Almost Built

A few months ago you helped us reach our financial goal to build some deteriorating perimeter walls on part of our property. As you may remember, our goal was (and is) to get the property “job site ready” and for us that means to secure the property with strong perimeter walls (just what you have to do in Brazil) and finish any needed excavation work (a slight grade is also normal in Sao Paulo’s terrain – grade seen in the second picture).
Well, the wall is being built and at present we have finished 70% of the work on the wall. How big is this wall we’re building? Well, it is roughly 100 meters long x 2.2 meters high. That’s 328 ft. long x 7.2 ft. high or 2,368 sq. ft. of wall. That’s a lot of wall! That’s a lot of 8” block!
We were off on our building cost estimates. We had to put more money into the footer and steel (rebar) than we expected due to the poor soil quality – better to build it right once than to build it wrong and have to do it again!
So, we are asking you to consider giving towards this same project to help us finish off this phase of the work that needs done.

Go to our picture page to see the progress... Web Album