Because we had an interruption of work outside, due to rain all day Wednesday and also Thursday morning, we switched over to doing alternative work indoors. This time, we tackled the task of sorting out the design and quantity for the Oak timber used in our windows in the house. The windows will be our […]
Today was spent on the computers, looking at the guttering, the facia and the windows, to decide on what kind of Oak we will need, what size and how much. The items we are examining are as follows: · Facia: This would be 150mm high and at least 27mm or 40mm thick. · Gutters: These […]
This morning, we got the first 20 Aquacell crates opened up, blasted with jets of water and reassembled back together again! We made a small dent in the pile of our Aquacell mountain .. Only another 180 crates to go!! We used our crate splitter tool, then used the pressure washer to spray water into […]
This afternoon, while we waited for the black metal paint to dry on the wheel hub, we made a new tool to help us take apart the plastic holey crates, so we can clean them out!! You might ask why we are having to do this task? Well, several years ago, we took advantage of […]
Today, during our tidy up of the site, we were moving the last 18 bags of cement, and discovered that several of the bags, 4 of them, were damaged. We think that the fork lift truck driver missed his aim and rammed into the bottom layer of the bags and ripped two great big holes […]
We bought a sheet of copper, 1000mm long by 640mm wide and half a millimetre thick! This piece will serve as our base of the heat exchanger for the shower.
We had the delivery of our plastic crates today. It was a long day of sorting it out and storing them away. It was funny as well because while we were processing this order, another lorry turned up with a duplicate of the order and the driver said “Oh!” and went away again! We were […]
The staples we are using to hold the Fermacell up are heavy duty wide crown staples. The crown in just under half an inch (11.1mm) and the wire is 1.5mm square. They are available in many lengths from 25mm to 50mm. We will also be using these staples in Stainless steel for attaching the Cedar cladding […]
After all the analysis of design and everything, we come to a final list of plastic pipes, tubes and crates. It adds up to over £6500! The lion share are the AquaCell crate modules for our energy storage system. We have ordered most of what we need for phase 2 of our build and that […]
We have been working on building up a shopping list of all the plastic pipework, crates and other plastic items. We were told that the prices for these will be going up by 8% on 1st March probably caused by the higher oil price. So we sat down to analyse our house design to quantify […]