Insanity?, or what?

It has been a gruelling 40 day period! I was convinced that this rather unconventional way of constructing a house was indeed valid. However, at times I found myself wondering if I was doing something stupid.

It all stemmed from this wood deck I had constructed 2 years earlier.

Conchita, lo siento, it is taking me some time to adjust to the new C&P method that they introduced during my absence! Here I am, succeeding at long last!



The total mas of this deck itself is not so much. Something like 500 kg, I should imagine. However, some members were very heavy indeed. It is a large deck by any standard. It has a roof, too, so that I can do things under rain. Areawise, it is about 15 square meters.

Now, take a look at the following photos and you will understand my problems!



This photo is showing you one of the two routes to get to the wood deck area. There is a car park beyond the bushes, which you cannot see. In terms of the steps from there to here it is just over one hundred, and it is all upslope.



Now, this photo is taken from two thirds of the way up from the car park. It still is a long way to get up to the construction site, as you may see.

Now, at my home base here, or for that matter anywhere I can cary up to 20 kg mas as long as the distance to be covered is small. Some of the main components of the wood deck far, far exceeded that limit!

Just imagine I was carrying those heavy components right in the middle of the scorching summer of two years ago! This time, I was determined that I will not repeat that folly.

In fact, that is where all these metal tubes come in, as you see next.



Here, I am just laying out 4 m long pipes to see how the overall structure might fit into the space I can use. 4 meters?, well, that is the longest pipes that they sell at the nearest DIY.

Also, there was this issue of power and communication lines that might interfere with the roof height and location. You do not see them here, but they are up here, connecting to the main house.

It really is a pain in the neck, but something you have to live with...

Anyway, what I am trying to do is to construct a single storey house, with a slanted roof that is high enough to allow 3.5 m (maximum) ceiling height, with a living space of 24 sqaure meters. That is, an additional piping, of course.

In fact, the ceiling is high enough to allow two bank beds to be constructed up in the large volume of space that I can secure. There will be a fire place, too. Several roof windows of my own making and 7, or 8 built-in windows which will not open.

Of course, there will be two doors and two windows which will open and I will have to buy them for installation during the construction work.

Bueno, Conchita, my logging for the next few days will be about how the whole thing might evolve. How these silly looking pipe structures might actually turn into something that can stay for something like 20 years to come.

Main topics will be about making roof windows, monocock structuring, bonding of the pipe structures with eventual 2X4 materials, how to construct a solid foundation supporting the eventual upper structures.

My way of doing this is unique in that the solid foundation will have to be constructed after all these pipe working is complete. That is silly!
Yes, that is silly, but then, I just hate carrying heavy materials!