Septic System: The Design
A conventional septic system consists of a septic tank and an absorptive drain field. I’ll cover sizing and locating both […]
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Septic System: In Pursuit of a Variance
This is part 1 of a 3 part series of designing and installing our onsite sewage facility or septic system […]
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Melted Battery Terminal
Our power shut off rather abruptly around 8pm this past Wednesday. The convection oven was running so I thought perhaps […]
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Swimming Pond: Design, Concept and Initial Excavation
Last week I rented a mini-excavator under the pretense of finally installing a septic system for the timber frame cabin. […]
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Plumbing Revision/Winterization
In February 2021 central Texas experienced some extremely cold weather. There were at least five days where the temperature did […]
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Kitchen and Dining/Living Room Furnishings
With the flooring finished it was time to get started finishing the interior. Several months ago we found a giant […]
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Flooring
Sorry for lack of posts recently. We’re were pretty pushing hard in June and July to get the cabin livable […]
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Water Distribution System
Within a few weeks of plumbing in our gutters to our water tanks the tanks were full. The next thing […]
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Earthen Plaster (Finish Coat)
We finished plastering the inside of the cabin a couple of weeks ago. Check out the recap video here: And […]
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Water Collection System
Here’s the plan for our water collection system. Red circles are down spouts. The blue circles are rain tanks. We […]
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