Category: Phase 3

This afternoon, we dug the 2nd hole in our ground, under the house, for the next Energy Module. This one is situated under Bedroom-2 and it is 2.5 metres by…

 This morning, Stephen finished off scraping any excess soil lying within the footprint of the house. There was a little bit here and there but not much this time, in…

Today, we went out to find out how level and flat the ground is for where the footprint of the house is going. We created an attachment for both the…

We used the newly placed batter boards to string out and mark (with cement/plaster powder) the outline of the house and all the ground floor rooms. The marked line s…

We finished off inserting the back set of batter boards. These were L2 and R2 which defines the foundation line running from left to right, near the back of the…

Today, we calculated from our technical drawings on the computer, the positions of the front set of the Batter Boards. These Batter Boards are a horizontal board supported on two…

We have been building some extra shuttering down the sides of the tunnel to form an extra thick footing to support the main house foundation as it goes over the…

And finally, this afternoon, we screwed down the cement board that we mortared down a couple of days ago, and then wrapped everything up in DPM plastic to protect our…

A lovely warm day to finish off our first Energy Module, by sliding in more insulation panels around the sides of the rubber covered tank. We also put the much…

And this afternoon, we went back to our Number 1 Energy Module to carry on with the assembling of the underground hot water tank. First of all, we drilled down…