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 in their new connections department, he told me that I needed to get EDF energy to actually move the supply cable, then Eon would connect it to a new meter. Phoned EDF and spoke to a nice lady who took my details and said she would send me a form to fill in. She also gave me an estimate of £700-£1000 and a delay of up to 10 weeks! So we will need to fill the forms in quickly if we want to be in our temporary accommodation by Christmas…
Category: Build Progress
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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 pump into the garage after we have built it! We nearly forgot to put the conduit in as we said we would a couple of months ago!! Glad we had wait for our Building Inspector to come and the delay allowed us to remember!!
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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. We await for the building control inspector to come and err.. inspect! He should be back from his hols on Monday.
Sewage pipe in trench bedded with gravel
While we wait, we will look at the utility trench on the left side of the garage and check the list of conduits and pipes and make sure we have everything we need!
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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. This gives us the position of the sewage connection for the garage so we could markout and dig the trench to place the sewage pipe.
We await for our building inspector to approve it.
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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 hole in the manhole access tube is blocked up with geotextile so no sand and soil can get in!
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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 pipe from its first placement which is going into the manhole access chamber
where the pump is situated which means it would immediately suck up any “bits”.The feed pipe will now be routed across the rain tank to the diagonally opposite corner and make its entrance!
We are off to buy some extra fitments to join the 40mm pipe together for its new route!
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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 foundations of the house. The chamber is 300mm below the path round the house.
Concrete ready for the blocks 
The view down a tube – we vacuumed the sand out 
Test fit of the blocks 
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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 weeks, which has slowed our progress a bit.
Carefully filled and compacted on south side of the tank and behind the earth tubes. Installed the rainwater input pipe.
We decided that the area outside of the garage footprint could be filled in bulk and allowed to settle if necessary, so fill was dumped in from an edge and the next load beyond it. There was some compaction by the weight of the dumper truck driving over the fill.
Then we measured and laid concrete around the earth tubes nearest the house, this will support a block work chamber which gathers the air into a smaller area to feed into the house by a tunnel. As I said the rain has been a bit more frequent in then last week, indeed we had just mixed a load of concrete when torrential rain fell. Guess where the lowest point was for the rain to collect …. yeah the formwork ready for the concrete! Luckily the rain stopped long enough for the area to drain away and we managed to place the concrete half an hour later.
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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.
