The Wall - Building the new

In Brasil they love to build walls. Some walls show property lines and others, like this one are built for privacy. Here the crew of two start to double the thickness of the wall and then start to go higher. Unbelievably high!




This wall was originally braced by a large shed at the base. They tore it down and had to reinforce the wall so they made it twice as thick with new vertical supports as can be seen here.





Then they started to build up from this point.





They went higher and higher. The question became "How high would the go?"





They went so high they had to put vertical bracing higher.





Then they parged the walls.





Here the guy parges the lower wall.





He puts a real good coat of cement and bonding agent on the wall.





They capped off the big wall and continued to parge it.





They had to keep it wet until they parged it all.

















Here you see one of the workers parging the back side of the wall.





With the big walls done they started on the low perimeter walls. They tore down the old walls first.





The low perimeter walls are all removed.





Now they have started to rebuild the low perimeter walls.





They also built a new concrete power service pole and entrance way.





Work continues on finishing the perimeter walls.











These perimeter walls went higher than the originals to provide privacy in the back yard.























They built a new gateway as seen from inside the wall.





These walls have now been parged.





Perging was completed inside the perimeter walls.













Now the walls are almost completed.



They continued to build walls to completely enclose the back yard.. Now will they paint or tile the finished project? Time will tell.






Photos by Urso Branco