Hi everyone
It's been a while, I skipped a couple of weeks to get things going on our project!
Last time I wrote we had finished 3 slices of the roof. In the meantime, we finished the 4 next ones and completed the roof.
Eventually we were able to do a complete layer in one day, the second one on top the following day, and move the wooden structure the third day.
We held off laying the last slice to finish the front wall (and be eventually able to attach the ceiling to it), making a door lintel out of cinderblocks and reinforced concrete.
The suspense was high whether we would have enough bricks to finish the project and it turned out we had just 3 extra at the end!
One of the bricks revealed a handwritten signature which turns out to mean "Ludwig Herman". We are still investigating who and when :)
Next, we will spend many hours cleaning the grout from the inside to free the bricks and make nice regular joints. Then we will insulate the outside with a pond liner and cover the root cellar under a thick layer of dirt.
See you soon!
We ordered this device to inject the mortar:
and some powdered iron oxide to give a darker tone to the mortar, we like it better with the color of the bricks. When all this arrives, we can continue