The usual disclaimer: processing of greywater or any other part of a water system in your house is critical and can lead to severe problems if done wrong. Even greywater can contain significant amounts of E. coli and other pathogens. Please do not try this at home. As always, I describe my experiments below for…
Storing the pond ladder when not in use
Most of the time, I won’t be using the ladder to climb down from the balcony of BaanLoiNaam (the floating house) into the pond. And when it is just sitting in the water, over time it seems to get pretty dirty. So my intention from the beginning was to be able to remove it from…
Protecting a mobile floating house from lightning strikes
Having added lightning rods to both of our non-floating houses on our land along with the appropriate binding and grounding, I have struggled to figure out how to similarly protect BaanLoiNaam, our floating house. This isn’t just an academic issue. One of our neighbors had their house burn down this year due to a lightning…
Adding a ladder down into the pond from the floating house
I do sometimes enjoy a dip in the pond to relax and get some exercise swimming. (I will enjoy it more, I think, after I have a chance to test the pond water to make sure everything is safe, but I’m still working on that.) And what better place to enter the pond from than…
An interesting folding counter top in the kitchen of the floating house
The floating house is quite small, so we are thinking up all kinds of ways to reconfigure the space to keep it open and clean when we don’t need furniture cluttering things up, but still have the convenience of that furniture when we need it. So here is a nifty folding counter top in the…
The composting toilet for the floating house is done
A few weeks ago, our team of construction workers finished building us a custom composting toilet for the BaanLoiNaam (the floating house). I am always impressed with their woodworking skills, and really complemented them on this one. The basic approach we are using here is based on the traditional “Loveable Loo” eco toilet as described…
Sleeping in a hammock in the floating house
We’ve gotten the welder to mount the hammock loops in the walls of BaanLoiNaam. Here is a picture of Praew trying out one of our hammocks there: Within a minute or two of starting her test, she was sound asleep and I didn’t have the heart to wake her for another half hour. Since then,…
Main kitchen and kitchen in BaanLoiNaam finally taking shape
We finally had time to finish most of the shelves in the main kitchen recently: The part by the door has a clear roof for natural light: While the workers were working on the shelves in the kitchen, we went ahead and did the kitchen in BaanLoiNaam also: In particular, this idea of Praew’s was…
Green wall continues to grow
I’ve been carrying water in to the planter box for the “green wall” in BaanLoiNaam every day over the past few weeks. Now the tallest of the cattails have grown up quite close to the level of the shower head: You can compare the height of the plants now to the level just a few…
Measuring the wind pressure force on the floating house
We are getting very close to the point on BaanLoiNaam that we will be adding the propulsion systems. To review, the house is designed to be able to operate completely independently from land and to move around the pond under it’s own power and rotate to track the sun, etc. So before I can spec…
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