First soil moving around the main house and sewage system construction

40 Degrees C during daytime in the shadow. Officially still winter. Maybe climate change? Some people still think nothing is wrong. For here it's extreme but we still go on. Sweating (and drinking water and sport drink) a lot. 

Yesterday and today our Thai digging machine friend with his excavator helped us again with installing (digging) the sewage system and the first tranche of soil moving around the house. We give the soil the chance to settle during the rainy season. Next year we will complete with placing the u-ditches (gutters) around the house, pouring sand on the soil to level and start with tiling the pavement. 

We also did do some soil leveling in the garden to make it easier for the water to flow to the pond during heavy showers. We will discover in a couple of months it this works. Sand for construct the pavement around guest pyramid 2 is in. 

Also we decided to make a 'rest & shadow' place for the dogs under the veranda. So we changed the soil there and put already sand in that makes it a bit cooler. I also started with the main steps to the entrance. There will be both and easy to climb (lazy) stair and a walkway with a slope up.

Just when we thought our job was finished and the excavator could do the finishing touch...Alarm!. The machine hit the main water and electricity supply to the guest pyramids. A fountain of water. 

It took me a bit more than half an hour to fix it. We were lucky the copper electric wires in the pipe were not damaged but the protection pipe itself needed an extra cover. 

The water line I fixed as the picture shows. Everything working again. 

Time for a beer and a short rest now. Two very busy days.

We think we take tomorrow an easy day to relax. 

Frans Captijn

email:   pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com

Lots of deliveries and more developments

We will create a double septic tank sewage system. Just a creation I developed to get rid of sewage problems (because of flooded soak away fields) during the last part of the rainy season. We picked up the system at Thai Watsadu construction market. 

The idea is the two toilets of our house will run into the first big (1200 L) tank to be biologically processed. The overflow runs into the second smaller (800L) tank that also will directly store the water of the shower, sinks, etc..  The overflow of the second tank runs into the soak away field. Connected with that second overflow pipe, half way between tank outlet and soak away pipes,  I install a 2'' pipe with a direct connection to the rice field as an extra relief.

For the inside- and outside kitchen we installed a DOS-50 liter grease trap to clean the kitchen water from grease, food residues, etc. that passes the kitchen sinks.

We totally finished the workshop/tool storage now. All tilework sealed and upper part of the foundation painted grey. A solar light installed above the entrance.

In the mean time lots of deliveries. 

First of all we got the three pyramid guard statues to be placed around guest pyramid 2, the same way we did with the first pyramid. 

We got gravel to surround the pipes of the soak away field and sand for general purpose and to start with the steps to the main house. Also sand will be under the veranda (a bit cooler for the dogs to in the shade under that floor). Foundation poles are installed now. 

The first five pallets of 500 pieces in total so far Q-Con G4 15 cm load bearing wall blocks were delivered.

The ceramic rooftiles (Exella classic green jadeite) we need next year are ordered already. So we are sure of the same type and color as the Guest pyramids we created. We will get them within about three months. Prices of construction materials are also 'exploding' so we thought better to order them now. 

We started to repair (fill up) some places at the newly poured ground floor with high performance non-shrink grout. The first results so far look good.  

The bathroom- and guest toilet floors are poured with the right sloop to the drains already. 

We finished the block gluing around the entrance of the crawlspace and as base for the sliding backdoor to place in the future.  

We are doing the last preparations at the sewage system so this weekend, we hope, the digging machine can help us to install and to do the first soil moving around the main house. 

Although the temperatures during the day are already very high for the time of the year (37 degrees C), no time to sit still. 

Two new flying visitors showed interest and came to see what we are all creating at our place. 

Frans Captijn

email:   pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com