Six Catz Construction
Six Catz Cabinas is no more. Construction has finished on the house in Carrillo...
Our first few weeks of construction: clearing the plot, digging trenches, building bodegas and shelters for the workers, bending rebar, laying the concrete foundation and cement blockwork. No water for 3 days meant the guys had to lug buckets up from the stream by hand.Now after 8 weeks of construction all the walls are up and the steel roof construction is starting. We're 2-3 weeks behind schedule because of rain. Met with 4 different welders and 3 electricians before deciding to stay with our original people. Roof should go on in a week or two.
More soldering work making the steel frame for the roof, which will hopefully go up next week. And they're starting to put the smooth finish on the walls. Soon we'll install the wiring & plumbing and then Roger and I will start to paint. We were thinking of painting it in lots of bold Mexican colors, but are going to keep it relatively conservative since the house is really being built for resale. So terra cotta it is.
Roof is on, ceiling is in, we're getting estimates for windows... next comes plumbing.
House is all painted - not terra cotta after all. Tiles are almost all installed, doors & windows will finish in the next few days. Then we can start moving stuff in, and as soon as we put in a toilet and kitchen sink, we can move in ourselves. We'll be there by Christmas.
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We didn't make it in by Christmas, but did move in on New Year's Eve. Lived with no kitchen sink for about 3 weeks and no stove either - barbecued over a wood fire and cinderblocks almost every night. Kitchen is in now, cabinets, drawers, countertops... we're waiting for a delivery of nice wood to build the doors and drawerfronts. Also working on the garden, outdoor shower, and building a bodega so we can move all the tools out of the bedroom closet. Hoping soon for a water heater so we can have hot showers (indoors and out).
Now after 8 weeks of construction all the walls are up and the steel roof construction is starting. We're 2-3 weeks behind schedule because of rain. Met with 4 different welders and 3 electricians before deciding to stay with our original people. Roof should go on in a week or two.
More soldering work making the steel frame for the roof, which will hopefully go up next week. And they're starting to put the smooth finish on the walls. Soon we'll install the wiring & plumbing and then Roger and I will start to paint. We were thinking of painting it in lots of bold Mexican colors, but are going to keep it relatively conservative since the house is really being built for resale. So terra cotta it is.
Roof is on, ceiling is in, we're getting estimates for windows... next comes plumbing.
House is all painted - not terra cotta after all. Tiles are almost all installed, doors & windows will finish in the next few days. Then we can start moving stuff in, and as soon as we put in a toilet and kitchen sink, we can move in ourselves. We'll be there by Christmas.
We didn't make it in by Christmas, but did move in on New Year's Eve. Lived with no kitchen sink for about 3 weeks and no stove either - barbecued over a wood fire and cinderblocks almost every night. Kitchen is in now, cabinets, drawers, countertops... we're waiting for a delivery of nice wood to build the doors and drawerfronts. Also working on the garden, outdoor shower, and building a bodega so we can move all the tools out of the bedroom closet. Hoping soon for a water heater so we can have hot showers (indoors and out).
email: lisa@sixcatz.com