With the sickness behind us and a sewing and batiking centre ahead, we’ve had our heads down for the past two weeks pressing on with the job at hand.
The roofing is now complete. After my being stopped by the police twice with 20 8ft long roofing sheets ‘strapped’ to the top of the car, our man Vincent here stepped up and nailed them into place for us. He’s the brother of our cook, a trained welder, and has potential to be a future production manager on the site. One to watch.
The electricians are in, giving us lights, sockets and replacing the stolen wires. They aren’t cheap but we got them down from 1300 GHC to 570 GHC with some negotiation. Lydia
Carpentry, including making doors fit, chiseling, putting in locks and bolts, replacing ceiling mounts and building shelves, falls to Lyd and I to keep costs down…
As does the glass work in the windows. Look at this perfect example of the old ‘score and snap’ technique…
As ever we like to do our own plumbing. We've traced the lines, replaced the broken pipe, but for some reason water doesn't flow to the house toilets or taps. We’re hoping it’s just because the mains are dry at the moment, next week they’ll come back to life and we will know for certain. If it’s a broken PVC pipe in the concrete underground we’re going to have our work cut out finding it, let alone getting it sorted…
There’s still much to do, notably now purchasing all the equipment and raw materials needed to get 2 batikers and 2 seamstresses up and running from 11th Jan. The meeting with potential ‘start-up’ mamas today went well, we know we have 3 out of 4 qualified ladies lined up for the first day. One more to find.
Sweating all day has never been so much fun.
Tim & Lyd x
Tim - your Grandad would have been very proud of your building skills - keep up the good work both of you! Dad x
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