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This is a picture of the old
plywood cabin, when it was covered with nylon-cement and incorporated
into the larger structure of the house. When the plywood roof
rotted, I removed it and built a cement dome room over the entire
remaining structure, leaving the original walls and raised floor.
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This is my favorite
fishnet. It has small holes and can be plastered fairly easily up
in the air. With larger mesh fishnet, the cement falls through
the holes.
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This is my original plywood
cabin. It was 12 by 16 feet,. I prefabricated it where I
was living at the time in Ensenada and with a little bit of help from
my friends put it up in about a week. The window shutters hinged
upward like awnings, and were held by prop sticks.
Being raised on posts, I had storage for materials underneath.
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This is a view of the interior
of the upstairs bedroom. The outside has been plastered and the
rebar is still exposed on the inside.
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This picture shows part of the
rope and pully system I used to raise buckets of dirt from the bottom
of the vertical shaft in my livingroom. The shaft is 30 ft.
deep. I dug about 5 or 6 feet, putting "rocks" where I
needed them for climbing, plastered it, and continued digging the next
section. The horrizontal part of the tunnel was also dug and
plastered in sections.
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Since we have hurricanes in
Puerto Rico, I needed a hurricane shelter. It was a small
ferro-cement room where I was first inspired to use nylon-cement to
line a storage hole in the ground. Since the whole house is now
hurricane-proof (knock on cement), I use the original hurricane shelter
as a storage room.
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This is a view from inside the
cabin. I had floor-to-ceiling storage on all the walls, and my
bed in an overhead loft. There was a skylight for rainy
days. I had gas lights in my first years. It was small, but
everything was handy.
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