When the Work-guys go away, I NEVER know when they'll return. Today, I was yelling for Nina... Dog #2... all over the village. No Dog. Then, a voice rang out from a window of La Casa Grande... She's here with us!!! I figured it out that it was one of the Work-guys. Yep. They came back to do the Phase IVB sub-flooring for the terra-cotta flooring!!!
It's the third sub-flooring for La Casa Grande. The first, of WWII vintage and made of iron I-beams & terra-cotta bricks, was observed by Our Geometra to be a disreputable construction. The I-beams weren't run into the stone walls to insure its solidity & resistance to E for Earthquake. So, he commanded another second sub-flooring using a special material which looks like cement but, is molto lighter and molto stronger. MOLTO!!!... and more I-beams. However, this second sub-flooring was poured ONLY to re-inforce the first sub-flooring, not to install any kind of flooring on top. Nope. The terra-cotta needs a denser sub-flooring... for gluing purposes... AND one which is level. S.F. #2 slid towards the window walls by about 13 cm. Not good. The above photos are of S.F. #3 in the Sala da Pranzo and the Salotto.
Please note how white the grey base stucco has dried out to be. We are on the verge of The White Wall Test for Our New Blue. We are excited. You is more than excited. He has already hit the flea market across the street from the hospital where he saves people's eye-sight, scouting for new treasures!!!
Meanwhile... outside... the photo below shows the after-effect of cleaning the cement mixer at The End of a Day's Work on S.F. #3. My beautiful verdantly grassy ramp is now burned all to Hell with cement. I knew better to re-build the ramp after Phase II - The Roof... and Phase III - The Upstairs Apartment. I'm going to live with it... for now. Gads.
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