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Here’s what happened next…

With some help of my father we digged out some holes next to foundationwall to install pipes. These pipes will be used to insert waterhoses and electricitylines afterwards… I had to think of every possible future connection … So I have water inlets going from the purifying pond, the waterpit and the rocketstove… all not yet existing!

I had to think about how I was going to warm up my water in summer, winter and in between…

Offcourse I allready had an idea of this, but now I had to really decide about all the details… so here’s what going to happen:

In summer I will have mainly cold water. There will be a composting boiler and a sunboiler to heat water outside. There will be an isolated barrel outside, next to the house which will be heated by these devices.

In between summer and winter I might not have enough heat from these devices and so I’ll use some kind of rocketstove to heat up the outside-barrel (if necessary).

In winter I’ll heat a barrel inside the house. This barrel will be 2m above floorlevel and about 3m above groundlevel (also the level of the pond). Because of the altitude of the barrel it would be impossible to fill it with water from a pit (to deep).. or at least it would be impossible with a manual pump. This is why I will mainly use water from the purifying pond to heat up the inside barrel…

 

So you see I had to think of all these different future watersupplies before covering everything up with concrete….

 

After installing the pipes I covered it up with sand leaving about 1m of pipe sticking out…

 

I also installed a pipe to provide my stove with fresh outside air. This way there is no warm air from the inside used to heat the stove and there won’t be any trouble of CO-intoxication… This is also the best way to make the “green lung” (see later) work optimal…

First I used some bricks to level the pipe because it must be levelled so that condensationwater can flow out.

 

Next I needed to cut a hole true my foundationwall (I wish I had thought about this before I poored it).

I installed the pipe and afterwards I covered it with concrete making sure there was also concrete underneath the pipe… (no picture available of this)

 

Now I was ready to install some seals and technical plastics…

I used a seal all around the inside of the wall, then I put a expansion foil against it (this is necessary to provide some elastic area for the concrete to expand) and next I used the leftovers of the seal to make an extra seal around the rebars. This last action also came in very handy because it kept the the first seal and the expansion foil pressed against the brick wall.

I also placed a transparant plastic foil all over the floor to make it fully waterproof.

Now I was ready to install the reinforcement… boy what a job!

 

Ok, this is an example of HOW NOT TO DO IT:

 

 Why not? Well.. the hot metal pieces fall down on the foil and burn holes inside! (Yeah… stupid me).. luckily it only took a short time untill I realised what I was doing and I continued with a safer tool

 

Notice how the rebbars are bowed upward… we did this not to injure the plastic goundfoil.

The last thing to do was to make all the connections… uff.. that took a long time !

You can use following tools to do it:

  (a bindingtool and bindingstrips)

 

The result is this:

 

I used a gaz pipe to bow down the standing rebbars and connect them to the reinforcement net…

 

A few days later we poored concrete !!! Oohyeah !!! And it looks NIZZZZEEEEEE

 

That’s it guys.. next is: the wood skeleton !!!! This will be a very nice job since I will really see the building rise from the ground.. can’t wait!

 

Oohyeah.. here are some pictures I took in between…

 

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