More Techo Nuevo Construction

It took about 2 weeks to build the techo nuevo and many days there were 5 guys working on it. It is being "stick-built", but it is not wood - every piece of metal has to be welded in place. In fact, the metal is all galvanized. The galvanizing must be sanded off where the weld will be or it won't take. Then, after the weld, it must be painted with a protective coating so it won't rust where the galvanizing was removed. Quite a process!

Normally, the roof panels would have to be painted, but there was a sale on pre-painted panels the week we purchased them. Yay! The choice was red or green (or was it blue?). Anyway, we chose red which seems to be the most popular there.

In the photo below, see how the wall is running lower in height from right to left? The original (relatively flat) roof apparently was pitched that way for water drainage.

We weren't there when the roof was finished. These are the last photos we were there to take.

On March 30th, Kevin let us know that the techo nuevo was termino!