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The Slab gets Prepped!

by julian on January 24, 2011 in Renovations with Comments Off

Although looking at the pictures below, it may seem hard to believe, apparently the new place will be finished ready to move in about 4-5 weeks from now! These guys work fast!!

Below is the toilet/bathroom area showing the new plumbing and bathroom extension on the right. Tricky stuff! The bath sits over the shingle pile on the right. The 3 lots of upright pipes from the left are shower, toilet vanity and bathroom vanity.

The 4x short pipes below on the right (behind the rubble) are under the hot water cylinder in the hall cupboard.

Below shows the tweaks to the edges of the slab. To meet the new Fraemohs design style, they had to remove all the inset edges.

Crash! There goes our house!

by julian on January 24, 2011 in -- Jack, Renovations with Comments Off

As some of you may know, our house was written off through damage caused by the Sept 4th Christchurch earthquake. Thanks to our awesome insurer, Westpac (Lumley), a new house is being built over the next 2 months.

Here’s some good destruction action!

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More rebuild pics to come!

The new pump shed nearly complete!

by julian on September 11, 2010 in Misc Stuff, Renovations with Comments Off

A bit of painting to do and we’ll sort a garden around it, but the pump shed is almost done, and most importantly – we have water!

17mm treated ply bolted to the old steel tank tower frame. Was a bugger cutting ply to skewed trapezoid shapes! Should be nice and solid. Just the edge strips and door left to do.

Here’s the new pump and filter. The white cylinder is a 20 micron particulate filter I added to remove most of the sediment. The Aquifer is still a little dirty and if the sediment gets to the house it ruins the ceramics and fittings.

The new system is high pressure (we had low) but when connected, a number of joints leaked (below ground too…). They couldn’t handle the load 😉 So there’s been a good number of small leaks we’ve needed to fix.

The end result though is that we now have a 13,650 litre storage tank and high pressure house supply with awesome tap and shower pressure!

A few loose ends to tidy but should be all finished by next week!

Thanks to the ChCh earthquake, we now have a new water tank!

by julian on September 8, 2010 in Misc Stuff, Renovations with Comments Off

If you look below the tank is no longer in the middle. It shifted 6 inches in the quake and we were concerned it would fall through the office roof and squash the staff. EQC were great and approved a replacement.

So I worked magic and got the contractors sorted and now the old tank is down and new one in – all in a day! new pump goes in tomorrow!

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You can see below how close the old tank/stand was to the office. The new tank is great though, 13,650 litres actually! (chose the smaller one).

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New view out the kitchen. I guess we need to plant some trees! Glad to have a safe water supply now though and stoked that EQC and Westpac came to the party quickly. Much appreciated!