Roselea

A lovely warm day to finish off our first Energy Module, by sliding in more insulation panels around the sides of the rubber covered tank. We also put the much…

And this afternoon, we went back to our Number 1 Energy Module to carry on with the assembling of the underground hot water tank. First of all, we drilled down…

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…

This morning, we installed our Sun Shield covering over the long corridor. While up there on the roof, we inspected, as we always do each year, the quality and state…

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…

This afternoon, we looked at our requirement of installing temperature sensors around each Energy Module. But we don’t have the actual temperature probes or wires yet, so we need narrow…

This morning, Stephen put back together the electric powered vibrating plate compactor, bolting the off-centre motor back onto the base plate. He also had to extend the cable back up…

It was our first hole to do (out of the total of 5!) and it is the 2nd smallest one to dig out! It lives under bedroom 3, half in…

While digging the hole for the first energy module today, we noticed that there were splashes of oil on the digger’s tracks and the ground nearby. It looks like we…

This afternoon, we researched and designed a simple boring tool for making holes into the soil where we need to insert temperature sensors in and around the Energy Modules. We…