When I started healing from my strained back we invited the excavator back to do the work we halted a couple of weeks earlier. I offered guidance, Iulia did the work!
We started working on a water line. There was already a second pipe (the first being the one that feeds into the house) coming out of our water infrastructure. We decided to extend it and attempt to bring it into the summer kitchen (I felt this was the best time to try this, before burying the electric power cable). We excavated parallel to the existing water line to avoid injuring the working pipe:
Iulia promptly continued with some manual digging around the existing pipe, to loosen the soil around it enough to bury it in full depth (~80cm deep):
While Iulia was doing that Florin created the channel from right up against the house until we had a full path:
We then patched the existing pipe to a new segment, placed it in the ground and very quickly the excavation was closed off (except for the part near the structure where we would need to manually dig to get the pipe inside):
We then moved on to burying a new main electric cable (more on that project as it unfolds). This is a fairly massive armored cable (4 lines of 16sqmm aluminum wires). We started by excavating a channel between the house and
Then we began to dig the line out and away from the house:
… and around the summer kitchen. The cable is buried ~50cm deep, so it crosses over the water pipe:
We then moved our attention to the other end of this cable, to where a new electric post would be installed. We first transplanted a plant that was occupying the location of the new post:
We then continued the ditch to the post location:
Then we came to the hole for the post itself:
then the cable went in:
… and once again everything was quickly buried again:
This kind of infrastructure work doesn’t leave much of a trace … the materials and work simply get swallowed and converted into potential value!
… this was completed ~3 weeks ago … to be continued 🙂