The mix is flicked onto the wall and then initially smoothed over with a two-foot long straight edge and finally with the wooden float. Nylon line, zig-zagged across the wall surface, is used as a guide to the finished surface level.

Cement work around one of the lounge windows takes place, as well as laying hollow blocks onto the patio footings.

The bedroom floor area was cleared of soil, and the first piece of electrical conduit was set in place in the patio.

Work also starts on making up the roof trusses, using 3-inch and 6-inch "C" purlins which have been painted with red oxide.

Due to the very limited electrical layout, the welding machine has to be "hard wired" in (the white wire).

Once one truss has been accurately measured and made up, it is used as a template and others are made up on top of it.

When completed, they were man-handled onto the top of the bungalow and positioned across pairs of concrete posts. Where the four rebars extended out of the top of the posts they were bent over the truss and welded to it.

End of week five!