MY SCHOOL JOURNAL
My life, on line!
Tank legs.
05 years
by Amy
in The HOUSE WE BUILT!
Today we built the tank-stand!
It was hot sweaty work but we got there in the end!
We had a bit of difficulty getting it square but by using levers and a pulley system we figured it out. I put nearly all the bolts in and put nuts and washers on the all by myself.
I think it will hold our tank up no worries! We are going to make an outdoor shower underneath the tank-stand so we need to get some plumbing things for that and then we need to cement the posts and the shower floor so we will have to get some metal and sand for the cement…Maybe by next week we can put the tank up? I’m excited to see it on it’s stand.
Two sides up.
Mum cutting off the tops.
Me doing up nuts.
All the tops off.
Finished!
Three more things!
05 years
by Amy
in The HOUSE WE BUILT!
There are three more things we really need to get done before we can move into our new house..
1, put up the spouting, we need to do this so the water from the roof can be collected because right now that is the only way we will get any.
2, Build a tank-stand and put the tank up on it, this way we will have just enough pressure to run the taps inside (when we get taps…).
3, Set up the solar array and make it so we can charge our computers and phones….or no schoolwork, and Mum can’t do her job.
Today we started building our tank-stand. WE need a tank to catch the water that will run off our roof, and we need it on a stand so we get just a little water pressure. Today Mum and I designed the stand, we sat on old bits of wood in the grass by our house and decided how it would go, then Mum sketched it on an old bit of envelope and TADAH! We had our plans, then it rained (WOW! RAIN!) and when we were running round saving our tools from getting wet and we forgot about the plans…they will dry out though.
We dug a place for our tank-stand to go, it’s going to have an outside shower under it so we will put cement there, and cut some bits of wood….tomorrow we will build it. Any suggestions on how we can lift the tank up there by ourselves?
The “stand plan”.