Shuttering and Putting Rubble in around Air Chamber and Tunnel
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…
Chamber and Tunnel Covered in DPM
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…
Air Tunnel Finished – Part 2!
This morning, we tied our pulling ropes to the 6 support struts and mortared the cement board down on top of the wooden T supports. We are letting it set…
Finishing off the Air Tunnel – Part 1
Today, while we waited for the delivery of our 300metres of the 20mm black plastic pipe to come, we worked on finishing off the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the…
Jigsaw Air Tunnel all Mortared Together!
During a long session, starting this morning at 10am, we assembled and mortared all the pieces of the air tunnel together and finished about 2:30pm with the lids going on!…
Air Tunnel ‘Jigsaw’ Pieces Cut!
Today, it was the day of slicing many concrete blocks to create the air tunnel from the Earth Tubes Mixing Chamber to the house! The jigsaw puzzle was very complex…
Air Tunnel Construction Started!
After we have finished the sewage pipes (the filling in of their trenches), we started with the adjustment to the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber and the Air Supply Tunnel construction.…
Air Tunnel Foundation Poured
This morning, we mixed up 3 bags of cement and 18 buckets of ballast and poured the lot into the open area we had all stuttered and ready. This slab…
Adjusting Earth Tubes Chamber
Today, while we waited for the building control inspector to visit us, we got on with making adjustments to the Earth Tube Mixing Chamber. We had originally constructed it several…
Earth Tube Collection chamber
Where the earth tubes get close to the house we have built a block work chamber to concentrate the air flow down too a smaller tunnel to pass under the…