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something different
older houses had a shape but people now demands something else
with better quality
and, of course, at lower costs
but with quality, not losing the quality
With the engineer we've been improving, researching, and we've cutting the weight
In fact, we made a big one never done before here
It's four meters long
They used to say
It's hard to do it, because will get broke, No, we did it, no plastic
We achieve the exact weight
and we go on forward If we made a 4 meter long
We can make a 4 and a half, a five and even a 6 meters long
We have no problems with that
allways with the same quality
with the same strenght
because everything is vision, to move forward
We started with some problems
This is a technology
pretty unknow here
but it is very well known in other countries as in Cuba
We begun
With social projects
Social housing with ferrocement walls and microconcrete roof tiles
However we had a problem
in the manufacturing
of the ferrocement walls
The problems we had were
some cracks in the panel
some cracks get formed
so, it looked bad
Besides, could be dangerous
when you put the wall in place
and of course, the aesthetics
Then, I change the production team
with Don Emiliano
We thought what can we do about it, what must be done
to overcome those details
We check the dosification
We looked at the amount of water
We analize the kind of aditives
In the first stage, we achieve two very important things
Get rid of the cracks in the wall
and unmolding at the first 24 hours
Before that, you had to wait for two days
We have the philosophy of constant improving our work
Not to be still with the walls
We can unmold at 24 hours We get rid of the cracks
We won't stop there, we want more
Other issue we dealt with was
to make the walls with the correct thicknes
In the design, the walls must be between
2.5 and 3 centimethers thick
Before it was up to 4 centimeters, too thick, too heavy
a waste of cement and materials
Now we acomplish that and the walls are with the exact measure
as they must be
Show me where did you live before
In this little house. My father still lives here
Where is your father?
He went to the predication
- To the church? - Yes, yes
You lived here with your dad, your son and two grandchildren
Yes. And my daughter and her husband, all scrambled.
- Where does she live? - They still live there
I live in the new house
- You have more room now - Yes, yes