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                                   Building Our House in the Caribbean

                                                                      Step 26 - Building the Flat Roofs (Five of Them!)
 
                                                        WE WERE GOING TO DO A COUPLE OF THESE AT A TIME,
                                  BUT ENDED UP DOING ALL OF THE ROOFS AT THE SAME TIME--WHAT A CHALLENGE!

                    Guest Bedroom Patio Formed
   Braces Go UP    
                          We constructed the guest bedroom patio roof first.  Rather than gutters, our design uses concrete parapets
                       
                          
Pool Patio Steel   Concrete Roof Steel2
                                            Next, we constructed the pool patio roof, and then the foyer and hallway flat roof.

        Chip Checks Out 3 Inch Rain  Did I mention we had some nasty rains while we were working on this phase?

    Ready for Roof Pour  Ready for Roof Pour4
                            We've added lots ot bracing and the electrical and plumbing have been completed

    Ready for Roof Pour3  Ready for Roof Pour2
                                                 We're about ready--we postponed the pour a week to fix a few things,
                              plus the schedule pump truck caught on fire and it would take a few days to get the parts replaced...

                                       Ready for Roof Pour
                                                 So we constructed a planter and added to a retaining wall since we had the time


                                             Jonus is Pumper    Retaining Wall Poured2
                           Jonus did the pumping this time since Trent was tied up with the boom truck--we started with the retaining wall

                   GBR Pation Roof Poured2  GBR Patio Roof Poured
                   We then dragged the hose to the guest bedroom patio roof, back to the retaining wall, and then to the window seats

    Chip Supervises Pour  Glenmore Saves Our Bacon
      Chip was on site for this pour--thank goodness, because he discovered the hose handlers stepped on some conduit and broke it;
      fortunately, our fabulous electrician was on the North Shore and was able to get by and repair it so we could continue pouring!

                              Window Seat Roof  Gus does Windowseat
                        We had to pour two window seat roofs, which meat dragging a heavy concrete hose all over the place...

      AND THEN IT GOT REALLY BUSY BECAUSE ONCE CONCRETE GOES DOWN, IT HAS TO BE SCREEDED AND SMOOTHED!

                  Joseph Does GBR Roof Joseph was head honcho for the guest bedroom patio roof
              Busy Group4
Busy Group3
                                                 Controlled chaos--we even sucked our friend, Kevin, into helping

                      Concrete CowboyTom Screeds3
                                   Our linchpin performer is The Concrete Cowboy, Tom, who has done most of our flatwork!
 
             Busy Group2Tom Screeds
                                                Everyone has to work their butts off with the size of this pour....                   
      
            Pool Patio Roof Poured  Tom Kneedboards2
           Kevin Helps  We were glad to get this one done--the rest of the pours are easy!

                                     Flat Roofs Finished
                                                                   MISSION COMPLETE (for this phase!!!!)

                                                              Planter Poured
                                                                         And we even got a planter poured....
 

 Stripping FormsStripping Forms2Stripping Forms3   
                                                         And finally the forms getted stripped...a very messy, sweaty job                             
               
                         


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