I think it was the unwillingness to admit that the Italian adventure had ended that prevented me from updating the final "after" photos of the house. I can't believe that my time in Italy has already come and gone, and I am now back to daydreaming about Fridays like the rest of the hard-working work force. Oh Fridays, what glorious days they are. Alright, enough about that. It is now time to look back and see a job well done by a very determined machine man and his daughter. Some of the pictures will look familiar, but I needed to repost them in order to show the "before" and "after" shots in the same post. Enjoy!

As you can see behind me to your left, the walls of the house were severely damaged. I did not do a good enough job of documenting exactly how bad they were, but take this as an example and imagine it repeated throughout the house.

Here is another example. To the right of my working station, the command center as I called it, is another big gash in the cement wall. Again, this was the case in most of the downstairs.

And here now is that same wall (of the photo with me in it) where we cemented over the cracks and repainted.

More fixed walls

And more.


Ok last shot of fixed walls!

Here is a photo detailing the damage to the out side wall.

More damage, this time it's on the wall on the right side of the house.

Here is the work in progress, this is a first layer of cement that is being applied to the wall. In the most damaged areas of the wall we had to apply many layers. So, we would have to apply the cement, wait for it to dry and do it all over again. Often, this was done up to four times.

Another work in progress shot. This part had the deepest gashes, and where we applied the most cement.

Here is the front wall - also work in progress.

And here is the side of the house all fixed! (or as best as we could based on our scrappy abilities!)

And here is the ceiling of the Portico, quite a bit damaged!

And here it is all fixed! Whoohoo!