Trial Run in Working with our Slate Tiles
We constructed a small test rig, to reflect the design and placement of the two layers of the wooden battens to be on our roof and then played with a…
Six Days on Water Filter Cabinet, Almost There!
This is a combined report showing our progress of creating our rain water filtration module. It has been a very fiddly work, constrained by the slow “drying” time of the…
The Last Four Pallets of Slates Arrive
Sometime during the afternoon, we had the delivery of the remaining four pallets of our slates and they were unloaded alongside our Loke, following the line as we intended, but…
Fixed Small Patches of Damage on Store Room Roof
This morning, under the bright hot sun, we went on the roof of our Store Room to locate the leaks we had yesterday during a day of heavy rain. We…
First Batch of Slates Arrive
We had a delivery of the remaining timber battens, 720 metres of 38mm by 25mm sized lengths, but actually, we only got 714 metres so they short-changed us by 6…
Exterior of Filter Module Coated in Glass-Fibre and Cleaning up Other Pieces
We resumed the task of coating the filtration unit in the structural layer of glass-fibre, in doing the exterior of our large filter box. Then the rest of the day…
Fibre-glassing the Filter Day 2
We continued to apply the Resin and Fibreglass layers to the Filter Parts. We completed all of the insides with their two layers as well as the two layers on…
Glass Fibre + Resin Treatment Starts
We started today with the mammoth task of applying the protective waterproof layer and to provide the high strength structural element for our rain filter module. This is achieved by…
Second Final Day of Preparation of Filtration Unit
We started the day off with the task of rubbing all the places where we had put the filler. But we discovered that we needed more wooden triangular battens in…
Last of the Preparation Tasks On Rain Filtration Module
Today, we finished off putting wooden battens, some of them triangular shapes around in various locations, for example, the dirty water filter support rim and the support bar across the…