Go BackLow-cost Houses for Mexicali: Step-by-step construction process using cement interlocking block for foundation and walls and light-weight concrete for vaults – Photographs
01/01/1976Thirty three photos grouped in sets illustrating the sequence of the construction operations in the project, and specifically the nineteen out of the twenty three construction steps.
Photograph:
- Step1 - Lay out stakes
- Step2 - Excavate and neutralize soil
- Step2 - Excavate and neutralize
- Step3 - Place corner stones
- Step3 - Place corner stones
- Step4 - Place wall foundations
- Step4 - Place wall foundations
- Step5 - Prepare slab
- Step5 - Prepare slab
- Step6 - Place under-slab plumbing
- Step7 - Pour slab
- Step7 - Pour slab
- Step8 - Erect columns
- Step8 - Erect columns
- Step9 - Erect walls between the columns
- Step9 - Erect walls between the columns
- Step9 - Erect walls between columns
- Step10 - Install door frames
- Step11 - Build perimeter beams
- Step11 - Build perimeter beams
- Step12 - Weave roof baskets
- Step13 - Erect gable ends
- Step14 - Install electrical circuit
- Step15 - Place roof first coat
- Step16 - Place roof top coat
- Step17 - Install window frames
- Step18 - Paint walls, roofs and trim
- Step18 - Paint walls, roofs and trim
- Step23 - Lay brick floors on walks and arcade
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