Preparation for the Installation of Guttering Downpipes and Underground Pipeworks
This morning, we got on with clearing the sandy soil material away from the base of the Perimeter Wall around the house so we can collect and transport the Rainwater…
Locating Pipe to Soak-away
We wanted to confirm the exact depth of our rain water 100mm pipework that goes off to the main soak-away module. So after lunch, we dug down over beside the garage…
Water, water everywhere!
Well we had 10.9mm of rain since we finished the DPM Yesterday. That’s over 800 litres of water to get out of the garage slab DPM. The job was not…
Its raining !
According to the weather meter we have had 3.5mm of rain in the last hour… This is nearly 270 litres of water in our slabs DPM ‘tank’ . We will have…
Service trench completed
Thursday 30th Installed all the pipes and conduits into the trench after sliding 2 x 22mm plastic plumbing pipe with foam insulation (25mm on flow and 19mm on return) into…
Rain Tank Capacity
The Rain Tank! Dimensions 5m (16feet 3inches) long 3m (9feet 9inches) wide 1.2m (4feet) deep Capacity: Hole dug out = 18 cubic metres (635 cubic feet) about 38tons of sand…
New Rain Feed is installed!
Right, the new diverted feed from the rain filteration system is now installed to the other corner of the rain tank. Hopefully we have avoided any leaks ! The old…
Modifying rain Water feed to Tank
In the light of conversation about filtering the rain water and how small (or large) the particulates would get through the filtration system, we have decided to re-route the feed…
Rainwater Overflow pipes
Installed the final section of pipe in the great hole. This is the overflow from both the filter module and the tank to the soak away.
Rainwater Tank Day 4
Placed the last layer of crates … Time for Christmas Eve! Well we have a lot of wrapping to do…. Wrapped, folded and trimed the polyfelt first. Next the rubber…