully cut a lintel into the outside of the double wall, propped that up and cemented it in, and then cut a lintel into the other side of the wall… all the time keeping the props in place to prevent the unsupported “corner” where the four lintels come together from collapsing.
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So I come home to this. The props have moved, and are now being used to mostly support the planks used for plastering. I ask Frank about it, “Oh no, this house is very strong”. !<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing the house has indeed turned out to be very strong, because the team is young and immortally reckless sometimes…<\/p>\n

(Also note the creative use of the spirit level as a temporary support)<\/p>\n

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This framework supported the ceiling boards. It’s difficult to see, but the trusses are formed by a beam carrying the roof crossmembers, and another beam below it, with lots of crossbracing.<\/p>\n

At the top, both beams are cemented into the wall. At the bottom however, the lower beam hangs from the upper beam, and is not attached to the wall at all.<\/p>\n

So I don’t know whether the lower beam is there to carry weight (it can’t) or to hang the ceiling from (in which case, why the cementing at the top and the crossbracing?).<\/p>\n

Anyway, the framework had to go. Next thing I saw was two guys on top of the framework<\/em>, hitting it with hammers to get it off the beams above. Yes, they were lying on the framework while hammering at it. Four meters off the ground.<\/p>\n

I also used to be young and immortal but *shudder<\/em>*. I mean, I was too horrified to even take pictures.<\/p>\n

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This is (used to be) the hot water pipe on its way up to the shower. I wonder how much energy was wasted heating up the stoep from below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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