A building engineer reports from overcast Curahuasi
Dear Friends of Diospi Suyana, I sitting in my small office-hut whilst writing to you. As I look outside I see cold, wet and nasty weather, low cloud obscures the view onto the mountains and is it raining. This period of bad weather comes regularly in mid-July in the middle of the dry season.
But the rain does not affect us much: even without a roof the building’s upper storey is protected by its concrete ceiling and we have built a small roof over the hole for the stairwell.
The roof construction has been dismantled and has been carefully put to one side, since it will be used again once the new storey has been erected. The dismantling and the bringing down by hand of the heavy hip and roof ridge rafters and the purlins went better than expected. Using the roughly 3metre higher bypass track we let the material slide down a slanting slope.
At this location we will build a more stable and safer ramp that workers and equipment can use.
I have ordered the necessary building materials and hope that we can get started properly next week. Wishing you a blessed weekend, Udo
