In the village!

Our local watering hole is in Maynooth at "The Arlington". We have become regulars and have gotten to know lots of people in and around town. Everyone is super nice and like minded!

So Adam decides that he would like to host Karaoke at the "The Arlington". So once a month the three of us end up there singing and being sung to:

Everyone get's into it!

Our first tire!

We spray painted in the lines where the tire walls will go and we set down our first tire!

WOO-HOO!

Then we pounded our first tire!

And then Adam and Dash did a bunch more! I hear it is labour intensive work... I am in the city so I get to do all the computer work - :) !

And then we did a bunch more!

Conduit Pipes

We change the simple 2U survival model a bit to add in extra storage space by making the bathroom and shower Us deeper. Adam put all our changes as well as the location of kitchen, sinks, and rocket mass heater into a solid works drawing.

Next we started building the conduit pipes. These had to be burried in place according to where we expect each of the utility lines to go.

We needed to bend some of the pipes so we used what we got. Fire works surprisingly well.

We laid down the conduit and then proceeded to mark where we need to dig and bury.

Once we finished burying the conduits we tamped it all down with the tamper.

That's it the site is ready for building on!

The guys decided that we need to put in conduit (chases) for running water lines, wires and cables.

 

Yellow are possible future propane lines. Currently we have no plans for propane but we are just putting them in case we need them.

Blue are for possible water lines where we might want to pump and pressure to the house's water sources.

 

Pink lines are for electrical wires and cables.

We also rented a tamper to both tamp the gravel down for the whole build site and to retamp where we dig to bury all the conduit.

Woo-hoo! Gas powered tamper.... Life is so much easier with oil!

Gravel is in - YAH!

Thanks to the guys we got a dry base:

Life on the land....

Dash took photos of these glowing green bugs doing what bugs do in nature....

Not my idea!

BONOBOS!

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New photos from the boys.....

So much has happened since the last post but we got the photos fresh off of Dash's phone to bring you the new updates.....

Adam and Dash connected the rain barrels stay tuned for running water in the outdoor kitchen!

On the house front, we searched far and wide from for cisterns and found affordable ones in Burlington!

We brought too of these little suckers and each of them hold 1100 gallons of water.  What coincidence that they each just fit the back of the pickup truck. They are super heavy and requires a lot of effort to move!

This is what the land looks like. We decided we needed a foot of gravel so we called in two more dump truck loads. The first one didn't work out so well.

For the first load, we tried a different gravel guy and did not get the right gravel. And we realized in this experience that moving heavy truck loads of dirt when the ground was wet was not such a good idea. The dump truck was so stuck it had to be towed.

The second load was much better:

Notice this load was dumped on the centre of the build site - YAH! When you have to manually move stones with a shovel and a wheel barrel - you really appreciated where the stones initially gets dumped.