Connecting The Dots - Water Pipe And Pump Installation

This day marks a huge milestone - for the very first day, since house was originally built in 1896 - house will have a fully automatic water supply. 

This day also marks the end of the planned major tasks for Summer 2016. Gosh, that was a mad ride - let me explain, in order to get water supply inside house, at start we had to drill a bore hole, see:Drilling Borehole , then we had to completely rebuild some walls for house and construct both pump room and bathroom. As it might sound straightforward, it involved a lot of planing, managing, constructing a of course money,

Now was the day we could connect the dots, and it started with an excavator arriving in our yard:

Excavator arrives

Excavator arrives

The magic will start right now.

Excavator in work

Excavator in work

Now, that a hell good way to dig a trench, instead of shovel

Trench for water pipes

Trench for water pipes

There is planed to have an automatic water system from one pump both inside house and outside (in future garden oven area), kind of reverse water supply system is built

Pipes inside the house

Pipes inside the house

As you can see, at start it was all about to build rock solid walls

Installing pump

Installing pump

Also working on foundations to build inner wall from aac blocks

Graded soil after water pipe works

Graded soil after water pipe works

 

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