Roselea

Category: Timelapse Movies

  • Sewage Processor Day 3, 4 and 5!

    The work continues with the Sewage Processor installation and its connections!

    Day 3 – Tuesday 13th July

    Started with the concrete mixing to bed down the processor unit but didn’t get much done before the cement mixer broke down!

    Day 4 – Thursday 15th July

    With the repaired cement mixre, we finished off the concrete footings for the processor unit, and then filled up with gravel. We put in a black 110mm diameter pipe to act as the air vent as well as a high visibility warning to stop anyone accidentily driving over the tank!. We also discovered that the extension collar doesn’t fit the top of the processing unit!!

    Day 5 – Friday16th July

    We strengthened the black pipe to make sure it cannot be accidentily pulled out and dumping loads of soil into our leach field. We then cut the trench from the sewage unit back up the garden (this sewage line is the kitchen and cloakroom or will be when the house is built!), put in tons of gravel as bedding, installed the manhole service chamber and the first 3metre pipe segment!trech for first sewage pipethe inspection chamber next to the processor

    What’s Next.. ..?!

  • 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!

  • 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)

  • 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 7 – End of Day

    Day 8 – Saturday

    First load of the 40mm stones to the depth of 300mm.

    Day 8 - End of Day
    Day 8 – End of Day

    Day 9 – Sunday

    Finished the stones.

    Day 9 - 3pm Stones all down
    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 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 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
    Day 11 – 1pm Top Geo-texile in place

    Started filling in everything!

    Day 11 - EOD & Ramps gone
    Day 11 – EOD & Ramps gone

    Day 12 – Thursday

    Continued and finished filling in the hole.

    Day 12 - EOD & The Holes gone
    Day 12 – EOD & The Holes gone

    Well That’s that!

  • First 6 days of Leach field construction

    We have been busy for the last week… On Friday we set out the trench lines for the leach field.

    Day 1 – Saturday

    Marked out and dug the first trench next to the hedge.

    Day 1 - A neat trench
    Day 1 – A neat trench

    Day 2 – Sunday

    Made a dispenser for the Geo-textile. Then started the cross trenches so we could lay the geotextile in the first trench and partially refill. The problem was the corners started to collapse into the first trench.

    Day 2 - Trench After the corner fell in
    Day 2 – After the corner fell in

    Dug out the collapsed stuff and tried the geotextile. There wasn’t enough intact walls to support the geotextile !

    Day 2 – After we tried the Geotextile

    Day 3 – Monday

    So we decided we would just dig the whole thing out! Then line with geotextile and refill in layers while compacting it down. Most of the hole dug out today.

    Day 3 - A Big Hole
    Day 3 – A Big Hole

    Day 3 - Pile of Dirt
    Day 3 – Pile of Dirt
    Day 3 - Pile of Sand
    Day 3 – Pile of Sand

    Day 4 – Tuesday

    Finished the hole and started to dig a ramp to allow machines access to the pit. Greased to digger.

    Day 5 – Wednesday

    Finished the ramp and drove the digger to the bottom! (A bit scary) Leveled the bottom and compacted

    Day 5 - Completed Hole
    Day 5 – Completed Hole
    Day 5 - The ramp
    Day 5 – The ramp

    then fixed geotextile over the whole of the hole.

    Day 5 - Geotextile lining completed
    Day 5 – Geotextile lining completed

    Started to put the sand back.

    Day 5 - End of day - some sand back in hole
    Day 5 – End of day

    Day 6 – Thursday

    Spent all day filling in the sand in thin layers and compacting as we went. Had a scare at 17:27 (see the time lapse)…

    Day 6 - End of Day - most of the sand in
    Day 6 – End of Day

    Yes the dumper rolled off on its own and Shaun was down there… Luckily I noticed it starting to move and shouted “SHAUN – GET OUT OF THE WAY” and he ran to the corner. It actually stopped as soon as it reached the bottom of the hole and wouldn’t have hit Shaun but …