1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 200: Build two floors together
Due to the strong winds and waves, and the fact that fishing in the shallow sea has almost disappeared recently, Liang's father stayed at home and did not go out to sea.

After returning home, Liang Ziqiang took out a blueprint from the drawer, put it on the table and asked his father to come and look at it.

The construction of the house did not really start today. A few days ago, when Liang Ziqiang was not at sea for winter flooding, he began to use paper and pen to sketch and design the style of the house himself.

In fact, the houses built in rural areas in this era are all of the simplest square structures, not too complicated. If they are too complicated, the current rural workers will not understand them and cannot implement them.

It was a simple style, and Liang Ziqiang himself fully understood the design, after all, he had spent so many years on a construction site in his previous life.

"What? You drew the picture yourself?" Liang's father was a little surprised.

The two sat down and started watching.

Liang Ziqiang designed four main rooms. One is the main room, which is used for daily meals and other things. One is for Chen Xiangbei and himself to sleep, and the other two can be used by his parents and Lizhi to live in first.

When he has a baby in the future, he certainly won’t want to have just one, so the two inner rooms can be used as a place for the baby to live.

Since we are building a new house, these things must be considered in advance.

The four main rooms together cover an area of ​​about 120 square meters.

In addition to these four main rooms, there will be two relatively smaller side rooms, namely the kitchen and the bathroom.

If all are counted, there are actually six rooms.

Of course, there would be a small hut a little further away from the house, which he could easily build by himself.

Liang's father looked at the painting from left to right and found it very realistic. He couldn't find any fault with it and couldn't help asking:
"When did you learn all this? Your family has never built a house before!"

Liang Ziqiang said without hesitation: "These rooms are not complicated! When other people in the village built houses before, I was also invited to help. I thought that I would have to build a house in the future, so I paid more attention to it!"

He buried all his years of experience on construction sites in this excuse.

"Then why are you taking it so seriously?" Liang's father praised him without thinking too much about it.

Seeing that he had drawn the blueprint, Liang's mother also came over to take a look.

Chen Xiangbei didn't move forward too much, not because she was not interested, but because when Liang Ziqiang was drawing the blueprint in the cabin at night, she had sat next to him and watched, and the two had discussed it before.

"I heard that some villages now no longer use wooden floors when building new houses. They have started to use prefabricated panels, which are stronger than wooden floors. Do you want to go to the county town to look for some?"

Mr. Liang heard about prefabricated panels from somewhere and actually brought them up on his own initiative.

In fact, there were a large number of prefabricated buildings in the city in the 1970s. However, it was only in the past two years that some people in rural areas began to try to use prefabricated panels as floor slabs, and there were not many of them.

It will take a few more years before hollow prefabricated panels become widely popular in rural house construction.

The "some villages" my father mentioned are most likely referring to villages like Longyue Village that made a fortune from smuggling. That kind of village is keeping up with the fashion, and the newly built houses in the past two years are all made of precast cement panels, which looks quite impressive.

However, Liang Ziqiang had no intention of following this fashion.

First of all, prefabricated panels are still in short supply. If he really goes to the county town to find someone to buy them, it will cost a lot, and the cost will go up. Maybe the 4,000 yuan in savings he has on hand will not be enough to build a house.

But this is not the main thing.

More importantly, the trajectory of later generations has proved that prefabricated panels are not as perfect as people think now.

The hollow cement prefabricated panels are made in advance. When they are put on the house, the connections between each piece are not tight enough, so they will leak over time and cause water stains.

And because it is simply placed on top, it is not stable. It is fine at ordinary times, but once the house shakes under special circumstances, this kind of floor slab will fall down piece by piece, and people living in it will have no way to escape. In the tragic earthquake in later generations, some old houses were in this situation, and the prefabricated floor slabs fell down at any time.

The concrete floor slabs that are directly poured on site with cement are truly solid and durable, achieving an integrated connection with the building. In later generations, prefabricated slabs were explicitly abolished and this on-site pouring method was used instead.

Liang Ziqiang knew how to pour the floor slab, but concrete mixers and special vibrators were not equipment available in rural areas of that era, so he didn't even think about it.

He still prefers to go with the traditional method, wooden floor slabs, which are cheaper and safer as long as there is no fire at home, than hollow prefabricated slabs.

Live there until the pouring technology becomes popular. Then you can tear down the house and design another one. It won’t be too late to upgrade.

"Dad, I don't know much about prefabricated panels, and I'm afraid I don't have enough money. I think wooden panels are a good idea. I plan to build the brick frame first, and I can slowly add the wooden panels to the middle floor after I move in and have time!"

Liang Ziqiang crossed out the option of prefabricated panels for a random reason.

The house was built by Liang Ziqiang, so of course he decided it himself. Liang's father didn't say anything more.

Including the start date of construction, November 11, Liang's father had no objection.

The two continued to discuss. Since Liang Ziqiang wanted to rush the work and finish the brick walls and tile roof in about a month, he would have to hire more laborers and have enough manpower.

"Total of skilled and skilled workers, there should be more than twenty people!" the two men finally decided.

There are four rooms, and there are more than ten horizontal and vertical walls in total. There are several workers building each wall at the same time, so that the work can be done quickly.

Fortunately, it is the season when fishing boats return to the shore and the fishing boats stop going out to sea, so it is relatively easy to find more than 20 laborers in the village. If it were the busy months when fishing is going out to sea, it would be more difficult.

The skilled worker gets three yuan a day, and the unskilled worker who delivers bricks and does odd jobs gets two yuan a day. There are more than twenty people, and the daily wages are just over sixty.

The construction period is about thirty days, and the labor cost is about one thousand eight hundred.

Red bricks, tiles, wooden beams for supporting the tiles on the roof, wooden beams for supporting the second floor, wooden doors, wooden windows, cement lime, steel bars, bamboo and wooden scaffolding, bamboo stepping boards, mortar buckets, all the construction materials and labor tools added together, the preliminary estimate is that if the labor cost is split in half, it will cost about one thousand eight hundred.

That’s three thousand six hundred.

The house has two floors. As for the wooden floor in the middle, you can lay it right away if you have enough money. If you don’t have enough money, you can wait until you move in and have enough money from fishing, then buy the wooden boards and lay it slowly yourself.

During the thirty days or so that the workers were building the house, more than twenty mouths had to eat lunch.

Fortunately, according to the custom in their village, the workers have to take care of their own breakfast and dinner, but the lunch must be provided by the owner of the house.

The food can’t be too bad, otherwise people will criticize you for the rest of your life. With more than 20 mouths to feed, you’ll definitely need to spend 10 yuan a day to buy rice and vegetables. For 30 days, that’ll cost you more than 300 yuan.

Four thousand yuan is just enough to spend.

After everything was pretty much said, they started to act separately.

Chen Xiangbei first collected some ingredients such as dried shrimps and dried fish that the family had prepared some time ago, and then she and Liang's mother made a list of which ingredients needed to be bought on the street.

Liang's father started going door to door in the village looking for people today, and decided with the villagers who would come to do the big work and who would come to do the small work.

Liang Ziqiang himself went around looking for building materials. Some villagers would build a brick kiln a few months in advance before building a house, and hire a group of people to make and burn bricks with mud, but the mud in Changwang Village itself is not very suitable for burning red bricks.

Liang Ziqiang planned to go to the next town to find a specialized brick kiln and tile kiln to buy bricks and tiles directly. In addition, he had to go to the county town in the next few days to get as much cement, lime, and river sand as possible...

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