This is so incredible to watch, you feel like you're one of the hermits :D

Une du journal communiste italien "il manifesto" du 2 juillet 2024

Veni vidi Vichy

Le gouvernement a ouvert la porte à la droite, et en anticipant le vote, il l'a ouverte en grand. Et maintenant Macron reste vague sur la désolidarisation (?) avec le Front populaire, et beaucoup de macroniens la rejettent. La gauche avec ses candidats fait "barrage", mais le second tour risque de ramener la France à son passé noir.

Hi everyone

It's been a while, I skipped a couple of weeks to get things going on our project!

Last time I wrote we had finished 3 slices of the roof. In the meantime, we finished the 4 next ones and completed the roof.

Eventually we were able to do a complete layer in one day, the second one on top the following day, and move the wooden structure the third day.

We held off laying the last slice to finish the front wall (and be eventually able to attach the ceiling to it), making a door lintel out of cinderblocks and reinforced concrete.

The suspense was high whether we would have enough bricks to finish the project and it turned out we had just 3 extra at the end!

One of the bricks revealed a handwritten signature which turns out to mean "Ludwig Herman". We are still investigating who and when :)

Next, we will spend many hours cleaning the grout from the inside to free the bricks and make nice regular joints. Then we will insulate the outside with a pond liner and cover the root cellar under a thick layer of dirt.

See you soon!

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Finally i'm gonna be able to contribute!

Hi! Ich baue aktuell einen Erdkeller mit einem Tonnengewölbe aus Ziegelsteine die von alten Gebäuden gewonnen wurden.

Beim Säubern habe ich eine Handschrift unter dem Kalkzement enthüllt und wundere was es bedeutet. Kann jemand hier vielleicht helfen? Danke ☺️

Die obere Zeile sieht wie "Ludwig" aus

Ich habe auch versucht auf dem Foto die Rinnen nachzumalen, vielleicht hilft das?

Mehr über das Bauprojekt hier 1/2 und hier 2/2

Hello everyone! Thank you for all the positive comments last week.

We managed to double the length of the vaulted roof, laying the 3rd and 4th slice, in four 3 to 4-hour sessions.

The bricks are from old dismantled buildings, still covered in lime cement and need to be submerged in water and brushed individually. My SO is doing the laying, and I'm cleaning + assessing each brick.

We also get better with putting a smaller amount of grout to avoid spilling, because it's going to be a lot of work to clean all the joints.

This week, we expect to be able to lay 2 additional rows, and next week do the last slice, finish the door lintel (new word!) and front wall.

Lastly, a picture of me, because you know, we're getting familiar in the c/Do It Yourself family <3 Have a great week everyone!

Decided to build something rather complex as a first project and it's proving challenging at ever step of the way, but I'm really proud of how it's turning out.

We'll have a lot of work to clean the joints but it's going to be worth it I think. Something for the generations to come, if it doesn't collapse :-)