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Vancouver Island Vipassana Association

2018 – Present, Calais Road, Duncan

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2006 -2018 Lake Cowichan

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7robert-prepping-tent-sites

8jennifer-making-dining-room-seats

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01 House mid span

02 Bridge set up and trailer wheels

04 Almost over Oliver Creek

05 Yoke towing assembly

06 Setting up blocks to come down off the bridge platform

07 Bridge assembly

08 Extra engine for the hill

09 Back to a single vehicle

10 Around the corner heading into the landing

11 Good clearance

12 Site prior to house arriving

13 Location for house before arrival

14 Barn lifted and ready for work, excavator to the west

15 Looking down on the barn from the upper septic fields

16 Rear of the house will face the barn

17 Arriving at house site

18 Backing up - a

19 Backing up - b

20 Parked and damage to the rain gutter

21 House with barn in the background

22 The house will sit a little less than one story higher

23 Area cleared for power poll

24 View back towards the house from the existing power poll

01 The Fleet arrives

02 Setting the corners in place

03 Building the footings

04 Rebar estimates

05 John models the majestic resprocating saw while Gordie and Jim level the footings.

06 Breaking for lunch and you may notice that the ground was out of level by almost 10 inches in the left hand side of this photo

07 Skirting and back filling

08 Laying and tying the rebar

09 Barn footings close to completion

10 After this photo was taken it was decided to drop the rebar a little lower in the footings, and more back fill was added

11 The house as we left it on the evening of day 3

01 Footing showing ground floor recess

02 Footing recess construction

03 Cutting out section of footing wall where they're joined mid span

04 Photo from the north east corner looking at the rear of the house

05 Support footing under a beam running the length of the house

06 Photo from the south east corner of the building looking at the front of the house

11 Out house for the lower property being built

12 Freshly painted

13 Wood chips ready and waiting

14 Pump covering painted

15 Showers newly sided with decks and shower painted

16 New curtains on the north side of the Dhamma Hall

17 New Curtains on the south side of the Dhamma Hall

18 Task list needs updating

19 Twisted metal in the foreground

20 Fuso 4 x 4 work shop and Tim

22 Polishing after the welding is completed

23 Final product

24 Female entrance

25 Male entrance

01 Dhamma Hall around 9am

02 Figuring out the Weed Wacker

03 Surespan arrives with the concrete

04 Jim's set to run one of three wheel barrows.

05 Set up under the Barn

06 Prepped for the first load

07 Footings setting up

08 More wet finished concrete

09 Dining room and inhabitants

10 An example of what the Kitchen staff throws together.

11 Another fine food photo

12 Two of the three kitchen severs are pleased

13 Prelude to a very noisy afternoon group meditation.

14 Cleats removed from the top of the drying footings

15 Dan laying out the stantions

16 Building up the outside wall

17 Andreas blocking off the wall for the main entrance

18 Don't do this at home

19 Part of Wednesday's crew

20 Gord and Dan bracing and trueing the forms

21 Hey, work in the work shop

22 John and spacers

23 Doug setting snap ties

24 Carsten pinning the inside wall

25 Atlas shrugged

26 Afternoon clouds gathering down the valley

27 Wednesday ends

28 Packing up for the day

29 The Mill site with burms created from leftover wood

30 Random scenery photo shot behind the pump house. Shows the hand sink washing area and one of the showers

31 Part ofThursday's crew

32 Vehicles set up

33 Pano of trucks and both buildings

34 Volunteers are ready

35 Moments before Gordie is knocked down with the first cough from the pumper truck

36 Scraping off the excess after it's been poured and then settled with the vibrator

37 Alec the pump truck operator discussing how to proceed with Gordie and Bo. Note the pump hose close off with a basic pinch fold

37 Scraped and ready to be finished

38 Doug carrying the vibrator over to the house from the barn

39 Pedro and Jim working on the top of the wall

40 Gordie finishing

41 John finishing

42 Carl finishing

43 Both jobs completed

44 Carl stripping the forms

45 Corner photo of the form build

46 one of the areas we neglected to place a lock bar, thus allowing pressure from the concrete to bow out the form

47 Front of the house with footing

48 About four feet of headroom under the house as it stands before being lifted.

49 Angle from the back of the house. The pumper truck allowed us to access the center footings with the extension hose

50 John and Carsten after the cleanup on Friday

51 Concrete wall with a space available for future side door and outside mudroom

01 Outhouse delivery

02 Neighbour with his backhoe laying pit run on the power pole access road, and then digging a hole for the outhouse

03 Outhouse location, location, location

04 Liam with jack hammer removing the last of the fireplace

05 Amanda working on the horizontal rebar for the house walls

07 Prior to the Barn being lowered, pockets were cut into the walls to accommodate the supporting I beams

08 Pocket in the rear wall

09 Barn lowered showing I beam in the wall pockets

10 barn on it's home

11 House footings with plate located by plumb and then nailed in place

12 Levitating house

13 House on blocks

14 House raised about one foot above its final resting height

15 View from the main center road

16 More space now to work

17 Erecting wall forms

19 John Carsten and Cameron finished for the day

20 Cameron working on the east wall

21 John setting up his compressor while Bo and Carsten set up the rear ground floor entrance

22 View of the job site

23 Apres house pour

24 Great work on the forms

25 Ground floor rear access

26 Interior curbs for brace walls

27 A last minute change in plans for posts supporting the beam running the length of the house

28 Drain pipe and drain rock ready to be placed

29 Charles and Christa begin stripping the forms

30 Lunch break from work and the Trust Meeting

01-Pumper truck delivering concrete for the house forms

02 Waterproofing the footings and walls

03-Keiran prepping the ground next to the footings for the drain tile

04-Wade and Bo selecting wood for framing the ground floor of the house

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06-Apre-late-noon-meal-mid-August

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08 Enclosing the porch end of the house allowed us to have full rooms below. The wood floor was replaced due to rot. Greetings from Wade.

09 North west corner of the porch

10 Carsten setting drain pipe

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12 Pano shot of the house lowered in place with the workshop just visible in the back ground. Still hot and sunny in this shot

2 - Building footings and walls for house

3 - House ready to be lowered

4 - House with Workshop in the distance

5 - Aerial view of project

6 - Volunteers with workshop

7 - Lunch break

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Land Acknowledgement

The Dhamma Modana Trust acknowledges that we are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Hul'q'umi'num'speaking peoples including Cowichan Tribes, Ts'uubaa-asatx (Lake Cowichan), Stz'uminus (Chemainus), Halalt, Lyackson and Penelakut First Nations. We honour and respect the peoples and all their ancestors on whose lands we are grateful to gather today.

Dhamma Modana is committed to creating a more welcoming environment for Indigenous students and to strengthening our relationships with neighbouring Indigenous communities.

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