Jacob's projects written by Jacob

 

For the last step in our training program (training citizen carpenters), the guys, planned, designed and built a porch. Here it is in the finishing up stages.

They did a great job in making a budget and a plan. Then making that plan work within the budget. It was great to see them really put their skills to the test with this project and produce a really nice porch!

While they worked on the porch, I started my own little project. Drainage and erosion has been a real problem at the guesthouse during rainy season so I built a small retaining wall to level out the land and s lead the water away from the guesthouse.

As you can see, the hill directs the rain right into the guesthouse. Not great during tropical storms!

With the wall complete, we started working on backfilling.

Having a great crew of guys really helps the work go fast and be fun.

The cat also likes to sleep on all the wood that will be turned into cabinets for the flats. This makes getting the wood without making the cat mad very difficult. 

Then it was on to replacing the kitchen in flat two.

After the cabinets were torn out, The ladies put their painting expertise into practice.

While I worked hard in the shop on a new set of cabinets.

After a lot of work, the room and cabinets were finally ready and the fun part of making it all come together could begin.

It is always fun to see a large project finally start to come together after all the work that goes into the preparation and planning!

I have been working on making a metal countertop here in country for a number of years now. The fun part of this is I can do a few custom details that I hope our guests find encouraging.

Just a few more door to make and then I will get to see the finished product.