ROOFING the DORMITORY

Soil completing the foundations

With the foundations only days away from being finished, it is time for Big John to start fine-tuning the later stages of construction.   From the first set of photos you can see brick walls demarcating each room but now these sections are filled with soil for workers to then lay the concrete, therein completing the foundations.  

Engineer Toni is in charge of paying his labourers and managing the site, while it is Big John who"shops around" to source all the materials.  Yesterday we met with the roofing specialist from a large company in Jinja on site who provided us with this quote:

Provisional Roofing Budget

Item	Quantity	Unit cost	Total spent        (UGshs)
Timber 4x2	330	5000	1,650,000
Timber 3x2	230	4000	920,000
Timber 8x1	70	15,000	1,050,000
Timber 6x2	70	10,000	700,000
Timber 4x3	37	10,000	370,000
Timber 6x2	70	10,000	700,000
Iron Sheets	280	50,000	14,000,000
Riges	50	20,000	1,000,000
Valley	7	20,000	140,000
Nails 6	30	4,500	135,000
Nails 4	40	4,500	160,000
Nails 3	25	4,500	112,500
Nails 2.5	15	4,500	67,500
Nails 1.5	40	4,500	180,000
Roofing Nails	50 kg	4,500	225,000
Plastic Cover	6 packets	20,000	120,000
Hop Iron	4	35,000	140,000
Labor			1,000,000
			22,670,000 USD $9,857