Please take a look at Part One of this blog entry!
How long can it possibly take – continued 21/01/12
Apart from exposing a wall that looked like a wall at ground level, when exposing it we discovered there wasn’t a wall below it anyway. Add to that a week of some of the foulest weather imaginable, well enough of all that!
Ian Miles worked with me at Infiltration for many years and thankfully he was the guy who did the entire breakdown and installation for me almost unaided.
It’s impossible to predict what’s below the ground when an existing system has to be removed before a new one can be installed and this was no exception, some parts of this were a doddle and others were pigs!
The ‘doddle’ shown here was that it only took the depth of three concrete blocks as a base for Eric Three to give us perfect water level to the millimetre.
The ‘pig’ was the special fitting seen on the right that had to be hand-fabricated in order to give us the correct angle and correct level in order to get water supply from the 6” outlet of the vortex into the 4” inlet of Eric.
The 90-degree bend in brown soil pipe is the 4” waste line taken directly to the sewer.
A clearer view of the 4” waste from Eric, the existing drain line from the vortex unit to the sewer was retained and one of the filter chamber drains has been used for the system overflow to the sewer.
Bearing in mind the new unit is 12” above the old base of the original filter there’s now less than 50% of the space being taken up by the Eric unit.
There are four EricMat blocks running this system and a quick calculation tells me that if the 48 individual sheets in question were stacked on top of one another, this would represent a block measuring 500mm x 190mm x 912mm or 20” x 7.5” x 35” only.
To compare this volume with the volume taken up by the media removed from the two boxes earlier it represents about 10%!
AND for the first time in 15 years, this Koi pond will now become a ‘proper’ Koi pond!
Waddy