A long overdue update of the house progress is in order. After ripping up the floor, digging out the dirt and laying the piping for the mains water, internal plumbing and a pipe for sewerage as well as last minute piping for a hot water boiler powered by the terracotta oven, we were ready to pour the cement.
Having decided that with only two people to do the work we payed the extra money to get the cement made and have a pump to pour it into the two rooms. However when the truck arrived the driver firstly thought he wouldn't be able to get the arm close enough to even pour it, then once he had actually used his head and got the arm in, he still didn't pour the cement directly into the backroom, only into the doorway between the rooms. So we ended up having to shovel a lot of material into the far room and also the excess out of the kitchen room to repair the porch on the outhouse, the wheelbarrow was broken so it was moved shovel load by shovel load.
It all eventually got moved and smoothed out and when it was checked on the next day it was very level. The whole process luckily was over by the time a huge thunderstoom opened the heavens and we arrived home to the house with everyone huddled into the kitchen by candle light. Probably very lucky that we were not visible considering how dirty and sore we were.
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