There is a house being built nearby and it's intersting watching how things are done in the Philippines. Of course no one is wearing protective gear like closed toed shoes or hardhats. A neglect of basic safety is par for the course for any Philippine construction site. Also, the builders did not have a permit but began construction anyway because the permit was being processed. Not having a permit means the local electric company could not install a meter and hook the site up to the grid. But that is no problem because they taped into the line of a house across the street. It's illegal and dangerous but at least they are paying the owner of the house for the electricity used which cancels out all the legal and safety violations.
The skeleton of the house is finished and the roof is being attached which means it's almost time to build all the walls. This morning a truck showed up with several pallets of bricks.
Many of these bricks are cracked and look cheap.
I do not know how these particular cinder blocks were made but many of them are made by hand using gravel, dirt, and other materials. Then they sit in the sun until they are cured. Needless to say these blocks are not exactly stable and easily crumble. It could be these bricks were cured in an oven. Either way they are brand new and already crumbling.
Probably the stupidest part of all this is, while the blocks arrived on pallets, there was no forklift or boom on the truck to safely unload them. Even if there was a boom, the construction area has been enclosed with a fence making the delivery of materials that much harder. The fence was the first thing built, even before the site was cleared of all brush. Why is that? Thieves of course. Theft prevention is also why two workers live on site.
With no forklift and no boom the only way to get these blocks off the tuck is by hand.
What a waste of time. Moving these bricks one-by-one reveals how unstable they really are.
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