Midweek with Tyler: Building in Belize
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
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Tyler Grace shares his experiences building a house in Belize with his father and returning home from vacation, discussing the culture, construction practices, and cost of living in Belize while outlining his plans to develop helpful resources for small construction businesses on his website.
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| 0:00.0 | the way that they operate it's a lot of handwork even a lot of excavation is done by hand or with |
| 0:06.0 | tractors they're doing masonry work and they need clean sand for that so they're getting sand delivered and then they literally have like a |
| 0:15.4 | homemade screen that they're running the sand through to sort out and get finer grains of sand that they need for finish coats. It's a very primitive |
| 0:26.8 | style of building and they are pretty talented with what they do and with what they have to be doing what they do. |
| 0:40.0 | What's up everyone? I'm just getting back from vacation. I'm pretty tired and I have a lot going on |
| 0:50.7 | Excuse me. We took last week after Easter and we went down. My dad actually built a house |
| 1:00.3 | and bleys. You guys, if you've been following for a while, probably heard this last year. We did the same thing. Last year we went around, what holiday was it? Oh, Valentine's Day. I think we actually left on Valentine's Day and we spent |
| 1:16.7 | a week down there. We did the same thing this year. We were not going to go away for spring break and |
| 1:20.5 | then Rachel and I were like, hey, we should |
| 1:22.8 | head down to Belize. |
| 1:23.5 | So we asked my dad, he approved it. |
| 1:27.4 | My dad and his wife, my stepmom, |
| 1:30.4 | actually built the house. |
| 1:32.1 | It's in Placencia Belize. |
| 1:34.0 | So we took off on Monday, kind of the middle of the night, |
| 1:40.0 | head down there, and we stayed until Monday. Our flight got delayed Monday from Belize |
| 1:47.9 | City and we missed our connecting flight in Miami so we had to spend the night in Miami with the girls and then we flew home early on Tuesday morning. |
| 1:59.0 | So a little complicated end of the trip. |
| 2:03.8 | It's a little bit of lack of sleep and the time change |
| 2:06.6 | they are two hours behind. |
| 2:09.0 | So it's been rough reentry. |
| 2:12.4 | We got back again late yesterday. |
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