Re-enacting history?
We got a late call last night to tell us that the drainage guys would be starting their bits and pieces soon. Very soon, in fact. Like this morning soon!
Gulp!
Once again we had to organise a few things to happen in a hurry so that we could take advantage of the new trenches that they were digging. (Last time we had just about the same amount of notice to organise ourselves to get the water pipes into the power trench in case you’d forgotten (or I didn’t write about it at the time…))
This time we’re piggybacking on the drainage trenches to run one of the water pipes down past the house so we can use it for any irrigation for the back half of the land.
So the place is starting to look like we’re trying to re-enact some sort of battle from WW1!
Pity the plumber didn’t turn up when they were supposed to though so we could finish it all off today. We need them to shorten the pipe that provides water to the house so we can use the leftover bit to extend the other water pipe past the house (along with another couple of bits of pipe we have lying around).
It turns out it’s cheaper for us to buy lots of joiners to join all these little bits of pipe together than it is to buy a new longer length of pipe, as you can only buy that pipe in 50 meter plus lengths. That might be a bit more than we need right now.
Looks like we’ll have to go out again tomorrow to have all that joining up fun and games. Expect a report then unless we drown in the process!
Have to say that once again the guys out there have been fantastic so far in allowing and assisting us to make the most of their trenching. I still believe that if we tried to do anything like this in the UK we’d be told to dig a new trench instead.