Beautiful "Spider-Man"
Shi Linkui
The city we live in is beautiful, and there are a lot of beauticians who are taking care of the city. Sanitation workers get up early in the morning to clean the city's roads and alleys, so that the city is kept clean and tidy, they are veritable urban beauticians; The city is full of colorful flowers that are pleasing to the eye, and the trees on the streets are rich in green to shade us and purify the air, and it is the gardeners who beautify the city. Here I want to mention another type of urban beautician - the façade decorator of high-rise buildings.
Some people call them "Spider-Man", and I think that's a good title. When they work, they shuttle through high-rise buildings, often hanging from walls tens of meters high. I have always been very curious about this profession, in other words, it is more of an admiration for them, the aerial work is calm and easy, with industrious hands to wipe the most beautiful walls, with amazing courage to beautify the empty façade of the city.
By chance, I really had the opportunity to come into contact with "Spider-Man". Last year, Xiao Zhang, the driver of the unit, changed his career to work as an exterior wall decorator after leaving the team, and he can often see and share the exterior wall aerial work scenes in his WeChat circle of friends. Driven by curiosity, I chatted with Zhang about his work. There are many kinds of exterior wall decoration materials in the building, and there are many kinds of construction technology, he told me about the construction process of the exterior wall water in water (we are not professionals, some professional terms and processes are not in place, and I hope that readers Haihan), from the beginning there are eleven or twelve processes, interface paint, particles, mortar, grid mortar, putty, and then it will go through seven processes to form the bright color wall effect that we can see with the naked eye. During the chat, Xiao Zhang mentioned that the workers in Handan, Hebei Province, who did fast and well on their construction site, were working from dawn to dark every day.
The gondola, which is less than five square meters, is where they stand, and the construction gondola is fixed on the roof with wire ropes, and the construction workers are tied with safety belts. During the operation, the hanging basket shuttles up and down the façade of the building with the movement of the working face, and the workers complete each process of construction in the hanging basket, and a shovel is shoveled down like a spark on the prairie fire, and the completed area is slowly getting bigger and bigger. When the last process is completed, we are greeted by a series of high-rise buildings with bright colors and picturesque exterior walls, dark coffee, light coffee, beige, gray...... When I asked Zhang how much he was paid for his work, he modestly said, "I don't earn much." I think their rewards must be great, because they have put in the courage and tenacity of this job!
Laborers are the most beautiful, and they create all kinds of beauty in the world with their industrious hands! It is precisely because of the thousands of workers in all walks of life that our society is so orderly.
About the Author
Shi Linkui, engaged in garden work.