Week 6 - The frame goes up.

Week 5

I can't believe this is week five already! The weeks seems to be going by so quickly now.
Not much time to write, so here are the pics.

Tuesday






This is our water cleaning unit.. It gets the waste water up to a standard before pumping it into the lake.

The following pics show what will be the difference in height between the road and the drive, and the road and the porch.





Wednesday

The drainage pipe have gone in around the house now.


Small digger


My name on every bit of wood!





Saturday





Under the blue sheets are all the posts and beams.

Sunday

Week 4

The main mould for the concrete has been removed and the area below the ground floor is now visible.
There are 30mm styrofoam pads under the concrete as the foundation will also serve as a heat retention block. The hot air from the roof is pumped down a duct and will heat this conrete. The air should flow to the underneath of all the rooms. The stored heat will slowly be released into the house through vents around the edges of these rooms. For more info on this system and how it works in the summer, see the OM solar link.

In the later pictures the concrete for the porch and the doma (lower part of the entrance hall) is visible. This is a lower grade concrete as it doesn't need the heat retention qualities. The hot air does not circulate here.

Week 3 - concrete

We have concrete and a better view of the 1st floor rooms.