Laying pipes and conduits and backfilling between cisterns and foundation wall

Sewer line and electrical conduits

Sewer line clean-out

Electrical conduits going into shed

An 8-foot container will serve as a generator house
and electrical shed

Paul and Shane building the back wall of the pump house

Barry distributing fill material

First sand is used to embed the pipes.
Top fill is pit-run and shale.

Paul and Barry working at back wall of pump house

Elbows for gas lines coming out of the ground

Scott installing gas steel elbow

Dump truck delivering loads of sand, pit-run and shale.

Steel elbow connected to gas line.

Barry - watch your finger!

The back wall of the pump house is growing
while the fill pile is growing too. The top bulk fill is shale.

Delivering shale

The pump house

Concrete foundation walls emerge from their forms

SW corner of carport

Storage areas in crawl space

Walls water proved and drain installed

N side of carport

SE corner of carport

Carport looking east

Carport looking west

SW corner of carport

Sw corner of carport

S wall of carport

SE corner of carport

Esmond working on the septic system

Installing the septic field in the forest soil

Esmond

Septic field

Septic field with distribution box

Esmond connecting lines to septic tank

Urs preparing rocks for building stairs to the sundeck

Collecting all available nice, flat rocks from the excavation
for future projects

A large collection of rocks in front of the cabin

Cleaning the rocks

Layout of rocks for one step

Handling a couple of tons of rocks is a good way to work up a sweat

Cisterns for the rain water collection system

After we extended the driveway, even a large truck 
can turn around

Each cistern is delivered in two pieces

 Truck loads of 3"minus gravel are delivered
to form a base for the cisterns

Steve working at compacting the base

The base for the cisterns consists of compacted 

3"minus gravel and a top layer of sand

Two 18000 liter cisterns have been placed. 
The 4-foot space in between will become the pump house.

Building the forms for the concrete foundation walls

Ron drilling into solid rock 45 cm deep for re-bar

Barry cutting re-bar

Barry measuring re-bar height

Barry chipping out a channel for electrical conduits

Re-bar in place. Vertical re-bar cemented into solid rock.

Ron drilling into solid rock 45 cm deep for re-bar.

As specified by the geo-technical engineer, one 20mm re-bar
is cemented into solid rock 45 cm deep every 90 cm

The foundation walls are built directly onto solid rock

All vertical re-bars are cemented into solid rock.