The busyness continued, everything was in ruins, and after the new day carried away the wood that had fallen to the ground yesterday and was not cleaned up, the whole building position returned to the state seen at the beginning of the island, an empty flat land!

At the same time, the damp corn is also dried in the nearby open space with a rainproof cloth, taking advantage of the recent good weather, it can also be dried and stored as soon as possible, so that I can completely free my hands and feet to do a lot of work, so that I will not have to toss corn every day in addition to the sheep and houses.

Although the previous house was damaged by the typhoon, it does not affect that it is a more suitable location for building a house, which can only show that the collapsed house can not withstand the devastation of the typhoon!

I started to pick out the various ready-made timbers piled on the side and prepare to erect the column heads to rebuild the house, but after I had erected a few column heads, I realized what I was doing.

For a while, I was a little stunned, ready to erect a column and build another wooden house, and then be blown down by a typhoon and rebuild?

It's been like this, and it's been uselessly busy!

Such repeated construction and destruction, a careless little life may still be put in it is really not a good choice, after reacting, I decided to tear down the plan to make a wooden house, start Plan B......

After several typhoons, the wooden house proved that it was not suitable to exist on this island, and to build it again would only prove my stupidity.

And the cave is extremely dangerous, so the choice is to build a brick house, and there is almost no other choice!

The planned new house is still only one storey, and the technical and conditional constraints are so far out of reach to live in the upper floor.

At least for many years that I can foresee, there will be no possibility of building because there is no steel and cement, the two most important building materials.

The initial plan is to build two large rooms and a toilet and a kitchen, and the size of the large room is about three meters by four meters, so that it can basically meet the current needs.

As for the roof, there are only two options for the time being, the grass roof and the roof of the roof takes less time, and the house can be built and put into use quickly.

The disadvantage of tiled houses is that the workload will increase many times compared to using straw roofs, and the houses have not been put into use for a long time, but after the final trade-off, they still chose tiled houses.

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When I was a child, my family's house was a tiled house, and the green tiles with excellent quality and good burning were not a problem to hear from the old man that they could be used for 100 years.

I'd rather spend more time doing it in one step than spending three days on the house, like the one that was blown down now, and the collapse of the house not only cost me a lot of property, but also took a lot of time to rebuild!

The height of the house is still about 3 meters, and the thickness of the wall is the length of the brick; The size of the brick will be about the same as that of a standard brick, after all, this size is the most common and the most convenient to use.

The problem is that I don't have a ruler, so I can only make the size of the brick as close as possible by estimating and finding references.

Modern technology is so developed, the size of the brick has not changed, which means that this size is the most suitable.

And I am more sure that the standard bricks are fired, and of course I hope that the bigger the better, but I still have to pay attention to the right one!

After thinking about the final plan, things are much simpler, everything can be done according to the steps of modern technology, except for all the processes that need to be done by yourself and the lack of cement, the operation steps can be almost copied.

At this time, I had to face the same problem as when I made other things before, making auxiliary tools, that is, molds!

Just like most products are manufactured in a factory, if you want to produce products with the same size and specifications, then you must use the power of molds.

The original auxiliary tool for brick-making is called the brick box, which is different from the mold for copper and iron smelting, and this is used for brick molding and can be used repeatedly.

To put it simply, it is a hollow wooden box without a bottom and a top, and the mixed wet mud is pressed into it to remove the excess part and then poured out to be a qualified brick.

It would have been almost delusional to make it before, but now it's not easy to make with existing tools, but it doesn't take too much effort!

I first removed the bark from two thigh-thick pieces of dry wood, then drew a line in the middle and cut it in half with a hand saw, changed the thickness to about three centimeters, then repaired the edges on both sides, sawed two slightly shorter planks, and finally four thick boards called planks were put together, and after continuous shaping, the space inside was exactly the size of bricks.

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The outer planks are about five centimeters longer than the bricks and are used to nail them, and when there are no ready-made nails and no extra iron, I can only melt one of the ready-made iron tools and make iron nails.

Sometimes the choice is always a headache, and the decision is always made, and in the end, the kitchen knife with the least temporary effect can only be melted into iron nails.

Even if your heart hurts so much that you can't breathe, there's no better way to fix it!

The mold of the iron nails was a very headache, and I had to use small wooden sticks to cut the shape of the nails into the shape of the nails and press them into the mold made of wet mud one by one, and there was only one side.

When melting molten iron, you can only pull the bellows while slowly moving the mold, and move to the next when each hole is full.

In the end, because there is only one side of the mold, the nail is not round, but a triangle, which does not affect the practicality.

When I was a child, the brick box at home could be split, and it was a few pieces of wooden planks similar to H-shaped, and I still remember when I was a few years old, I naughty and secretly played and smashed my fingers, and until now, I still have memories left on my hands at that time.

The one I made is much heavier in comparison, because it can't be split, so it is a lot more troublesome to pour the brick out of it after it is done, and when adjusting the soil, try to adjust it as dry as possible to avoid sticking.

I cut a thin slit with a thick wool thread in the middle of the two long planks, and after the bricks are formed, I can pull them with a thread to form two bricks at a time, which is the only way I can think of to improve efficiency!

There are many steps in making bricks, and the soil used to make bricks and tiles will be carefully selected, mainly to choose the clay with clay, of course, this does not mean that you need to dig the clay from afar, and the soil in the open space can basically meet the conditions.

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The second is to make the soil free of impurities, such as stones and weeds, so that the bricks can be used longer.

The third step is to refine the mud, that is, to adjust the mud, after the mud is added with water, people need to go in and keep stepping on it, until it is like a dough before it is considered successful, which is not something that can be completed in a moment and a half.

The fourth step is to prepare plant ash, its function is to prevent the bricks from sticking together with the wooden board when they are to be formed and separated, and if they are glued to the brick box, they will be deformed and cannot be used.

The fifth step is to build a workbench with a height of about 1.2 meters, so that I can work directly standing up, and if the conditions allow, it is better to build a shed, so that I don't have to work in direct sunlight.

The next steps are relatively simple, beat the mud a few times to make it softer, then sprinkle the box with plant ash to prevent it from sticking, and then throw a large piece of soil into the box.

At this point, the bricks are almost finished, and then they are placed to dry, first spread a layer of hay on the floor in a spacious and windy area, and then put the freshly formed bricks.

The placement is also very particular, can not be placed too densely so as not to stick, each piece should leave at least two centimeters of space, can not be placed too high, the bottom brick will be deformed if the force is too great.

It is usually placed crosswise, and finally put hay on the top surface to reduce the rain, and the basic pre-step is this!

The tile mold is much more complex than the brick mold, and its structure is similar to a turntable below, and on top is a bucket that we usually fill with water.

It's just the kind of old-fashioned barrel that is spliced together with multiple wooden strips without a barrel bottom and lid, and one of the wooden sticks will grow a special section for easy turning!

It can be said that the difficulty is quite high, the size of the two ends of the barrel will be slightly different, and the size of the made tile will be slightly smaller at one end, so that it will be more convenient to cover the tile in the future.

I don't know exactly why, anyway, I just did it the way I remembered.

The biggest difficulty is the problem of using wooden blocks to form a circle and splicing between them, and the traditional tile bucket can be moved, and the mud billet is closed around it and then tightened, and the round tile can be directly lifted and taken away to air dry, and then cut after air drying.

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I racked my brains and couldn't figure out how to make such a difficult tool, so I was forced to give up the stupidest way and use the trunk of a large tree with a diameter of about 30 centimeters that fell to the ground in the distant woods as a material.

This is a big project, I can only use a hand saw to grind little by little, when I saw off one end of my right hand was so sore that I couldn't use any more strength, and there were two more blood blisters on my palm, and I stopped working temporarily when it wasn't too early.

The next morning, my arm was even more sore, but I had to grit my teeth to catch up, and this huge amount of work was not completed until halfway through the afternoon, and my right hand felt useless!

With trembling hands, he carried the 30-centimeter-long stump back to the construction site, removed the outer skin, and after a simple repair to make it round, it became a clay bucket.

It is not so simple to make tiles, and there are many rules for the mud it needs, and after it is adjusted, it should be placed on the ground in a rectangle.

Then cut the clay blank with a thin wire that is 30 cm wide, 60 cm long and one cm thick, and the whole piece is cut directly around the circumference of the clay bucket, and the joint is pressed tightly.

The original clay bucket will remove the excess mud and then turn the mold tray with the left hand, and use a curved tool with the right hand to press the mud up and down, and smooth the mud, and from time to time dip some water to polish the surface.

I didn't have these steps at all, because the most basic condition for making it turn was not met, and it was not even known whether the right mud could be adjusted.

I can only wrap the cut clay pieces directly around the clay bucket, close them, divide the clay into three pieces evenly, and then transfer them to the ground to dry.

The tile is about the same size as the rural tile in the past, maybe a little bigger, I can't care so much about it, and it took a lot of effort to make it.

It took one day to make the brick box and nearly two days to make the brick bucket, and the progress of building the house seemed to be no progress in these three days, but the things to do were crucial, and with them could smoothly enter the next step.