Before the concrete for the first floor could be poured we needed water, lots of water. So with the aid of a lot of buckets and a lot of people we got water from the drainage ditch and put it into water tanks near the front of the house. For the operation we hired a cement mixer and operator.
With the mixer running the bucket chain was formed passing the concrete from hand to hand from the mixer up to the first floor. This was an all day operation.
This was the view upstairs about midday.
Finally late in the evening the job was done. After a few days the surface was patched and tidied up. Now I began to appreciate for the first time how high up our house is.
Then the framework for the stairs was created and a first foundation of concrete was laid.
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