Earth Tubes Days 13 & 14
Day 13 – Monday 23rd August Short days work today, started late after Shaun had an appointment and finished early because it rained! But we got the first section completed by…
Earth Tubes Days 11 & 12
Progress in installing the actual earth tubes in the bottom of the pit. Day 11 – Saturday 21st August Installed 5 earth tubes today, this involved moving large amount of…
Earth Tubes – Day 7, 8 and 9
With the hole finally dug out, we have been sorting out the bits and pieces that will be placed down, down into the pit! Not much visible work is happening…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 5
The growing and unstoppable hole continues .. .. We are nearly there! Does anyone want some nice soft sand? Going cheap! Just bring your own 20ton lorry! Day 5 –…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 4
With the newly energised Dumper Truck (the battery is now fully charged!) Stephen dashed out to do as possible before the forecasted heavy rain comes!! guess What? No Rain! Stephen…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 2 and 3
Stephen is working hard in digging the Great Hole! It is a case of doing a few hours in between rain showers and sometimes heavy ones!! But also tackling man…
Earth Tubes Design Conclusion!
We have finally settled on a design of connecting up all the earth tubes and getting the air in and out of them! We have 12 tubes all together, each…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 1
We started digging for gold today! The 4.2m wide (over 13 feet) by 18m long (59feet) hole is quite big with a spur (like a capital L) spur for another…
Earth Tubes Approval
We had a flying visit from our Building Control inspector and we had a quick talk about the need to make sure the ground under and around the garage will…
Collapsing trenches
We started to dig the first trench for the earth tubes and as soon as it was full depth the walls started to collapse, a large chunk from the right…