Started mixing concrete and pouring round the base of the tank but we were stoppped by the mixer breaking down. Took it apart and found the motor start capacitor has blown up.
Ordered a replacement so hopefully will restart the concreting tomorrow.
Category: Sewage
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Started and stopped concreting the tank.
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BCO inspected the sewage processor in its hole.
Dave the BCO came and approved the sewage processor in situ.
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Leach Field Review
A quick review of our construction of the Leach Field. The video contains all 12 days of our work speeded up by over 300 times normal (one picture every 30 seconds). It only took 5 minutes!!
Enjoy!
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Sewage Processor Installation (First 2 days!)
Day 1 and Day 2 of the Installation of our Sewage Processor!
Saturday Day 1
Finished off compacting the soil over the Leach field. The Sewage Processor’s location is calculated and first dig of hole!
Sunday Day 2
Finished digging the hole. Ensure the bottom (over 8feet deep!) is solid ready for the tank. Lifted the huge glass fibre and resin constructed monster, over 2 metres (6.5 feet) wide and weighs 230kg (500lbs) into the hole!!
more tomorrow (fixing the tank with concrete and filling with gravel)
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Leach Field – the Final 6 days!
The work continues .. ..
Day 7 – Friday
Finished off the sand layer to required depth (700mm). Marked out the trench lines ready for the 40mm stones.
Day 7 – End of Day Day 8 – Saturday
First load of the 40mm stones to the depth of 300mm.
Day 8 – End of Day Day 9 – Sunday
Finished the stones.
Day 9 – 3pm Stones all down Installed the leaky pipes and bed them in on the correct level (1 in 200) no more than 50mm lower from start to the farthest point!
Day 9 – 6pm Pipes installed Day 10 – Monday
Collect up the remaining stones. The building Control officer came (just a flicker of him at 11:30am!!!), he says “Looks good!” Delivery of 20tons of 10mm stones.
Day 10 – Ready for inspection Day 11 – Wednesday
Put remaining 40mm stones over the pipes. Cover the whole area with a layer of the geotextile and weighted it down.
Day 11 – 1pm Top Geo-texile in place Started filling in everything!
Day 11 – EOD & Ramps gone Day 12 – Thursday
Continued and finished filling in the hole.
Day 12 – EOD & The Holes gone Well That’s that!
