It seemed like a real building when they started pouring the floor. They could only do the back and lounge as we were still waiting for some more posts in the front. The guys did everything manually – pulled the water from the well, mixed the concrete with the small mixers, men shovelled into the mixers and out, then it was put in wheel barrows and put onto the floor. Douglas supervised and aerated the concrete and finally levelling it – all done manually.

The dirt was all levelled out

The floor area was then covered in black plastic

Meanwhile Mark was still doing plumbing trenches to make sure we had drainage for all the bathrooms, laundry and kitchen.

The first wheelbarrows of concrete – a floor is forming

All done manually wheelbarrows of concrete – the guys were wearing jandals (safety gear not really an issue here).

The finished floor

The floor when the cement started to harden off.