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    The seven year house, definitely no sprint job.
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    OK, been busy trying to control water with an agg pipe, a total of 40 metres and hand dug in. It took most of the day and some blood, sweat and tears but all done now. We started to put down mulch the pine post cuttings as they stick to sloping banks better and helps to stop erosion of soil. Starting to get more trees planted and the best news of all is we sold the house in Caboolture so soon to start the house foundations after settlement has been completed.

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    Hi SB

    what was your water problem?

    if it's mainly surface water down the cut slope, the "normal" approach is to use a catch drain.

    if it's subsurface water affecting a roadway (or driveway), the "normal" approach is to place the subsoil drain on the high side.

    but more importantly, has it been raining?
    are the hydro dams finally starting to fill?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by Superbunny View Post
    ..... the best news of all is we sold the house in Caboolture so soon to start the house foundations after settlement has been completed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    Hi SB

    what was your water problem?

    if it's mainly surface water down the cut slope, the "normal" approach is to use a catch drain.

    if it's subsurface water affecting a roadway (or driveway), the "normal" approach is to place the subsoil drain on the high side.

    but more importantly, has it been raining?
    are the hydro dams finally starting to fill?
    Not raining yet, only beautiful sunny days like today sorry to say. The agg drain is to catch the runoff from the drive before it gets to the batter the other side of the drive and then run it down to a drain before going into the creek further down. The runoff was going through the gravel to the joins in the sandstone blocks and cutting channels in the batter the other side. My earthmoving contractor said the agg drain will cut it off as the drive is gravel down to 150mm and the mulch will stop the rain eroding the surface of the batter until plants stabilise the soil.

    The next step is to drill the piers and construct the foundations and slab, let you know when we get there.

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    Long slow hail thus far Sb...good news the Caboolture house is sold...the wood forum stand is going to miss your organization in Brisbane...

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    Making some slow progress, the slab still not down but have accepted a quote, the floods have not helped with the concrete guys and their backlogs. I've been busy making glass block windows as the quote I got was astronomical and I had to put it together my self. So to cut a long story short I did some research on the net (you got to love the net for diy videos) ordered the glass blocks and made up my own timber frame and used angle aluminium to make a frame and reveal. I know I don't have the house built but I do know the wall thickness finished sizes. I plan to have the aluminium angle powder coated to match the window frames of the house and then build the glass block windows using morter and reo bars for strength. I have four more to make and I'll update when there done but for now here is my test window to see if the design works.

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    How big are the windows?

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    6oomm x 600mm a total of 4 and 1800mm x 900mm just 1. It will take 96 glass blocks to do all windows.

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    Looking good Superbunny.

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    Just a quick one, the concreter for the slab starts late next week, (party time) and I just had my AES effluent system put in. I learnt a lot from the plumber and council inspector about the AES system that confirmed my thinking about this effluent treatment system (I have no association with the AES company).
    I trained many years ago as a water supply and waste water civil engineer and thus have a very good idea of the engineering and science behind waste water treatment. When I found the AES system I was really pleased someone had got off their ass and come up with the goods for home waste water treatment. I evan did the online test as a home builder but I don't get a certificate as I'm not a registered plumber. Anyhow, over the last couple of years I've been hearing that some AES systems are failing and started to get concerned about the system I had committed to with the council and as I said earlier to put in. My thoughts were you got to be joking that this system doesn't work because if this one ticks all the boxes for the science and if this doesn't work then none will ever do it. So I came to the conclusion that it must be the plumber and not the product and yes the inspector and plumber confirmed there are some crap plumbers out there and they don't have a clue what they are really doing. The inspector told me they can do the online test and after that they do anything but what they should be doing and it fails. My plumber has installed around a hundred AES systems without one single failure according to the council inspector but he's seen many failures from plumbers doing the wrong thing and it costs them heeps to pull it out and do it right. The other reason I thought some AES systems fail is the home owner has no idea how to treat them properly ie don't stick stuff that will kill the bugs that eat the effluent or your in trouble and the system will fail. Some people just don't get it, it's not a city system where you can pour terps and other bad stuff down the sink when cleaning paint brushes, why! It kills the good bugs that eat the effluent that's why. So what ever you do learn how to look after your treatment waste system and it's not hard, and have some happy bugs and a good working system but don't say the AES treatment system doesn't work as the proof of this system is out there.

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    Thank you for the heads up on what AES will do for you wifey and i live on a small 5 acre block in Victoria and our septic needs work badly so i now have another idea to work on thanks again and good luck with your build i'll be keeping a eye out too see what else i can learn for your experience's.
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    Happy to help Matruck. We have liftoff and as the concreter said he's on time and the wify is doing handstands, I just hope she doesn't off him sex. It's taken 2 years and 6 months to get to this stage so there's no going back now. Update on the glass block windows the framing aluminium is at the powdercoaters now and should be back next week.

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    It'll never work, as soon as you try to pour the concrete, it is going to fall off & stick to the clouds.
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    I know what you mean Cliff, but the photo was taken the right way up and when it was up loaded to post, it flipped it over, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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