Saturday, December 11, 2010

This photo was taken on Sunday 5th Sept 2010, the day after the 7.1 earthquake. At daybreak on the 4th we tentatively peeked down the road from the driveway of our rented house, as you can see the house was still standing. Better than that, there has been no damage at all from the earthquake despite be 20km from the epicentre.


Our wastewater system is an Autoflow system, which is unusual in that it has separate black and grey water tanks, the water drains into the 3rd tank, so that the toilet waste is composted with the aid of worms!


Progress on the roof cladding - which I didn't do - got the pros in to install as I sure didn't have the time to do it.


Underfloor heating manifold and pipe. About 900M of it for the whole house!



We have floors, yay, Went with concrete in the end after thinking about doing earth floors. We added terracotta colouring to the top when bull floating. The floor is a bit dirty in the photo.


What, I'm working on right now, casting the window sills.


Trying out a clay slip for fun.


The house today. If you look you can see the cut-outs for the window sills at the base of the windows. I cut them out with a diamond saw blade on an angle grinder and a chisel.