Architecture + Design: Electricity, water supply and sewerage.
Greetings friends!
My, previous post in the Architecture + Design community, I dedicated the land plot that we purchased in Moldova.
I talked about our preferences when choosing a land plot, about some aspects of its acquisition and about the pitfalls that we encountered when marking the land plot.
Before you contact the design office, you need to get a topographic plan of the site, geodetic survey with marked landmarks of the site, according to the land cadastre register.
Based on this document, engineers can start building a master plan for the site and designing a residential building.
The fact is that I wanted to determine the direction in which I should move.
There were design bureaus that asked for 2500 dollars for a house project, and there were those who offered their services for 300 green.
I hesitated and took a short pause to reflect. in fact, the whole project of the house was in my head, and I had already made the estimate, as it turned out, in consequence, very accurately.
But, without a project approved by the architecture of the municipality, I will not be able to put the house into operation.
While I was thinking, I decided not to waste time and get into communications.
In any case, I will need water on the site and electricity for all types of construction and agricultural work.
It is very difficult to bring water for irrigation and for mixing cement mortar, you need to supply water.
Along my site, along the road, there was a water supply system made of polyethylene pipes with a diameter of 50 mm.
I purchased a thermistor tee with a pressure tap, several thermistor couplings, two threaded polyethylene-steel transitions, a water meter, a filter, three ball valves and hired a polyethylene pipe welder. All my life I have been laying polyethylene pipelines, but I do not have my own thermistor apparatus for welding pipes, but this experience was useful to me that day.
The excavator, in the presence of a representative of the water supplier, broke the pipeline and I, urgently. at seven o'clock in the evening he was forced to find all the necessary materials and carry out repair work. At one o'clock in the morning we welded the last joint.
Sometimes, people do not remember, or, incorrectly make the bindings to the terrain, lay communications and as a result, the water supply, instead of a depth of 1.2 meters, ended up at a depth of 0.6 meters from the earth's surface.
Before all this, I purchased concrete rings 1 meter high and in diameter and ordered a steel lid that could be locked..
Delivery of concrete rings is not a cheap thing, and therefore, I decided to order six rings, one for the water supply and five rings for the construction of a sewer well, or, as it is also called, a cesspool.
While they were digging a five-meter hole for us, we were busy with the garden. Behind my daughter, you can see concrete rings and workers who remove soil from the bowels of the earth.
I don't know if I will become an avid gardener, but if there is land, it needs to be cultivated.
When all five concrete rings were sunk into the depths of the earth, we covered them with a concrete cover.
In the future, it will be possible to arrange an outdoor toilet here and save water in the summer.
I chose a place for a sewer well near the road and eight meters from the proposed wall of our house.
I got a little ahead of myself. We arranged the water supply after we brought electricity to the site from the pole that you see in this photograph.
As it turned out, it wasn’t cheap, we had to bring a pole and a drilling rig to the site and make a project.
There were two options, to install a single-phase and three-phase electricity meter.
I opted for the second one.
Three phases of 5 kilowatts each will help me redistribute the loads throughout the house and, if desired, in the technical room, install a three-phase machine, or a line for processing honey.
Now that the main communications were already on my site, I was calm.
I made a decision as to who and how will be engaged in the design of our house, but the designer asked for a two-week delay, he needs a cattle to complete some business.
This time was for checking my estimates, for choosing various building materials, for studying their characteristics.
Probably, initially, we treat construction and finishing materials like little children, we like everything that glitters and that is bright, but, often, this is the wrong way.
It's hard for me to say how many times I've changed the estimate and made changes. This applied to everything, the material of the walls, floors, roofs, and so on.
Until today, I think about the fence, as it turned out, it is very difficult to make such a choice, in view of the large length of the perimeter of my site, but I have to.
This is the initial, but important stage in the creation of what, in consequence, we can call the word - "architecture".
To be continued.
Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera
I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.
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Ukraine
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