tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841242797858533532024-02-07T14:03:34.914+10:00Genzano it storyWELCOME TO OUR BLOG OF GENZANO IT STORY; THIS BLOG WILL BE USED TO POST OUR OWN TEXT ABOUT GENZANO AND ONE OF ITS CITIZEN STORY, AND TO HOUSE A COLLECTION OF ALL PHOTOS AND ARTICLES ABOUT GENZANO DI LUCANIA THAT WE FIND OR WRITE AND WE THINK THAT ARE WORTH TO POST.Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-79076381489449364872023-12-10T14:48:00.013+10:002023-12-12T15:40:11.161+10:00Bricklaying work is competitive. <div>WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We are also writing several blogs about the Australian housing problems, to</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> read all the blogs of this selected group about rentals click on this link, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120477086741523482/1537924754103915685"><span style="color: blue;">http://menfranco.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div><div>Now, let me paste of few links of my other blogs. </div><div>(<span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,) (</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfrancore.blogspot.com/</span></a>,) (<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/</span></a>,)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0062b5; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com</span></a>,) </span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">This blog can be found in full at this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-be-competitive"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">Bricklaying is competitive</span></a>. </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjflgP2eyNk8climvUzFOwr8NBBxCWmY-CTrj3iyWhUDIeeYLWkyOC2X_GQMhg6QagmBVEJua3mHuUCzT-7Mp3fRWw3UIhzzBceuGtKkd_kG2AwZ3lbo7Ppcusidr0axW0TuF2uFYjmnqXVpaPfWHwmpDRvXwRke_bPHWove60j4x8AgE0nfYGXu6dJs80/s260/Blockwork%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="260" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjflgP2eyNk8climvUzFOwr8NBBxCWmY-CTrj3iyWhUDIeeYLWkyOC2X_GQMhg6QagmBVEJua3mHuUCzT-7Mp3fRWw3UIhzzBceuGtKkd_kG2AwZ3lbo7Ppcusidr0axW0TuF2uFYjmnqXVpaPfWHwmpDRvXwRke_bPHWove60j4x8AgE0nfYGXu6dJs80/w400-h240/Blockwork%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Brickwork and Blockwork is a hard job to do, because most times people are paid according to how many bricks or blocks they can lay in one day. So, it is a very competitive job. Anyhow, we will explain all this is this article. Here I want to add, that this is how we were working un the past, when we were building many affordable houses. </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Welcome to our article, <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-be-competitive"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; line-height: 14.98px;">Bricklaying is competitive</span></a>.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Building workers
need to be competitive</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">It is a well-known fact that whatever we do in life, we need to
be competitive these days, therefore we would like to do it better and faster
than somebody else. Most people have this inborn need to excel in whatever we
do; and those that don’t fall in this category, because they don’t care to do
better usually they become losers, so, we are forced to act one way or another.
For these reasons, we always try to challenge ourselves; we have to do that to
be successful in life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">This need to do things better and faster also applies to the
building industry, because the building industry needs to be competitive,
perhaps to a higher degree than other industries, therefore it is very
important that we would be able to build better and cheaper houses, because
that is the only way that the buyers would be able to afford them, whatever
they are houses or apartments, and then, when they are sold, the builders could
build another one to sell again, since the builder needs money to build houses.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">As we have said, we know that in whatever activities we are able
to perform, we would like to do that better and faster, so that we can beat our
competitors; so, all the trade people that work in the building are constantly
looking for ways to improve their output; you see a tradesman needs to perform
well, if he is going to be employed from a builder or contractor, because he
needs to perform well to earn his wage and a bit more for his employer. So, if
you are a bricklayer you must be able of laying a certain number of bricks or
blocks per day before you would be employable, of course this can vary greatly
depending on the job that needs to be done. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Now, in some of our previous building articles we have talked
about brickwork, we have started with, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Building-brick-base-for-houses"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">DIY brickwork</span></a>, <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then we have written<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Building-a-brick-base"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Building a brick base</span></a>, <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">and then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/House-brick-base-continues"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">House brick base continues</span></a>, <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">so, we have talked about a
fair bit how to lay bricks in these three articles, anyhow these three articles
were written to show some people, how to lay bricks and how to go about
building this brick base, of course we have also pointed out how to lay more
bricks by using bricklayers’ profiles and other things, but the aim was mostly
for people that were not real tradesmen. But what we are writing here-under is
for more advanced builders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">For the block
layer tradesman. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Now, this sub-article here, we are writing it for the block-layer
tradesmen, because we would like the block layer tradesmen to challenge
themselves and see if what we are claiming here could be done more than just a
few times; of course, to do that, we are going to show you how you could lay
more Besser blocks in one day that you did before, but you need to follow some
rules that we have found helpful ourselves. In this example we are going to
make it easy and we are going to talk only about straight forward work,
otherwise it is going to be very hard to achieve and also to explain or measure
what we want to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">As we all know, for the bricklayer to lay blocks is even harder
than laying bricks, because the blocks are heavy, each block needs to be lifted
with both hands and carefully placed softly on the mortar bed that the block
layer has laid, so it is hard to lay many blocks in one day, but there are ways
to make it a bit easier and a block layer could be able to lay up to 250 in one
day, when the job is easy enough to do; so let us see how that could be done. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Now it is necessary to explain to the public, what happens in
the building industry and how many bricks or blocks a tradesman is supposed to
lay in one day. In the building industry the best tradesman would exaggerate a
bit their capacity of laying so many bricks or blocks per day, so, we go around
boasting that we are able to lay 1000 common bricks, or over 500 face bricks,
or 200 eight inches Besser blocks in a single day. Here we need to say that
perhaps we have done it once or twice ourselves, and we want to boast about it,
as if we could do it every day; but really that is hard to achieve, anyhow if
you have been able of laying down that many bricks or block even one time in
your life, you are a very good tradesman. Now the reality is that on average,
when we work on houses or small building at the end of a job the figure could
be half of what we are boasting about. Now that we have explained that let us
see how we could do even better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">--------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Laying 250
Besser blocks in one day: </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Now, let us forget about the average number or bricks or blocks
that can be laid in one day, and let us concentrate on what we have said above,
where we were able to lay 200 Besser block in one day and that is very hard
even for a good tradesman, so, since we claim that we are going to be able to
lay 250 eight inches blocks in one day, we need to explained it clearly, how it
could be done, and that is what we are going to do just now here under: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">In order for a block layer to be able of laying 250 blocks in
one day, everything and every movement should be planed, so that there is no
waste of time and energies. So, how could we achieve those 250 numbers of
blocks to be laid is explained here under.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Now, to do that, it should be a straight forward job, let us say
the walls are long and you are on a level platform, let us assume that we are
working on a concrete slab, so the place is level and there is plenty of room
to move around, the walls have been marked where they should be, so all you
have to do is to lay these eight inches’ blocks. Now to do this job efficiently
it required team work, so, if you are the block layer, you need to instruct
your labor how you want to set up your mortar board and the blocks that you should
lay. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Ideally you want the mortar boards to be set off the ground, so,
the labour should put a couple of blocks on the slab and set the mortar board
on them, they need to be set at least two feet from the wall and about 6 to 8
feet apart, you see here you want to give more room to the labour for the
blocks; then instruct you labour that when he brings the blocks he should set
the blocks between the mortar boards standing up, so that you don’t have to handle
the blocks many times; this is how the labour should set everything up. But
what’s about you the block layer; what do you need and how you proceed to lay
those 250 blocks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">--------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The block layer
procedure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">The block layer first of all lays one block in each corner; and
then he stretches his bricklayer line between these two blobs and lays the
first course of blocks as usual making sure that all blocks are straight and
have an even vertical joint, if everything is done the correct way, because the
blocks have been made to cover 400 mm each in the wall, but their true length
is 390 mm, if you measure the wall it should be an even number divisible by 100
mm and minus 10 mm. So if a wall is 10 metres long and you follow this rule
strictly, you will end up with a wall 9.990 meters long, of course this could
easily be adjusted from the block layer by making a few joints bigger or
smaller as required. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">The reason why, we have written about these lengths above is
that we want to point out to some people that want to lay blocks themselves how
to work with blocks, so, let us explain it in another way: when we work with
blocks it is a lot easier for us to follow the gauge, because they have been
made to cover an even number when laid, so, a 200 series block is 390 mm long
190 mm wide and 190 mm high, but when laid in the wall because we have to add
the mortar joint it covers 400 mm in length and 200 mm high, so this is the
gauge that needs to be kept, of course sometimes the length in the building do
not work with the length of the blocks and this may cause a few problems; but
whatever problems there might be, it is advisable that you don’t try too hard
to adjust it by making the joints too big or too small; you can try to make the
bed and vertical joint smaller if possible and it is still going to be a good
job done, but if you try to make them bigger it becomes very unsightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Of course, now we need still to write how a tradesman block
layer could be able to lay 250 blocks in one day, in order to lay that many
blocks he must set everything the right way from the start, so, let us describe
how that could be achieved. We have mentioned above a wall about ten meters
long, but it could be any length as long as it is not very short you can use
the following method. After laying the first course of blocks you build the two
corners, say four blocks high and you set your bricklayer line on these
corners. Now make sure that your labour has brought the blocks and placed them
between the mortar boards standing up us we have described above, this will
save you the bricklayer to lift the blocks in that position before you place
the mortar on them for the vertical joints. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Okay, everything is ready to go, tell the labour that he can wet
the boards and fill them with fresh mortar; now pick up a plaster hawk and your
bricklayer trowel, fill up the hawk from the mortar board and start laying the
mortar on the block ribs on both sides, you see the blocks ribs are narrow and
you cannot use a full trowel of mortar straight from the board, well you can
but it is going to be hard to drop the right amount of mortar on the ribs, so
by using the hawk you can pick up a small amount of mortar from it and place is
straight on the block ribs, by doing this you will be able to lay your mortar
bed a lot faster without bending to many times, so you can save time and
energy, it is up to you if you lay the mortar bed for the entire course, or only
part of it, it may depend on the length of the wall and other factor, and a
good bricklayer knows what to do just by observing a few things; now that you
have laid the mortar bed place some mortar for the vertical joint on the blocks
that are already standing up, then leave your hawk and trowel on the mortar
board; you see you have to leave these tools there because you need both hands
free to lift up the blocks, here you have a choice, you can lift just one block
carefully lay it on the mortar without squashing it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and tap it into position with your trowel and
when necessary even a hammer, now you can lift one block at a time and tap it
into position, or a few blocks and then tap them into position, it is up to you
whichever way you prefer. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Anyhow, what we
have written above is how you could be able to lay more blocks with less
effort, it is worth to try, as we have tried it and it works. I hope that I
have been able to explain this procedure clear enough for our readers to
follow. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">This is all for this article, see you in our next article, </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIW-house-repairs"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b;">D.I.W. house repairs</span></a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">To see more click on this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-be-competitive"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">Bricklaying is competitive</span></a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">--------------------------------------- </span></p></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-70608724533917968072023-09-15T13:27:00.013+10:002023-09-15T15:20:08.659+10:00Mix your own cement, part two <div><div>WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We are also writing several blogs about the Australian housing problems, to</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> read all the blogs of this selected group about rentals click on this link, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120477086741523482/1537924754103915685"><span style="color: blue;">http://menfranco.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div><div>Now, let me paste of few links of my other blogs. </div><div>(<span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,) (</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfrancore.blogspot.com/</span></a>,) (<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/</span></a>,)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0062b5; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com</span></a>,) </span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">This blog can be found in full at this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a>. </div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CGEQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikihow.com%2FMake-Concrete-Even-Stronger&ei=AHYBVMjFDIi0uATFkIGwCg&usg=AFQjCNHNamOU00_sEnRpTjoOX9zXaW_-kQ"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">How to Make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099;">Concrete</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">Even Stronger: 6 Steps (with Pictures)</span></a> </span></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLNXnVGBKlyaMmr3ZJSZ7NqoHOr28WBDybRr25UPpDLpz9QdTRrnwOe6c6e4P1VBk5OSNKNWiWHh-jNlwLQbIeielnp5Jcn3pDFU0xadhh0cCrFxNClNPi4DlREUZ6nE-itEPw1XevX08W_70k1n9qyZXxIFQswiU2wvPXfHSM7msqmBdd7w5cQ3fvBiA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="728" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLNXnVGBKlyaMmr3ZJSZ7NqoHOr28WBDybRr25UPpDLpz9QdTRrnwOe6c6e4P1VBk5OSNKNWiWHh-jNlwLQbIeielnp5Jcn3pDFU0xadhh0cCrFxNClNPi4DlREUZ6nE-itEPw1XevX08W_70k1n9qyZXxIFQswiU2wvPXfHSM7msqmBdd7w5cQ3fvBiA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />To make concrete even stronger, you need to use steel rods or mash, and place it in the right position, before you place the concrete, this picture above shows you one exsample. But we must say that usually there are plans to show you what steel to use, and how. hereunder is a link that will help you inderstand some of these issues. </div><div><br /></div><div>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CGEQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikihow.com%2FMake-Concrete-Even-Stronger&ei=AHYBVMjFDIi0uATFkIGwCg&usg=AFQjCNHNamOU00_sEnRpTjoOX9zXaW_-kQ"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">How to
Make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099;">Concrete</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">Even Stronger: 6 Steps
(with Pictures)</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-----------------------------<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Welcome to our blog,</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6933px;"> </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement" style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #551a8b; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> part two. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we have said before, because this article was too long, we have split it, and this is part two, so, to make sense, you should keen in mind what we said in part one, and follow. </span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Mixing mortar, plaster, or cement topping. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, in part one we have described how to mix
concrete by hand and by using a mixer, the same ways can be used to mix mortar
and/or hard plaster or cement topping etc. So now, we do not need to explain
step by step how to mix them, but we will describe only the different amount of
things that are used; but try to remember that when you mix by hand, it is a
lot easier to mix the dry materials first and then add water, but when you use
the mixer it usually is better and quicker to start with the water first. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">To mix mortar for the bricklayer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Just by using brickies loams and Portland
cement, this mixture by volume is most likely 4 part brickies loams to one part
Portland cement, but it could vary from (3 to 1) to (6 to 1) the aim here is to
give the bricklayers what is easy to work with, and at the same time you don’t
want to make the mortar a lot stronger than the bricks when it dries, and you
don’t want to make it too weak for the job you are doing, so, it makes sense to
see what the bricklayer reckons is good enough for the job; sometimes when
making mortar you can replace part of the Portland cement with hydrated lime,
plus other things to make the mortar easy to work with. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mortar for cement blocks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">The mortar for cement block is usually three
parts fine plaster sand and one-part cement, it is a bit different from the brickie’s
loams, as it is thicker and stronger and very close to the block’s colours when
dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">To mix cement plaster to plaster walls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This mixture is usually 3 parts plaster sand
and 1 part Portland cement, in some countries where lime is easier to have than
cement it can be made by using a mixture of lime and cement for the interior,
we believe that there are a lot of old places that they have used lime only,
the cement mixture is used wherever it is too wet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cement topping. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This mixture is usually 3 parts river sand to
1 part Portland cement; it can be used straight on the cement if it is still
green, but when the cement is dry you need to make sure it is clean and rough
for the cement to bond, you may have to use tools to indent the existing
concrete, then you have to wet the cement and also you may need to use some
cement bounding agent and/or paint to concrete with this cement glue called
Weldbond or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bondcrete or whatever and
place the topping cement according to the instruction supplied, if these
concrete glues are not available, you have to wet the concrete that you have to
lay the topping on, then make some slur of water and cement and somehow work it
in with a brush as if you paint the concrete, and before this starts drying lay
your topping on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">These three mixtures plus the concrete are
the main things that are required when we build with cement, of course, for
those people that do not know how the different materials look like, is still
hard to understand the hole procedure, but if they read a few times what we
have said, they should have a fair idea of what we are talking about. Anyhow, I
have described several things already, but I think that I need to describe how
to mix mortar with lime only, as it was done in the old days and here I am not
talking just hydrated lime that you can buy at the hardware store, but I am
talking about quick-lime as it comes from the kiln and slacked lime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-----------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.5pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt;">Lime use in building. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Quick-Lime and slacked or hydrated lime <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Today when we talk about lime, we
see a bag of white powder that we buy at the hardware store, we know that we
can use this powder to replace some cement when we make mortar, but we don’t
know much more than that, But lime is a lot more than just a white powder in a
bag, because lime is one of those materials that has been and is being used a
lot in many ways, its’ largest use is in making mortar for the master builders,
but it has other uses also. So, let us talk about lime and where it comes from,
so that we can understand its several uses, of course,
here we are mainly interested about its use in the building industry for making
mortar etc. But there is more to say about lime, but before we do that let us
check out how the Wikipedia explains quick lime etc. Where you can find a lot
of information about lime if you care to know, click on the links. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://search.tb.ask.com/search/redirect.jhtml?pn=1&ct=RR&action=click&redirect=GGmain.jhtml&cb=AW6&pg=GGmain&p2=%5EAW6%5Exdm005%5EYYA%5Eau&n=77fd5af9&qid=ebaaaecab0714961bfb98c3c721b4038&ss=sub&st=kwd&ptb=8501E823-AA9B-44EF-9DAD-50A7C2CB556A&si=COaSrKuN6LkCFWwxpgodyR0AhQ&ord=8&searchfor=Slaked%20or%20Hydrated%20Lime&&tpr=jrel3&ots=1384931301326"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3300b5; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Slaked or</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3300b5; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3300b5; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hydrated</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3300b5; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3300b5; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lime</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">From the Wikipedia: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Calcium oxide</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">(<b>CaO</b>),
commonly known as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quicklime</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>burnt
lime</b>, is a widely used</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_compound" title="Chemical compound"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">chemical
compound</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. It is a white,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(substance)" title="Caustic (substance)"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">caustic</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali" title="Alkali"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">alkaline</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal" title="Crystal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">crystalline</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">solid at room temperature. The broadly used
term "</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(material)" title="Lime (material)"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">lime</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">"
connotes calcium-containing inorganic materials, which include carbonates,
oxides and hydroxides of calcium, silicon, magnesium, aluminium, and iron
predominate, such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">limestone</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. By
contrast, "quicklime" specifically applies to a single chemical
compound.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Quicklime is relatively
inexpensive. Both it and a chemical derivative (calcium hydroxide) are
important commodity chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium" title="Calcium"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">Calcium</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide" title="Oxide"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">oxide</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">is usually made by the thermal decomposition of
materials such as</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">limestone</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, that
contain<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate" title="Calcium carbonate"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">calcium
carbonate</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">(CaCO<sub>3</sub>;
mineral<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcite" title="Calcite"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">calcite</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">) in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_kiln" title="Lime kiln"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">lime kiln</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. This is accomplished by heating
the material to above<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>825 °C<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1,517 °F),</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide#cite_note-merck-5"><sup><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></sup></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">a process called</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcination" title="Calcination"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">calcination</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>lime-burning</i>, to liberate a
molecule of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">carbon
dioxide</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">(CO<sub>2</sub>);
leaving quicklime. The quicklime is not stable and, when cooled, will<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_process" title="Spontaneous process"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">spontaneously</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">react with CO<sub>2</sub><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from the air until, after enough time,
it will be completely converted back to calcium carbonate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Annual worldwide production of
quicklime is around 283 million metric tons. China is by far the world's
largest producer, with a total of around 170 million metric tons per year. The
United States is the next largest, with around 20 million metric tons per year.</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide#cite_note-6"><sup><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></sup></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">As we have said, lime has been used for a
very long time its use could be prehistoric, nobody seems to know when it was
first used in making mortar and plaster for buildings and for other things, it
was/is used even to disinfect places, when there is no much else to use, and I
know that there is a lot more to say about the use of lime even today; up to
the time when I was young it was used even to whitewash the walls in spring
once a year, after a long winter all the walls were darkened with smoke,
because if you wanted to keep warm you needed to light a fire in the chimney,
so, the smoke of the fire would find the way into the rooms instead of going
all up the chimney, I am pretty sure that even today this is the cheapest way
of cleaning rustic building, as, it is one of the cheapest ways to make
everything clean. But let us tell you it’s use as a building material to make
mortar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">--------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.5pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt;">From quick lime to hydrated lime. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">From quick lime to slacked lime the old ways <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Here we are talking about the late forties
and early fifties, when I was young learning what was happening around me, so,
hereunder we will be writing about what I saw and learned at that time about
lime products and its uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the town where I come from in southern
Italy; in the early fifties when there was a new building to be build or
alterations to existing buildings to be done, one of the first things we would
see was that the master builder would get ready a good supply of slacked lime,
because this was one of the most important building materials, he needed to do
the job. In those times bagged hydrated lime and cement was very expensive, and
bagged cement has a short life shelving span, as it reacts when humidity
infiltrate the bags, therefore, most people or builders that needed to build
used lime wherever they could; they would buy quick lime and get it process
immediately on delivery themselves or with the help of the people that
delivered it, of course, one needs to know how to do that, because it is
dangerous while you are doing it. Now, let us see how it was done, and then we
will tell you where else the lime was used. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, the master builder before delivery had
to build a square wall like a box, and in this large box he would process the quick
lime, because the quick lime cannot be held the way it is for any length of
time, because it reacts to humidity and violently to water, so, it is necessary
that it is turned into slacked lime as soon as possible after delivery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay,
the cart or the lorry is on the way, so, the master builder gets his worker to
start filling the pit with water, and when the quick lime arrives they start
carefully throwing this burned lime stones into the pit in very small
quantities, as soon as the quick lime comes in contact with the water it reacts
and the water starts boiling, everybody is banned to approach the pit accept
the people that must work there, and they ware some protective gear, because it
is dangerous to handle quick-lime and around the pit, this process goes on
until all the quick lime is thus treated, once they have done that it is left
to cool down for a few days; after it has cooled down it is a lot less
dangerous, but still you need to be careful near the lime pit. You see, the
lime pit is now filled up with slacked lime, which looks like curd when you
make cheese, but it is still dangerous and it can easily kill you if you fall
in it, its contend must be handled with caution, but anyhow the slacked lime is
now ready to be used, this is how the builders used to get ready the lime to
make mortar. Now to use this lime to make mortar is different from using bagged
hydrated lime or cement; so, we are going to tell you how to make mortar with
slacked lime. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.5pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt;">How to make mortar with slacked
lime. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This is how I know it was done in the old
time, perhaps for thousands of years, anyhow, let me describe the procedure. Let
us suppose that you have the slacked lime in the pit or in a container; you
have brickies loams or fine sand, so, let us start: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Start by making a hip of your sand on a
platform; now that you have done that, make a well in the centre and place your
slacked lime in it. The quantities in here may vary a lot more than when we use
cement or hydrated bagged lime, because the slacked lime can be as liquid as
thickened cream to as compact as feta cheese, so, you have to learn as you go
about the quantities, but if you have mixed mortar before, you soon work it out
yourself, or if there is any tradesman that is going to use the mortar he can
tell you just by looking at the mortar being done, whether you need more lime
or more sand and water etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Okay, now that you have the lime in the
middle of the sand, with a Larry start pushing this devise up and down through
the lime by adding a bit of water as needed and slowly mixing some sand with
the lime; you need to do this until you have mixed the whole lot evenly. This
is hard work but that is how it was done when there were no mixer and no bagged
hydrated lime around. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Here we need to note that this mixing of
slacked lime to mix mortar is completely different from mixing other mixture,
because the slacked lime is already wet, and it is like a paste. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now, let me talk about, lime use in farming. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.5pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt;">Lime use in farming. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">You know, lime is a very useful commodity, in
fact they are countless places where we can use it, I only happen to know a few
of them, so, let me say a few things about how we were using lime in our small
family farm at the time when I was young, just the way I remember it: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">We would use it like the builders use it when
we had to repair or replace a few stone that were falling apart in the old
stone building, so, instead of using clay like the first time, we would mix a
small quantity of mortar using lime and sand; then, we used lime to whitewash
the farm house, the stables, the pig stay, the chicken coop and sheds or other
buildings near the farm house once a year in spring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">We could use it to disinfect stagnant water
ponds that showed signs of vermin, or the water were too dirty, so, we would
dilute some lime in water and then pour it in the water ponds, and next day the
ponds would be clean, as the lime would kill the vermin and would make the
water clear because all the dirt would sink to the bottom of the pond; you see,
in our small farm we used to have a kitchen garden, so, we would dig up a few
ponds beside the garden that would feel up with water during winter or when it
rained, we used this water to water the plants when the soil was becoming too
dry for the garden plants to grow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the farms of those days lime was also used
to spray vines and trees, sometimes there were diseases that could be
controlled by applying a coat of lime to the trunk of those trees; but there is
one thing that always comes to my mind; it is when we were spraying the grape
vines with a copper sulphate and lime, we would have two containers one with
diluted copper sulphate and one with diluted lime, some people used to spray
first with copper sulphate and then with lime, so that they would help each
other to kill the mildew, but my grandma had worked a way how to avoid this
double spraying and it worked thus; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">In those times it was not like today and even
the vine spraying pump was a devise that you would put on your back, and with a
handle that you moved up and down you would spray your vines and trees as well;
this devise could hold about three gallons of liquid, so, every now and then
you needed to fill it up; as I have said we had two containers one holding
diluted copper sulphate and one with diluted lime; (of course you had to know
how much diluted you had to do your mixtures but that does not mutter here this
time) anyhow, when the pump was/is empty you would go to these containers to
fill it up: here is my grandma way to avoid to spray twice, when filling the
pump, first of all you had to make sure than the mixture were well stirred,
then you would put the copper sulphate in the pump and at the last minute you
would add the lime, and immediately start to spray. This was my grandma way and
it worked because the mixture would not have time to settle down and become
stale. There you are this is just another way of how lime is useful in the
farms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, I think that this article is too
long, and I have said enough about how to mix your own cement or mortar, about
lime and lime use in farming, so, see you next time with our article, <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-be-competitive" style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">Bricklaying is competitive</span></a>. </p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;">To see more click on this link, <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement" style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;">.. </span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to our article, <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a>, article one. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear readers, this original article is too long, so, I am making two blogs, ant this is the first blog. Anyhow, here we
want to explain how to mix concrete, in several ways, we are also going to mix
other things as well, and the name mix your own cement covers them all. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The reason why, we are writing this article how to mix your
own cement, it is because we want to pass our knowledge of how these things are
done. So, we are writing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this article for
those people that are willing to do building work themselves, but they need a
bit more knowledge to give them the courage to do it; and above all for those
people that live in poor countries, where building skills and material are
scarce, therefore, they need some knowledge to try building themselves, as long
as they can buy Portland cement and/or lime to mix it with; so, this article can
be D.I.Y article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This article “mix your own cement” (concrete) is going to be
a long and detailed way of how to make concrete from scratch, using Portland
cement and other basic materials, we will also describe how to mix mortar for
the bricklayer and cement plaster, just by using the most basic building
materials, by mixing them with Portland cement and/or lime. We will describe
how these things were/are done, because we believe that it is helpful to know
that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We must say that today building anything has become easier,
because most things that we need are ready made for us to use, provided we are
living in a city or large town in the western world and in many other parts of
the world. In our case we are talking about how to use cement and the things
that we can do with it. So, let us suppose that today we need concrete; we can
order it, and have it delivered whenever we want it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But these things were not so in the past, in the past people
that were building had to have their own skills how to mix their own concrete,
how to mix their own mortar and other things, and sometimes they had even to
find the building materials themselves, before they could start to build
anything, they were not easy times and people in the know, kept their knowledge
for themselves. But today it is different, the knowledge they had and kept to
themselves has become insignificant compared to the things that we know and do;
so, to keep any knowledge for yourself is the wrong thing to do, because it is
not going to help you, but it can help other people if it becomes common
knowledge, but this knowledge can be useful for those people that don’t know
yet, because they happen to be in a different part of the world, so, they would
like to know. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, this article is being written, in the hope that
our articles can help those poor people that are not aware that they can build
a better place for themselves, if they learn to recognize the basic materials,
they need to use for building a place for themselves. Most of the building
materials that we are talking about are available anywhere in the world,
because they occur in the natural state as they are part of this great planet
earth, so, what are those building materials you may ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how we mix them you may want to know, so,
here is a link from YouTube that shows you how to mix concrete. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFIQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKNb0IbYrK8E&ei=AHYBVMjFDIi0uATFkIGwCg&usg=AFQjCNH3pN1MU86Zmi--vHBNIT1JTn6T9w"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">How to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099;">Mix Concrete</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">by Hand - YouTube</span></a>
</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like also to point out with these photos here under
what is available in Brisbane Australia, and then we will talk about those
building materials that occur anywhere in the world. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">What are
these building materials? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyhow, I know a lot how to mix concrete, since I have mixed
it by hand and with a mixer hundreds of times, so, let us see these building
materials and how to use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First, let us see what these materials are, then we will
take you through how to mix them. (To view these matereals in Hub Pages, click on the link, Mix your own cement.) Today you can buy these building materials
ready to mix, and all you need to do is to add the right amount of water and
mix them, but here we want to start everything from scratch: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In building anything with cement, there are five main sort
of materials that we need to recognize, before we start mixing our batches of
whatever we want to mix, they are; bricklayers’ loam, plaster sand, river sand,
gravel, and Portland cement; with these materials you can build anything, some
of these materials sometimes are called with different names, but let us
describe what these material are like: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bricklayers’ loams is a very fine sand, some of these fine
sands could be a tiny bit sticky and when it is wet enough you can almost make
a small ball in your hand, but it will always collapse as there is not enough
sticky material in it, but if you add the right quantity of cement and water (and
perhaps something else if required) it is easy to lay bricks. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Plaster sand is very fine sand but not as much as
bricklayer’s loams it does not stick together by itself, therefore, it will
stick together only when you add cement and water to it, this type of sand is
used to plaster the walls and can be used to lay concrete blocks it is ideal to
use this sand provided it is very fine, in this part of the world we call this Besser
sand. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">River sand, or washed river sand is a type of sand coarser and
thicker than plaster sand, as the name suggests it comes from the river, in
this parts of the world because Brisbane river is salty water it is washed and
sieved, but it is possible to find deposit of this sand in some rivers that can
be used straight away,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sometimes this
sand can be used by itself to lay a top layer on a fresh laid concrete, but its
use is mainly used to mix it with gravels to make concrete. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gravel or gravels are small stones again these small stones
can be found in or near the rivers; in most places if there is proper supplier,
gravels are graded so one can order them as they are required, and this is what
we need to make good concrete. But if you happen to be in the middle of nowhere,
they don’t need to be graded properly to use for concrete and one could use a
mix of different size provided you know what you are doing. But one must be
careful that this ungraded building material is free from silt and organic
stuff. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today of course building people rely more from the
specialized suppliers, and they order through these suppliers what they need. You
can even buy bags of ready mixed materials that you can use just by adding
water. These materials are good to use, if you have a small job to do, but they
become expensive to use if you have a large job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What we have described above are the main materials required
to build most cement things, of course, you must know how to use them, and that
is what we are going to write next. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(PHOTO MISSING) To view photos click on the link, Mix your own cement).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Since there is not enough room to describe
the cement properties under the photo above, let us describe it here; cement is
like the glue that when mixed with sand, gravels and other aggregates makes
these materials stick together. The word “cement” can be traced back to the
Romans, who called this “opus caementicum” to describe masonry that resembles
concrete. We dare say that the Romans used burned limestone which when you add
water turns into hydrated lime and also they used something called pumice that
was collected from some part on Vesuvius it was a sort of cement that when you
added water would become harder than if you just used lime, this is more or
less how I have been told. As you can see there are two main bonding materials
that can be used to make concrete and mortar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">In this retailer supply shed above there are
several ready to use cement product, so, beside bags Portland cement there are
bags of hydrated lime, ready bags of concrete blend already mixed with cement,
there is read to mix mortar and ready to mix plaster and other things. These
ready mixed materials become costly when you must use a lot of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, the cheapest and best way is to mix your
own cement, or when the job is big then the best way is to order premixed
concrete. If you need mortar or plaster, you must mix your own from scratch or
pay the price of the bagged premixed materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Mixing your
own concrete from scratch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because I am an old tradesman, I have been asked a few times
the following from some friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We want to mix some concrete ourselves; can you please
explain us how to do that? We don’t have a mixer and we want to learn how to do
that using the tools that we have; we have a couple of shovels and buckets a
wooden float and some other small tools. We are a couple of strong blokes and
we do not mind doing hard-physical work, it will be a pleasure to do some
useful exercise, so, tell us how to mix concrete?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, since you do not mind working hard, I will be glad to
tell you how to mix your concrete by hand. Now, let us assume that you have the
material on site, and that you are ready to mix your concrete. To mix concrete
by hand, you need a flat platform where you can mix your concrete, this platform
does not need to be made on purpose, all it is needed is a hard surface,
perhaps a slab of existing concrete can be helpful or anything at all, as long
as this surface is not loose, because you don’t want to mix the soil with your
concrete. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To make is easy, we must assume that the bloke that sold you
the building material, has sold and delivered some concrete blend. Now what is
concrete blend, you are wondering; so, let us explain, concrete blend is gravel
and river sand mixed together approximately two part of gravel and one part
river sand, so, you don’t have to mix them anymore, it is ready to use. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To make normal concrete you need to mix by volume six
containers of concrete blend to one container of Portland cement, depending on
the quality of the concrete blend this may vary, so what we do next; we know
that we need a lot of concrete, so, you measure say twelve bucket of concrete
blend and put that on our platform, then you measure two buckets of cement to
mix with the blend. These are the quantities to keep in mind, (6 to 1) this is
a small batch of concrete, and you can make it bigger or smaller, if you keep
that 6 to1 ratio. Sometimes this ratio may vary. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now before you mix your cement with your blend; make sure
that everything is ready, because once you start this process you must continue
until you finish. Since everything is ready you can spread the cement on the
concrete blend, after doing that you take your shovels fill them up and start
turning your mixture around, by pushing the shovel under and turning it over,
you need to turn your mixture a couple of time; say first from A to B and then
from B to A, so, everything is in the same place, after doing that and you are
satisfied that your mixture is mixed even, you can make a well in the middle of
it, and add a bucket of water, if the water is absorbed quickly, then you know
that you must add more water, if a fair bit of water remains in the centre then
you can start folding the outside mixture in the middle, you can add some water
as required, but don’t get carried away with adding too much water, because you
need to add water bit by bit, you see this is one of those things that you
learn as you do it and not before. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have done all that and now you have a heap of this
mixture half mixed; here again you take your shovel and turn your mixture from
A to B while sprinkling some water on it, you may need to do this a few times
sprinkling water and turning your concrete mixture from B to A and from A to B,
you need to do this until you have an even mixture that it is well mixed. Now
you have your concrete ready to place wherever you need to place it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is how mixing concrete was done in the old days, it was
a hard work and it was not as accurate as it is today with the ready mixed concrete
truck that can deliver concrete to your job whenever you need it, and all you
have to do is to lay your concrete slab, or whatever you need to do. Anyhow,
the description above, can be used if you are in the middle of nowhere, and you
need concrete. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Learn the
art of mixing cement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Learn to recognize and use the building materials when we
mix cement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, that we have written what are the building materials, and
we have explained how to mix concrete by hand, this procedure can be applied to
mix mortar and plaster etc. We have also explained how you can recognize the
raw building materials. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You see, let us imagine that you need concrete, you live in
the middle of nowhere and you have only a few tools, but you now a faraway
place where you can go and buy Portland cement; you are not going to buy
anything else at that place, because it is too far, it will be costly to bring
it in, so, the rest of the concrete materials you are going to find near the
river banks. I know it is like going back in time a hundred years ago, but
there are parts of the world that are still that far back. Therefore, learning
how to recognize the basic building materials for making concrete, and then
mixing concrete by hand can still be useful today. So, we are writing these
articles, hoping we can help any do it yourself small owner builders.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, we have to add that what we are writing here is how we
have done these things, and we know they work, however, it is only our view,
and they work well in all minor jobs, but if you have large important jobs, you
must consult the local experts. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now let us see how we mix concrete with a mixer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Mixing
concrete with a mixer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Okay, let us make this clear, there may be
several ways how to mix you concrete; you can mix it on the ground, as we have described
above, you can mix concrete in a wheelbarrow, if you have a wheelbarrow with a
good tray, or you can mix it with a mixer which is helpful to have. But what
are the different procedures when you mix, in order to achieve the best result
with the least amount of time and work: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">The greatest difference for mixing concrete and
other cement materials is mainly this: when you mix by hand you can achieve the
best result by mixing the materials with the cement before you add water, as
this helps to make a more even mixture quicker: But when you use the mixer you
don’t need to do that, in fact, you can have better and quicker result, by
following this procedure hereunder: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Start the mixer and put in the mixer some
water, approximately the proper amount to mix the whole batch, you know how
much water to use once you have made a few batches. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now before we proceed to mix, let us talk
about the water amount. On building sites, it is near impossible to tell you
how much water you need exactly, since the materials you are using contains an
unknown quantity of water, therefore, the quantity of water varies, you see,
the wetter the materials are, the less water you need and vice versa if they
are dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now, let us assume that because you are new
at doing this job, you are using a dry small bucket to measure the quantities
of the building materials; in this case you have gravel and river sand in
separate heaps, you know that this concrete is going to be mixed 6 to 1, but overall,
this batch you are going to mix 8 small buckets of gravel four of river sand
and two of Portland cement: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now the quantities above are how the best and
strongest cement can be achieved, with a minimum of Portland cement used; very
likely these quantities are written in the specifications, if you have any
specification written, and the ready mix people use those amounts and have a
perfect concrete, because the concrete mixer will mix it well and as dry as
possible. But by experience on building sites, we use a bit more river sand and
a bit less gravel, as this makes it easier to work with overall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now let us go back to mix our concrete:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, after you have poured the water into the
mixer, you put one single bucket of gravel and while the mixer turns put the
two small bucket of cement into the mixer, the cement in the mixer will
immediately mix in the water and the first bucket of gravel will make sure that
it does not stick to the mixer, because it will cut though any lumps easily,
now you add four buckets of river sand, and this again will mix very quickly
and become like a thick cream, all you have to do next is to add the other
seven bucket of gravel, once you have done that you only need to wait a little
bit for the mixer to mix it properly and your concrete is ready. Now all you must
do is to tip your concrete in a wheelbarrow and take it to the place you need
to concrete. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This is the quickest and best way to mix
concrete in a mixer, as I have done it for thousands of times, but I need to
say that on building sites, where there is plenty of cement to mix and the
workers have to try not to injury themselves, by lifting hundreds of bucket
full of material all day long, they use to measure the materials by the
shovelful, but you have to be an expert at doing that to get everything
measured right. I hope this description of how to mix concrete is clear enough.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Before we leave these concrete discussions,
we want to add more information; you see, concrete in itself is very strong in
compression, but is lacks strength under tension, so, to make concrete very
strong and last a very long time you need to use steel in the concrete; here is
a link that will help to understand some of these issues. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CGEQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikihow.com%2FMake-Concrete-Even-Stronger&ei=AHYBVMjFDIi0uATFkIGwCg&usg=AFQjCNHNamOU00_sEnRpTjoOX9zXaW_-kQ"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">How to
Make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099;">Concrete</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;">Even Stronger: 6 Steps
(with Pictures)</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #660099; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-----------------------------<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As we have said, we have split this article in two, so, we will continue to write how to mix mortar, plaster and cement topping in part two. See you soon. </span></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">To see more click on this link, </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement" style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a>. </p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;">--------------------------------- </p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-55321128404707327672023-02-15T15:42:00.019+10:002023-02-18T16:54:18.598+10:00Building retaining walls, part two. WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div><div>Hereunder let me paste of few links of my other blogs. </div><div>(<span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,) (</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfrancore.blogspot.com/</span></a>,) (<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/</span></a>,)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0062b5; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com</span></a>,) </span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">This blog can be found in full at this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a>. </div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKNg8RR5LBejf84Z2OIrvVqAd5UQ7XAMfUcfiIenlBeuc239-DO11p6HiVWN_oi8-kE9-IubicNcrD_NXRNCfuyxcvNLa4YRwlfYhQjh6G6jKUG76E4tt4JEq1loN9i47ruFH_luW4zQ03ySeF5hE39JOvIP-P_mJxrnnegU016GqLUc9GT1AU7v6v" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="700" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKNg8RR5LBejf84Z2OIrvVqAd5UQ7XAMfUcfiIenlBeuc239-DO11p6HiVWN_oi8-kE9-IubicNcrD_NXRNCfuyxcvNLa4YRwlfYhQjh6G6jKUG76E4tt4JEq1loN9i47ruFH_luW4zQ03ySeF5hE39JOvIP-P_mJxrnnegU016GqLUc9GT1AU7v6v=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Let us talk about retaining rock walls, now this picture has been taken from the internet, where I could not find what I wanted, however, this is how a hybrid rock wall can look like when built properly. And this is what we explain in this text. But in the text, the wall is a different shape. </div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to part two, <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a>. </span> <div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Deciding to
build your own rock wall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyhow, you needed more space, because you wanted to build a car
port, and put a trampoline for the kids. So, you have been digging in the
backyard, and finally you are satisfied that they can fit them in the space you
have made. But now you have this bank that stands almost vertical in the
backyard, it looks ugly, and you know that when the first heavy rain comes it
is going to start washing it down, and worse still it may collapse. So, you
think of building a retaining wall to hold the soil up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For this reason, you have had a couple of quotes and had a
good talk to the contractors as you did not want to spend more money that was
strictly necessary, they did their best but still you cannot afford to pay the
full price, beside that you found that if you lay a dry stone wall, ether you
have to use stones that have been cut at the quarry and they cost a lot, or you
have to have a rock wall with a wider base and this is going to take away some
of the space you created when you dug, so really you need to think about it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, you have decided to build the stone retaining wall yourself,
what you have decided is that you are going to build an hybrid stone wall,
which you believe can do the job without costing too much; therefore, you have
looked for a rock supplier and ask for prices of the different materials you may
need, because you think that you can afford it, if you do the job yourself. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By pure chance you have learned from the blokes that have
given you the prices, how many cubic meters of rocks you need and other things
that you were not sure before; well done sometimes in the building game things
work out this way, you learn a bit from here a bit from there and then you can
decide what to do with the information you have collected. There is nothing
wrong for doing this, unless you do it purposely to learn something, but if it does
not work out, then it is okay to use what you have learned from them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have to say that it has been done to me many times and
that I have done this myself; not only on quoting but also in buying something
new, if I have to buy something that I have never used before, I go to at least
three places and inquiry about it, by asking the right questions not only I
learn how much it is going to cost me, but I have learned how to use whatever I
was going to buy in the first place, of course, I end up buying from one of
them what I wanted to buy in the first place; sometimes I call this let me go
first to spy and then to buy, I know that some of these people are going to
feel a bit hurt, for using their time for nothing, but so what, sometimes you
win and sometimes you lose, as I have said it has been done to me as well and I
have felt a bit hurt, when I had to spend some time working out a price to
build something, and at the end I did not get the job, so, I spent all that
time for nothing, but that is life and we should accept the outcome whichever
way it goes. Anyhow, now let us go back to building the rock wall. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Building the
hybrid rock wall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This hybrid wall that we are going to build is a big job, it
starts at the same level, as we have dug the ground approximately level, but
because we are building the wall only to the height of the natural ground
level, it is going to start from almost nothing and at the highest point will
be 1.8 meter, it is really two walls that meet and forms a square at the
highest point. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here we must say that today some people think that this
should not be done, as this is neither a rock wall nor a concrete masonry wall,
as it mixes about everything, but so what, if it is convenient, why not do it?
I must say that in my life time I have built walls like this with whatever was
available on the site; and I mean everything in fact I was using stones that
were laying in this small creek bed and pieces of concrete that we had broken
to do some alterations and old bricks, some concrete and some mortar, this has
happened a few year ago and last time I have seen the owner he said that the
wall is still there. So, most things can be done if you know that it has got a
good chance to last a long time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us go back to build our hybrid rock wall. Now, to build
this wall you need a few cubic meter of rocks, because you want the wall to
look as a rock wall, you don’t need very big rocks or special size rocks,
because you can use the cement wherever necessary to fill the gaps and this is
good, since the cement is less costly, you need a mixer, you need some gravel,
sand and cement; and of course, you must have the tools to do the job. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You got all this on site, and you can start to build. First
of all, drive a couple of pegs in the ground, exactly where you want the face
of the wall to be, tie and stretch a line on these pegs and see any adjustment
that you need to do before you start laying the first stone. What you are
looking for here is that the bank you are going to build the wall against has
been dug straight, it is almost vertical or a few degrees sloping, you have dug
a shallow foundation, because you want the wall to be strong and last for a
long time, so, you are satisfied that the foundation is going to be solid
enough, since it is well below the original natural ground, therefore, it can
hold a lot of weight and pressure, because the ground is very compact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have done all this, you have set the pegs again so that
your wall is set to be at least 10” thick overall, you have chosen this
thickness because most of the large rocks seem to be that thick, so now you are
ready to lay the first course of stones, mix a few batches of concrete and lay
it in the foundation and then before this concrete sets lay the first course of
stones on this concrete making sure that the bottom of the stones are below
ground level, so that the entire stone wall seems to start from below the
ground; once you have done that you can fill the back of the stone with
concrete a bit above ground level but below the full height of the stones,
because you want to leave enough room to lay next course of stone easily. Now
the wall is all set to go, but we need to reset how we must continue and
complete the hybrid rock wall, the right way with the right lean against the
bank. You need to lean the wall against the bank, so that the weight of your
wall by itself adds strength to the wall. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Completing
the hybrid rock wall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, before we build this retaining wall, we must work out
how much lean against the bank we want, here we must keep in mind, how tall and
how thick is the wall, we don’t want the wall to lean too much and rely only on
the dirt behind it to hold it back, but at the same time we want to lean it
against the bank so that the weight of the wall is used to hold the dirt back. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here we must go back to look at what happens if you lean a
monolithic object to the point it is going to fall; what happens here is that
the monolithic object is going to fall, only after its centre of gravity falls
outside the area of the base. Now we don’t want to go this far, and we don’t
want to use the centre of gravity to decide that, but we are going to lean the
wall about two third of the thickness, so that the very top layer is still
vertically one third of its thickness above the base; we believe that it is
very safe to go this far and the wall would stand up even if we don’t backfill
it. Anyhow, in our case we are not going to backfill it, because we have cut
the bank exactly as the wall is going to be, you see we are going to use the
bank as a template, so, we believe that we are not going to backfill it at all.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now that we know how much we are going to lean the wall; we
are setting a leaning profile on every corner leaning approximately 10 to 12
centimetres per metre and we are ready to resume building our hybrid rock wall.
But there is still another important thing to work out; we need to make sure
that when it rains the water that seeps behind the wall can run out, so, we must
leave a way to drain this water out and at this level is the right place to do
that, so, we choose a few spots about a meter apart and mark them, then when
you lay next course of stones make sure that you leave a space between the
stones that the water can run out, you must also leave the back free of
abstractions for a course or two around this space, so, in this space after
laying the front stone, just lay some smaller stones dry against the bank to
stop the concrete blocking the drain, then you can resume to concrete the lot. Alternatively,
you can lay a few short pieces of pipe across the wall for drainage, but you
have still to make sure that they are clear of any obstruction at the back near
the bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, now you can go back to mix some cement to lay your
stones, you can mix a batch of river sand four to one that you can lay between
the rocks to give them a bit of grip, you are laying the rocks in a straight line
that you have tied on the profiles, when you do that make sure that this cement
does not come too far forward, because you still want the rock wall to look
like a rock wall, at the same time do not forget that you have to leave these
spaces with no cement at all for the seepage where you have marked, after you
have used the batch of river sand and cement and laid say a course of rocks,
you can mix one or two batch of concrete to fill the back of the stones, then
you repeat this procedure until you build the entire wall. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the top of the wall, because the wall in not going to be
level, you may have to do some adjustment to follow the height of the ground,
here you have to use common sense the best way you can, if you happen to have
enough wide and long rocks that can be used for a coping, use them to finish
your wall, if not, just use your common sense and use anything that is
available, even if it is going to be a strip of concrete in the back of the
wall, so that all the wall is tied up. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope I have explained well enough for you to follow my way
of building this hybrid rock wall. Here I want to add that this is just one way
out of several other ways that can be used. A lot depends how the bank has been
cut and if it follows very closely the shape of the wall, so, you can use it as
if it is formwork, but if there is going to be some back filling to be done,
you may have to consider some temporary formwork that can be easily removed
before you backfill. All these things can vary from job to job, and if you see
that it is hard to build your hybrid rock wall, then you must consider other
ways to build your retaining wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Why we need
these retaining walls?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We need retaining walls, when the block of land is steep. So, it requires a lot of work
to be done, if you want a small portion of your land flat, so that you can
stand and enjoy whatever is there to enjoy and do whatever you want to do in
the open air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the photo here under,
they have built a Besser block retaining wall with an indent in it, mainly to
give extra strength to the block wall and to put this concrete slab and use
this indent with whatever they want to do next. Note that above this block wall
there is another sleeper retaining wall, these sorts of things are very costly,
and we must plan it out before we start, anyhow, under below we are going to
write about a Besser block retaining wall, first just a normal strong retaining
wall and after that we are going to build a leaning Besser block wall, similar
to the hybrid rock wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCVNL18AxIspgBoKSOovWMyreMfHtozI59kujMxklz0gvYEc6HBRXozYxIxRP2fJBJN8idUJPonoanYHZcPwsCVmLYVKv9DwMdE0iU85sDRG_fYlkf6gw94JzrolRSWpzs-bMwjKA5Uk0VcubgJslJtCkhxFCtJr1hUsRvnI_avX9FYGD9envdDF8O" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCVNL18AxIspgBoKSOovWMyreMfHtozI59kujMxklz0gvYEc6HBRXozYxIxRP2fJBJN8idUJPonoanYHZcPwsCVmLYVKv9DwMdE0iU85sDRG_fYlkf6gw94JzrolRSWpzs-bMwjKA5Uk0VcubgJslJtCkhxFCtJr1hUsRvnI_avX9FYGD9envdDF8O=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />Most retaining walls are made of concrete blocks, Besser block retaining walls are usually made with hollow concrete blocks, they are 190 x 190 x 390 mm. They are laid with mortar 10 mm thick joint, steel reinforcement bars are placed in the hollow part of the block, then they are filled with concrete once the walls are dry enough. <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Building a Besser
block retaining wall <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Besser blocks retaining walls require a reinforced concrete
foundation with steel starter bars placed exactly in the centre of the hollow
part of the block, when you look at the wall from the front or back, and if possible,
a bit close to the side where the pressure of the soil is going to be, but that
can be asking too much from the concrete man and the steel fixers. So, a
profile must be in place before you can even concrete the foundations, or fix
the steel in the foundation, because all measurements need be known and easily
measured while working on it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a very demanding job and it is not a do it yourself
job. So, the name that I have given this article DIY retaining wall would not
apply in this case, you see I apologise because I was forced to use DIY just to
overcome the problem of the title that happens when we start a new article and
find that the name we have chosen has already been taken. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyhow, when you start laying the first Besser block in most
cases, it is helpful if you can start the first course with an open block, this
block looks like a square <u>C</u>, and you lay it with the open side facing
away from the bank that it is going to hold back when everything is done, the
corners are built with normal blocks and most of the walls are built with
blocks that look like an <u>H</u>, so, it is easier to fill up with concrete,
once the wall has been built. Now while the block layer is laying the blocks,
he will have to lay horizontal steel bars between the courses of blocks as
specified, if there is a plan and specifications, or use common sense, or copy
from the specifications of a similar job he has done, the vertical steel bar
will be inserted from the top before or while pouring concrete into the blocks.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now the reason why we need to use an open <u>C</u> shaped
block for the first course, it is because it is necessary that before we fill
up the blocks we remove the mortar that has fallen down at the bottom of the
blocks while we were laying them, you see, we want a solid base and we want the
concrete to bind around the starter steel bars that we have laid in the
foundation and this is the best way to make the retaining wall as strong as we
can. Once that is done, we can fix a plank against the openings, and we are
ready to pour the concrete in the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here we must say that for this retaining wall we have not
mentioned any drainage yet, so, what happen to the water that seeps behind the
wall needs to be worked out, you see, sometimes when we build walls this strong,
there could be a reason that we do not want any water past the wall, it can be
part of a base of a house being built, so, we have not even left any weep holes
in the wall, because there is going to be a drainage pipe laid behind the wall
surrounded by gravel. The wall might also be treated with special paints to waterproof
it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is one type of blocks retaining wall, and I am going to
write about another type, where we lean the retaining walls towards the bank for
future back fill that it is going to hold up, this is a large job that we did
years ago in a yard of a new large home in Redhill a Brisbane suburb. We are
going to write it here, to show you another type of retaining wall and the many
ways that can be built. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Redhill backyard problem solved. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Years ago, we worked on this part brick house in Redhill, we
say part brick house because the top floor of the house and the interior was
made of timber, so, it was a brick veneer, the base was solid bricks and
blocks, it was a large house, on a large block of land had two street frontages.
It was on a hill and the difference between the front and the back yard was a
lot, but the two street frontages was good, because the house was being built
on the higher part of the block of land, where it was nearly flat there and
almost level with the road, so, there were no problem building the house; but
the back yard was very steep, in some places could have been up to 45 degrees. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, when we finished the brickwork on the house we were
asked from the owner, if we could build some retaining walls, because the
backyard was useless as it was. So, after discussing the financial part how he
would pay us; we discussed how we could fix the back-yard building block retaining
walls. So, it was agreed that we had to lay these block retaining walls leaning
a few degrees towards the bank. We had to build concrete stairs on one side, so
that the house could also be entered from the back street, so, working together
with the owner we did the following. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because you cannot build a very high wall on the road
boundary, first a section of about 4 feet wide (1.2 m) was dug and a foundation
was poured, with starter steel bars as needed and the main wall was set about a
meter from the road where the first retaining wall was to be build, this was
the main foundation for a start, some of the small foundations and other
adjustment we had to work out as the work progressed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The decision was that we had to build the wall leaning
towards the bank for extra strength; you see, when building retaining walls the
weight of the retaining wall with the weight of the foundation must be more
than the weight that the backfill can move, if possible that you can build a
very strong monolithic wall and foundation together this is the best solution,
in this case it was not possible, because the job was too big, beside that you
need to have a very wide and heavy foundation and a very strong bond between
the foundation and the wall, since this bond between the foundation and the
wall is the weakest point unless it is concrete and poured together, but we
were using blocks to build the wall, therefore, it had this weakness at the
bottom of the wall, therefore, by leaning the wall towards the bank, the weight
of the wall becomes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first point or
resistance. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, how much we must lean the wall was left to us block
layers, because for sure there will be problems, and there were several
problems to overcome; the first problem is that if you have to return the
corners it cannot be done, but we had corners on the boundaries of the joining
block of land, so, we had to think how to overcome this drawback, for this it
was decided that we would not build the corners as usual, we should treat them
as separate, but we would place a corner steel rod every course, instead of
every second course, as in the wall itself. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There was also the possibly that while we were building the
wall, if we lean it too much it could fall on the inside, while we were
building it, so, we had to strike a balance. Knowing that this first wall was
going to be no more than 3 meters high, we worked out that if we lean the wall
5 centimetre per meter, the top of the wall was going to be about 15 centimetre
back from the perpendicular, the blocks were 19 centimetre wide and it would be
okay, as once the wall was built it could stay up on its own without falling
inside, but while we were building we should be very careful not to apply any
extra weight on the leaning wall, just for fear that this could happen we added
a couple of block piers behind the wall, this would not only make the wall safe
for us while we were building it, but it also would make the whole wall
stronger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyhow, we built this block wall placed the reinforcing rods
in place, we also built some concrete steps on one side of it, so, that if you
happened to be on the back road you could walk to the house, the ready-mix
truck came, and the wall was filled with concrete and that was the first stage
finished. We had to wait for this wall to become strong before we could
backfill it, and then we could build another retaining wall halfway the
backyard to finish the job. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear readers, be warned that this type of work can only done
from very experienced block layers, as it breaks all the rules in the building
trade, but we did it and it worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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too long, so, see you in our next article, <o:p></o:p><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Mix-your-own-cement"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Mix your own cement</span></a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;">To see more click on this link, <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;">------------------------------------- </p></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-65385527176357504022022-09-02T09:58:00.022+10:002022-10-03T13:33:19.896+10:00Building retaining walls, one. WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div><div>Hereunder let me paste of few links of my other blogs. </div><div>(<span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,) (</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfrancore.blogspot.com/</span></a>,) (<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/</span></a>,)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0062b5; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com</span></a>,) </span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">This blog can be found in full at this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjy3Ovlxw3gXkDPAnBAlZc1uky2xILTOtoz2QFHqgUvdmqvAAtzilydd2POwrZSldmBeiDy0e_bW5HLPuCbTdTfoHzwfdcLVhY_EJv5lrVgcC9Qs75tj5ErcHfLFbx_0nOV6fVNUVCc5J1OuMGPAzCdfs39urjjZg4x9rHi0t7jwQ0gxz9qBDEyya4L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjy3Ovlxw3gXkDPAnBAlZc1uky2xILTOtoz2QFHqgUvdmqvAAtzilydd2POwrZSldmBeiDy0e_bW5HLPuCbTdTfoHzwfdcLVhY_EJv5lrVgcC9Qs75tj5ErcHfLFbx_0nOV6fVNUVCc5J1OuMGPAzCdfs39urjjZg4x9rHi0t7jwQ0gxz9qBDEyya4L" width="320" /></a></div><span><div><span><br /></span></div>We can build many types of retaining walls, this above is a masonry stone retaining wall, these types of retaining walls last for a very long time, when they are built well, like the one above, but they cost a lot more than other types of retaining walls. So, let us talk about how we build them. </span><br /><br /></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to our article, <o:p></o:p><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear readers, let us talk about how we build retaining walls, and why we build them. You see, most
people that own a standalone house, want to improve their property by doing a
few things in the yard, where they can stay outside and have a garden, or have
a barbecue with their family and friends. But there are times when it is not
easy to stay outside, because the yard is not level and, in some places, it is
hard even to stand up straight, so, something needs to be done to improve the
situation. In this case retaining walls can help solve that problem. But how do
we build retaining walls one may ask? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before we answer that question, let us talk about the
retaining stone wall shown here in this article, I reckon that it is a well-built
stone wall, but a wall like that is very costly and hard to build, unless you
are an expert and know what needs to be done. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But, let us see what we can learn from this stone wall
picture, just by looking at it and trying to imagine how this wall has been
built. What we can note from the picture is that the retaining wall has been
built leaning towards the bank it is holding up, we can see this at the right
end of the wall where the wall goes around the corner,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the stones are laid dry as there is no sign
of any mortar around, the stones are not all the same size, and they are longer
and shorter stones, but they are all the same thickness and they are laid the
same way as we lay a course of bricks, but at the same time the mason has made
sure that the vertical join are not setting one above the other, and this is a
hard thing to do with stones all different size, everything is so tidy, the
wall thickness is not shown anywhere, but because there is a very low wall
started near, it seems that the wall has been built like a double brick wall,
we can also guess that perhaps some of the short stones are not really short,
but they have been laid like a header brick to tie the front with the back of
the wall, at the top the last course of stone, the stones are longer and as
wide as the whole wall itself, so that they would tie everything together.
These are the main features that we can learn from looking at this stonewall
picture. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now that we have explained that, let us write how to do it
yourself retaining walls. You know, there are many types of retaining walls,
some are easy to build others are hard to build, and there are many reasons for
building them. So, this article is going to be a long article, because we want
to tell you about them, as much as we can. Anyhow, because this is a long article, I need to tell you, that we have split this article and we are writing two blogs, this is part one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">How to build
retaining walls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, there are several ways how to build a retaining wall,
and there are several types of retaining walls that we can build. Therefore,
first we must see what we gain by building this type of retaining wall, or that
type of retaining wall, and above all how much it could cost, before we can
decide what type of retaining wall to build. Now we want to build our retaining
walls with building materials that are easily available, to avoid extra cost. So,
look what local materials are available, where you are. You see, if you are in
a place where stones or rocks are plentiful, and you may even have some of them
in your yard, then it is cheaper to build your retaining wall with these
materials, and even if you have to buy the lot they are cheap anyhow; but if
you are in a place where there are plenty of trees and there is even a sawmill
nearby, then it is more appropriate to build it with timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Having said that, it is obvious that for you to decide, what
is the best retaining wall to build; we need to explain to you what could be
done and how can it be done. Therefore, hereunder we will try to do that. Let
us start with a very easy and cheap retaining wall that most people can do
themselves, even if they don’t know much about building, as long as they have a
few tools and know how to use them; here we are saying that anyone of us can dig
a few holes in the ground to place a few short posts and place a couple of
sleeper timber planks against those posts, then secure them by nailing or
screwing them to the posts. It sounds and is simple, isn’t it? But this is not
the only retaining wall that we want to show you, so, keep reading this article,
while we add more descriptions, because you can even learn how to build them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Timber
sleeper retaining walls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Building a low timber sleeper retaining wall is easy, just
about everybody can do it, you can do it yourself, if you follow our
explanation in this text here, all you need is a crowbar, a post hole shovel, a
hammer a few long nails or screws, a saw, a type measure and a few treated pine
sleepers that today are easily available at most timber yards. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are in Brisbane Australia, these are a couple of
addresses of local timber merchants and hardware to get what you want. If you
are somewhere else, you need to find your own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=CoRqd0aRUUrGXJ4GIkwXu1YGgAYbm9eMD5v7VzWGErseFARABIMLs3SMoCFDv7pqD_v____8BYKWglYCYAcgBAakCP00YUt-grz7IAxuqBCRP0P7IoDtrL3oH1N7hXuLZBMZdfVQ72hIhNeeiLBJE5WucJgiAB6aOtys&num=1&sig=AOD64_2BgoA8Hs7UMtfueqfW6eNJxx5J9g&adurl=http://www.granttimbers.com.au.wvproxy.com/products.php&nb=1&res_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getprice.com.au%2Fbuy-best-hardwood%2520timber%2520prices.htm%3Fgclid%3DCPndhfjAiLoCFQpepQodZmoAIg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.tb.ask.com%2Fsearch%2FGGmain.jhtml%3Fsearchfor%3DHardwood%2BTimber%2BPrices%26cb%3DAW6%26p2%3D%255EAW6%255Exdm005%255EYYA%255Eau%26qid%3D39fe1a7b68614149bc9a3431d163bdb3%26n%3D77fd5af9%26ord%3D12%26ptb%3D8501E823-AA9B-44EF-9DAD-50A7C2CB556A%26ct%3DRR%26si%3DCOaSrKuN6LkCFWwxpgodyR0AhQ%26pg%3DGGmain%26pn%3D1%26ss%3Dsub%26st%3Dkwd%26tpr%3Djrel3&nm=61&is=200x481&nx=55&ny=11&clkt=170" target="_blank"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 243, 243); color: #d86115; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnings_Warehouse"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnings_Warehouse</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0e7744;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, let us assume that you have visited your local supply,
and you have got all you need, so, you are ready to start, you have also worked
out where you want your sleeper wall to go; So, start digging the first hole
where the wall starts, you need to dig this hole about 600 mm or more in the
natural ground for the post to be strong enough to hold the pressure of the
retaining wall when the wall is back filled; you may have to concrete around
the post for extra strength, but this is not a must do, if the retaining wall
is low, because you can replace this with, packing the soil tightly around the
posts and if you have some rocks, wedge them between the top of the hole you
have dug and the post at ground level, because the rocks will exercise their
pressure on a larger surface of the natural soil than the post, they will be
able to hold back the soil pressure of the wall more easily, now that you have
done the first post, you can repeat the same procedure for next post and so on.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The posts can be made from the same material of the
sleepers; you can saw them to the right length and fix them in the ground as we
have said above. Now, to make it easy let us say that your wall is going to be
the length of a sleeper plank, and you have dug the two holes and fixed the two
posts. So, now you can just place the first sleeper against the posts at the
required level; the levels of the sleepers is better if you work it out from
the top down, because it is easier to change the bottom than the top, you see,
in this case you can always dig a bit or add a bit of soil at the bottom to fit
the bottom sleeper. So, mark on the posts the level you want to reach with your
last sleeper, and then mark down from this level the number of sleepers you are
fixing on these posts, once you have done that you are ready to fix your
sleepers on the posts. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYuzv7Za4tEIXY2Wz6qjCPPivqx2QG_K2jPSlGMDHt-0rzYS4-pL_nt5kOtzipSGbKZORadpkOBc5PwqHMB1LWLQz7739HKRDIpEKzS3BLfjF1I6EcinQsaeKTzkxwMPUso8Ek0N-xuCpdF60eb2s2XEyhqcHdgU85yQLSRGyflTlW7PenR3683oNs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="700" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYuzv7Za4tEIXY2Wz6qjCPPivqx2QG_K2jPSlGMDHt-0rzYS4-pL_nt5kOtzipSGbKZORadpkOBc5PwqHMB1LWLQz7739HKRDIpEKzS3BLfjF1I6EcinQsaeKTzkxwMPUso8Ek0N-xuCpdF60eb2s2XEyhqcHdgU85yQLSRGyflTlW7PenR3683oNs=w400-h201" width="400" /></a></div>We believe that most people can build a timber retaining wall, perhaps not as high as this one shown in the picture, but say a couple of timber sleepers high. Anyhow, let us explain how it is done. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Fixing your
sleeper to the post. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To fix the sleepers to the post now is simple, but still you
need to do a few things right, if you want your wall to last a long time, with
the materials you are using now; it is useful to know that in this case it is
highly advisable that you use galvanized nails or screws to fix the planks to
the posts, because the retaining wall is in contact with the wet or humid
ground constantly, therefore, normal nails or screws will rust easily. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have bought some 75 mm and 100 mm galvanized nails to do
the job, so, you hope that you can drive these nails into the sleepers and
posts just by using a hammer, because it is the fastest way to get the job
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, if you are good with your hammer and can drive nail
easily it is the best way to go, provided that the timber is soft enough to do
that, and if you have used treated pine sleeper it can be done, as all you need
to do now is to place the sleepers where you have marked on the posts and nail
them in, and then you can backfill behind the retaining wall and the job is
done. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But what about if you are using hardwood or old dry
hardwood, because you got it very cheap from a second hand timber yard, because
they were overstocked they sold this timber at a very special price, which was
less than half the price of the treated pine sleepers; so, you were happy to
buy it because it was cheap and the timber being hardwood lasts for a very long
time, but now you may have a problem to fix the sleepers to the posts, because
it is near impossible to drive nails into this old dry hardwood timber, unless
you drill a hole for every single nail, and even then the nails can bend even
if you are an expert with the hammer. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If this is the situation and it is hard to nail this timber
together, you can overcome the problem by using couch screws or bolts, so, you
use a drill and drill a hole for your galvanized couch screws or bolts and
tighten the screws or the bolt nuts with a spanner. But if you don’t want to do
this extra work and you want to use the galvanized nails that you have already
bought, then you can do the following: drill a hole as deep as you can just use
a bit a fraction smaller than the diameter of your nails, then try first with the
75 mm nails how you go, if it works and you believe that the nail go deep
enough into the supporting post and hold well then your problem is solved, but
if the nail bends or don’t go deep enough then you can try the following, and
this is one of the last tricks of the old trade, which not many people know or
use, this trick is not a trick at all and once you know it, you can feel even
stupid for not thinking about it yourself; so what is it? Okay, when you pick
up your nail to nail in the hole you have drilled, dip the point of the nail a
couple of centimetres into a bit of Vaseline or mechanical grease, if this is
not available just wet a bar of soap and rub the point of the nail on the wet
soap, this greasing of the end of the nail will make it easier to drive it into
any wood including dry old hardwood. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I believe that I have said
enough about simple timber retaining walls, for you to have some idea how to
build them, so, now let us talk about another type of retaining wall that can
be easy to build, it is a type of concrete wall that the blocks are laid dry,
so, anyone can have a go; and if you don't get it right the first time it is
easy to fix. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Link Block Mortar-less Walls. <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Link Block Mortar-less Retaining Wall Blocks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This is a different type of retaining walls
made with dry blocks, the mortar is not required, it is a low wall easy to
build, so, most people can do it themselves. Now let me tell you this, on the
internet I have found this local supplier who has placed a few short videos how
to build these walls; the videos are at the bottom of the page, please use the
link here-under, I reckon it is worth to watch them, if you want to build any
retaining walls. As I have said this is only a local supplier in Brisbane
Australia, therefore, the same materials may not be available where you are
living, but by watching these videos you are going to learn something useful
anyhow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">No need for Mortar<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://centenarylandscaping.com.au/product-guides/retaining-walls/firstqualityretainingwallblocks/?gclid=CPOE9-"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://centenarylandscaping.com.au/product-guides/retaining-walls/firstqualityretainingwallblocks/?gclid=CPOE9-</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, I hope you have used the link above and
you have been able to see the videos. Anyhow, whatever you have learned can be
helpful one day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">And now I want to explain a certain situation
that I have come across while I was writing this article.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBHjD3-_MWoMNfJjqHBmZEC1eg8thPGBViQ3KUsRUX8gJmyq4coIJqHnEJKsD9soc4KvS8znRKaSZ4L098EHNAtOGhNvwpZ0sxBFFfnUWevq3nCLn2WeJk6JhK1rJSe2VSc2qOOQu0SREdzJWh3VwnMrAbaHW-APTGEh83roqsT9j7o_eVmKsSi_Ke" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="700" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBHjD3-_MWoMNfJjqHBmZEC1eg8thPGBViQ3KUsRUX8gJmyq4coIJqHnEJKsD9soc4KvS8znRKaSZ4L098EHNAtOGhNvwpZ0sxBFFfnUWevq3nCLn2WeJk6JhK1rJSe2VSc2qOOQu0SREdzJWh3VwnMrAbaHW-APTGEh83roqsT9j7o_eVmKsSi_Ke=w400-h201" width="400" /></a></div>Now, as I have said, not all concrete retaining walls require fresh cement when you build them, some of these concrete blocks are made to be laid dry, like the one in this photo and many other sort. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Let me
explain the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear readers this article was supposed to be about retaining
walls, but as it happens I was forced to change that name because it was
already taken in Hub Pages, so do not aspect that all the retaining walls
described here are suitable to do it yourself, because we have named our article,
DIY Retaining walls, because the retaining walls that we are going to describe
here are not easy to build, so, they are jobs for trades people, but if you
feel that you can do it then have a go, sometimes a bit of challenge is good
for you. Now that we have explained the situation let me continue to describe
how to build a garden rock retaining wall. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis5-uiquTsRBqYiiiItEI2slAJZSXKnqnB9XnOBg7JO5-HRM2Mi_9Y67Ss2zsjJx2iQMqZzvJ9FSNHf6al1LQl10oZe2AFnlv69LxOewaWGQkRZMre8eTfruj7Vsxq-Yf3Jxwf2pkIDXIpvd0iS9yAl0VMdF2tOH0E3xr_OXYQNWK0j-opC8R2GQ3F" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="700" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis5-uiquTsRBqYiiiItEI2slAJZSXKnqnB9XnOBg7JO5-HRM2Mi_9Y67Ss2zsjJx2iQMqZzvJ9FSNHf6al1LQl10oZe2AFnlv69LxOewaWGQkRZMre8eTfruj7Vsxq-Yf3Jxwf2pkIDXIpvd0iS9yAl0VMdF2tOH0E3xr_OXYQNWK0j-opC8R2GQ3F=w400-h156" width="400" /></a></div>We must say that rock retaining walls blend well in the garden, they are natural since rocks are found everywhere in the natural state among trees and grass. <br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Building a garden rock retaining wall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To build a garden rock wall as shown in the picture is a lot
harder than you think, and you need to know how to go about it, you see, you
need to have a good eye to see how the rocks that you have can fit together to
make a wall. There are a few ways how to do this depending how tall the wall is
going to be and lots of other things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You see, if you have only a very low wall you can just lay
one single rock one after another, or two rocks one on top of another making
sure that you choose the best face to show at the top and at the front, the
other part of the rock can be hidden in the ground, or at the back since you
are backfilling behind the wall; in this case it is not necessary to use any
concrete, as the stones can be laid dry, but if you want you can use concrete. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before you start the wall, you must dig all the grass and
loose soil, even if your wall is going to be low. If the wall is going to be in
a place where the ground is slopping down, make sure that you dig at least a
few inches into the solid natural ground, so that the wall you are building can
sit on firm natural ground, so, your wall is not going to slope down the first
heavy rain you have after building. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, in this example, we are building a low stone wall and
we are not going to use anything to bind the wall together, so, there is no
cement or anything else between the stones, in this case because there is
nothing to stop the rainwater to run between the stones you don’t need to worry
about drainage. You see, one of the greatest problems with retaining walls is
the water that can build behind them, the water and wet soil puts pressure on
the wall and if the water cannot get out the wall is going to fail. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now it is helpful to have a look at some stone retaining
wall, and for this reason in mind I have found this link in the Internet; so,
have a look at the pictures in this link; <a href="http://www.australianrockwalls.com.au/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white;">www.australianrockwalls.com.au/</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0e7744;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>there are several types of stone
walls, now you can start thinking how and why they have been built that way. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anyhow, this is the first part of this article, see you in next part, buiding rock retaining walls. </p><p class="MsoNormal">To see more, or the entire article click on this link, <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/DIY-Retaining-walls"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #551a8b; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">DIY Retaining walls</span></a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-------------------------------------- </p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-88400385625695802182022-02-19T15:21:00.017+10:002022-02-20T12:14:40.981+10:00 House building in Brisbane. WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div>(This blog cannot be used to link to Google Ad Sense) But I can link it to other Ad Sense blogs, like. </div><div>(<span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,) (</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfrancore.blogspot.com/</span></a>,) (<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/</span></a>,)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"> (</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0062b5; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com</span></a>,) </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpYCf0pJSq8rydkLsHq9gj2x1GIPP6rSNjUi9eVgX53Khpz8U1NOyG00x2xZ11jGFjlr2WzBkhc9k7xKKfy3UskhE-DYbSX5nYQZKCgc7V6ilHikK_Qd9DMFVd9s0qWb_m_LhEAFxEauQo2VjD2ppdghPrlKwoKttYiLNkuszZw11flV9-PnJyWZD6=s259" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpYCf0pJSq8rydkLsHq9gj2x1GIPP6rSNjUi9eVgX53Khpz8U1NOyG00x2xZ11jGFjlr2WzBkhc9k7xKKfy3UskhE-DYbSX5nYQZKCgc7V6ilHikK_Qd9DMFVd9s0qWb_m_LhEAFxEauQo2VjD2ppdghPrlKwoKttYiLNkuszZw11flV9-PnJyWZD6=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div>In Brisbane there are many stand alone houses, this type of house above we were building in the eighties, they were more expansive that the houses that we were building in the sixties, but they were better houses than the smaller timber house of the sixties. </div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6ri6ouJSkQ3SZVyPiuhoT5gemrJiaznT4bopzqRs27qbOPJV8lu4NHzYzdIr7FWVcLJl-kL0EId-TKdkVM2jaC44ayxpNYAg58SIRBRXqEGDhZBQOZN2koFuscbJQoshYYHWX8dQsHvjW6IpEqil9hffLffsLX_LwNCz_9FM0IIr0U1mc7P5x-jOG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="258" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6ri6ouJSkQ3SZVyPiuhoT5gemrJiaznT4bopzqRs27qbOPJV8lu4NHzYzdIr7FWVcLJl-kL0EId-TKdkVM2jaC44ayxpNYAg58SIRBRXqEGDhZBQOZN2koFuscbJQoshYYHWX8dQsHvjW6IpEqil9hffLffsLX_LwNCz_9FM0IIr0U1mc7P5x-jOG" width="318" /></a></div>The houses that we were building in the seventies, were mostly timber houses on concrete stumps, then they started enclosing part of the house below, with brick walls or timber partitions, later they were built with mixed up building material. <br /><br /></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Welcome to my article, <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/House-building-in-Brisbane"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">House building in Brisbane</span></a>.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;">House building explained. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dear readers, today
we build many different houses,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> depending on the country or even the zone where we are living. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyhow, we must
build houses to live in them, so, in this article we are talking about that, because
this is what I did when I came to Brisbane Australia in the sixties. I know that today building houses can be
different from then, but not very much. Anyhow, we are going to talk about house
brick bases, and working as a brickies labor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">House building in
Brisbane in the sixties, was and is different from the old continent of Europe,
because over there most houses are made of masonry, timber over there is more
expensive than in Australia, and because of the colder climate. You see, thick
walls of masonry absorb the heat during summer and act as storage of this heat
by releasing it slowly during the colder months. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, houses over there are built mostly
from masons’ bricklayer and concreters, and the carpenters play a smaller part
than they do in Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Therefore, when we
the European migrants came to Australia in the sixties, we thought this is
strange to live in timber houses, and we were surprised to see that the
carpenter played the role of builders, when houses were being built, because in
the sixties most houses were made of timber, we are saying this to compare
houses building, between the old continent and Australia in those times. Now we
are not saying that this was good or bad practice, since we soon accepted the
way of life we found, and we thought there must be a good reason for it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, we all did what
we had to do in whatever employment we found, and those of us who ended up
working in the building industry, we did what we were told to do. But as we
know, everything changes with time. As we will see later, when building houses with
timber will change even here. Now that we have made this comparison, let us go
back to what I was doing myself in helping to build these houses.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Therefore, let us talk about how most houses
were being built by teams of workers, because that is how we were building
houses in Southeast Queensland in the sixties.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">House building in Brisbane in the sixties. </span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In the sixties and
seventies, most houses building were done from teams of subcontractors, who had
their own team of building workers, even if they were only a small team of two
or three people, like the team I was working with, which had two tradesman and
one labor (myself). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now let me tell you, what sort of teams were there; first there were the concreters and
bricklayers. When building small houses that did not have a lot to do with
these trades, concrete and brickwork could be done from the same team; then
there was the carpenter team, then the roof, the electrician and the plumber
and the plasters. The work of the builder, which most times was the leading
carpenter, because he had the largest job; not only he was building the timber
frame of the house, but had to organize all the teams in a way that was
appropriate, so that they were not in each other way while they were working,
and finally do all the finishing work required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In those times to
be a builder of these standalone houses on an approved block of land was easy,
as long as you were a building tradesman and had building knowledge and had the
money to build them, you had this opportunity to build one of these houses, of
course there were local authority inspections to be had while we were building,
but if you knew what you were doing it was easy to pass. So, there were many
house builders around that would hire teams of building workers as we were.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I need to say that
the building industry in Australia is one of the main driving forces of the
economy, since it employs lots of people that are willing to do hard physical
work to earn their living, you see you don’t need to be a learned person to
work on the building, all you need is common knowledge of things and enough
English to understand what is wanted from you, if you know what you are doing;
or you work with people that speak your native language and they explain to you
what you need to do, but you had to work hard to keep this job. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I believe that in
the sixties and seventies there were good opportunities to work on building
houses, because the price of the houses was more affordable than they are
today. Just looking back at those prices, we can say that one of those cheaper
houses would be worth about four time the average wage of a person working full
time for a year, so, most people could afford them; therefore, those builders
that were building them were able to sell their houses at a decent profit that
would enable them to build other houses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As we know things
changes with the passing of time.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> So, let us look at what has taken place, in the houses market. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">As we have
said, in the beginning houses in Brisbane were mostly made of timber, and they
were set on timber stumps, then in the sixties because the timber stumps would
rot or they would be attacked by white ants they gave way to concrete stumps, and
some brick walls under the house. Then from just a brick wall in front of the
house they changed to a full brick base and concrete stumps or steel posts,
then came the era of the brick veneer and finally concrete and cavity bricks.
Today, I must point out that building apartments is different from the sixties,
they are mostly made of reinforced concrete.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now that we have
said a few things about the history of house building in Brisbane, let us talk
about my contribution in the building industry and what I did during the
earlier part of working building houses. If I remember right in my last article,
I was talking about how we were concreting the stumps for a new house, and we
had laid the foundations for brickwork, therefore, let us talk about the
brickwork that we had to do, to build a brick base under the house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Brick base under
timber houses. <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As we have said,
there were many types of houses being built in the sixties, some of them had a
brick base, or the front wall under the house built in bricks. So, this was
another job that we did with our small team of bricklayer and concrete workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In order to be
efficient and competitive a small team that lays bricks needs to be made of two
bricklayers and a labor, of course larger teams can work well with a different
number of people, anyhow this is what was like then and our team had two
bricklayer and a labor as myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now that I have
explained that, let us start working, so that I can describe how things work
out, who does what, and how it should be done. It is the bricklayers’ foreman
that decides from where to start. But if he is not there, then it is up to
whoever is there to start getting ready where the bricklayers must start. This
is not hard to know because to lay bricks you must start from the lowest part
of the foundation, So, when I was working as a bricklayer labor, I would get
ready the bricks and the combo-boards, at the lowest point of the foundation,
so, when the bricklayers had to start, all I had to do, was to give them fresh
mixed mortar on these combo-boards, and then continue to supply them with brick
and mortar as required. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Here I should say,
that it is hard work for the bricklayer-labor and for the bricklayers, because
at the end of the day one has to handle so many bricks, since in a day a
bricklayer on a normal wall is supposed to lay on average 400 to 500 face
bricks, or up to a thousand common bricks, of course this is wishful thinking
and most times we didn’t, but we had to try to get there; this is how the bricklayers’
team works. Now let me break it down and describe what the labor does, and
then what the bricklayers have to do; I know all this because later I became
and worked as a bricklayer for decades myself, but now let us talk about what
the bricklayers’ labor does.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Working as a
bricklayer labor. <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>What you do, when you are working as a brickies </b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>labor</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>.</b></span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The brickies labor
job is hard work, it is also a semiskilled work, since he has got to know how
to make mortar and to supply mortar and bricks to the bricklayer at the right
time in the right place. It is obvious that he must have at his disposition a
mixer to mix mortar and wheelbarrows, other small devises to help him achieve
that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Here I need to
point out that to start a new job it is very hard, as the ground on the site is
not flat and there are hips of dirt around the foundations where the brick or
block walls are going to be built, so, the labor needs first to flatten the
ground a bit, so that the mortar boards and the bricks can be positioned at the
right distance from the foundation, this is about 60 centimeter plus from the
walls that are being built, so that the bricklayers have enough room to move
and at the same time they can reach the bricks and the mortar-boards without
walking; in order to achieve that there needs to be one mortar boards and then
one stack of bricks, and again one mortar board and another stack of brick, and
so on for the whole length of the wall being built. Now that we have made it
ready, the bricklayers are going to start to lay bricks, let me prepare the
mortar, which some people may call cement or combo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Preparing or mixing
the mortar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There are rules to
follow how to mix good mortar, so, one must keep in mind first what sort of
material is available and can be delivered on the local site, because quantity
and quality may vary with the locality. Anyhow, let us assume that for this job
a load of brickies loam has been delivered on the site; in this case this
brickies loam has some lumps in it, so, it needs to be screened before or after
mixing the mortar, as I have screened it, I am ready to mix it now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, I start the
mixer and put in clean water, and a small measure of mortar mix (this is a
chemical that helps the mortar to be more workable) then I put in say a shovel
full of Portland cement and four shovels full of brickies loam, this is how we
usually mix mortar to lay bricks, it is one part of cement to four parts of
loam by volume, therefore, for bigger batches you can have say; three shovels
full of cement and twelve shovelful of loam and so on. Of course, these
quantities can vary, if for instance it is written in the specifications that
the mortar must be made with different amounts of materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyhow, let me go
back to this batch of mortar that I have mixed to the right consistency; Now, I
take the wheelbarrow near the mixer and tip the mortar in the wheelbarrow, and
then take the wheelbarrow with the mortar near the mortar boards, here I wet
the mortarboards before I place the mortar on them and finally I am ready for
the bricklayers to get started. From now on I must make sure that the bricklayers
have always enough mortar and bricks, otherwise they will we shouting at me
Bricks! Or combo! (Or mortar!). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dear readers, if I
have missed a few things you have to use your own common sense to get
everything going the right way, you see, most things on the building site is
plain common sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I believe that I
have said enough in this article, although there is a lot more to be said, how
the bricklayers are going to lay bricks for this brick base. But I am going to
leave it for next article, which we are going to call, DIY brickwork, there I
will try to explain it in as many details as I can, how to build a house brick
base. In fact, we are going to write a group of articles about bricklaying and
other building trades; I hope that I can line them up in such a way that they make
sense and it is easy to follow. Anyhow, see you soon in our next article, <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Building-brick-base-for-houses" style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">DIY brickwork</span></a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; mso-spacerun: yes;">To see more click on this link, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/House-building-in-Brisbane"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">House building in Brisbane</span></a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">--------------------------------------------- </span></p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-97470938566872792021-04-06T15:12:00.015+10:002021-06-21T13:38:27.390+10:00Australia affordable houses, <div>WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. </div><div><div>(This blog cannot be used to link to Google Ad Sense) But I can link it to other blogs or sites, <span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/</span></a></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiobKPBHUI7BwdxrwfUYiPXJec9ueU7p-mwv8yiL69Z41Y2KQ6Bo16LhyphenhyphenvBSKxXglZwnbMdkyrbj0hJxukLu8WiQD6O4ilTMSVKWD0B2bb4ACOfJK8sxz-xLAjHEcUPg333qJkG3Ap4k/s520/House+S.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="520" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiobKPBHUI7BwdxrwfUYiPXJec9ueU7p-mwv8yiL69Z41Y2KQ6Bo16LhyphenhyphenvBSKxXglZwnbMdkyrbj0hJxukLu8WiQD6O4ilTMSVKWD0B2bb4ACOfJK8sxz-xLAjHEcUPg333qJkG3Ap4k/w400-h301/House+S.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Because a simple small house like this one, would be more affordable than a large one, it will attract more buyers than a large and well decorated house, that is why even today there are builders that will build small houses instead of large houses. </div><div><br /></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Welcome to my article, <o:p></o:p></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Building-houses-from-scratch" style="background-color: transparent;">Australia affordable houses</a>, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dear readers, as I
have said in our last blog, I was working building these affordable houses.
In those times, new affordable houses were built on the fringe of the city in
new suburbs, which is the same as today, if you want a new affordable house,
you must look for it, in the new suburbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were also talking about
earning and saving money, one of the aims for saving money is to buy our own
house. So, let us talk the houses that we can afford. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As we know, houses
are not all the same. Of
course, we want to live in the best houses available, but most of us cannot
afford expensive houses, therefore, we should be happy to live in any house
that we can afford to buy or rent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For this reason of affordability,
to satisfy the house supply market, there are several types of house that are
being built at any given time. In this article, we are going to talk about the
type of houses that I ended up working on, in the early sixties. Because this
article is meant to cover the story of my life, and what I did for a living. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In the early
sixties, I ended up working on average houses that the working class could
afford to buy, or at least the aim of the builders that were building them, was
based in this affordability, since they had designed them with this purpose,
because in the end, even though they had been built cheap not all of us workers
would afford to buy these types of houses. But anyhow this was the purpose of
building these types of affordable houses in the early sixties.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let us try to describe
how we were building these houses from scratch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Building houses from scratch <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyhow, I am
writing these articles about building houses from scratch, because I want to
tell you the story of my life, and what I did when I came to Australia. But at
the same time, I want to write something useful for my readers, and I believe
that knowing how houses are built is useful to know, since knowing a few things
about building houses comes handy at times; you see, we live in houses,
therefore, we want to know as much as we can about them. Because we need to
know how to do it yourself repairs and other things, since houses need to be maintained,
if we want to enjoy them fully. So, I am going to describe how these houses
were built, with as many details as I can, so that anyone interested can learn
something useful from these building articles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now has I have
explained in our last article, I was working in the building industry with this
Italian builder, which was good for me because my native language is Italian.
Now, with this builder not only we were re-stumping or building rooms under the
existing houses, which required a lot of work to be done by hand, but we were
building new houses from scratch. As I have said at the beginning of the
sixties most of the digging were done by hand, specially the type of work that
we were doing on these new houses, as machines were expensive to hire then, So,
they were used only, if there was a lot of digging to be done, and with the
machines of those days we could only dig straight forward things and not small
detailed digging, as they were required to build these houses, anyhow as I
said, I did a lot of this digging work myself, as I was employed as builder
labor, and this was one of the jobs that I had to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Therefore now, let
us imagine that I have finished digging the foundation and these stump holes for
this new house, and now, we need to lay concrete in the foundation, and to
concrete the stumps foundation and the stumps themselves. So, let us go over
what we had to do, because in those times these things were all done by hand
and started from scratch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Making your own
concrete. <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Making your own
concrete on site from scratch. Anyhow today you might think that this is an old way of mixing concrete, and it may not be used much. But if you happen to be in the middle of nowhere, this is what you need to know to make concrete. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, let me explain, what
is meant by concrete in buildings and how it is made You see, if during your life,
you are going to do renovations, it is useful to know how to make your own
concrete, so that you understand what is required and how and why it must be
done in certain ways, you will find this information written in this article.
Some people can say that today things are different, so why bother to tell us
this stuff about how to mix concrete properly, when we can buy concrete ready
mixed by truckload, or in bags and all you need to do is to add water to make
concrete. I say, okay, you can do that. But there are times and places, when
you must do these things the old way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Therefore, I
believe that you still need to know how concrete is made from scratch, because
that is the only way if you don’t want to make mistakes. Therefore, let me tell
you how we were mixing our concrete in the sixties, and what is required to do
that and how it is supposed to be done, if you want a good job done and the
concrete to last a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">By the way, here we
need to clarify one thing, what is meant by the word concrete, because most
people replace it with the word cement. On building sites, the word concrete
means the element mixed together able to harden to a solid consistency within a
certain length of time, therefore, it has got to be done the right way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">One of the most
important things while mixing concrete is that the concrete must be well mixed
and to a workable consistency using the least amount of water possible, because
if too much water is used then the concrete becomes weaker, therefore, it must
be done properly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Usually concreting
and other jobs are done according to its specifications, you see, any firm that
makes building plans, for a house or something of more importance, they must
write also the specification how the job needs to be done. In these
specifications it will be written what material to use, how to use it and the
quantity and quality required. Therefore, to concrete a foundation for an
average small house, the specification could state that the concrete must be
mixed to a consistency at least 1 to 6; for people that knew this it meant that
to mix the concrete you should use 1 part of Portland cement 2 parts of river
sand and 4 parts of gravel (aggregate) and mix it as required until an even
consistency is achieved. For the stumps usually would be a bit more cement than
the foundations. But I must say that sometimes even these rules had to be
changed a bit depending on the material that can be delivered on that local
site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let us say that
we are ready to start mixing the first batch of concrete, as we have made
everything ready, and everything has been delivered. To make concrete you need
at least four elements of materials plus clean water; 1 Portland cement, 2
washed river sand, 3 clean or washed gravel and 4 reinforcement steel rods, and
it is helpful if you have a mixer if you have to mix a large amount of
concrete, because to mix by hand is hard work and the concrete needs to be well
mixed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let us start
the mixer and make the first batch, while the mixer is turning around, the very
first thing you put in the mixer is water, one must be careful not to put too
much water to start with, it has got to be just enough to mix everything to a
certain consistency, so let us say that we put 8 litres of water (the amount of
water can be different, since it depends on the amount of water that is already
in the (sand gravel) aggregate) then we put in the mixer cement, next is the
river sand twice as much as the cement and then the clean gravel 4 time as much
as the cement; here the mixer is going around and mixing everything together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Please note, that
if you change the way you put your materials in the mixer, from what I have
described above, you may have different result, and usually it would take
longer to mix everything properly and to the right consistency. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For people that do
this job all the time it is easy for them to see if the concrete that is being
mixed has the right consistency required, once you know this, if it is too dry
just add a bit of water and if it is too wet you should add a bit of everything
else. There you are it is not too hard if you know how to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What I have written
above applies only to house building of less importance, for building that are
large and important the concrete needs to be to a very high standard and
specifications, so, here again you need to know what is needed before you do
anything, and if necessary consult the expert. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">---------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Concrete requires teamwork. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">To concrete well
and do a fair amount of work on these houses you need a team, even if it is a
small team. Our team was usually three of us, I as builder labor, John as
bricklayer and Con the contractor who was a bricklayer and concreted. We didn’t
mind if we switched around a bit to do the job. So, I was usually on the mixer
mixing the concrete, one was with a wheelbarrow taking the concrete from the
mixer to the foundations that we were concreting, and one was fixing the
concrete in place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fixing the concrete
for the foundation was physically the lightest job, when we were mixing the
concrete with this mixer on site, but it is the most responsible job, because
while concreting the foundations, you must make sure that the steel rods
reinforcement was in the right position, at the same time you had to pack the
concrete down and then the concrete in the foundations has to be finished
level, this was easy when the ground was level, but when the ground was not
level, it was necessary that steps were made and they had to be to gauge, which
was equal to the thickness of one or two laid bricks or more, or the thickness
of a laid block, if blocks were going to be used to build the walls on this
foundation, whatever was going to be used to lay on the foundations, we had to
try to make an adjustment while we were laying the foundations; therefore, this
was the job for the experts, at that time it was not that hard, because mixing
by hand even using a mixer was a slow job, so, the bloke that was fixing the
concrete had enough time to do his job right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What I have written
above is how we used to lay small house foundations in the early sixties, which
are the same as we lay foundations today, except that today we order concrete
already mixed, but we have to be ready with everything and everything has got
to be in the right place, because the concrete ready-mix truck will unload its
concrete quickly, so, there is no time to do anything else, except to fix the
concrete at the right level as quickly as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Concreting stumps on site<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let me go back
again to the early sixties, when we were concreting these stumps on site, this
procedure is not done much today, the reasons for this change it is because the
buildings have changed, and today these stumps can be made in a concrete
factory, and when cured can be delivered to the building site, where the worker
can erect them as required. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">To concrete these
stumps on site we had steel forms of various length, and these forms were
assembled together with steel pins, so, we would assemble these steel forms and
then start to mix concrete, we had also make sure that the stumps foundations
were exactly in the right place by using the marked profiles and tight line
between them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In this case, it
was an easy job for the fellow that is mixing concrete, but a lot harder for
the blokes that had to pour the concrete in the stumps form-work and make sure
that the stump was exactly in the right place and finished at the right height
and were also plumb (perfect vertical position). It was also necessary that
some reinforcing rods were placed in the right position with a purpose made
devise. These are how we made those onsite stumps in the sixties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">These concrete
stumps that we made in the sixties were better that the timber stumps that they
were replacing, because it was an improvement as they did not rot with the
passing of time and the white ants could not eat them. Here we can say that
these concrete stumps on site were easy to make, if you knew the procedure, in
fact it was easier to make a set of stumps than to fix concrete stumps made in
the factory, as there is no heavy lifting involved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I believe that we
have said enough in this article, as we have explained the work that we did on these
affordable houses and we will be coming back to talk about more building work
in our next article, house building in Brisbane. See you soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">------------------------------------------ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAyyETMWt538TKFssvcd4FTCXPxKBVPGXx2Hznkt8BcjCG-yaNbDFrGtUCQXpcsEpP9-uGw0mypNxvZuMAFb1QrG2cEyUk9gpu3hRuIgw9Zl9UjoQw6DD4zK8hcJiD0m1a8nxPFdJ_JQ/s1600/20210621_094427.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAyyETMWt538TKFssvcd4FTCXPxKBVPGXx2Hznkt8BcjCG-yaNbDFrGtUCQXpcsEpP9-uGw0mypNxvZuMAFb1QrG2cEyUk9gpu3hRuIgw9Zl9UjoQw6DD4zK8hcJiD0m1a8nxPFdJ_JQ/w400-h300/20210621_094427.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span><p></p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-57255013234159760832021-01-18T13:19:00.007+10:002021-04-08T10:30:12.853+10:00Money and working with this Italian builder. WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div>(This blog cannot be used to link to Google Ad Sense) But I can link it to other blogs or sites, <span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://menfranko.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://menfranko.blogspot.com</a>,</span><a href="http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKlYdLRe-n8kQEPh_A1gYlqdlHEHJWQ_8-AxZ3vES75RUAiLbi89o5fq1BIGaSfZMO-Rwvu6JDzhff4IybYJWejnUfyomIKPKhyphenhyphenrH2yGYjzqJV77EM2V6aFfcxKRgiw-3s7FM2LTdetI/s260/wooden+houses.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="260" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKlYdLRe-n8kQEPh_A1gYlqdlHEHJWQ_8-AxZ3vES75RUAiLbi89o5fq1BIGaSfZMO-Rwvu6JDzhff4IybYJWejnUfyomIKPKhyphenhyphenrH2yGYjzqJV77EM2V6aFfcxKRgiw-3s7FM2LTdetI/w400-h400/wooden+houses.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>The workers cottage, this house can be said that is a much smaller version on the Queenslander house</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learning how to earn and save money<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let us go back to talk about money, as we were sating in our last post . Whatever you do in
life, the most important thing is; Earning and saving money. In my case,
because there was uncertainty of not having a permanent job in the building
industry, we soon learned that whatever money we earned from our job, we had to
save some, otherwise we could have problems soon or later; so, this
disadvantage that we had in this job pushed most of us building workers to
become good at saving money, because we wanted to feel safe and independent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, let me talk
about money. In Australia because the economy is based on capitalism the more
money you can earn and save the better off you are; of course, this is also
true to most other part of the world, but in Australia seems to be more so,
because it is a new country, and people rely more on what they can earn than
anywhere else in the world. This is because there are not existing reach
families that live on the earnings of the properties that have been passed down
from generation to generations. Therefore, in Australia is mostly up to
yourself, if you want to get richer, you should try harder to earn and save
money. You see, most of the people here, have earned their own money. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Therefore, we must
understand that in Australia, not only you have to try to earn money, but it is
important that you should save it too, and at the same time you have to try to
improve your working position, so, you can be more independent and not rely on
others. This attitude can help if it happens that you lose your temporary job,
and also by saving money you can start one day buying your own house, which is
the most important thing that people must do, if they want to live an
independent decent life. I know now that most of you are saying that this
buying a house is a hard thing to do, but you see, this can be done because I
have done it myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyhow, I believe
that I have said enough about this money business; so, let me go back to tell
you, my progress in the building industry and what I did to become a tradesman.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Working for this builder<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Working and learning with this small Italian
builder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dear readers, in these articles, while I am
telling you the story about myself working in the Australian building industry,
I am going to try to give you details of how things were done in those days;
therefore, if you are one of those people that want to do your own building
renovations one day, on those building that we built then, you can somehow
guess what you can find, because you already know how we built them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now let me go back to when I started work
with this Italian builder, who did bricklaying and concreting, we were working
on houses and because there was not enough bricklaying work on these houses, as
they were mostly built with timber, we were building only the foundations, the
concrete stumps and some brickwork as the base of the house. Of course, we did
also some jobs under the existing houses and this has given me an opportunity
to learn many things about those old houses in Brisbane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Just for comparison sake, to see the
difference between those times and today, let me describe to you what we did to
prepare a new base for a new timber house, which would be setting on concrete
stumps and some brick walls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">First of all, we went to set up the site, if
it was not set up from the builder or carpenter that was building the timber
house. This setting up required that we should fix some timber frame to the
ground with pegs and per the measurement in the plan. These timber frames are
called profiles, and they are marked accurately to the measurement on the plan,
so that we had the right measurement to go by, to start digging the foundations
for the stumps and brick walls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Then we had to dig the foundations and this
was mostly my job as I was the labour and I was pretty good at digging, this
may seem hard to believe but even digging one has to be an expert to do a good
job, as the shape and depth of the foundations is important to do a good job.
Just to show you what I mean to dig a hole for a new concrete stump, 20x20
centimetres as most stumps were supposed to be; the hole for this stump should
be in exactly the right place, it should be at least sixty centimetres deep in
natural ground and at the bottom should have a circumference of at least 40
centimetres or more. These were the average specifications then, unless it was
stated otherwise. I know this because I have dug several hundreds of them if
not thousands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">All the tools that I needed to do this
digging job were a pick a post hole shovel and a crowbar, it usually would take
me a couple of days to dig the entire house holes, which could usually be between
twenty and thirty holes. You see I was able to dig a hole in less than half an
hour, but it was hard work. Sometimes when there was some brickwork to do, we
had also to dig these foundations by hand; the foundations were usually dug
according to specification, which usually would be 60 centimetre deep in the
natural ground, this means that if the grounds had been filled up that filling
should not be counted as depth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, before I finish writing this article,
I want to say that those houses that we were building in the sixties, with this
builder contractor that I was working for, they were average affordable house
that the average family could afford to buy, and therefore, they were sold
easily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now, I believe that I have said enough in
this article and although there is a lot more that can be said, we are going to
tell you in our next article, which is going to be about how we made those
concrete stumps on site, while we were working on these, </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Building-houses-from-scratch" style="background-color: transparent;">Australia affordable houses</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> .</span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">See you soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">---------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.2pt;"><br /></p><br /></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-12072118543393453792020-12-02T11:59:00.005+10:002021-04-08T10:29:36.734+10:00 Australian housing industryWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div><br /></div><div>Taken from our Hub Pages article <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Working-in-the-Australian-building-industry" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Australian building industry</a><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3IHlpLrOZsw8BfamP-OxGBnKifOXOrnnruMUWJRjabdSJFhJJAEQA_e8y_tJfHbn1-vzjQf4N1D8Kh_9oAxPni4Td8xlnuBz2TqRx0Rfxtv5us7WRCAfdRNh0U_hAzAFytWQzXtQhNU/s520/13146614_f520.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3IHlpLrOZsw8BfamP-OxGBnKifOXOrnnruMUWJRjabdSJFhJJAEQA_e8y_tJfHbn1-vzjQf4N1D8Kh_9oAxPni4Td8xlnuBz2TqRx0Rfxtv5us7WRCAfdRNh0U_hAzAFytWQzXtQhNU/s320/13146614_f520.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;">This type of house were built id the sixties. Today they are being renewed. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dear readers, we
have said that we are going to write about DIY brickwork and other building
things, which we believe can help people that are willing to try DIY small
building or repairs, but first let me explain how I acquired that knowledge
myself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When I came to
Australia in the sixties I ended up working in the building industry, we were working
mainly on fixing old houses, or building new house from scratch, units and
warehouses, so, I ended up learning how lots of building things were done, in
the end I became a bricklayer, and have worked most of my life as a bricklayer.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyhow, in this
article we are going to write about; the Australian housing industry in the
sixties; Working in the Australian housing and building industry; Earning and
saving money if you can; and Working with this Italian builder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We believe that the
Australian housing and building industry, is one of the major employment
industries in Australia, you can say that this is so in other countries. But I
believe that in other countries building new houses is not as important as it
is in Australia. One of the reasons for this is that Australia is a new
country, it needs and takes in many emigrants. In the sixties Australia was
taking emigrants in a regulated way, now because the population grows steadily
also accommodation need to grow steadily, therefore, new houses need to be
built to keep a steady balance. This building of new houses gives opportunities
for the newcomers to be employed, since there is manual work involved,
therefore, a healthy cycle is created; but even with these opportunities the
building industry has its ups and down, as we know. So, let us talk about it
and try to make sense, if we can. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You know, the housing
building industry and real estate work together to complete the cycle of
supplying to the public what is needed, so, both have their ups and downs and
it cannot be avoided. It could have been helpful if one could foretell what is
going to happen next year, on the housing market, but it is not possible to
guess what is going to happen in the future. If people can know this, then they
could make money, since they could invest their money at the right time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now, for those
buying a house and saving to buy a house. We are going to write another article
about buying houses, because now I want to tell my story about working in the
building industry, building houses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Working in the building industry <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">As I have said, when I came to Australia from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Italy, I ended up working in the
building industry. Now let me explain this working position, working on
building in Australia is a temporary job, because even the employer is subject
to the same opportunities of work and he cannot help it, therefore, one is
never sure what is going to happen next, when the job you are working on is
finished, therefore, there were concerns about our employment status, so, we kept
asking ourselves, whether our employer would get another job to do, before we
finished the one we were doing, but even though we were thinking that, we still
worked hard to finish the job on hand, as soon as possible, because to find
work you had to be competitive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Well I should say that although this small
Italian builder did lots of small jobs, it did work out all right most times,
so, we were able to move from one job to another all-around Brisbane and to
other close by town/s. Of course, this would cause worries if you had no
transport of your own and you had to rely on some friends or the employer to
take you on the work site, where the building was going to be built, but we
managed somehow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">I remember that there were times, when I had
to get up early and catch the first tram to the city, and then I had to catch
the second tram to another suburb, where the builder would pick me up and drive
me to the onsite job, in the evening after eight hours or more of hard work, I
had to go back home, which took again a long time, but anyhow we managed all
right, after all we were here in Australia to earn money, so, as long as we had
a job to go to and earn money, we were happy to do that. You see, on building
sites workers can earn above other people wages, but there was this uncertainty
because there was no guaranty that the work would last, and it also was hard
work all day long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, it was a good job with good
opportunities to learn and improve your knowledge of building something yourself.
You see, in those times we could improve our working and earning position more
easily than today; it was possible then because a lot of things were simple,
and therefore, they could be done just by using your common sense. Of course,
there were always inspections from local authorities to follow, but once you
knew what it was required they were easy to follow, if you used your brains
diligently, therefore, we should say that we had more opportunities then
compared to today opportunities. I believe that it was so, because the building
we were building were small houses, so, if you were a tradesman, you most
likely could be the builder as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Having said that, now let us see, how this
type of work affected us newcomers money-wise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, this post is already long enough, so, see you in our next post, where we talk about money and working for this Italian builder. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">---------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-76859147330821926932020-11-18T09:26:00.003+10:002021-04-08T10:29:08.209+10:00Australia building industryWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div>taken from our article <a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Australia-the-land-of-opportunity"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Is Australia the land of opportunity?</span></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;">
<o:p></o:p></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4XM41fGMhPSoHnWJ3oviu21HR1QOgE7NUVMbIGlUnvILn_Uj0B6b7X-kyDlJznkg-VxHWvhi4Mz_RsRErJxdOTdYDr7y7smDsS-ASsy_3zzyhWMUzDZfYttIKdBFAnHchBDGnB4q0eM/s260/wooden+houses.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4XM41fGMhPSoHnWJ3oviu21HR1QOgE7NUVMbIGlUnvILn_Uj0B6b7X-kyDlJznkg-VxHWvhi4Mz_RsRErJxdOTdYDr7y7smDsS-ASsy_3zzyhWMUzDZfYttIKdBFAnHchBDGnB4q0eM/s0/wooden+houses.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyuVVJotQ3I9BksgHGykihXlVvZjETOxbkECGzT68GfnTWfWgdnIwPqPYdu5ru2Wj1RA8a2wPiS2WhXOdM2iwNanNqzKJmqXSFPvYrE3GkY6WeLvhd1fLsZaqoJshM91AIRREBKUjnRs/s260/Blockwork+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyuVVJotQ3I9BksgHGykihXlVvZjETOxbkECGzT68GfnTWfWgdnIwPqPYdu5ru2Wj1RA8a2wPiS2WhXOdM2iwNanNqzKJmqXSFPvYrE3GkY6WeLvhd1fLsZaqoJshM91AIRREBKUjnRs/s0/Blockwork+.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Jobs in Australia in the sixties </span></div><div><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">As I have said, my first job in Australia was
in the building industry, because I ended up working as a bricklayer’s labour,
but I lost that job for a couple of reasons. I believe that I lost the first
job, because I didn’t know English and at the same time, I had no experience in
the sort of work we were doing, and for that reason I could not guess what they
wanted me to do next. After that I had another job which ended very much the
same way; but then one day suddenly a small Italian builder needed a labour and
he knew that I was available, so he came to fetch me and asked if I would be
interested to work for him, and this is how I ended up working in the building
industry, I worked for this builder for about two years, but then he went on
holiday to Italy for a long time, therefore, he temporary closed down the
business, but by then the Italian building community new about me, so, in a few
days I had another job to go to, always in the building industry with another
builder or contractors working as a bricklayer labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">You see in those times there was a lot more
work for people wanting to work, but at the same time we knew that we had to
work hard because there was a lot of competition going on even in those days,
so, what could we say if we work hard for it, we would always find somebody
that would give us work, because we earned our wage plus a bit more for the
employer. This is how I understood the ways of earning your living in this
capitalist society, which is based on competition and you are paid with what
you deliver. Now, we have to say that this capitalist way is very good, if the
workers are not pushed beyond their physical capacity. But let us compare those
times with our present times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Compare the old ways with the new
<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Here we want to compare the opportunities
that we had, when we came in Australia in the sixties as emigrant, to the opportunities
of the illegal migrants that arrive by boat uninvited. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, we need to compare what we had to do to
come to Australia in the sixties, with what is happening today with illegal
emigration, to spot the reasons why things don’t work as good as they used to
work, for the emigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">You see, when I and the other emigrants
wanted to come to Australia during the sixties, we had to be screened before we
could have a visa that would allow us to come to Australia and work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This screening was strict, as they did not
want anybody that could become sick, so, we had to go through a medical check,
and there was another stricter check about being legally of good character,
even if you had ever had trouble with the police, in fact, they were so strict
about this that if one had been involved with the communist party, by saying
that you would vote for the communist party, you would not be allowed to come
to Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">I hope that I have explained how strict they
were then, before they gave you a visa to come to work in Australia. Anyhow, I can
say that this screening the emigrants was a good thing after all, because after
that it was a lot easier when you were in Australia, since they knew everything
that they needed to know, so, the authorities were more relaxed. As I have said,
when I went to the unemployment office even though I did not speak much English
they did everything possible to find me a job, and if they could not find us a
job soon enough, they would pay us the unemployment benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, from my own experience, I can say
that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://hubpages.com/topics/food-and-cooking/world-cuisines/oceania-cuisine/australian-cuisine/1712"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt;">anyone
that has come to Australia</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">and has
seen Australia the same way that I have seen it, they know that Australia is a
great country to live in; and if there is somebody that does not like
Australia, it must be because they have their own personal problems and they
are home sick, or they are unwilling to work hard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Today Australia does not seem to be as good
as it was when I came to Australia, because there are more unemployed people,
and it is hard for people to find permanent work. But in my eyes, it is still
okay, you need to be more patient until you find a job. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">But my impression about Australia is this;
anyone that sees Australia the way that I saw it when I came here, would fall
in love with the Australian ways of living. Now we can say that today it is not
as good as it used to be, but we are still good compared to other countries.
So, we want to conclude this article by saying that Australia can be still the land
of opportunities, if the people that come here come with the intention of
working hard, as we have been working in the past, they should not come with
the intention of ripping us off, because they want to have an easy life for
themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now, because today a lot of things are
different, most of all the difference that exists between screened legal
emigrant, and those emigrants that come illegally and the authorities don’t
know anything about them. So, a comparison between these emigrants is not
possible. Therefore, measuring the opportunities that exist is not possible
either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow this article is becoming too long, so,
see you next time with another article called; Australian building industry,
where we will be continuing to tell you my life story and what I have done in
Australia to earn a living. See you there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">---------------------------------------</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-4815225749209721662020-11-11T13:10:00.021+10:002021-04-08T10:28:33.087+10:00Genzano is now a red zoneWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div><br /></div><div>Today the town of Genzano the lucania looks a different town. Because of the corona-virus pandemic, this town looks like a ghost town<br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0z__TC__fqGzA5PXi5L1cNdFH22DkOLx94_FOA8485uyx1GQvCQFI9qxlw1ZHURR1hLI_lcr66LsEnjgELCljnYD1pmBYMhXJhCIXBSIgOOoZ3kTtYfmss_QuKprfW2Kc7Qb6IZQ0Scw/s960/C+Madonna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0z__TC__fqGzA5PXi5L1cNdFH22DkOLx94_FOA8485uyx1GQvCQFI9qxlw1ZHURR1hLI_lcr66LsEnjgELCljnYD1pmBYMhXJhCIXBSIgOOoZ3kTtYfmss_QuKprfW2Kc7Qb6IZQ0Scw/s320/C+Madonna.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>This church is one of the main church of this town, but there is nobody to be seen. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZvMWuzxrHfsPoc6pTlWycvpITzbf-hH2AMenVgBpSS3_qIow7N9HG4_tPtJvmWXA4rsm6UhFFfl_65D4zu5ehuXdsK70gIptBxfSDigBwuW0aga1ul9necDKqd2fZL0bSCqYlmLvd_A/s275/Cavallina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZvMWuzxrHfsPoc6pTlWycvpITzbf-hH2AMenVgBpSS3_qIow7N9HG4_tPtJvmWXA4rsm6UhFFfl_65D4zu5ehuXdsK70gIptBxfSDigBwuW0aga1ul9necDKqd2fZL0bSCqYlmLvd_A/s0/Cavallina.jpg" /></a></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The ancient fountain la Cavallina is just the same there is nobody to be seen. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">Genzano is a red zone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">Genzano di Lucania zona rossa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">Today Genzano di Lucania was mentioned in the national
news, this small town is becoming important for the wrong reasons. You see, it has
happened something that I cannot believe could ever happen. So, instead of
posting articles from my life story as usual, we are posting what is happening
in Genzano now, because Genzano di Lucania has become a red zone, due to the
corona-virus positive cases. I am concerned for the people that are living
there, but anyhow, let me see what I can write in this blog and if I can say
something helpful. Anyhow, I am trying to paste some photos that I found on the internet, to show you what I mean. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyafxdcBUTUgszsWekGjgt0CV2zLTxT9YcgKwdyKGoYSMR68rgF8BSMelW_bUALxUbwf6kaTp_1qQiYHPwFP-d62V7NZ-xvrVCHrKWnvQ-X4vyAkWMkwYxHclfCI0qNVIsWdHU5cubkE/s960/g+convento.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyafxdcBUTUgszsWekGjgt0CV2zLTxT9YcgKwdyKGoYSMR68rgF8BSMelW_bUALxUbwf6kaTp_1qQiYHPwFP-d62V7NZ-xvrVCHrKWnvQ-X4vyAkWMkwYxHclfCI0qNVIsWdHU5cubkE/s320/g+convento.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This photo here is the center of the town, there are always people around in normal times, but not today. The photo below is the same main street, we call is the corso, where most people use to walk about and chat to their friends at normal times. <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqziRWP9ONd38OnldUvQQ-1x2aISzCdwhyZGL5KHRH9P9FJ-u8zXdeCAR7aDRq3gqr6zU-Q0l-TvYtkRPhF05WK92U0dmvr0OfoRXrGHYC82fXg_o1NmGCcOle0bC4-4eIdjiSm9-Debo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqziRWP9ONd38OnldUvQQ-1x2aISzCdwhyZGL5KHRH9P9FJ-u8zXdeCAR7aDRq3gqr6zU-Q0l-TvYtkRPhF05WK92U0dmvr0OfoRXrGHYC82fXg_o1NmGCcOle0bC4-4eIdjiSm9-Debo/w335-h406/image.png" width="335" /></a><span style="font-size: 20pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">Looking at the photos in Facebook with no people around scares me, because
Genzano looks like a ghost town. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxi12uJPmC15epUUYdiIpFkuX5Tbf1qzgcDlUvxiImIVQEJyRHRSB1XCMwg9wEPApuuWk9yeuVjn9GdT3OqYzjfPOBya6JysOJhWPrLYgpFHqWKYDl9ZJp0U9hNwc58xOHWjCQRb3Rr4/s960/soldati.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxi12uJPmC15epUUYdiIpFkuX5Tbf1qzgcDlUvxiImIVQEJyRHRSB1XCMwg9wEPApuuWk9yeuVjn9GdT3OqYzjfPOBya6JysOJhWPrLYgpFHqWKYDl9ZJp0U9hNwc58xOHWjCQRb3Rr4/s320/soldati.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The army has come to Genzano to stop people moving around, the photo above are their vehicles, and two photos below are the signs and this huge thing to bloc the road. </span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-01QvytkOtzOxkpZY7DfIjgI8ECmyUJefvLhcT8Phx5wDC9zC2HmCJTL-VJvB3tNLBnJ4hp7Y-0-LaV9d1Sslfx97ijR-fYF2Nr_jMG3g65tIZONJEt1WczlX66dsr3hV9NAGFK2z6w/s960/Genzano+E.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-01QvytkOtzOxkpZY7DfIjgI8ECmyUJefvLhcT8Phx5wDC9zC2HmCJTL-VJvB3tNLBnJ4hp7Y-0-LaV9d1Sslfx97ijR-fYF2Nr_jMG3g65tIZONJEt1WczlX66dsr3hV9NAGFK2z6w/s320/Genzano+E.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPu8Wcj2RK_TrPwAO3tF81oS8G0Kjp6BiwbGQOso8xi2xuja5SXvA7qWUxDZnncFkcSl_2q2cF1IR0qogTwhD5GhVeVfowr56eWsGIVjqzBltcc40yFHMfT7k8rDVky5G0Giv-1a0HbrI/s960/Bloc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPu8Wcj2RK_TrPwAO3tF81oS8G0Kjp6BiwbGQOso8xi2xuja5SXvA7qWUxDZnncFkcSl_2q2cF1IR0qogTwhD5GhVeVfowr56eWsGIVjqzBltcc40yFHMfT7k8rDVky5G0Giv-1a0HbrI/s320/Bloc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEX0G5CikBSg_n_eXXD9ah514HSu_gvRMFVFFlgBPrIfWPOK7fOQ4JagNHeief9lC0CvvxhUbkRwZ66h0KUmEhSmmSpp0Xr0xVsFRkd894ZOzTEHw34xwWqlbxrKo8hqGls2aynJA0eM/s960/villa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEX0G5CikBSg_n_eXXD9ah514HSu_gvRMFVFFlgBPrIfWPOK7fOQ4JagNHeief9lC0CvvxhUbkRwZ66h0KUmEhSmmSpp0Xr0xVsFRkd894ZOzTEHw34xwWqlbxrKo8hqGls2aynJA0eM/s320/villa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The people are protesting by attaching these signs on the villa boundary, but will they help, nobody knows. Photo below is the other side of the villa, and again nobody is around. <br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiz2y9rxgmFnftUg18BWusaEIVi7Eyhl93fUz6DChUaogAbwCSoRXeCSPrqyzNeZQbxGf7ItFcttJEa9lVdoX3TuQHAHvgTk3VJt9QWDIRY7RaxHifIk6DDt0Hum4B8QHwkByrWedKDw/s960/b+villa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiz2y9rxgmFnftUg18BWusaEIVi7Eyhl93fUz6DChUaogAbwCSoRXeCSPrqyzNeZQbxGf7ItFcttJEa9lVdoX3TuQHAHvgTk3VJt9QWDIRY7RaxHifIk6DDt0Hum4B8QHwkByrWedKDw/s320/b+villa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Having seen all this one must reflect, and and pray God this pandemic will soon be over and fade in the past, so, it can be only a story to tell, for the people that have lived through this pandemic times. We hope and pray god that it will be over soon. That is all I can say, see you next time when I write another blog. <br /><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-18245462199473366532020-11-06T13:28:00.002+10:002021-04-08T10:27:49.513+10:00But is Australia still the land of opportunityWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <div>This is a blog of a fellow from Genzano that migrated to Australia a long time ago. <br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5b6QC-ingkh9_Ji6U1cRTTv6KNAFaTwwULJoC2GAj4-0p8GAytRERdidP4UgJZOH39QxQ5jtBRPve0jkNOMvLRneriJa-eft0Tlg7CJlM5K98EowE_PcqWa2LzzQ8PJuGfGL_OJdUdJQ/s248/Australia%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5b6QC-ingkh9_Ji6U1cRTTv6KNAFaTwwULJoC2GAj4-0p8GAytRERdidP4UgJZOH39QxQ5jtBRPve0jkNOMvLRneriJa-eft0Tlg7CJlM5K98EowE_PcqWa2LzzQ8PJuGfGL_OJdUdJQ/s0/Australia%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div>Today we are telling our life story, so, we are writing this blogs to tell our story, we hope that somebody will find it interesting enough to read it<br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, let us talk if Australia is still the
land of opportunities.</span></div><div>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">If I use my personal experience as a
standard, then I can say that today in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://miningjob.hubpages.com/hub/Mining-Jobs-Australia"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt;">Australia
work opportunities</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">are not
as good as they used to be. But then not everything is as it seems to me,
because my judgment is that of a single person and therefore, I might be wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, let us try to see what has changed since
I came to Australia. There are many things that have changed since then,
because of the progress humanity has made and continues to make; therefore,
working opportunities have changed, so, today it is a lot harder to find a
manual job; this is due to the fact that we do not need as many hands to do a
job as we used to in the past, because the hard labour is being done from
machines, therefore, people that have no skills and rely on their physical
strength to work are not required. For this reason, there are less jobs
available, but if people have a trade or have studied there are working
opportunities for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now that we have explained how we see today
working opportunities, allow me to go back to the days when I came to
Australia, so that I can tell you what opportunities existed then. In order to
understand what we are saying next; it is important to know that opportunities
for jobs have high and lows of their own, therefore, this affects everybody
around that are looking for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now let me tell you my experience when I came
to Australia, because this is the way that we can compare the work opportunity
situation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Today this sounds an impossible achievement,
but there have been times in Australia when everybody had a job, so, there was
no unemployment at all, from stories that I have been told from people that
were already here when I came, there have been times that the employers had not
enough employees and they would go down to the wharfs when the ships arrived
and select a few people that seemed good enough for them to do their jobs,
therefore, in those days there were no unemployed people, but unfortunately
those times do not last long, as I said working opportunities go up and down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now to compare those times with today’s’
opportunities, we are going to describe part of my own life story, therefore,
what I found easy or hard to cope with when I came here, and how I was able to
cope with the hardship of those times, until those things became solved, this
is the way that I know<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>how to
compare and see, whether Australia is still the land of opportunities, so, let
us see what opportunities were available then. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What sort of opportunities were
available in Australia?<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">What opportunities were available in
Australia in the sixties? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">When I arrived in Australia in March 1961 my
relative and friends were all working, at the same time they were telling me
that there were not many job vacancies available, so, I had to be patient until
a job was available. But what sort of work I could do they were not sure just
we had to wait and see, what I knew about working for other people was that if
a job was offered to me I had to work hard, since in my country when we hired
workers to work in our family farm, we expected them to work hard so that they
would earn their pay, therefore, I was in my right frame of mind to go out and
work hard, whatever job was offered would do me just fine. I have said this,
because it is necessary to understand that whoever attempts to migrate to
another country, he/she must be ready to work hard if they want to succeed, and
it all boils down to this that you need to do a fair work day for fair daily
pay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Beside my willingness to work I was also
young and fit enough to do any manual job that I was offered, the only problem
was that I didn't speak English, I had learned perhaps a few words on the way
to Australia while we were sailing, as there was an English teacher on the ship
for that purpose. But as we know English is a hard language to learn,
especially if one comes from a country that their language is phonetic and once
you know some rules, one can read from a book and come close to the sound how
those written words are pronounced, but English is not written phonetically, so,
to learn English one must be exposed to the English speaking people and slowly
learn from them, so, I and other emigrant like me had a lot to learn, before we
could speak English well enough to look after ourselves, and to fit in the
Australian speaking community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, let us tell you that although I had
very little English, things turned out all right in the end, perhaps this is
another reason why people think that Australia is still the land of
opportunities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">For me when I came to Australia I was still
thinking the Italian ways, so, I was thinking that I was on my own and I had to
find my own way around, but here I had a pleasant surprise when for the first
time some relative took me to see the unemployment office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">In Italy when you go to an Italian office if
you want something done quickly you need to know somebody in there, otherwise
before your turn comes the office hours are over and you have to come back the
day after, so, I was wondering how could we succeed in these Australian
offices, since I didn’t speak English and my friend was just a little bit
better than me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow we waited our turn and soon we were
being interviewed from this middle aged man that seemed to have so much
patience and understanding of the situation, he slowly worked out what we
wanted by asking and repeating what we did not understand, and he noted
everything down as he asked me many things to see what sort of job I could do,
I remember even now that one of his questions was if I were afraid of heights
and I said no, as I was going up some tall trees to prune them, he also asked
if I knew anything about building or building maintenance, here again I said
yes as we sometimes repair some farm building. I believe that these two things
gave me the first job in the building industry, as I was called one day to go
to work<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Playing-the-game-who-is-to-blame"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt;">for the
first time in Australia</span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">. My first job was that of a
bricklayer labour, and we were working on a chimney stack in the </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">brickwork's</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> where bricks are made, which I managed to hold for a couple of weeks, until a
bigger gang came and I became a bit confused in the middle of all those people,
and I lost my first job for lack of knowledge or lack of understanding English.
But anyhow I had my first work experience and I was sure that soon there was
going to be another one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anyhow, I need to say that Australia is a
great country to be in, because people are given their opportunities as they
deserve, if you are willing to work hard for it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">And in the unemployment offices the officers
are just great people to deal with, or at least they were when I came to
Australia in the sixties. Now, I am going to talk about how I ended up working
in the Australian building industry for good. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">This blog is already too long, so see you in our next post, Australia building industry. I know that what we are telling you are things that have happened in the past, but even the past has a story to tell. </span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">See you soon. </span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.55pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-13872663581269120772020-09-09T11:39:00.005+10:002023-05-28T12:26:29.805+10:00The town history and heritage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jtGs4MmaYu5cKazDbHi8hixtYDVNRO8eiZ2OhyecyyrMbPk7TxAgy6Jts2xuV1UAkAo8Lsg8fgNWfn13cUvzph2FXkj6On20NIsAO4_19_eIuQzZ720jJeO1BZvx2lXqKZt5vVlNSuU/s260/8263737_f260.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jtGs4MmaYu5cKazDbHi8hixtYDVNRO8eiZ2OhyecyyrMbPk7TxAgy6Jts2xuV1UAkAo8Lsg8fgNWfn13cUvzph2FXkj6On20NIsAO4_19_eIuQzZ720jJeO1BZvx2lXqKZt5vVlNSuU/s0/8263737_f260.jpg" /></a></div><br />WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE.
<div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The town history and heritage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Looking at old
history books, we must admit that there is not much written about Genzano di
Lucania town history. However the myth says that Genzano is very old and it was
named from a legend that tells us that a young guy called Iens (yens) fell in
love and eloped with a young princes called San, they went to live in the caves
in the chasm, which today are below the town of Genzano, and then, they started
to build a small castle, where the old town of Genzano is now, the name is
virtually the two name of the lovers put together Iens-san (yensan, or jenzan)
I am saying this because I know that in strict dialect of the town even today
it is pronounced Yenzan with no G at the beginning and no O at the end. I know
I have said this before, but I want to explain it a bit more to make sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><b><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">(For those people that can read Italian, I am going to paste here a
couple of links that modern writers have written about the history of Genzano
di Lucania: One</span></b><b><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> writer
has these two link, here, </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archeopolis.it%2FPubblica%2Fgenzano%2Fstoria%2Forigine.htm&ei=y0pbU66ULsmelQW66YCoAQ&usg=AFQjCNGXGjNXpzjtQk5s9AbKAcinJ-61rw&sig2=sJwXeuuAqQOf3MuXb305nQ&bvm=bv.65397613,d.dGI"><b><span face="" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arch. Pietrapertosa - Storia e dintorni - <i>Genzano
di Lucania</i></span></b></a></span><b><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">, this writer has two links and both
are very interesting,</span></b><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://ass-gentius.blogspot.it/" target="_blank"><span face="" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://ass-gentius.blogspot.it/</span></a></span><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> , let us hope they work)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now let us talk
about more recent history that a recent write has discovered in the archive of
Potenza; this writer is Ettore Lorito and you can find his writings, if you
follow the link of (scrittori e poeti, (as shown above)) one of the first times
that Genzano is mentioned in the archives is that of two brothers Secondo and
Donato who were Christian martyr in the year 258 AD, as they were beheaded in
Genzano ordered from council Valeriano, which I guess was a Roman council for
that part of Italy. This seems to be the oldest written record found written
about Genzano history and not much else; so, let us go back to the Greek chasm
story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Because in this article
we want to describe to you the chasm on the other side of Genzano that we call
the Greek chasm, we have to say that this chasm starts about fifty meter from
the fountain Cavallina, or perhaps I should say that at the beginning of the
Greek chasm is where the fountain Cavallina is, then suddenly the chasm becomes
very deep and a real chasm that is hard to go into it, and nobody goes there,
unless you have to go there and know the way how to get there; anyhow this part
of Genzano is called the Greek chasm, so, by this name it is understood that a
very long time ago there must have been a colony of Greek people living there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">About the Greek
people and whatever happened to them nobody knows today, as there is no trace
of them and there are no records to check with. So, we are forced to assume
that there was a war, or something like that and they were driven out. Or
perhaps they mixed with the rest of the inhabitants of Genzano and nobody
remembers, or perhaps, as time went by lots of other things happened that
changed the shape of the chasm; so, it became impossible for them to live in
the chasm, because of the erosion and other natural factors which slowly
changed the shape of the chasm, and the use of the chasm, there might be other
factors as well, but let us now talk about the more recent history of this
place. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-56735290669199646652017-09-19T13:39:00.005+10:002020-09-11T12:42:08.471+10:00Australia the land of opportunity WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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Australia, being the last habitable continent discovered by mankind, has given most people the opportunity to emigrate and start a new life. <br />
I took that opportunity myself and migrated to Australia, in the early sixties, where I started a new way of life and from being a farmer, I became involved in building, So, Australia has been good for me in this way, but that was in the early sixties, today it might be different.<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, how to defend our homes from these pests, we were talking about
the damage the white ants do and ways of how we can minimise the damage they
do. Of course, these articles that we are posting here, they are articles taken
from my life story, which cover a very large range of subjects. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, having talked about the white ants, today
we are changing subject and we are asking ourselves, if Australia is still the
land of opportunities, because from my life observations, I believe that when I
came to Australia, there were some good opportunities for us to improve
ourselves, but today I am not so sure about that. But, as you may know when you
start asking this sort of questions other questions arise, this is only natural
because we need to compare the present time with the past. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, let us start by telling you the
opportunities that we had in the past when I came to Australia, so that, we
would be able to compare the opportunities that we had in the past, to the
opportunities that we have today in Australia, and how those opportunities
played a part in the lives of those people that migrated to Australia then.
Today it might be slightly different, but I suppose that every one of us is a
bit different, you see, whether we are emigrant, or we have been born here we
have our own story to tell, and we are pretty sure that everyone have a
different story to tell and different views of the present and the past,
according to our own life experiences and the work that we do or did; but let
me tell you my personal story, so that you could see my own life experience the
same way as I have seen it and then compare it to today’s opportunities, if you
like.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">If I were to use only my personal experience
in Australia as a standard, we will have to say that<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Goodbye-Italy"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Australia opportunities</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> today
are not as good as they used to be, because things have changed a lot since I
came to Australia. Now if we would like to compare the fewer opportunities that
are still available today, with what used to be available in the sixties I am
going to write the opportunities of the sixties in my life story right here,
just the way I have lived and seen them happen to me personally and to the
other people that came to Australia in the early sixties, as well as the
Australian people that were born here, and then, my life story opportunities
could be compared with what is available today; but first of all let us start
with what the majority of people in the world think about Australia today.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Today, everybody in the whole wide world
thinks that Australia is still the land of opportunities, and that is the
reason why people are still trying hard to migrate to Australia; but, are all
those opportunities still there, one may ask? Or is it just a myth now and the
opportunities that existed in the past do not exist any longer, or they are a
lot less than they used to be especially for those unskilled people that are coming
to Australia these days.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Having been a migrant myself a long time ago
in the early sixties, and being in a way lucky to find some relative that
helped me to settle here in Australia, I know that migrating to another country
is not an easy thing to do specially if there is no one waiting for you and
help you when you arrive, and it is even harder if you don’t speak the language
of the country you are migrating to, but today there is a great movement of
people throughout the world that migrate from one country to another, and a lot
of people want to come to Australia one way or another, they even risk their
lives during their journey, boarding unseaworthy boats that might just break up
and disintegrate in the ocean, and most of those people could drown, when there
is no help.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Therefore, when I hear or see people
migrating today like desperado that want to reach Australia at all cost, I
always go back mentally to the times when I legally migrated myself and think
what I could and would have done if there had been no one to help me when I
arrived in Australia; here I should say that just thinking about it makes me
shudder, so, to see these people these days trying to come by boat illegally
and knowing that they<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Welcome-to-Australia"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">may not
be welcome here</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">make me
wonder how desperate they are to try to migrate at all cost; they must be
really desperate to try to migrate this way. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">But then, there is also this other reason,
because of the television and the computer people compare their own standard of
living in their countries where they are born, with what they see on TV or say
public programs on the computer, like Face-book and others programs, and they
compare what they see with way they live in their own country, so, they believe
that they would be better off if they would be able to come to Australia,
because everybody seems to think that Australia is the land of opportunities.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Looking at what is happening these days we
know that the world has got a real problem with people migrating to other
countries like Australia, as we all know, here in Australia we are very upset
about those people coming in by boats, and we would like to stop them and even
send them back where they came from. Now, here I need to say that in Europe is
even worse with people coming in from North Africa every day, they are so many
that is hard to count them and we might have a guess and say that the same
amount of people that migrate illegally to Australia in a year may migrate to
Europe in a week or even less than that. But anyhow here we are not going to
talk that much about illegal migrants, because we want to talk about if
Australia is still the land of opportunities. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Believe that this post is becoming too long,
so we will continue with our next article talking about Australia in our next
post called; But is Australia still the land of opportunity? </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">See you soon. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-80180508321375334882017-06-19T12:05:00.003+10:002020-09-11T12:43:31.593+10:00How to defend our homes from these pestsWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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Timber house on wooden stumps, this picture shows you the ants-capping on the stump, which would prevent the ants and most crawling pests to enter you house, it is also the barrier that stops the white ants to enter the house from inside the stump itself, since the white ants cannot eat away the steel ant capping. <br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">The white ant problem</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, these wooden houses need some care, where we were telling you
my life story and about these wooden houses that we found in Australia. We were
saying that there are pests that destroys the houses, and we were asking
ourselves what could be done. There are a few things that we can do to prevent
these pests destroy our homes; the first thing that one has to do is to check
that there is a barrier that stops the white ants to enter your building, for
instance if your house is a high-set house on stumps, check that at the top of
the stumps there is a metallic ant-capping; this metallic ant capping is
usually a large galvanized round dish or square of metal and it is bent down at
the edges so that any crawling insect will find it difficult to enter your
house that way; we hope you can see the picture? The ant capping prevents also
the white ants to enter through the timber stump itself, if the stump has been
infested with white ants, because when they reach the top of the stump they
cannot eat through the metal capping and so they are stopped entering that way,
of course there are a lot of different buildings and a lot of different ways to
set a barrier; but sometimes the white ants find their way around. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Now there are ways that one should be looking
for if there are white ants; here the first thing that we have to keep in mind
is that white ants eat everything from inside and they don’t like to be exposed
outside for long, so, the first thing one can do is to tap on anything that is
made of wood; if the wood sounds hollow then the white ants might have eaten
the inside, so, a complete check is needed to see what is the cause; another
way to look for white ants signs is that if they are forced to go outside to
move from one place to another, they will construct a tunnel, so that they can
go up and down without being seen, so, one has to look for these signs anywhere
under the building: Now some expert has told me that what happens here is that
the white ants need moisture, so, they have to travel to the ground to get the
moisture and then they go up again their tunnel to eat the timber; now if the
building is solid and there is no other way for the ants to go up they will
construct their tunnel from the ground up, so, we should be looking for signs
to see if there are ants tunnel constructed, and if there are tunnels, it means
that there are white ants also, therefore you need a pest control expert to
poison these pests, and you need him fast.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">White ants have very few enemies because they
live and hide inside the timber, but there are some natural enemies of course
in their natural habitat, a couple of which are pictured here. As I said
before, one needs to learn the signs how to spot the white ants presence, and
do something if you find that they are there, otherwise they could eat your
house away pretty quickly.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Here under we have pasted two links about
termites that other Huber’s have written for you to check them out.</span></div>
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<a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Control-Termites-Naturally"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">How to
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, our intention here is that we
are going to write several hubs and talk about houses, how to own them, how to
maintain them and how to build them, because that is what I have done during my
life; so, even though in our next hub will be talking about: is Australia the
land of opportunities, we will be talking about the opportunities that I had in
the house building industry, when I came to Australia. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, see you soon in our next hub.</span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-78895158042903964892017-05-23T15:19:00.002+10:002020-09-12T08:54:30.241+10:00These houses need some careWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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This is a typical worker cottage, which is a smaller and a cheaper version of the Queenslander, but they both need some care, they need to be painted outside to keep the timber from rotting. <br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, the Queenslander house, which is a large wooden house, built
for the deeds that we have here in Queensland. Now let me explain their maintenance
needs. You see, just as most of us thought, when we saw the first time these
wooden houses, they need some maintenance and care.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">For those people that have not own or lived
in timber houses before, they should ask questions about them, before they get
involved in owning one of these houses; perhaps the first question that would
come to their mind is: are these houses safe to live in, and how long these
houses can last? And then, what sort of maintenance they require? You see, they
have a right to know that, so, let me try to explain this timber housing
situation.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Timber houses need more maintenance that masonry
houses; because first of all, you need to paint them for the timber to last
longer, otherwise the timber on the outside walls will slowly rot away, but
then, there are also some advantages because, you see if you want to change
something, it can be done easily and cheaper than if you have a masonry house,
therefore, it is a lot cheaper also to do some alterations, so, it can work
well after all.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Having said that we need also to say, that
these wooden houses have some problems of their own, apart that they need to be
painted for the external timber to last longer, they also have some vermin problems,
which are the enemies everywhere in the houses, because the timber is more
vermin friendly than masonry and bricks and cement, but the normal vermin are
not a big problem for the house structure itself.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">The greatest enemy of these wooden houses are
the termites, or white ants, as some of us calls them; The white ants, can
really destroy entire buildings by eating the wood from the inside, a lot of
times, people don’t even know, that the white ants are there eating their
houses away, while they are living in them; you see, unless you know what you
are looking for, it is hard to see any sign of them from the outside. So, one
day suddenly, one can find out by toughing or putting some pressure on a spot,
where the white ants have eaten the wood from inside, and here one can have a
great shock to see this happen, as everything starts collapsing inward and
where there was a wall now there is a big hole.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Therefore, it would be worthwhile to learn
how to recognize the signs, if there are white ants; and call an expert to
check the building if you are going to buy it. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">I think I have said enough in this post, so,
see you with our next post, how to defend our homes from white ants. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-82438726604889050012017-04-24T09:37:00.003+10:002020-11-30T09:35:02.357+10:00The Queenslander HouseWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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<span class="caption_text">A large Queen-slander, note the pretty design, all the open space on the verandas and also all the open space under the house, which could be used in very hot summer days to catch the breeze and stay in the shade. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, Australia wooden houses. So, in this post we will continue to
talk about wooden houses, but the house we are going to talk about is the queen
of all wooden house. So, the name that has been given to this house, it is
because it has been built in Queensland, but it could have the same name, if it
was built somewhere else because of its size and other things, hence it is the
queen of all other wooden houses. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, let me explain, the Queenslander house is
a large timber house; some of them are pretty too, and they serve the
inhabitant very well, as they have been built to take the advantage of the hot
climate, in Brisbane and north Queensland regions, which are humid and hot. Now
since I have been working in these houses to maintain them, let me describe
them to you a bit more in details. As anyone can guess there are a few
different types of these houses, but here to make it easier we are talking
about the large real Queenslander and the workers cottage, which is a small and
cheaper version of the real Queenslander.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">As we have already said above in this post,
when the first settlers arrived here, there were plenty of trees around to make
timber, a lot of this timber is called hardwood, which as the name suggests is
hard and very strong, some of this timber are even stronger and longer lasting
than the European oak or other strong </span><a href="http://hubpages.com/topics/home/home-appliances/wood-burning-stoves/6261"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">European
woods</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. So, the houses were strong and secure, the only natural real
enemy of these houses were the white ants (termites), which are able to eat
through the wood and destroy the houses. The termites are native to Australia
and if one goes up north in Australia one could see strange ground made mounts
of earth springing up from the ground, these is how the white ants live, they
eat wood from the inside and they make these mounts of earth.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So as you can see this was another reason why
the houses were built on stumps. The stumps were made of whole sections of
trees that are very resistant to rot; of course the white ants could still be
able to eat those stumps, but they were treated with some paints and at the top
they all had a capping of metal that would make a barrier to the white ants if
they came from the inside the stump and also a barrier to the other ants or
crawling insect from the outside.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">We have to say that some of these timber
houses have been made also pretty, because timber can be cut to different
shapes easily, so, they were somehow pretty compared to the house made of
masonry, which would be very expensive to decorate them with masonry, so, the
houses are usually square boxes with a roof at the top.</span></div>
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to make with timber, so, a lot of these houses had some decorations in them, in
one way or the other. Now I can go on, and on telling you how these houses were
made, but that would be hard to do, so, I am going to search the Internet for
photos that could show you what I mean, about fretwork and other timber names,
anyhow there are a lot of names given to these pieces of timber that would be
hard for me to name, and for the readers to understand what is meant by that name.
So, I am going to leave it to your imagination, once you see some photos of the
houses and the fretwork in them. </span></div>
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so, see you in our next post, these wooden houses need some care. </span></div>
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</div>Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-32798839532036523632017-04-14T15:46:00.002+10:002020-09-12T08:58:44.898+10:00Australia wooden housesWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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This type of houses shown here, were very popular in Brisbane, when I came in the sixties. They are average houses that workers could afford to buy, they usually have three bedrooms, a lounge room a kitchen a bathroom and some of them even a dining-room, when the kitchen was not large enough to dine in. Some people call them the worker cottage, because they were built manly for the workers, since they were cheap enough for them to buy.<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, we have written a few posts
about refugees in the world, which affects the Italy as well, since I am a
Italian we have posted them in this blog of, Genzano it story, but today we
would like to go back to my life story, starting from where we left off last
time, so, this post is the continuation of the post, welcomed at my Brisbane
address, this post is the continuation of that post, and we are going to talk
about the Australian wooden houses. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Let us talk about, the convenient and pretty,
wooden houses in Brisbane and Australia. When we came to Australia in the early
sixties. We should say that we had a surprise, when we found that the houses
here were made of timber, which were very different from the houses we had left
in Europe, all build of solid masonry.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">For us Italian migrants, that had lived all
our lives in solid masonry buildings, even if some of them were rustic solid
buildings, when we arrived in Australia at the beginning, it seemed a strange
thing that in Brisbane lots of houses were made of wood, and most of them were
set on wooden stumps, but then we started thinking, after all they were still
good to live in anyhow, so, we got used to live in them rather quickly.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, we had to forget about how we used to
live in our motherland and also my native town of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Genzano-di-Lucania"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Genzano
di Lucania</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"><u>,</u></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">since now we were living now in Australia the
Australian way, after all as the saying goes, when you are in Rome do what the
Romans do, and we did just that; but then, what were the reasons and why these
houses were made of wood, or to use another word for wood how the locals called
it here, they were made of timber.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, as you can see, this question arises, why
these houses were made of timber and not masonry? And then try to see if they
were better or worse that the houses made of bricks or masonry. If we use logic
reasoning there is no difference whether houses are made of timber or masonry,
as long as they are able to give the people that live in them that filling of
safety and privacy that we aspect from them, when we live in our own home, they
have fulfilled their role.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Having said that now let us see or guess the
reasons why these houses were made of timber, and why they were set on wooden
stumps.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">The wooden houses on stumps of Brisbane and
Australia</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">As we have already said above, in Brisbane a
lot of houses are/were made of timber, but not only are they made of timber,
they are set on wooden stumps. So, let us see the reasons why they were made
this way.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">From what explanations, we have heard from
the locals, and also by using our own imagination and intelligence, one can
come to the conclusion that there were several reasons why houses here were
made of timber. The first reason is that when the first settlers started to
build Brisbane, there were plenty of trees that could be cut down and make very
good timber to build those houses; and then<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Genzano-Greek-chasm-and-Madonna-story"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">the
people that came</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">to live
in Brisbane and Australia had a very good knowledge of how to use timber, since
they came by boats and in the boats of those days, because they were mostly
made of timber, there were always carpenters and carpenter tools on board, in
case the boat needed some repairs, so, to use timber and build timber houses
was the easiest way for them, since they had the knowledge the tools and plenty
of timber in the woods surrounding Brisbane ,an also other parts of Australia
that needed houses.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">At the beginning the houses were just<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/The-town-I-came-from"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #551a8b; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">simple
shelters</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, but as the time went by they became better and better, because
the builders also became aware of what would work better in this climate, you
see, here around Brisbane and northward, when the wet season comes the ground
becomes too wet for the houses to stand on the ground, in hot summer days
everything becomes too hot and there were lots of vermin on the ground, so,
they found a way how to build houses that would avoid most of these problems;
that is why in those times the houses on stumps became a necessity, of course
slowly they became even better and even pretty, that is how the Queenslander
house was born, which is a large timber house with verandas around them, that
keeps the weather and the hot sun off the main walls of the house. One can see
these pretty Queensland houses if you look around even today. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">I believe that I have said enough in this
post, so, see you in our next post, the Queenslander houses. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">See you soon. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-7656524473113154382017-04-05T10:48:00.001+10:002020-09-12T15:11:54.020+10:00Refugees and their problemsWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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After the earthquake in central Italy, many inhabitant became refugees in their own country. The government promised help as if everything was going to be fixed immediately, but even today after 7 months these earthquake refugees, still live in substandard accommodations. So, their is still this problem going on. <br />
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Italy has also find a way how to help these boat refugees, that find the way to Italy illegally, and they come in by thousands. So, they are a real concern. These boat refugees are a real problem, because there is no work for them, and very likely they are unemployable for lack of skills, or because of the language barrier. <br />
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their problems </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Why so many
refugees </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers,
as we have written in our previous article, </span><a href="http://hubpages.com/politics/Homeless-and-refugees"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Homeless and refugees</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">,</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>today we should ask ourselves,
why there are so many refugees in the world? Because they seem to come from
anywhere and they go everywhere, some of them are real refugees, as we have
explained in our article, since they are running away from natural disasters,
or some disasters caused by wars that mankind wages, for one reason or another,
or just because they like to fight wars, for some useless ideology that they
have, which today the rest of the world condemns, as being useless and harmful.
</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, these
wars that they are fighting seem endless, as they have been going on for years,
and they are causing a lot of people to leave their countries and become
refugees. Then there are the people that are not happy with what they have, in
their own native land. So, they become refugees, not because they are real
refugees that have been displace from a natural disaster or war, but because
they believe that if they go to another country, they could live a better life.
</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, we could
say here that everybody has the right to look for a better life. But at the
same time, because we don’t know how they live their lives, we should assume
that their lives are bad, otherwise they would not move from where they are.
But, we could also ask here, are their lives that bad that they cannot stay in
their native country? Because their forebears have lived in those countries for
thousands of years. When I think about that this way, I have my doubts about
the reasons they are moving. So, I would like to find out more, before I could
say if they are doing the right thing. You see. By doing what they are doing, a
few of them might find something better, but you don’t want to do that at the
expense of other people. I am saying this, because it seems to me that this is
what is happening in the world today. So, let us talk about this worldwide
problem. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We need to
talk about this worldwide refugees problem, because they are already causing
many problems wherever they go. You see, when people are displaced in large
number, there are bound to be problems, because the countries they go to live
in cannot cope with them, but not only that, they also carry with them the same
attitude and their own problems that they had, in their countries of origin,
so, most of the problems they are running away from will continue to stay with
them; these problems could cause lots of trouble where they try to settle. But
there is more to say here, to show you what I mean, because while I am writing
this article, in Southern Italy two refugees have died in a fire, that has
burned down their makeshift refugee camp. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Italian
authorities are investigating, and it looks like that some organized crime has
been committed. They say that some corporals are involved, these corporals are
people that illegally control the work of these refugees, since, they take
these refugees to work in the farms around the camp for a fee. Something did
not work their way, so they burned down the camp and two young people are now
dead. I hope you see what we mean, when we say that the refugees carry with
them their own problems. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">What could be
done we may ask? </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">No one knows
what is the best way to handle this refugees problem, the Italian authorities
try hard to do their best. For a start, they go to help those refugees that
their boats are in danger of sinking, or have already sung and try to rescue
the refugees from the Mediterranean Sea. I that follow the Italian news on SBS,
I know that there are too many days, when over a thousand refugees land in
Italy, and that is just too many of them for the Italian authorities to handle
properly, but they do their best. You see, Italy is not a big country and have
already got their own problems with the earthquake refugees, that have been
displaced as their houses have been destroyed from the earthquake, so, all
these extra refugees put a strain on the authorities and the Italian economy. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Looking at
all these problems that these foreign refugees cause, to the country they go to
live in, we should start thinking if there is another way to solve this
worldwide problem, but so far, nobody has come up with a good suggestion that
could solve the refuges problem. Some people say that on humanitarian grounds,
we should help these refugees, because they are human beings like us, so, I
believe that we should help them. But when these same people that have been
saved from drowning, they turn around and do nasty things to the native people
in the country they are living, we should start to wonder if we are doing the
right thing when we have saved them from drowning. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Because of
all these nasty things that happen every now and then, and because there are
also some terrorist elements in these said refugees. As we all know the many
terrorist attacks that have happened in the last few years. Some leaders in the
western world say that we should ban those people that are trouble makers. So, instead
or running out to help them and bring them in your own country, we should try
to stop them, at our own boundary. Like what President trump wants to do, he
wants to erect a wall at the boundary between Mexico and USA. And, ban some
people that come from countries that condones terrorist, to come to America. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Here I should
say that perhaps President Donald Trump has got it right, just because he wants
to stop the refugees, or at least slow down the refugees coming in thousands,
when nobody has invited them to come. Of course, on humanitarian grounds we
should think that they are people in need, so they should be helped, but this
does not mean that they should be helped, before we help our own people in need
of help. This is the question that we should ask ourselves. And then try to
find an answer to that, so, we should investigate, if there are ways that would
bring a better outcome. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Looking for
anything that could help </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The world
today should look at this refugees problem more closely, so, not only they
should try to help the refugees on humanitarian grounds, but they should make a
greater effort to see if there are things that could be done in the countries
of origin of the refugees, so that there will be less refugees in the world. In
other words, we should investigate all the reasons why people become refugees,
and then, do anything possible to fix the problems, which makes these people
become refugees. I suppose that in the past we have already tried this in
various parts of the world, but we have had a limited success. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In my own
personal views, I believe that the world should not give up, looking for the
reasons why these people become refugees, in the first place. Because there
could be something that could be done, we should be looking at the reasons why
these people become refugees, then try to fix those things that make people
leave their own native land. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We need to
fix these problems at the source, because tomorrow they might spread even more,
and then, it will be harder to fix them. You see, today the refugees are
already causing many problems in the western world, which could easily grow to
unforeseen problems, which we intend to point out, in our next article, since
this article would become too long, if we talk about it now. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">See you soon,
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-9394705931514975792017-03-28T10:55:00.001+10:002020-09-13T09:08:49.042+10:00Homeless and refugeesWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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In Italy there are already refugees from the earthquakes, that started the 24 of August 2016. This first earthquake has been followed by other earthquake, some of which have destroyed more houses, and made more refugees, that the Italian government is trying to accommodate the best way they can. But it is not easy, because of the reoccurring earthquake, and the cold weather and snow. So, there are already lots of Italian refugees that need looking after.<br />
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As we can see Italy has his own refugees to attend to, but this is made worse, because there are several thousands of refugees from overseas, that come to Italy as illegal emigrant uninvited. This is putting a strain on the Italian economy and everything else. So, these overseas refugees are a real problem, which the world needs to solve, before they cause real damage to the economies and the people that receives these refugees. <br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Today
refugees are a world problem</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers,
homeless refugees today are a worldwide problem.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In this post, we are going to talk about
these worldwide problems, as we did in our last article called, </span><a href="http://hubpages.com/politics/Where-are-we-heading-now"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 11.5pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Where are, we heading
now</span></b></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, where we have talked about, some problems
that the world is facing today, like to very hot weather that has increased the
fire hazard in Australia and some houses have been burned down; the cold and
abundant snowfalls in central Italy that has caused an avalanche that destroyed
this Hotel Rigopiano and 29 people perished; the excessive rainfalls in
northern California that has put in danger Oroville Dam. We believe that these
problems have been caused from global warming, and therefore, humanity is
somehow responsible about it, since global warming is caused from burning
fossil fuel. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But that is
not the only problem that humanity is facing today, because there are other
major problems in the world, another major problem is the illegal emigrant that
come in by thousands, by claiming refugee’s status, and this is what we are
going to talk about in this article, since in a way it is like the global
warming, as it affects the entire world, in different ways. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As we know
already, the world today is facing many natural challenges, so, it is going to
be hard for us to solve this other challenge of the illegal emigrants, which I
believe is being caused again by humanity itself. Anyhow, they come in as
refugees that run away from their native lands, for different reasons, in the
new countries that they arrive these refugees have no home to go; so, they
become the homeless refugees. So, in this article, let us talk about the
homeless refugees, because this is also a major problem that the world is
facing today. We could easily say again here, where are we heading now? Because
we don’t know where this refugees problem will take us. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But first let
me talk about what is happening right now, because this involves also the
refugees, for the last couple of weeks, the entire world has been following,
what the new President Donald Trump was going to do in America, and he has done
several things since then, some of which are about the illegal refugees. But
this is not the only thing that we want to talk in this article, even though
there are several things that run parallel with what Trump has done and his
policies about refugees. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As I was saying,
because we were following President Trump, we were not looking or thinking
about the illegal emigrant in Europe, and as you know, we have already written
about them in some of our previous articles, wherever they could be fitted in
and blend with what we were saying then. Anyhow, here we would like to talk
about some social refugees’ issues, because there are many issues that they
cause, so let us see what they could be and why, and who are the refugees.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">Types of
refugees </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">First let us
say this, that there are several types of refugees in the world. But I believe
that the status of refugee should only be applied to those people that through
no fault of their own are left homeless: this could be due because of an
earthquake, like the people in central Italy, or any other natural disaster;
also people that run away from wars, since they would be killed if they remain
there; people that are persecuted because they belong to certain groups that
are generally persecuted and killed if they remain where they are. I believe
that the free world should help these people, as explained above because their
life is in danger. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Now, the
refugees from a natural disaster, being native of the land where the disaster
has occurred, they have all the right to be refugees and do not need to be
classified. But the rest of the refugees that come from outside need to be
classified according to their refugee status, and then helped accordingly. This
of course should be subject to the fact, that these said refugees do not pose any
danger to the country, and the people that live in that country that they go to
and is helping them. If they pose any danger to the country they go to, that
country has the right to evict them and send them back to where they came from.
</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Now, we can
talk about those refugees, that may not be real refugees, because they are not
in danger of dying or being killed, if they remain where they are. But they
leave their home land and go to leave in other countries, just because they
believe that they can have a better life wherever they go. Here one should ask
oneself, is the life of these people in danger, or is it so bad, that they
should go somewhere else to live? Or, is it their attitude the reason why they
cannot live in their native country, because they don’t want to make the right
effort to live there. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">These are the
reasons that the countries that receives these refugees should ask, before they
could be classed as refugees. Because there could be a good chance that they
could stay in their country of origin, if they realize that everywhere you go,
you should work and earn your own living, without demanding support from other
people that might not be able to support you, and therefore, upsetting the
entire community around them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But this is
what most of them do, they don’t care when they move to another country, they
believe that this new country should look after them, even knowing that they
have never contributed a single cent to that country, they are very selfish.
Sometimes they might be looking for work, when there is no work even for the
native people of that country. So, they are a real problem because they are
coming in by thousands, and therefore the country that accepts them, is having
all sorts of trouble to control them and feed them. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Now, what we
have said above is not the worse aspect of these refugees’ problem, because
there are also the terrorist elements that come in as refugees, and then kill
innocent people in the country they go to. So, we wonder where are we heading
with these unwanted refugees? Therefore, we would like to know, where these
refuges come from. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Where
refugees come from</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As we were
saying above, there are many refuges in the world, coming from different
countries and background. Most of these refugees are just normal people that
have become refugees, they never intended to become refugees, but they did,
because they were pushed from unforeseen natural events or wars to become
refugees. Now we could say that these are the real refugees, because they never
wanted to be refugees, but they are now. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There are
also some would be refugees that we could say, they are not real refugees,
because there has not been any sudden event that has pushed them out of their
homes, and they had to live then in the streets. But what is happening here is
that these people standard of living is generally poor, so, they are not happy
with the way they are living their lives in their native countries, so, they
want to emigrate to another country because their countries are poor. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So, they
willingly become refugees, hoping that they could emigrate to another country
under the status of refugee, since if they are refugees usually they are being
helped from the government of the country they go to. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Now that we
have explained our views about the refugees, let us look at the countries that
go to help the refugees. Because the countries that receive these refugees,
should be careful, because there can be all sorts of refugees around, and some
of them could be people with a violent reputation, which very likely one day
could become terrorists. People that could become terrorist don’t need to be
terrorist when they leave their native land, but, they could become terrorist,
because the country they go to cannot give them what they imagined they could
have. So, because their expectations are not met, some of them would become
thieves and terrorist. Well at least this is how I see these refugees’
problems. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I believe
that this article is becoming too long, and there is still a lot more that we
could say, especially why there are so many refugees today, when in the past
most people did not become refugees, even when things in their country went to
wrong ways. So, we will try to imagine what is happening in our next article,
why these refugees’ problems are happening now. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-39184318675676191202017-03-13T13:57:00.002+10:002020-09-13T09:09:36.335+10:00Where are we heading nowWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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<span class="caption_text">The Sun is our friend, because it sends its energy to earth for every living thing to live and enjoy their lives. But sometimes it is just too hot for us, like it is happening just now in this article, we have written here under.</span><br />
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<span class="caption_text">Because of the extreme hot weather, that in some places has reached 47 degrees, there are lots of fire burning, so far, because people were aware of the danger, there is no loss of life, however, some properties and a small town have burned down.</span><br />
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<span class="caption_text">They say there is some damage in the structure of the Dam spillway, and other problems with the overflow, the Dam could collapse. So an evacuation downstream has been ordered, for about 200,000 people. </span><br />
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heading? </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Today, when we look at what is happening
around us, we see that there are so many problems in the world, that we cannot
help asking ourselves whether we are going to be able to cope with them. This
may sound alarming to some of you, and wish that I did not say anything about
them, because they sound bad news and bad news bring anxiety and discomfort.
But to be on the safer side, I believe that it is better to know what is
happening around us, than to ignore it, because, then we can do whatever is
possible to do to minimize any danger, which these problems may bring with
them. You see, most times if we ignore them, then we might be sorry later, if
one day we suffer the consequence. So, it would be wiser to know, where we are
heading, and what we can do to save ourselves the troubles that might be coming
our way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">So, you may ask, what has prompt me to start
this alarming article now. I am going to tell you that I was already thinking
about some of these issues, because they are all issues that we are exposed
every day of our lives. Anyhow, today while I was watching the news, they
started to tell us about this fire warning in NSW Australia. What is worrying
me most is the fact, that the fire authorities already admit that tomorrow the
fire danger will be catastrophic, which is the highest warning, that can be
issued. They are warning the people of these regions to leave, while they can,
like tonight or early in the morning, because they cannot guaranty their safety.
The hot temperature of tomorrow that will be over 40 degrees in these zones of
NSW will make it very hard for the fire fighter to control the fires, so they
are warning the people about these dangers, at the same time their warnings
seem endless, since they pop back again and again to issue these warnings,
which means that they want the people to understand this danger, that they
would be facing tomorrow. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">So, tomorrow would be the most dangerous day
on record for NSW for fires, because of the extreme heat and the state of the
drying vegetation that can burn easily, we can only hope and pray God that
there is no loss of life, in these dangerous circumstances. So, we hope that
those people affected make the right choice.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I should say here that I would be terrified if I had to choose what to
do, if I was living in these regions of NSW that are going to be affected so
badly, by the heat and fires. Anyhow, I don’t live in those regions of NSW,
because I live in Brisbane, but even here it is going to be a scorcher, as the
weather forecast says that it is going to be 39 degrees, and that is hot enough
for anybody. So, people are worried and on edge, my wife is complaining to me
already, because she hates hot weather.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">What is worrying me also, it is the fact that
these extreme heat waves that are lasting a long time these days, may be due to
global warming, which most authorities agree that we are causing them, because
we are using too much fossil fuel. Just to show you how the Weather Bureau has
reported this heat wave that is coming in the other day, let me quote and paste
the following:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(</span>Pity the poor souls who
live in Bourke, Birdsville and Moomba.<br />
These rural towns are all about to endure four days above 40 degrees.
Birdsville and Moomba will suffer through three days above 45.<br />
This summer's most extensive, and brutal, heatwave is building over central
and eastern Australia.<br />
Inland parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and northern
Victoria are set to swelter through at least four days of extreme heat,
according to the Bureau of Meteorology.<br />
Meteorologist Andrea Pearce said "pools" of hot air had been
hovering over the centre of Australia, leading to the build-up of heat.) <br />
end of quote. <br />
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, here above we have talked about the
extreme heat temperature, which is affecting part of Australia right now, and
the fire dangers that they are causing. But I believe that this is not all,
because today the weather seems to be different from what it is supposed to be
like, so, after we finish reporting about the heat wave and the fire, we are
going to talk about the excessive cold weather, the rain floods and other
things, because we believe that they come from the same cause, which is causing
changes in the weather temperature.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Extreme heat and freezing temperature </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, at the beginning of this
article, we have talked about the extreme hot weather temperature that has
increased the fire danger, and now there are several fires burning in NSW
Australia, but there is more to say about these extreme weather changes. So,
here under we are going to talk about the opposite, we are going to talk about
the cold weather. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">You see, it seems to me that everywhere we go
we find this problem about the extreme weather temperature these days, it may
be the extreme heat, it may be the extreme cold, it may be the excessive
rainfall and flooding, it may be the snowing for days and the extreme cold,
these things are affecting most of us in many ways. Sometimes unfortunately
this may involve also loss of life. Here I am sorry to say that, one of these
sorry events has happened last month in central Italy, when this avalanche
destroyed this Hotel Rigopiano, and killed 29 people, we have written about
this in our hub, </span><a href="http://hubpages.com/politics/Cold-weather-and-the-homeless"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Italian homeless</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, </span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">where we were also talking about the homeless that were affected from the
extreme cold weather temperatures, and the earthquake.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, since
we are talking about the extreme weather here, I would like to point out that, also
in Italy they have classed these huge amounts of snow and cold weather as very
extreme and rare. They were so extreme that the authorities have not been able
to cope properly with it, even though over there they are ready to handle the
snow and cold weather, but this time it was just too much of it. And it was
made worse because of the earthquakes, that have devastated this region.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Of course,
over there is also the earthquake victims that need looking after, and many
other things that the earthquake has destroyed, this includes also roads that
cannot be used in a normal way, especially if you cannot see the surface
properly under the snow, as there could be large cracks in the road surface, or
rocks that have fallen and block the road, so, those people that are living
over there are in all sorts of troubles, and the weather is making it worse.
These unfortunate people that have lost their houses in the earthquake, now
they are living in makeshift accommodations, so, they must be feeling very bad,
since they are like emigrant in their own native land. The authorities are
doing what they can, but it looks like that it will take a long time before
things are back to normal for them. So, every day of their lives, they must be
thinking and asking themselves, where are we heading now. Some of them may even
ask themselves, why all these things are happening? Whose fault, is it? And if
anything could be done? Some people may have some strange views, that might be
worth mentioning here before we finish. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Dangerous
situation in USA. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this
article, we have talked about the heat wave in Australia, the cold weather in
central Italy, now we are going to talk about the excessive rainfall in
Northern California that are endangering Oroville Dam. Hereunder I am pasting
some of the report, as reported in the Google News, and I quote;<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<b><span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">(Oroville Dam Could Fail, Experts Fear; 200,000
Ordered to Evacuate</span></b><span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> 2:20 </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mandatory
evacuations remained in effect Monday afternoon for nearly 190,000 people in
Northern California after a spillway serving the country's tallest dam
developed a hole that threatened to release uncontrolled floodwaters, officials
said. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The
emergency spillway off the Oroville Dam was the second to fail in a matter of
days, after the dam's primary spillway developed a 200-foot-long, 30-foot-deep
hole last week. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Officials
and contractors were working feverishly to get as much water out of Lake
Oroville as possible by Thursday, when another round of storms is expected to
sweep across the area.) </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">End
of quote. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We
hope and pray that they can save the dam, and there is no loss of life. </span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, I cannot help thinking that the situation in Northern California,
is very much alike the situation that we had in Brisbane Australia a few years
ago, which I have written in this hub about it, </span><a href="http://f-menchise.hubpages.com/hub/Playing-the-game-who-is-to-blame"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; margin: 0px;">Playing the game, who is
to blame</span></a><u><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #297ccf; margin: 0px;">,</span></u><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"> </span><span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">where after what happened, as usual people will try blaming somebody that
happened to be in charge. It is hard for everybody involved, when we try to
blame somebody, because that somebody could not have known, what Mother Nature
had in store for us. So, let us stop there, and instead of looking at who is to
blame, let us look at some of the reasons, why these extreme weather events
happen. </span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">Some people believe that what has happened, in the three events that we
have written above, the hot weather, the cold weather and the excessive rain,
they are all caused from global warning, which we are very likely causing it,
because we are using too much fossil fuel. Well if that is the only cause, we
need to do something about it as soon as possible. </span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">But not everybody is convinced that this is the only cause. Because some
religious people like to think that this is the beginning of the end of time,
as written in the Bible Revelation, and many other religious theories. Some
other people that are partly religious like my wife, they reckon that God is
tired to see so much violence, like the terrorist blowing things up and killing
people, and the Islamic State slathering innocent people, and these unwanted
emigrations that is like invading another country without going to war. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">So, God being tired of what people are doing, sets things rolling in a way
that will destroy some of us, if not all on us. So, are we heading for
self-destruction? </span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">I believe that I have said enough in this article, so see you in our next
article, where we are going to talk about the refugees and unwanted emigration.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #232323; margin: 0px;">See you soon. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-41838886088256743682017-03-04T13:35:00.003+10:002020-09-13T09:10:24.070+10:00Cold weather and homelessWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Cold weather and the homeless</span><br />
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The people that live in these houses destroyed from the earthquake in Italy, now they have become homeless. So, while it is winter over there, they are having a very hard time. Here in this post, we want to talk about the problems they are having, because they don't have a home to live in, as well other people that have the same problems in the world.<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Cold weather
and the homeless</span></div>
Dear readers, this post, is going to be a long post, because we want to talk about a few thing that we are publishing. While this post is talking about mostly about what is happening in Italy, it should concern just about everybody, since the same problems seem to exist everywhere in the world, so, let us talk about it. <br />
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Talking about the weather </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Cold weather and the homeless is something
that don’t go well together. So, those that don’t have their own warm homes to
live in, they hate the cold winter time, but this year in Italy seems that is
going to be a very cold winter, so let us just think a bit about the homeless
and their problems. I am talking about Italy and winter now, because of the
following event:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Today on Facebook, I have found so many photos
from my Italian friends that show all that snow that has fallen over there, and
how cold it is over there these days. They are having a very cold winter this
year, while some of them don’t seem to mind it, because they have nice warm
homes, so, they seem to enjoy the spectacle that the snow has brought with it,
there are people that are adversely affected, so, they wish that is wasn’t so
cold. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, I had to tell my Facebook friends that
while it was so cold over there, here in Brisbane is very hot indeed, today
while I am writing this article, it is 34 degrees centigrade in the shade and
it might even go up a bit more. So, it looks like that the weather this year
the 2017 is going to be extreme, since what is happening is extreme, having
said that, we are left wondering which one of these two weather extremes are
worse for us. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Therefore, while I turn the fan on to keep
cool, I start thinking what effects does this weather brings to us, and the difference
that exist in the world, anyhow I end up thinking that after all the hot
weather here in Australia, it is not as bad as the cold weather over there,
because I hate the cold. And then, how bad it is for those people that don’t
have a warm home to go to, and therefore, I start thinking about those poor
people that have lost their house from the earthquake in Italy a few months
ago, you see, it is only natural that they come up in my mind, because almost
every time that I watch the Italian news, they talk about the little progress
they have made rebuilding since the earthquake. Well they have had some good
progress, but there is so much to do, so, by comparison the progress they have
achieved is not that much. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">We could say that the people that have suffered
from the Italian earthquake are unlucky, not only they have lost their house
from the earthquake, but this year is going to be very cold, which makes
everything a lot worse. Therefore, I am feeling sorry for those people that are
suffering so much, through no fault of their own. So, I wish I could do
something for them, but I know I cannot. Anyhow, let us try to describe what we
have seen on the news, about the situation over there today. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">The homeless
situation </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Let us talk about the earthquake victims and
the progress of rebuilding their homes. At the beginning the government had
promised so much help, that one was led to believe that in a few months
everything would have been normal. But it is not happening that way at all,
because in a few days it will be five months that the initial earthquake
struck, and as we have said in the news the progress is not very much. We know
that the people affected have been given some temporary accommodation, right
from the start and there is some improvement that goes on day to day the best
way they can. But there are no mentions of real rebuilding being started, we
guess it is a big job and it will take time to rebuild those damaged buildings.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Anyhow, when we hear the news, where the
people start saying that they feel abandoned, we start believing that something
could be wrong, so, we ask ourselves what could be the reasons. Well, we soon
realize that in Italy there are more problems than the politicians can solve,
especially now that they are not happy with the present government, so they
want an election to be held soon, which might even happen if they work it out
how to do it. So, this could be one of the reasons why there has not been enough
progress rebuilding, at least this is what comes to our minds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">But that is not all, because there are also
the overseas refugees that make the accommodation problem worse, since they
also would like to have some decent accommodations. Here I would like to point
out, that since in Italy there are all these problems with the native people
already, we wish that these refugees would not come, because there is no way to
accommodate them in a decent way, but there is nobody able to tell them that,
in a way that they understand the situation. So, they keep arriving in Italy
uninvited, and worse still they pretend to be looked after from the Italian
government, when they have not contributed anything to it. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">We hope that somehow, the Italian government
will be able to cope with these homeless problems. But above all we hope that
they can solve the accommodations for those Italian that have lost their house
from the earthquake first. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">In my view, it the overseas refugees are left
behind, they might learn something that they refuse to admit. In a way by
running away from their own country to Italy, because they are not Italians and
they have not contributed anything to the Italian government, one could say
that they have not got the rights to ask the Italian government to do anything
for them, therefore, they are sort of beggars, begging the Italian government
for help and beggars don’t have the right to choose. So, they get what they get
and they should be happy about receiving what their benefactor could afford, or
they should go back to where they have come from. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Earthquake
and cold weather continues</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">This article is becoming more like a diary of
what is happening in Italy now, than a plain article to tell you the story. Today
is the 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> of January 2017. You see, yesterday I published this hub
here, where I was lamenting the way the earthquake homeless people in Italy are
being treated, and after doing that I hoped for the best for their sake, since
it seemed to me that the authorities could have done better, so, I thought that
I had said everything that there was to say, but suddenly, today there is more
to say about them. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Because suddenly this morning on the Italian
news, those unlucky people are getting more of the same, one can only feel
sorry for them. Because they are in a terrible situation as it is already.
There were lots of earthquakes during the night, some of the stronger ones have
reached magnitude 5, and on top of that it is cold and snowing with no end in
sight. Most places are isolated, even though the authorities are doing what
they can to reach them. In most cases, the authorities don’t know what is
really happening, because there is no power, the phone lines don’t work anymore
and there is no water supply because of the cold, that is what they know. So,
what they don’t know could even be worse. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Therefore, we can only hope that this cold
weather stops soon, and the authorities would be able then to catch up with
what is strictly necessary. After that they can go back to what is necessary to
do, so that those people affected from the earthquake could return to live a
normal life. I hope that this is not just a wishful thinking on my part and
everything will improve soon.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">The situation
in Italy worsens</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Let me point out that it was only yesterday,
when I edited this article and added a few things, hoping that the weather and
everything else would go back to normal soon, but instead of getting better, it
has become worse, in fact, it is one of those situations that are very rare to
happen during our lives. In fact, it is so bad that I believe that if some
people over there start thinking that this could be the beginning of the end of
the world, I would not blame them. Because the tragedy that has just happened is
beyond compression, an entire Hotel has been destroyed from an avalanche of
snow, which seems an impossible thing to happen, but then it has happened, so,
let us continue to tell you what we know in this article. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">The Hotel Rigopiano was a four stars Hotel,
set about 1200 meter high, on the mountains called Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, which
are the highest mountain in central Italy, the highest pick reaches 2912
metres, today this Hotel has been destroyed from this avalanche, and most of the
people that were there are thought to have perished, now we know that there are
only two survivors, and about three bodies have been found dead, it is still
early to say more about the rest of the people that were there. They say that
there were about thirty people at the Hotel when this happened. Some expert say
that the Hotel was built in a safe position, so, what has happened is really
something beyond comprehension. But then what is there to comprehend when
extreme natural events occur. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">You see, it seems to me that there are a few
extreme natural events that are taking place all at the same time. So much snow
that it is not possible to move anywhere, the extreme cold, the earthquake that
might have damaged the Hotel and trigged the avalanche and perhaps also a land
slide. All these things put together have contributed to the destruction of the
Hotel Rigopiano. Anyhow, now that all this has happened, first let the people
that have arrived over there help any survivors, if they can find any
survivors. Then, what has happened and why can be worked out later, perhaps in
a few months, when the snow has melted away.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Another
tragedy has happened </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">This is shocking, I cannot believe this,
looking at what is happening in Italy today, it could make you cry, anyone with
common sense and a heart would feel sorry for them, those poor people of
central Italy are in a bad state and suffering. They deserve better, as they
have done nothing wrong to deserve these disasters one after the other. First
an earthquake that destroyed many buildings and killed near three hundred
people. Since then there have been hundreds or perhaps thousands of other
earthquakes, some of which have damaged and destroyed more buildings. While the
people are sleeping in tents and other makeshift accommodation, it is very
cold, because this year is a very cold winter, since plenty of snow has fallen
and it continues to snow, with no end in sight. It is a disaster everywhere you
go, if you think about it may make you cry. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">But as you know this is not all, because last
week an avalanche destroyed Hotel Rigopiano, where up to today they have found
only nine people alive, twenty-five dead and four missing presumed dead, so,
twenty-nine people may have perished. The authorities with their rescue teams
are doing what they can. The place is so dangerous that they are digging by
hand, they continue to hope to find some more people alive, until they find the
last body, but as the time goes by it becomes more unlikely that anyone could
still be alive, under all that snow that has become compacted and ice, but the
rescue teams will continue until all people that were there are accounted for.
They are going to dig them up whether they are alive or dead. But that is not
all, today a rescue helicopter has crashed on the mountain, killing another six
people. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">The news of the disaster of Hotel Rigopiano
and the helicopter crash, have made us forget for a few days the plight of the
homeless, but they are still there, so there is a lot more to do, perhaps it is
going to take years, before everything comes back to normal. Therefore, the
Italian authorities are very busy these days, as they should solve this
homeless problem first. Here I would like to point out that there is not much
said about the farmers over there, and their animals that as we speak may be
starving or dying from the cold. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">I believe that disasters as intense as this
are very rare, so we should feel sorry for those people involved. I am going to
stop writing now this sorry events, because they even make me feel very
sad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">See you soon, in another article, where are we heading now. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-51405388370566477972017-02-24T09:32:00.002+10:002020-09-12T08:51:59.149+10:00Assets and pension cutsWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Assets and pension cuts</span><br />
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<span class="caption_text">After the new assets test that has started the 1st of January 2017, there are a lot of pensioners that are lamenting the way that this government has treated them, because that are going to lose some pension. So, they think the money they are losing.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Assets and
pension cuts<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dear readers, as we have said in our last article,
Australian pensioners alarmed, here we are continuing to talk about the
pensions cut and the effect it has on some pensioners. Depending on what sort
of pensioner you are, these changes affects you in some different ways. So,
there are some pensioners that their pension does not change at all, some
pensioners that will be losing part of their pension, and some will lose it
altogether. So, if the pensioners are upset about this change, they are right
to be upset. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow, now let us discuss that example that we have started
in our last article, about Mr.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">and Mrs
Day, who own two houses, they live in one house and rent the other one. Then,
we will talk about other cases, if we can and what some pensioner think about
doing, because for every action there is a reaction, so, also the pension
changes may bring some other changes. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr. and Mrs. Day, case about pensions. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First how much they received before, then how much they
receive now, and then compare this with other pensioner, whether they are being
discriminated, meaning that they are losing more pension that the others.
Anyhow, we are only setting this case, in a way the it is easy to understand,
so all figures are well rounded figure, and therefore they have not been worked
out mathematically. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, Mr. and Mrs Day have about $580,000 worth of assets
beside their own residence; </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Before the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> January change they received about
$450.00 per fortnight each; </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> January change they will receive
about $350.00 per fortnight each; </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, they will be losing about $100.00 per fortnight each,
this is very upsetting because they have problems with renting the house. When
the house is not rented, it is hard to live on $350.00 per fortnight. One
should keep in mind that a single pensioner that has no assets, receives
$873.90 per fortnight, and even they sometimes complain about living a modest
decent life. So, let us talk about owning and renting a house, whether it is
worth to keep things as they are, or they need to change a few things, to live
their life at the level of everybody else. So, how renting a house affects the
pensioners.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Owning and
renting a house </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">People believe that owning and renting a house is the way to
go; if you talk to any real-estate agent they will tell you that, but one
should ask oneself, is it so all the time, or are there times when it does not
work out in your favour, or the way you want, therefore, owning another house
is not the best thing to have, which is the case of Mr. and Mrs. Day. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we have said in our last article, today the Days’ and any
house owner find it hard to rent their houses, because there are too many
vacancies here in Brisbane. So, Mr and Mrs Day have rented their house for
$400.00 per week, and they hope that the tenants will pay the rent on time, and
will not damage the house while they are living there. They have worked out
that as things are, after paying all the bills, they could average in a year
over $200.00 a week net rent. They must estimate a conservative figure, because
there are too many vacancies, and there have been times when their house has
been vacant for months. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After going over all this stuff, one start to think that
there is something wrong with the way things are set up. So, one would ask. Did
the Day’s couple make a mistake when they invested in this property? As they
were thinking that by having a property for rent, they could be better off when
they retied and would have some extra money to enjoy in their old age; because
as you can see, it did not work that way at all. In facts, they are worse off,
because if they had only the house they are living in, they would have received
a lot more pension, than what they are earning from their investment. They
could have more good time for themselves, instead of trying to run their
property for rent. One could almost feel sorry for them knowing what they are
going through now. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One needs to ask, what sort of government is this, can they
work out properly what they are doing? They tell the people to save their money
for their old age, so that they can live a better life in their old age. But
when the people reach their old age, they turn around and take that money away
from you, by changing the laws. But that is not all, because they don’t take
the money away from their own pensions, if anything they increase it, because
their pensions is not assets tested. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What some
people could do? </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When those things that you have worked hard for, they don’t
earn what you expected them to earn, and for that reason, you are ending up In
a financial disaster, since you are losing money. You may start thinking many
things including about what you want to do, and what you could do with what you
have. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the case of Mr. and Mrs. Day they are losing so much that
they may have to think about a different set up, so that they can receive a lot
more pension and live an easier life. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we have said in our previous article, Mr. and Mrs. Day
are not on the best terms and they may divorce soon. So now that the pension
has gone down more, this thinking of divorce comes back to their minds. Because
if they are divorced, they will receive a single pension each. But that is not
all, they will own a house each, so they have no more assets, so they will
receive the full pension. Now let us see what difference it will make. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today they receive about $350.00 per fortnight each. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If they are divorced they will receive, $873.90 each per
fortnight.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Which is a lot more than what they receive today, the only
question left here is will they do it? </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anybody that is losing that much money will certainly do it,
to make sure, let us look at those figures again, but this time let us see, how
much money they are losing in a year, if we work both pensions together: </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now, they would receive about $700.00 per fortnight, in a
year they are receiving $18,200.00. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If they divorce, they will receive 873.90 each per
fortnight, which will be $22,721.4 each. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Or 45,442.8 per year. So, they are losing $27,242.8
government pension in a year. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our own views on this is this. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If people start divorcing, or doing something that entitles
them to a full single pension in the future, you cannot blame them, because
they have been pushed from the government to do it. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now, before we finish talking about owning properties that
affect the pensioners, let me say my point of view here-under. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pensioners
owing properties </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The pensioners that own a rental property today are in a lot
of trouble, because everything seems to have turned against them. First of all,
the government cuts the pensions, then they cannot rent their properties unless
they rent cheap, and also, they cannot sell their properties easily, because
there are too many properties up for sale. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some of you my readers think that I am exaggerating, because
everybody things that the properties are always going up. But I tell you what,
the boom on the property market for me is already ended, but people are not
aware of it yet. When I drive around the street of Brisbane, there are too many
signs of places for rent and for sale, when a few years ago, there were none.
So, everybody that owns some real-estate should brace themselves now, for the
rough ride ahead, this will also affect the pensioners. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow, we want to conclude this article now, by saying that
the pensioners are having a hard time no matter where they turn they find
problems. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Therefore, in the future, they better plan to own just a
house, and then collect the full pension from the government. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: black; margin: 0px;">I believe that I have said enough in this
article. So, see you in our next article when I have something else to say. Perhaps about the Italian homeless. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-31132300305149208932017-02-16T16:26:00.002+10:002020-09-14T12:47:42.711+10:00Australian pensioners alarmedWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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Pensioners are sick or old people that are not able to work anymore. Because they don't have an income, the government pays them a pension, that enables them to live a modest life. <br />
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pensioners alarmed</span><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Let us start
from the beginning </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dear readers, we apologize for not continuing writing this
time our old man story, but you see I have something that is happening right
now to write about, which is about the Australian pensions that are changing. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now, let us start from the beginning and talk about the man
that brought in this disaster, because he was unable to see what his budget
would do to the Australian pensioners and other institutions. This disastrous
budget was delivered from the then treasurer Joe Hockey the 13 of May 2014,
today we are still finding how terrible this budget was. Because the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
of January 2017 some Australian pensioners have lost some pension payments, which
we are going to talk about in this article. But first let us see how the expert
have described this budget at that time it happened.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, here I quote: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity" title="Austerity"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">austere</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> budget faced widespread criticism and was
overwhelmingly rejected by the Australian public as reflected in all opinion
polls after its release.</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-atfbitw-3"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[3]</span></sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-jhtabh-4"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[4]</span></sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-atfb-5"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[5]</span></sup></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Opposition
to "unfair" budget measures came from the opposition and cross-bench,
pensioners, economists, the union movement, students and welfare, community and
disability groups with some taking to the streets in protest. The budget
included changes which were contrary to pre-election commitments and promises
made by the Liberals in opposition.</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-tan-6"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[6]</span></sup></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Critics
argue that every one of the following pre-election commitments made by Tony
Abbott were broken in the first budget: "No cuts to education, no cuts to
health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or
SBS."</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-7"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[7]</span></sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_federal_budget#cite_note-skas-8"><sup><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[8]</span></sup></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Echos of
the "dead and buried" </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightback!_(policy)" title="Fightback! (policy)"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Fightback!</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> policy
package from the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_1993" title="Australian federal election, 1993"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1993 election</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> occurred with proposals to defer </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefit" title="Unemployment benefit"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">unemployment benefits</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> for six months for under 30s and the removal of GP </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_billing" title="Bulk billing"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">bulk billing</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">. Most proposals have since been shelved,
dumped or modified.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow today Joe Hockey, has moved out of politics, but the
politician have given him a very good job, with a very good pay. Meanwhile the
Australian pensioners are hurt from those changes to the assets test that he
proposed. Here one would ask, if he really wanted to save money to the
government by cutting the pension, why he didn’t propose to cut his own pay and
the other politicians pay, since they seem to receive a ridiculous high pay for
their services they do. We think that this is only fair, since we are all in
the same boat of Australia. Now, let us talk about the Australian pensioners. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pensioner are alarmed <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yes, dear readers, today the Australian pensioners are
alarmed, they are alarmed because they feel that the Australian government is
ripping them off. They feel ripped off because the changes that are taking
place from the first of January 2017 are unfair to some of them. We believe
that they are right to feel alarmed and upset, so, we are going to view and
write what they are concerned about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Therefore, in this article let us talk about these Australian
pensions, since most of us would be personally interested about. I should admit
that I am not an expert in politics and government matters, however sometimes
we try to have our say. As you know we have talked about the Italian politics
in a few articles, we have written one about Obama the American politics too.
So, now let us talk about ourselves, the Australian politics and a few things
that affect us directly, we are going to talk about the Australian Pensions
that are changing, from the first of January. This change is going to hurt a
lot of people that rely on part of the Australian government pension in their
old age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Here we are talking about retirees that have not got enough
of their own funds to retire and live a modest decent life, so, they rely on
the Australian government for a full pension or part pension. This article is
being written to express the alarming views of these part pension retirees,
which are going to be affected from this change. In their views, what hurts
most here is that the people that have got no assets, because they have never
worked hard and tried to save money they will still receive the full pension
from the government, but those that have worked hard and saved their money,
hoping to have just a bit extra cash when they retied will have the pension
reduced and in some cases completely cut off. we believe that that is not
right, because it is the people that have worked hard and saved their money,
these are the people that have paid most taxes in the past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow, here are some figures that have been published on
the net. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">About 330,000 Australians will find their pension cut from
the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> of January- 90,000 will be losing it entirely, because of
the tighter assets test. I believe that it is not fair, because it is already
hard for pensioners to live a modest life peacefully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, if the federal government loses next election, because
of what they have done, they deserve it. Anyhow, let us look at some possible
outcome, and how people could react to these pensions cut. Here we are going to
write about some imaginary case of what some people could do, because they feel
that they are being discriminated and punished for being good honest citizen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow, here we are going to talk about a case or two, as an
example. You see, before this pension was cut, this couple had accepted that
the government would give them only a part pension, so, they tried to live with
that, but now that pension is being cut, so they don’t know what to do, because
it is going to be hard for them to live a decent modest life. Let us talk about
their concerns. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Some pensioners’
concerns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Here we cannot use real names, so, the name that appear in
here are not their real names. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr. John Day and Mrs. Ann Day are two aged pensioners, they
have received a part pension for few years now, as they are both 70 years old,
so, they are aged pensioners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow let us describe how this change will affect them, in
this case of Mr. and Mrs Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr and Mrs Day own two houses, they both live in the same
house, even though they are not on the best terms with each other, and it is
said that they will end up divorced soon. Anyhow they are still living under
the same roof as husband and wife, so they receive their pension as a couple,
which is less than if they had the pension paid as single people, so they start
thinking if they are doing the right thing, or they should do a few things to
improve their financial position. So, let us compare what is happening to their
pension first. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we have said, Mr
and Mrs Day have two house one they live in and another one they rent, so, the
house they rent is calculated as an asset, the value of the house is set at 520,000
dollars, add to that a few more things they have, they have 550,000 dollars’
assets, so their pension is calculated on these assets, as it was before they
told me that they were getting from the government about 450 per fortnight
each, from the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> of January, they are going to get about 350
dollars per fortnight each. This is not enough to live with even if you try
hard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The house they rent, today it is rented at 400 dollars per
week, because they could not rent it any higher, now, that is not net money,
because they should pay all the fixed expenses, like the rates, the water and
other urban utilities, the insurance, the maintenance. But that is not all,
because sometimes the house is vacant for several weeks until a new tenant is
found. So, there are times when in a year, they can average from the house only
a bit more than 200 dollars per week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Here one needs to ask, where and how the government people
work out this new law about the assets and how much you earn. I believe that it
should be worked on a real possibility that you would be able to earn at least
as much money as the full pension, before they cut the pension. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anyhow, at this point of time I believe that this article is
becoming too long, so, the facts and figure about this example will be
discussed in our next post. Where we will be talking about, Assets and pension
cut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">See you soon. </span></div>
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Frank Menchisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056177018580932738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984124279785853353.post-46305160122694550542017-02-08T16:01:00.003+10:002020-09-14T12:48:28.236+10:00Welcomed at my Brisbane addressWELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. <br />
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This is just a view of the Story Bridge in Brisbane.<br />
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Some Brisbane views seen from the Brisbane river. <br />
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Just a typical wooden house in Brisbane suburbs in the sixties. <br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Welcomed at my new address</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, Welcome to Brisbane. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Now just to keep my life story going in a way
that it makes sense, let me talk about in a more personal way how I was welcome
at my uncle house in Brisbane; we reaching my uncle house and were greeted by
the people that were in at that time of the day, as there were some that had
gone to work, you see there were quite a few people living at my uncle house
already and they were all from the same town that I came from, so we all knew
each other somehow. Here I am not going to be very personal and tell you their
name, I am not going to do that for a couple of reasons; you see, if it happens
that any of these people read these hubs, I don’t know whether they like the
idea of being mentioned here; therefore, I am going to tell you in a general
way just things that happened and keep everything impersonal if I can.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">So, I was saying that I had reached my final
destination in Brisbane city, which was at my uncle house and greeted by those
that were there at that time, then we unloaded my luggage and we started to
talk about the town I came from Genzano di Lucania with the people that were
present, because they were all from the same town as I have said already, and
they wanted to know as much as they could about their relatives. While we were
unloading at the same time I was telling them about the presents that I brought
from my own family to my uncle, they were mostly some local town produce the
largest of them was now a seven litre demijohn of wine, since the ten litre
broke on the way, I had also some 6 litre of pure olive oil and a large tray of
homemade large biscuits that we make in Genzano when somebody gets married,
there were also other presents that I was going to give them as soon as I would
unpack my own luggage.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Soon everybody came back from work, and I
greeted every one of them and told them as much as I could about things that
they wanted to know. Evening came and we had dinner and after that I retired to
my bedroom, where my new bed that my brother had bought me was ready for a good
night sleep on firm ground after being a whole month on the ship. Now before we
go on about telling our readers the timber houses of Brisbane city, I think
that it would be more appropriate, if I tell you first about some positive
sights that one can see in this city of Brisbane.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Wherever you go there are always some
interesting things to see, also Brisbane city has got several thing to show the
world, so, we have taken the liberty of showing you a few photos of this city
that makes us proud; I know that most people that come to Australia would say
that Brisbane does not look as good as Sydney, but so what, it is still a nice
city to live in and has got a few things that we are proud of; like the Story
Bridge, City Hall with its clock tower that strikes the time every quarter of
an hour, the city centre with all its shopping centre, Parliament House and the
botanic gardens next to it, where we could go walking around looking at the
garden or the pond, with its ducks and swans or sitting on the lawn on a hot
summer day and listening to a band playing music during the weekends. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Now there are many more parks in Brisbane and
most of them have a playground for children, so most people used to go to these
gardens or parks in those times, perhaps today they are not used as much as
they used to be then; of these parks the most important after the City Botanic
Garden would be New Farm Park, this park is well known for the roses that are
grown there, so some of us call it the park of the roses, it is also a sight to
see early in spring when the jacaranda trees are in flower, this park has also
a large playground for children, it has got a kiosk, where you can have a cup
tea or buy an ice cream for the kids and a few other things, on hot summer days
one could sit under the trees near the Brisbane River and fill almost as if you
are at the beach; you see Brisbane River is a very wide river and it is
navigable for many miles, so, while we would be sitting in the shade of the
trees we could see the traffic of bouts on the river, some of these boats would
be carrying just people that were sightseeing on the river, or going to another
pleasure destination. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Another important garden that that needs mentioning here is the new
Botanic Garden at Toowong Brisbane, near Mt-Coot-Tha forest this is a western
suburb on the fringes of Brisbane city, this new botanic garden has been opened
because the old botanic garden in the city lost some of its land, as they have
built another university there; now apart from seeing what we can see and find
in a botanic garden; from this new botanic garden, you could visit also this
observatory;<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b>Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>is a<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium" title="Planetarium"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">planetarium</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">located on the grounds of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Botanic_Gardens,_Mount_Coot-tha" title="Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Brisbane
Botanic Gardens</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Brisbane_Planetarium#cite_note-1"><sup><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></span></sup></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">in the suburb of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toowong,_Queensland" title="Toowong, Queensland"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Toowong</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Brisbane</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Queensland</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">,</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Australia</span></a><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">. The Planetarium was officially opened on 24
May 1978.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Now, let us forget again for a moment that this article is mainly to talk
about the early sixties here, as we have done above, so let us add what else
could be attractive today in Brisbane, here we are talking about the year 2014
and we can add also that in Brisbane there are many shopping centre that are
the size of a small town, and they are all well organized and air conditioned
all under one roof that it is a pleasure to go shopping specially in those hot
summer days, when one can go in there and stroll from shop to shop doing the
shopping and keeping cool at the same time, what else would you want? </span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Anyhow let us go back to talk about the sixties and those wooden houses. </span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Living in Brisbane wooden houses</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">At my new address in Brisbane Australia, even
though it was a wooden house I was welcomed and soon I felt no difference at
all to live in it, after all that is the way that most of the local people live
in these parts of Australia. But now, just for the sake of knowing what I am
talking about here let me describe this house for you. It was a four bedroom
house, in addition to the four bedrooms there was a lounge room, a large
kitchen where there was enough room for a large dining table, there was a
bathroom with bathtub and shower that had a gas heated hot water devise that
you could light up and have a hot shower, the toilet was downstairs under the
house; now all this large house and floor space was set on wooden stumps, I
know that those people that have never lived or seen a house on wooden stumps
before are saying; what is he talking about a house on wooden stumps, I have
never heard of this before what a strange country Australia is.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">I know it might sound strange to some people,
and it might feel a bit strange too to live in these houses at the beginning,
but anyhow they are there and they have a pretty good reason why people built
them like that in these parts of the world. After all is not even a new idea
when we think about it; you see when I was at school I remember that my teacher
was saying that a long time ago for safety reasons, some people that lived by
the sea would build their house on stilts over shallow water, so that they
could defend them easily if they were attacked; Now we could say, okay that was
a good idea then but what are the reasons for these houses to be built like
that here?</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">This is how we migrant saw Brisbane city when
we arrived to Australia for the first time. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">I believe that we may have to tell you in our
next article about these wooden houses, because it would be more appropriate,
as we will write about it and explain some of the reasons why these houses in
Brisbane were built with timber and they have been built on wooden stumps. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>See
you soon.</span></div>
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