Day 61

The spraying of the shotcrete under the eaves of the patio roof is almost done. We had about 6 layers of the shotcrete, the final one using pure mix of water and cement. Then when we almost finished with the final section of the eaves, we had the idea of applying a pure cement and water mix, thick enough to be like paste and simply paste the mixture in the areas where the wire mesh is exposed. It would have saved us a lot of time if we did this in the first place. We were a bit distracted because we had a house guest and could not really keep an eye on the work being done. However, the shotcrete work took 7 days to complete the entire patio roof, but not to completely cover it. Now with that pasted on pure mix on the areas that have exposed wires. we will now just have one layer of sprayed on pure cement and water mix.

We will use this method when doing the inside portion of the roof.

We also have applied  layers of the cementitious powermix Bostik on the roof (pictured above). It was tested the same day when rains poured that night. There were no leaks inside the house nor in the inner portion of the patio roof. We plan to have at least 3 layers of Bostik on the main roof and 4 layers on the patio roof.

We anticipate painting the roof this week. We plan to use the Davies Sun and Rain Pale Nile color for the roof. Thankully we found a distributor close to our place with even a cheaper price tag than the other places in the area.

It is supposed to be (officially) summer time now. But we are blessed to have some rains at night to cool of the warm temperatures of the day. It also refills our rain water tanks which is so precious around this time of extreme drought.