sduford on Aug 03 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
They have made some progress on the pool and the steel c-beams for the roof structures have arrived. We should have a roof on the guest-house anytime now.
Here’s is a picture of the pool, you can see the wall winding it’s way between the bohio and the kitchen. It then widens again on the other [...]
sduford on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
There has been some heavy afternoon downpours lately in Panama, which has somewhat impeded progress. I was expecting the guest house to have a roof on it by now, but I think they are waiting to do all the roofs at the same time. The roofs need a welded steel-beam structure, covered by corrugated steel, [...]
sduford on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
I received a few more pictures of the construction this week.
Here’s a view of the bedroom module taking shape. You can see the two more or less octagonal bedrooms one on top of the other. The lower floor has a large ensuite bathroom extension on the back. The bedroom themselves are octagones within a square [...]
sduford on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
Here’s a few more pictures of my construction site.
In this picture you can see the high-tech concrete pumping system used to bring concrete up to the second floor of the bedroom module. It consists of a makeshift bridge so they can wheelbarrow the concrete from the livingroom where they mix it, up the hill to the [...]
sduford on May 23 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
Construction is still going well. There were a lot of heated discussions last week on some Yahoo groups regarding the difficulty of building in Panama. If you’ve built a house anywhere, you know how frustrating it can be to deal with all the errors and problems, so just imagine building in a third world country!
There [...]
sduford on Apr 09 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
I just received some more pictures of our construction project in Altos del Maria, Panama.
This one was taken from where the master bedroom will be. You can see the livingroom/kitchen module on the left, and the bohio to the right of it. You can also see the backwall of the guesthouse on the far right. [...]
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