Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 5
The growing and unstoppable hole continues .. .. We are nearly there! Does anyone want some nice soft sand? Going cheap! Just bring your own 20ton lorry! Day 5 –…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 4
With the newly energised Dumper Truck (the battery is now fully charged!) Stephen dashed out to do as possible before the forecasted heavy rain comes!! guess What? No Rain! Stephen…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 2 and 3
Stephen is working hard in digging the Great Hole! It is a case of doing a few hours in between rain showers and sometimes heavy ones!! But also tackling man…
Earth Tubes Design Conclusion!
We have finally settled on a design of connecting up all the earth tubes and getting the air in and out of them! We have 12 tubes all together, each…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 1
We started digging for gold today! The 4.2m wide (over 13 feet) by 18m long (59feet) hole is quite big with a spur (like a capital L) spur for another…
Earth Tubes Day 1
The deepest job so far and probably ever, is installing the Earth Tubes! We want these to be buried as deep as possible to take advantage of the cool and…
Mass Wall Foundation Day 1 & 2
The Ground Work now commences for the Garage! We are putting in a Mass Wall foundation to hold back the soil and stabilise the concrete fence posts. Day 1 – Saturday…
Tidy Up and bits and pieces
Today we filled in the old septic tank with soil to make it safe for the time being (we don’t need to dig it up until we are prepareing the…
Old Septic Tank Decommission Day 2
We Are Live! The sewage is now successfully running to our new sewage processing unit. The Man and His Tanker came this morning and sucked every last bit of ……
Old Septic Tank Decommission Day 1
We have started the decommissioning process on the old septic tank. A large and smelly quantity of the semi clear waste was pumped into the new sewage processor tank, using…