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!
More rebuild pics to come!
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!
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!
Check out the new Dog house I whipped up for our new puppy ‘Bob’. Not a bad effort if I do say so myself.
Here’s the workshop shots…
Ooohhh! is that a Gokart in the background?
The top opens for easy access. Clever huh!
I finally sussed out how to irrigate the property! Awesome!
Ignore this pic below– it was a wee miscalculation of valves which saw the tank overflow. Needless to say I now know to shut off the house valve
We’ve been here a while so I thought it was a fitting time for the sign to go up. Looks good I think!
Those sneaky buggers at Google have been updating their satellite imagery. This is our property below and it shows all the new building work we did recently. Quite odd thinking about being photographed from space!
There was a huge Beech tree outside the end bedroom. Not anymore! I attacked it with a chainsaw! 
Lets the light in the room now.
We managed to do a ‘deal’ with the local contractor. Free hay cutting for a free website When they cut the hay we got 100 bales! Not bad!
