About two months back I wrote about how the water level in the pond had dropped substantially from its high after the rainy season last year. Well it has been raining quite a bit over the last month and the pond is back to nearly full again. It is hard to see the overflow pipe…
BaanLoiNaam bathroom update: fresh water testing
So we installed a water tank under the roof of BaanLoiNaam a while back, and recently got the sink and shower heads connected up so we decided to test if the water pressure is enough. The sink worked fine… But the shower head was a little on the low pressure side It is probably usable…
Sink in BaanLoiNaam installed
Here is a picture of the sink installed in BaanLoiNaam… You can see the cattails planted in the box beneath it. These will hopefully grow up to make a “green wall”.
Pond update: measuring the water level drop
We are coming to the end of the dry season now. Last week we have had the first real rains of the year, so I figured it was a good time to evaluate how low has the water level in the pond dropped. This may provide an idea of what to expect in future years….
Adding a water tank to BaanLoiNaam
Rather than install a water pump to create enough water pressure for sinks, showers, etc., in BaanLoiNaam, we have been exploring using a water tank and letting gravity do the work for us. It will still need a pump to pump the water up to the tank, but that pump can be much smaller and…
Painting the water tank for the floating house
As anyone that has followed this blog will have noticed by now, Praew and I like the rustic natural wood look around the land here. The walls are wood, the furniture is wood, and to make the wiring blend in naturally, we even painted our PVC electrical conduit to look like wood. So for the…
Building a gravity fed water tank for the floating house
In the shower we are building in BaanLoiNaam, we would like to mount a water tank as high as possible under the roof and use gravity pressure to run the shower and sinks. But the height difference is not all that much, meaning there will not be much pressure. So I figured it would be…
Building the shower floor in the floating house
We designed a simple wooden structure to form the floor of the shower in BaanLoiNaam and the workers finished building it last week. I’m pretty surprised how nice the wood came out. The concept of this shower is a little unusual. Being a floating house that is designed to be mobile, there are no sewage…
Using reclaimed water
Now that the rainy season is over, there isn’t very much rain water collected from the roof of BaanMae anymore. But we have a sewage processing system that first reduces the biological oxygen demand (BOD) using an aerobic treatment system, then runs it through a slow sand filter to fully sterilize it. The next step…
Pond water level has peaked
At the end of the rainy season in late September and early October, I decided to close the valve on the pond overflow pipe to let the water level go up a little bit higher and see what would happen. The idea was to get a little more water in so that the evaporation over…
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