Praew and I like to eat. A lot. Any time we see an interesting new restaurant on the street or in the newspaper, we schedule a time to try it out. In particular, we’ve tried out almost all of the most promising restaurants in the Bang Mod area of Bangkok, and I’ve been asked quite…
Circulation pump in place test: ITS ALIVE!
I’ve been busy with quite a few things recently, both at work and on the land. The land stuff has been mostly incremental steps that didn’t really warrant posting here. But I was very excited today to get the chance to test the pond circulation pump in its actual installation configuration. The rainy season has…
Excavator upgrade: hydraulic flow limiters
Testing out the hydraulic flow limiters When we finished building the excavator a while back, it worked fine but seemed to move a bit too quickly on some of the directions. At best, I had to be very careful to barely open the valves, but at worst it was dangerous to anyone or anything nearby….
Sewage treatment
It might not be the most glamorous part of building a house, but sewage treatment is a pretty important one. The first house is mostly done and we’ve had a big hole in the ground for the sewage treatment system for a while and now it is time to start installing. Unfortunately for us, there…
Washed sand
The washing of the sand is proceeding at a very slow pace. We are still washing the sand manually, one load at a time in 2 cement mixers. It is a slow and laborious process that will probably go on for another month or two at this pace. So we decided to experiment with an…
Pond update: heavy rains
Another week of heavy rains and the water level has reached from the wall on one end of the pond area to the wall on the other end for the first time. We are still trying to get all the welding and machining done so we can install the circulation pumps before the water gets…
Mounting the circulation pump into the cistern
We’ve made some progress in figuring out how to get the circulation pumps mounted into the cement cisterns. All three pumps have been constructed, with the long-tail boat propeller shafts cut down to the right size, the mounting brackets welded onto them, and all of that mounted into a short piece of 12″ PVC pipe….
Pond update: beginning to lay down the sand
The laying down of the washed gravel has been mostly completed and now we are beginning to lay down the washed sand. The washing process is still quite slow and laborious, but all options for purchasing gravel or sand already washed have been impractical. Here is a picture of the main regeneration zone now: You…
House update: Mosquito screens, balcony rails, and sand
Just a quick update about the house. The big construction is done, but there is a fair amount of detail work now. We’ve decided to use roughly the same design for the mosquito screens that we did for the acrylic windows. (Wooden frame sandwiching the screen material.) Stylistically, it goes well with the wooden house….
Pond update: washing gravel
Things have been moving forward slowly over the last few weeks. The first house is basically done, and we are now working on the balcony rails and mosquito screens. For the pond, it has been slow going washing gravel in 2 cement mixers and laying it down. Unfortunately, the cost of trucking in washed gravel…
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