Electric man visit
Having paid the kings ransom on Monday, the man from EDF energy came this morning. Looked at the site and old meter and approved the route for the new cable.…
Doing Form work (not paper ones)
Sunday Cleared last bit of topsoil alongside the sheds away by spade and barrow, then carefully marked out the four corners of the garage, checking to ensure everything was square! Monday Started by…
Requested BCO to come and inspect foundations
We are ready for the next inspection visit. This time it is our foundations and making sure the bottom of the trenches are on firm ground ready for 300mm thick…
Cutting time
Made a large saw table to expand the much smaller table saw to a usfull size. We then cut up 6 sheets of 18mm OSB into 300mm wide strips for…
Ready to start garage foundations
Placed and compacted more sand in the garage footprint ready to install the form work for the foundations. The foundations will be 300mm thick and start 450mm below finished ground…
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…
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…