High altitude power tool usage -- Iain takes his life in his hands as he trims the hanging rafters
Batter boards, Mark II: our new, improved version, with string lines marking out the position of the veranda
We were given this caravan by our friends Frank and Linda. They lived in it while they were building their house, but it's spent the last twelve years as a storage shed.
First job is a thorough clean (I'm halfway through that now), then we'll give it a couple of fresh coats of paint inside and out, and some new upholstery. It'll never be roadworthy again, but it's going to make a great kitchen/diner while we're living in the yurt, and a cosy office-come-guest room once the house is finished.
Rob the Digger Bloke starts digging the hole for the septic tank.
Our septic tank is huge. Iain's planning on doing a lot of poos.
20 minutes into the dig. It would have taken us months to dig out that hole by hand. Hooray for diggers!
The septic tank is winched into place.
The installed septic tank (buried, at the front) and water tanks (half-buried, at the back)
2 comments:
Do you store rain water in those tanks? If not...where does the water come from? How long will it last?
Once we've built the house we'll be collecting rain water from the roof. As the roof area is so small, we won't be able to collect enough, so we'll need to top up with water from the nearest village, delivered by tanker at $200 a time. We've no idea how long two tanks full of water will last us, but hopefully several months!
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