The Stairway walls are GONE!

Here it is, another month has passed since my last entry.  Despite the Christmas holidays my contractor, Casa Yucatan Construction has made excellent progress on Calle 66.  The second floor has been poured and the bedroom walls are starting to take shape.

Every Friday like clockwork we receive maybe fifteen or so pictures of the previous week’s progress.  This Friday when I opened the pictures, I saw five 8’ walls around the circular staircase and the opening to the 24’ living room area – mistake – oops.  A quick call and presto, they’ve been removed and we continue on.

Guest Bedroom #1

Working on the Pantry Opening

Guest Bedroom #2

We enlarged the three windows in the Living Room

Oops – Staiway Walls

The Living Room Walls are GONE too.

They are planning to get the 12’ Ceilings up on the second floor by the end of next week so then it will be stucco and paint.  I believe that we’re still on schedule for our return to Merida in late April or early May.  Our thoughts are that Deborah and I will likely stay as long as necessary so that we’re there until everything is completed.  Our hopes are that the Master Suite in the rear will be ready with a bed, air, water and a finished bathroom so that we can save the thousands on a rental and put those funds into things for the casa.

We continue to be excited with every minor change.  My contractor even says this place is going to be fantastic as long as we don’t screw it up with “ugly furniture”.

I kinda of thought I was over doing all the updates on our Merida build, so I decided that I’d back off and post an update every three weeks rather than when we received a new batch of photographs each Friday night.

Our interior front door

As you can see from these most recent pictures, we now have a garage.  It’s a little exciting for us because it’s really the first structure that they’ve built since they started August 1st.  Yes, they’ve made some real headway, but for the most part it’s really been one large, rectangular, very high fence.  After the thousands and thousands of dollars we’ve forked out todate, it’s all really been towards the construction of this very large fence.  So to see an actual structure on-site is a good thing.  We’ll be heading down to Merida in 17 short days and we’ll be staying for about a month so that will give me the opportunity to see them put up the second floor of the main house and finish the pool while we’re there.

The demolition continues.  We’re in the 2nd week of demolition and they’re taking out unit A first so that they can get a big machine in to take down the balance of A and then start to tear down Unit B.

Looking East to the Master Suites

Looking East

Stairway to the 2nd floor

View from the street

Push the Wall

And down comes the wall

It’s only nine days since we got INAH approval and we already have walls.  The fellas at Yucatan Construction have done amazing in little more than a week.

Looking East

This last shot is looking towards the east and the Master Suites that will be at the back part of the property.  We’ve just applied for the City Building Permit that apparently shouldn’t take any more than 3 weeks and then the big part of the demolition can take place on the old residences in the front of the lot.