House Progress and Garden Regress

wow! What a project! How close are you to being done? When will you be able to get moved back inside? Wish we could all come and help you finish it. If all the stewers came to help it would be finished in no time at all.
We've missed you. Thanks for the pictures.
dooley

 

OH NO - big dissappointment. While preparing dinner I decided to ask my niece to upload the rest of the photos (all 269 of them!) AND - oh dear - she accidently lost them by clicking on the wrong icon - dang - instead of uploadign from the cell-phone massmemory to the folder she clicked on the Do not transfer images icon and not the Transfer images ison. and then she just disconnected the phone (not the safe way) with the result - all images lost - wiped off the phone - clean as the day the phone was purchaed..the sadness on her poor face when I explained to her my purpose.THe sadness on my face... :'(

 

Don't you just love modern technology. Well, some of it's okay. It does allow us to communicate with people from Gardenstew that live all over the world.I downloaded pictures from the camera and resized them and they disappeared. I had to download them again. This time it worked. Go figure!
dooley

 

Hello from Washingon State, USA. Been looking at your remodel, trying to get the nerve to remodel our place.

Here is an idea on if your pictures can be saved from your camera. It is from a microsoft windows site,

http://www.cardrecovery.com/photo-recov ... _phone.asp

Good luck. Karrma

 

YIPPEE - not all is lost. THanks all stewbies for the words of wisdom that you bestowed here. I 'played' around the massmedia section and the memory card section as well as the phone memory section and found the 'lost' photos. Now I will rather spend time to upload, resize and save them myself.. :-D

 

So happy you found your photos. That would be heart-breaking indeed to know that they were gone forever.

 

Yep - and after the crane and slab action it was timt to prepare the first-floor floor. first some reinforcement:



Steel mesh ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )

This steel mesh was used on top of the floor slab to reinforce the concrete topping before the walls, etc. could go on.




steel mesh2 ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )


A two-person job to get the numerous steel mesh panels on top of the slabs.



Steel mesh1 ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )


It looks like they had the job well covered.

Between us stewbies - I never really wanted to make use of professional contractor companies and always looked at possibilities to provide some work (and possibly put a meal on some family's plate) for the less-privileged. Sometimes the process was very long and most probably more expensive than it should be - but there are good enough reasons for these delays and expenses.)

 

While all this was happening, I had to create some cake , just imagine me travelling with all the ingredients and icing goodies to my mother's.. I will also post these creations - a pity I could not take photos of the process....
(check out the piccies on the recipe thread.)
After the steel mesh it was the concrete topping - and the the actual building up and the walls.



Going up ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )

AT the time there was no staircase - thus ladders was the way to go.





First floor ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )


A view of the topping on the steel mesh prior to the exterior walls are laid.

Following photos show the bricks, etc. and laying out, measuring out of walls, etc.

First floor1 ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )






First floor 2 ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )



Exterior walls beginnign to take shape.


First floor 3 ( photo / image / picture from Palm Tree's Garden )

 

It is so good to hear from you!
It sounds like things are going well...but your house work has not yet been compleated. I sure hope that it will soon be done.
The pictures show visible progress though. Any idea when it will be all finished?

Congrations on the work done thus far.

Hope that you enjoyed that bath.