Home Construction Week 19...
October 9-15

This past week the roof over the office and the dining room were completed. The roofing is the Michoacan pine that I showed in a photo last week. The pine was laid across the opening in the ceiling, tar paper was put over the wood, steel wire and finally a layer of concrete on top. Now the only ceilings to be finished are the garage and the living room. Both of these will be pine also. The garage will have red Mexican tile instead of the concrete the rest of the house has. The photo below shows a view of the open beam ceiling in the dining room.
The concrete columns and brick walls for the garage and living room have been built to the proper height, so next week the ceilings for the garage and living room will be built. When this work is completed all the ceiling and roofs for our house will be completed. The two photos below show the construction in first the garage and secondly the living room.

The gazebo is getting closer to completion. The roof is finished, with only Mexican clay tile to be laid. The tile will come later after the plastering of the outer walls of the house is completed. This is to keep plaster off the tile roof. The photo below shows the nearly completed BBQ area. Left to right in the photo is a sink, charcoal grill and a table for a gas burner. The BBQ will be covered with a Mexican talavera tile. It should be very beautiful.
The final photo below gives a view from the street above. There is a good view of the gazebo, along with a view of the progress on the roof.