Weight bearing beams - Vigas de carga

After setting the summit beam, a bigger crane with more accurate handling was needed to set the fisrt floor bearing beams right in place, into their corresponding seats in the walls. As with the top one, they were both lifted over the walls and into through the opening and swang into their spots and on top of the pillars. Here comes beam number 1.

























































































And now number 2...















swinging it into place...




















working the seat into the wall to make it nice and flat.






























After siting the beams into place, we worked both pillars corresponding to the second floor and placed them by hand, with their ¨mensulas¨which are those kind of shoulders on top of the pillars and under the beam, the name comes from latin for ¨table¨.




































The awning was absolutely needed at this point for the merciless sun and eventual rain; we didn´t want the wood to get wet if we could avoid it.