Rainwater Tank - Take 2

We are still in significant drought here, with very restricted use of water allowed for gardens. So, to establsih our new garden, we are first installing a 56,000 litre rainwater tank. This will augment the existing tank which is 13,000 litres. The collection system and pump are already in place, so it's has just been a matter of deciding on a location. The new large tank will be at the bottom of the site, and a slow-speed pump will transfer water up to the smaller tank at the top of the site. The photo shoes the 7m diameter pad prepared with "quarter-minus" gravel (less than 6mm in size).

Sub Floor Access Door

This is one of those jobs that often gets left un-done for years. But we were worried about vermin getting in under the house, and setting up home in our warm under-floor insulation. So I made am a door-jamb and fitted a door to it. I routed the face of the door with v-groove to make it look a bit less boring.

At the same time, I fitted a fly-wire frame and thick fly-wire around the portal in the wall for our ducted heating systems. So hopefully no wermin will get in.

Vanity & Tap

Just a quick post to detail the addition of the vanity and mirror to the main bathroom. Not a lot of work here for me, although the mirror took the best part of half-a-day to hang, as it need some substantial fixings into the wall-studs owing to its weight.

Bathroom with a Bath

A few weeks back, I installed our bath, after the cabinet makers finally fitted the hob for it. Our bath has spa-jets in it, and all the associated plumbing that you would get with a spa, except it's just a bath (a "theraputic bath" I am told). The photo shows the bath in position, ready to be dropped into its final loaction. I had put a lot of effort into getting all the pipes the right length, so it would mate-up OK with the pump that runs the jets. It is a building-requirment that the pump has to be higher up than the pump-inlet, so that the used water can drain away after using the bath. In my case this made for some precision pipe-work, as there was not a lot of spare room in the hob. Anyway, it worked out, and of all things, it doesn't leak!