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…
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…
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…
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.…
Earth Tube Collection chamber
Where the earth tubes get close to the house we have built a block work chamber to concentrate the air flow down too a smaller tunnel to pass under the…
Progress over the last week
Filling in the hole is not the most exciting thing to write about so here is a summary of our progress. The weather has not been as good as recent…
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…