Men at Work
August 3, 2010
The back-alley of my Montreal appartment has been, for the past month, an observation deck to the work of three different crews adding an extra floor to buildings on the other side of the alley – going from two storeys to the more Montreal-usual three.
The whole spectacle is rather fascinating: the grunts, curses and shouting. How bricks and planks are neatly piled onto a shelf ingeniously sliding on a ladder. How the work area is protected from the occasional outbursts of bad weather that are bound to happen in the span of a few weeks.
Most enlightening is the realization that in order to add a new floor to a building, one mainly has to add a new roof.
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