{"id":948,"date":"2010-10-05T19:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:33:16","slug":"today-it-was-basically-all-about-trenches-and-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Today, it was basically all about trenches and pipe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bigtrench1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bigtrench1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A bloody big trench!\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve chosen to build a bit away from the boundary, we&#8217;ve known we&#8217;ve needed to get power and phone from the fence to the house. Today was that day! As a bonus we were able to organise to get the water pipes in the same trench from the pump-shed to the house as well. That saved us another huge trenching job. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>We did have to help chuck the pipes in the hole though. Felt good to actually do something ourselves that&#8217;s a vital bit of the whole house building thing. I just hope we&#8217;ve done it right! I assume we&#8217;ll know when we turn the tap on and no water comes out. <\/p>\n<p>Only one small drama when we found a massive kink in the pipe and had to get the irrigation guys to pop out and add a join for us last minute. Which they did. They&#8217;ve been fantastic so far, as has everybody we&#8217;ve dealt with so far. Really fantastic! Hope that continues. I&#8217;m sure it will.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: Concrete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve chosen to build a bit away from the boundary, we&#8217;ve known we&#8217;ve needed to get power and phone from the fence to the house. Today was that day! As a bonus we were able to organise to get the water pipes in the same trench from the pump-shed to the house as well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}