Cleaning would cost $20,000 a year, a local contractor quotes.

The property includes an eight bedroom one-story farm workers quarters, too, that was designed and built by a local contractor in 1936 for $6,000.

A local contractor began the house late that year and finished it in 1875.

Slowly and carefully, with the help of local contractors, the frescoes were repaired.

And a combination of local contractors and foreign experts were failing to find evidence of water beneath the rock.