Service trench
Digging initial trench from the garage to the loke and along the loke a few meters. On Tuesday we dug most of it and finished it off Wednesday morning. The…
Service connections
We need to connect the new house to the services (Electricity, Water & Phone). Currently these all come to the old house and will need to be diverted. The phone…
Sewage pipeline approved
Our Building Control Inspector has arrived! He is looking.. .. he is looking .. .. at our sewage pipeline .. .. he comments that the gravel stones looks larger than…
The slow slow speed of utilitys!
I thought I would find out about moving the electricity supply from the old house to the garage. I first contacted Eon our supplier and talked to a nice bloke…
Conduit for Air supply
We laid in the sewage pipeline trench an additional conduit, 50mm diameter empty, to take the rubber hose air supply to the sewage treatment unit when we move the air…
Pipeline laid!
The sewage pipeline from the garage to the manhole connection point just next to the sewage treatment unit is now laid and gravel placed around it to bed it in.…
Garage sewage pipe trench ready
Marked out the position of the garage on the mass wall. The thick black vertical lines are the outside measured positions of the walls and thinner lines defines the foundations.…
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…