So, here's how we've been doing in 2016 wrt our building endeavours...
January, 2016
The remaining masonry work on the biogas plant was completed by the ESAF mason. Just that the feed pipe from the cowshed to the plant has to be covered up with soil.
The walls of the main building were done and the pic below also shows the gable walls coming up.
Also, the cow shed, after remaining at basement level for a very long time, started to come up.
February, 2016
After looking in vain for someone to raise the height of the tank, a friend of ours introduced us to a very competent contractor who quickly sent people to add two more feet to the tank, to make it a total of 10 ft height. We also made a concrete slab to cover the tank, and on top we're going to build a ferro-cement tank of about 3000 lts.
The roof work started - at long last. We hooked up an alternator to a power tiller that we had borrowed earlier from a friend - and voila, we had a working generator.
In the meanwhile, the porch came up. Another major step forward was getting our carpenter friend from Chennai (along with a colleague of his) to come to our farm and fix up all the doors and windows.
March, 2016
Mistakes in putting up the truss work set us back by quite some time, and let to a lot of rework. The cow shed's roof is now complete.
The residence building, after the rework on the truss work, now looks a lot better. We're hoping the GI sheets and the tiles will be laid by the time March rolls into April.
So, lets see what this last week of March and the coming weeks have in store.
In the meanwhile, we spent a quiet Easter Sunday at the farm with a friend who was visiting. At least, it began as a quiet Sunday, but turned out to be something else. Read about our encounter with the big fire in the next post...
January, 2016
The remaining masonry work on the biogas plant was completed by the ESAF mason. Just that the feed pipe from the cowshed to the plant has to be covered up with soil.
Also, the cow shed, after remaining at basement level for a very long time, started to come up.
February, 2016
After looking in vain for someone to raise the height of the tank, a friend of ours introduced us to a very competent contractor who quickly sent people to add two more feet to the tank, to make it a total of 10 ft height. We also made a concrete slab to cover the tank, and on top we're going to build a ferro-cement tank of about 3000 lts.
The roof work started - at long last. We hooked up an alternator to a power tiller that we had borrowed earlier from a friend - and voila, we had a working generator.
In the meanwhile, the porch came up. Another major step forward was getting our carpenter friend from Chennai (along with a colleague of his) to come to our farm and fix up all the doors and windows.
Mistakes in putting up the truss work set us back by quite some time, and let to a lot of rework. The cow shed's roof is now complete.
So, lets see what this last week of March and the coming weeks have in store.
In the meanwhile, we spent a quiet Easter Sunday at the farm with a friend who was visiting. At least, it began as a quiet Sunday, but turned out to be something else. Read about our encounter with the big fire in the next post...
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