Second Line Completed and Third almost Finished too!
Today, in glorious sunshine for most of the day, we completed the 2nd line of sewage pipes and got it bedded down in gravel before any further possible collapses of…
Dug out Pipe 2 Trench
We have dug out the trench for the second sewer pipe today. We dug most of it by hand as it was shallow and easy to dig. We stopped when…
Second Sewage Line Started
Today, we started the more difficult sewage pipeline, the one that is running across our driveway. It was tight to get the mini-digger in pass the garden shed, the air…
First Pipe Laid!
Today, we did the 1st of three sewage pipes that needs to be laid in and under the house, before we put in the foundations and floor slab. This was…
Double Check Calculations of Sewage pipe Positions
This afternoon, we spent the time going over the drawings, calculating the exact positions of the sewage pipes coming out the ground (and through the concrete slab). We also discovered…
Sewage pipeline approved
Our Building Control Inspector has arrived! He is looking.. .. he is looking .. .. at our sewage pipeline .. .. he comments that the gravel stones looks larger than…
Conduit for Air supply
We laid in the sewage pipeline trench an additional conduit, 50mm diameter empty, to take the rubber hose air supply to the sewage treatment unit when we move the air…
Pipeline laid!
The sewage pipeline from the garage to the manhole connection point just next to the sewage treatment unit is now laid and gravel placed around it to bed it in.…
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.…
Concrete Production Resumes!
The new capacitor arrived (rather late in the afternoon !) and installed it in the cement mixer and it’s go go go! Or at least it will be tomorrow! Sharp!