Work on the new project begins

Sasha

Today some of the students were working with Garry and Max on taking down walls inside the new new house project, and cleaning and stacking whole and partial bricks to be reused later in the septic system that will be dug.

Karina hard at work

Julia stacking bricks

As you can see this house is big, but in worse shape than last year's house since no one has lived in it since we moved to the village at least.

A little clean up to finish from the attic

Meanwhile, most of the boys were working on drilling a new well at the girls' house today. While Garry and Max were working on the attic insulation project they found a few maintenance projects there, including the fact that the well was dirty and in need of repair so they decided to make a new one. Garry says they got about eight meters down today. You may remember that Garry helped drill one the same way in October at the new house.

it's a long pole

Smile! left to right- Kolya, Nikolai, Andrei and Valera

cleaning out the muck

 Garry answered a question on this post--

We have an auger that we turn by hand and make a 10 inch hole. We then insert a 8 inch plastic sewer pipe with holes drilled in the bottom 15 feet. This one is about 35 feet deep but some we have had to go 80 feet and they take several days. Average wages in Ukraine are about $150 per month so we do a lot by hand. 

The foundation of the addition to the girls' house is ready to go when help arrives.