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Last Bathroom Photos

These are the latest pics of the bathroom, just before I left Puerto Madryn on my way to Peru. The shower floor is still not done, and there is a huge kink in my main sewage pipe which I made while trying to replace a broken T-joint. The problem was that my friend who knew how to do it was not with me at the time and so it ended up flattened.

Flattened Pipe
The flattened pipe. Doh!

The business end of the bathroom
The business end of the bathroom.

The shower floor (unfinished)
The shower floor still needs to be tiled yet.

The ceiling (also unfinished)
The ceiling will be finished with plasterboard.

The windows already fitted
My first window that I have ever fitted is working perfectly.

From the house area
Looking through from the main house area to the bathroom.

The outside of the bathroom
The outside of the bathroom with an 800 litre water tank on top.

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Stuck in the Bathroom

For the last two weeks I have been stuck in the bathroom and have hardly left. There from the morning until midnight most nights, and rarely a moment to eat. What has happened to me? Some exotic disease or a severe case of the runs? Nope. Building.

From virtually nothing we have made a bathroom in only a few weeks. Most of the time I have been working alone on the project, although at times Fabian and others have come along to help out. Their help has been invaluable. The following photos tell more of a story of the development of this new part of the Prayer House…

Preparing cement
Tues 11th: Gabriel and Juan Pablo prepare the concrete for the roof.

Getting it to the roof
Tues 11th: Helping get it up to the roof.

Fabian on the roof
Tues 11th: Fabian loads the roof with concrete over the foam bricks.

Tiling the shower
Tues 18th: Nothing beats matches as a gap measurer for tiling.

Fabian tiling the walls
Tues 18th: Fabian tiling the shower walls.

Putting in the window
Wed 19th: Putting in the window. It is held there by cement.
Grouting the tiles
Thu 20th: Grouting the shower walls.

Lorena painting
Thu 20th: Lorena helps with painting the walls (yep, white walls).

Ernesto putting in the dividing wall
Thu 20th: Ernesto puts the dividing wall in between the shower and the bathroom.

There are more photos of how the whole thing looks as it is mostly finished… but I forgot to take them. Doh. They will come in another post later on as tomorrow I am heading towards Peru (also another post yet to come).