Repair of Gutter soak-away
The temporary storage shed building and its gutter have been showing signs of being blocked. So we had a look at the down pipe to the soak-away module and cleared…
Air Con Unit motorised and sealed
Stephen finished off his assembly of the air con unit by fitting servo motors and connecting rods to the air vent shutters. He also sealed the cover on the front…
Underground Electric conduit replacement
To meet our electricity distributor’s requirements regarding the underground conduits, we had to replace our original 50mm twin wall conduit with their 40mm solid wall tube. It was a pain…
Air Con Unit & 2nd fan
The air con unit is now assembled together and the “old” extracted air is now going through the heat exchanger and blowing up the chimney to the outside as waste.…
Air Ducting
Over the last few days, we have installed the air ducting from the fan box, along the ceiling in the garden room, through the doorway into the lounge and then…
Heat Exchanger built and First Fan installed
We have finished the heat exchanger at last! It took three days to build, putting layers upon layers of thin plastic film and spacers to create 50 layers of air…
Heat Exchanger module started
Today we started building the heat exchanger module to transfer the energy in the old “waste” hot air to the clean cool fresh air! The new fresh air is coming…
Header Tank built
The header tank for the garage and our temporary kitchen, shower and WC is now built and installed on the roof. It is a long box made of OSB boards…
Toilet is Lit Up!
Stephen has wired up the high frequency high efficiency low power florescent tube in the WC in the Garage building. It is 1200mm (4feet) long and it is only 28W…
Sun Corridor Triple Glazed!
Today we put up two extra layers of plastic sheeting on the underside of the corrugated roof. We wanted to reduce the heat losses of such a large “window”! being…