Day 3 of the Great Module Number 5 – The Big Dig!
Today, we started the major task of digging out the hole to receive our largest Energy Module we are assembling underneath our house. But first, we tidied up various bits…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Construction begins on main house, groundworks, energy modules, swimming lane, foundations, block wall and floor slab.
Today, we started the major task of digging out the hole to receive our largest Energy Module we are assembling underneath our house. But first, we tidied up various bits…
It is day 2 (and last day!) of our cleanup operation of the remaining Aquacell crates we have had in storage ever since we bought them several years ago! The…
We started the huge task of cleaning all the remaining 90 Aquacell crates to get them ready for our biggest underground Energy Module, Number 5. It measures nine metres long…
Today, we carried on with the filling operation for our Energy Module Number 3. We had pulled most of the water out of the swimming lane and the meter reported…
This morning, we connected the conduit pipes and inspection tube down into the Number 4 Energy Module. Then we pushed in the remaining sand / soil from around the hole…
Today, we put on the insulation panels around the number 4 Energy Module. We inserted at least 300 mm thick of insulating boards, more like 350mm to 380mm thick! We…
Also today, we started filling up the existing and completed Energy Modules (number 1 and Number 2) to make sure we don’t suffer from another incident of rainwater getting underneath…
Today, we dug out the bottom of the hole of the Number 4 Energy Module and inserted the two guide rails to scrape flat the bottom. We then washed the…
This morning, we started on our “Number 4” Energy Module. It is our smallest one at “only” 2 meters by 1.5 meters for the water tank itself and the hole…
The “Number 3” Energy Module has been completely buried and all finished. The three set of conduit pipes were inserted and connected all together in a central point, so that…