The aerobic treatment system and the effluent cistern have been installed and hooked up. Here is a picture from today: You can see what is underneath in this post from a few days ago. Now we just need to build a cover for the cistern and a pump to pump the effluent to a secondary…
Sewage system mostly completed
Sewage is rarely people’s favorite topic, but in a home, it is a very important one. Nothing exemplifies this more than working on the electrical wiring around the new house and realizing you really need to use the restroom. And then you remember that you can’t because the sewage system hasn’t finished installation. Well, the…
Utility trench finished and closed up
The past few days have been hectic. We added a second water main pipe just for redundancy. (It will remain unused until we detect a problem in the first pipe at some point in the future.) But that was the easy part. On the last day that we had the excavator rented, we needed to…
Finished digging the trench for water and electrical supply
We’re now getting ready to run the final water and electrical mains to the first house. The trench has been dug the whole way about 1m (~40in) deep. The water main pipe has been laid down, but the HDPE pipe for the electrical won’t arrive for a couple more days. We are actually thinking to…
Making PVC look like wood
Is it possible to make white PVC pipes look like wood? Take a look at this photo and compare the white PVC pipe on the right to the fake wood PVC pipe on the left: I think that is pretty cool! But you stop and scratch your head for a moment wondering… why would someone…
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