Yesterday morning the men arrived and so did a cement mixer. When a cement mixer shows up you know it is a big job, as for most projects the concrete is mixed by hand right on the street. I have read/been told that when you are doing a roof it must all be done at once, if you stop and continue the next day you will end up with a leak where you joined the two pourings. Makes sense to me. It also can mean a very long work day if it is a large roof.
They spent some time building a couple of ramps for the guys to walk up to the roof on with the cement and then they got right to work. They had a big crew and the work went fast. We left and when we returned around noon, it was all done and the men were gone.
Lots of hard, physical labor involved in construction here.
The ramp to get from ground level to roof level. Try getting this past Occupational Health and Safety in Canada.
Carrying the cement up to the roof in 5 gallon pails.
Pouring the cement from the mixer right into the pails.
Smoothing the cement.
4 comments:
To give you an idea how ethnocentric I am, when you said "cement mixer," I was thinking of one of those trucks that pumps cement. Obviously, your photographs put it all back in perspective. Thank you for sharing the story.
I wonder why they didn't do the rope-and-pulley thing to haul the buckets up onto the roof. Too high tech? I've seen it done on other jobsites.
Steve, they do have the big cement trucks here; but they seem to mainly do bigger jobs than this.
Bliss, perhaps because they didn't want to get cement on the ladys patio? If they would have used the pulley they would have had to be carrying the cement all through her patio. I don't know, that is just a thought.
We watched a group of workers pour a roof/floor for the second floor addition of a hotel we were staying in last summer. When they were done, they sat on buckets or whatever in a circle and broke out the beer to celebrate the job well done. A first for me, they also broke out the joints and passed them around! In the open with no objection from the owners or anybody else. We had a good laugh about that!
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