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 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…
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.…
Garage Site Clearance Review
The footprint of the garage and driveway has been cleared. The top soil was removed (about 300mm, a foot) and dumped on the heap which we are now calling Mount…
Garage site clearance Day 4 & 5
Day 4 – Thursday 5th August Started the day by doing a repair on the digger which I had been meaning to do for ages. The switch which allows the…
Garage site clearance Day 2 & 3
Started moving the top soil to our spoil heap at the top of the garden. Just load and dump over and over again… Day 2 – Tuesday 3rd August Day…
Garage site clearance Day 1
The next job is to clear the area for the garage, earth tubes, rainwater tanks and soak away. We need to remove the top soil over the area from the…
Mass Wall Review
Yippee the mass wall is now finished .. I think this the the hardest thing we have done so far (a foretaste of things to come). Here are some statistics…
Mass Wall Foundation Day 5 & 6 (final days!!)
The weather is much nicer for our last two days of working and building our Mass Wall Foundation! Day 5 – Thursday 29th July The next two segments between the…
Mass Wall Foundation – Day 3 & 4
We continue with the Mass Wall foundation strip along the fence (Tern Gardens). The weather has been rather wet later in the afternoons! Day 3 – Tuesday 27th July We…