Lola Gerlinda and daughter Liuva (Bheng) do not leave the workers any time. After the first part the first floor and the meeting for the front door made of solid wood was discussed, the second part of the renovation work on the house shows the construction of the outside stairs to the roof garden, on which a small self-sufficient studio is also to be built.

After we had extended the lower floor of the house with a living room, Lola Gerlinda wanted to renovate the upper floor as well.

Then her daughter Liuva (Bheng), who is currently working in Hong Kong, had the idea to help her with this, because one day she will get this part of the house. I said, “If you renovate this and don’t put a concrete ceiling on top of it, the whole renovation will be a total loss. So why not do it all together and create a roof garden with a studio on the concrete ceiling. The idea was well received and so the adventure of a major renovation began.

Here it becomes clear that even a Filipino domestic worker and nanny (Yaya) in Hong Kong can get her own house with her work if she has a responsible partner for the work at home. In this case Bheng has her mother Gerlinda who supervises and does everything or has it done.

This is the first part of the following videos. Everything before was only photographed and is shown on the website ‘GERLINDA & DIETER private’.

Gerlinda got the idea have an extention at our house after we moved from the first floor to the groundfloor. We are both recognized , it would be the best for us, since we are not getting younger.

For this purpose we needed some timber. There were still some trees we could use for this. The idea was born somewhat in January 2020.

The man with the chainsaw was ordered. I (Dieter) made a video out of this event.

The idea of an extention become wider by thinking to renovate also the 1. floor.

Ok, but lets start with the beginnung and cutting of trees and sowing timber