We took the kids to New Brighton today to get their feet wet. It was Olivia’s first time playing on the sand and she loved it. Jack was just a happy goose!
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The new pump shed nearly complete!
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!
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!
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!
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