The walls are finally up (10 October 2006)

It took some weeks to get back into doing the walls, but we finally finished them!! I decided to hire the help of professionals to finish the project, and Dave Killian, our trusted handyman (and retired builder) was kind enough to guide me through the steps, and allow me to work with him to finish the project. There were a couple of things we had to do to finish it off:

1. Lower the wall towards the back of the house. With a sloping land on the neighbours side, keeping the wall at the same height all along created too tall a division between the properties.

2. Re-lay quite a number of the cement-fiber sheets. As Dave explained to me, if we had kept laying the cement sheets in a variety of patterns, we would have an impossible time later on when we try to get a smooth finish during the paint phase.

After a few weekends of working on these 2 things, however, the walls are finished (the structures, that is). Next step is to get them rendered and painted.