Air Tunnel Finished – Part 2!
This morning, we tied our pulling ropes to the 6 support struts and mortared the cement board down on top of the wooden T supports. We are letting it set…
Finishing off the Air Tunnel – Part 1
Today, while we waited for the delivery of our 300metres of the 20mm black plastic pipe to come, we worked on finishing off the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the…
Number 1 Energy Modules Installation Started
It was our first hole to do (out of the total of 5!) and it is the 2nd smallest one to dig out! It lives under bedroom 3, half in…
First Twenty Crates Washed!
This morning, we got the first 20 Aquacell crates opened up, blasted with jets of water and reassembled back together again! We made a small dent in the pile of…
Jigsaw Air Tunnel all Mortared Together!
During a long session, starting this morning at 10am, we assembled and mortared all the pieces of the air tunnel together and finished about 2:30pm with the lids going on!…
Air Tunnel ‘Jigsaw’ Pieces Cut!
Today, it was the day of slicing many concrete blocks to create the air tunnel from the Earth Tubes Mixing Chamber to the house! The jigsaw puzzle was very complex…
Air Tunnel Construction Started!
After we have finished the sewage pipes (the filling in of their trenches), we started with the adjustment to the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the Air Supply Tunnel construction.…
All Trenches Filled!
Today, again with marvellous weather, we finished filling in the trenches that has the sewage pipelines in. The trench cutting across the driveway and footpath was carefully layered with regular…
Started Filling in Trenches!
This afternoon, we started putting all the dirt and soil back into all the trenches of our three sewage pipe runs. We began at the trench cutting across our driveway,…
Air Tunnel Foundation Poured
This morning, we mixed up 3 bags of cement and 18 buckets of ballast and poured the lot into the open area we had all stuttered and ready. This slab…