Category: Ventilation System

We spent this week building and constructing the rest of the ventilation ducting that connect the Conservatory to our Air Con system. We had built the lower half that went…

We spent a day or so making an air duct that will extract the hot air from the Conservatory. It needed to go inside the wall between the window and…

We have been building some extra shuttering down the sides of the tunnel to form an extra thick footing to support the main house foundation as it goes over the…

And finally, this afternoon, we screwed down the cement board that we mortared down a couple of days ago, and then wrapped everything up in DPM plastic to protect our…

This morning, we tied our pulling ropes to the 6 support struts and mortared the cement board down on top of the wooden T supports. We are letting it set…

Today, while we waited for the delivery of our 300metres of the 20mm black plastic pipe to come, we worked on finishing off the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the…

During a long session, starting this morning at 10am, we assembled and mortared all the pieces of the air tunnel together and finished about 2:30pm with the lids going on!…

Today, it was the day of slicing many concrete blocks to create the air tunnel from the Earth Tubes Mixing Chamber to the house! The jigsaw puzzle was very complex…

After we have finished the sewage pipes (the filling in of their trenches), we started with the adjustment to the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the Air Supply Tunnel construction.…

This morning, we mixed up 3 bags of cement and 18 buckets of ballast and poured the lot into the open area we had all stuttered and ready. This slab…