Stage One! The busy week…

Sunday 4^th August saw the start of a very busy week for renovation. The fundi came in, decided we needed a new floor (rather than filling in the deep pot holes) and started smashing up the concrete. On Monday 5^th he was clearing out the rubble and preparing the cracks in the wall for filling. By Tuesday he had started laying the cement! This meant we had to start on other aspects like getting quotes for the different materials and carpenters, and starting on stamping the READ logo in the back covers of the donated books.

4/8/13 Fundi removing the concrete top 

5/8/13 Fundi preparing floor for concrete

5/8/13 Crack filling

Concrete done!

Wednesday called for a big clean of the outside front wall and after lunch we started painting the outside wall white! :D The transformation begins! The donated paint came in a 20lt bag which needed watering down, although the suggested paint to water ratio made the mixture really quite thin. We had to paint the outside wall with two coats, which was difficult as it was a bobbly cement wall. We had the fundi paint some of the top as we couldn’t reach and didn’t have a ladder, and we felt he was better off standing on the tables to get to the top!

 By Friday the inside had been cleaned and the first two coats had gone on. Almost time to add the splashes of READ blue!