I wrote previously about the complicated wiring I ran between the two houses, the main utility box, the walkway lights, and the pumps. It contained wires for LAN, telephone, 220V mains electricity, 24V DC, and more. As we closed up, I worried that something would come up that I forgot. Well, I forgot one. We…
Electricity wiring between the houses
I wrote recently about the biggest digging project we’ve had on the land that we used our home build excavator for. Since the trenching was completed, the next few steps turned out to be much more complicated than I had planned for. Not difficult. Just complicated. It starts with the story of the AC 220V…
Overflow pipe finally finished
After digging the trench and laying the overflow pipe, I thought it was just a simple matter of filling in the trench. But, as I’ve noticed with the software development projects at work, sometimes workers get distracted by other projects. Something that is 99% complete can sit unfinished for a surprising amount of time. Apparently,…
Finishing up the trenching with the excavator
K’Tanawat has been using the excavator for a number of days now to dig a very long trench from the main electrical box all the way to BaanRimNaam. We learned a lot about making the soil softer to make the digging go faster along the way. There were also a few distractions, so we paused…
Wet soil is easier to dig
I guess I always knew that wet soil is easier to dig with a shovel. Apparently it is easier to dig with an excavator also. K’Tanawat has been digging the long trench from the front of the land to BaanRimNaam and the going has been slow and tough. Until he tried using a hose to…
BaanRimNaam: Time to start running the power
Now that we are basically done with the AC electrical wiring for BaanMae, we have begun digging the trench to run the electricity to BaanRimNaam. Since the house is quite deep into the land (well over 100 meters), this is going to take a few days to dig. Good thing we have an excavator. 🙂…
Hooking the air pump up to the aerobic treatment system
We went with an aerobic treatment system (ATS) rather than a septic tank for our sewage system because it is supposed to result in cleaner effluent and we wanted to use the treated (and post sand filtered) effluent on the land for watering (non-edible) plants, etc. (You can see all of the posts about the…
Who let the dogs out?
When we designed our fence around the land, we had to ask ourselves what kind of perimeter do we want. Our first realization was that we aren’t into feeling imprisoned on our own land, so big solid walls were out. So we decided to go in the opposite direction. We wanted a fence, but one…
Electrical utility inspector came by to inspect our electrical wiring
I delayed signing up for the permanent electrical hookup for quite a while. It wasn’t too urgent because we already have the temporary construction electricity, but they charge about twice as much for it. We finally got around to signing up for the permanent electrical connection and the utility company sent an inspector by yesterday….
Floating house mock-up launched
Having built a mock-up of the floating house just to help visualize the dimensions and the aesthetics on the land, it was time to launch it onto the water. As you can see from the picture above, we floated it on 12x 200L plastic drums. This provides 2400kg of buoyancy against an estimated 150kg of…
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