5 -6 November 2013
Tuesday we just had to do some sorting out: housekeeping, washing, shopping, checking the boat - all the stuff we'd let go while we had Rob's extra pair of hands. And, we'd run out of supplies, so on Wednesday morning, while Dave was called in to do some boat hauling for friends, I organised a delivery. Now that all the stones have been moved round, the truck could get right up to the mixer to dump the sand and lime right on the spot where we need it - hallelujah!
The wall has now reached the kitchen sink waste pipe, which needed plumbing in before it could be built into the wall. And at the last minute, we realised that as the utility room - designed to be built out on the little terrace to the left of the pic below - had been left off the plans (not sure why), would not be able to be built for quite some time, we would therefore need to put a washing machine waste pipe in too. (They couldn't be the same pipe, as we want to reuse our laundry water for irrigation, while the kitchen sink water is too full of grease and needs to go into the soakaway. So there were two pipe outlets to be fixed up.
And then I built little cairns around the exposed pipes, where they go over the foundation and down into the ditch. All this slowed up progress to quite an extent - it required a lot of searching for small stones to support and span the pipes so they wouldn't crush under the weight above. I think I did it okay :-/
Tuesday we just had to do some sorting out: housekeeping, washing, shopping, checking the boat - all the stuff we'd let go while we had Rob's extra pair of hands. And, we'd run out of supplies, so on Wednesday morning, while Dave was called in to do some boat hauling for friends, I organised a delivery. Now that all the stones have been moved round, the truck could get right up to the mixer to dump the sand and lime right on the spot where we need it - hallelujah!
The mixer, looking strangely festive in the sunshine, with the first of four big bags of sand.
The wall has now reached the kitchen sink waste pipe, which needed plumbing in before it could be built into the wall. And at the last minute, we realised that as the utility room - designed to be built out on the little terrace to the left of the pic below - had been left off the plans (not sure why), would not be able to be built for quite some time, we would therefore need to put a washing machine waste pipe in too. (They couldn't be the same pipe, as we want to reuse our laundry water for irrigation, while the kitchen sink water is too full of grease and needs to go into the soakaway. So there were two pipe outlets to be fixed up.
And then I built little cairns around the exposed pipes, where they go over the foundation and down into the ditch. All this slowed up progress to quite an extent - it required a lot of searching for small stones to support and span the pipes so they wouldn't crush under the weight above. I think I did it okay :-/
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