On With the New

After the damaged layers of brick were removed the entire west wall had scaffolding put up around it  and then the whole thing was tented to keep out the elements and control the temperature.

To both provide a base for the new cinder block and to firm up the old stone foundation a wet slurry was poured and re-bar mounted into the foundation to reinforce the wall.  Then the new brick started  to be layered up along side the old adobe.

Every four feet there was a back fill of mortar and all the cells of the cinder block were also filled with with mortar.  So the wall went up pretty fast, four feet of brick, back fill and then repeat.  The tough part was when they got to the top and there was only enough room to squeeze in at an angle with hose from the pumper truck to get the mortar in for the back fill.