Cisterns and pipes

As we started filling in the spaces with pebble and sand screenings between the insulation and tires and around our perimeter we had to fill around our cistern as well. To avoid putting too much pressure on our cisterns we had to fill our cisterns with water. In order to fill the cisterns we had put in our main water tap.

 First will drilled a hole and installed a bulk head in the cisterns. We learned the hard way that silicone is necessary after we sprung a leak.

We put in flex pipe to alleviate tension and joins. For flex pipes we use metal strapping and abs cement glue where there involved threads we used teflon tape. After the leak incident we siliconed every join just to be safe.

Filling up the cisterns required some imagination and creativity. Luckily we found an elevated spot that we can gravity feed the water from. 1000 litres had a barely noticeable effect on the water level in the cisterns. This took weeks.

 We also had to add in the conduit chases that penetrates our earthship insulation.