{"id":801,"date":"2010-07-15T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=801"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:44:39","slug":"after-about-almost-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 15th July 2010 – After about almost a year …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… of waiting to fix that downpipe on the side of the house and it being in position for just a couple of weeks, I took it down today.<\/p>\n

There were two reasons for that –
\u00a0firstly – all of the rainwater from the house and the lean-to are just running off down the lane and turning the place into a quagmire
\u00a0secondly – the water situation is starting to become a little tight- I reckon I have about 150 litres or so left.
And when it rains, the 6.5 sq.m of verandah roof doesn’t catch all that much – 100 litres of water is about 15mm of rain. But add to that the footprint of the lean-to – 5m x 1.8m, or 9 sq.m, then the 100 litres of water becomes 6mm of rain. And then add that to the side of the house roof – with its footprint of 5.3m x 3.5m or just over 18.5 sq m then the 100 litres of water becomes just under 3mm of rain.<\/p>\n

\"guttering<\/a>Sitting here the other day watching the rain filling up that water butt by the barn with all of the water off the barn roof has given me some new ideas which I put into action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What I did was to rip off all of the guttering on the lean-to and to replace it so that it slopes to the right rather than the left. The guttering now captures all of the water off the lean-to and now I can replenish my water supply more quickly – always of course assuming that it’s ever going to rain again.
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This morning though I removed all of the wood from off the old vegetable patch at the side of the barn – all that we ripped off the one side of the roof. 3 of the beams are useless and will have to be cut up for firewood but of the others some of the wood can be salvaged and I might start shortly on the greenhouse, using the old beams as a frame. <\/p>\n

\"weeding<\/a>While I was at it, and with the old vegetable patch now being clear of wood, I set to work on that with a vengeance. <\/p>\n

I spent a pleasant hour or two pulling out all of the weeds that were growing over the stone wall and now you can actually see it, for the first time since I don’t know when. This place is starting to tidy itself up a bit and that’s a pleasant change.
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The automatic electric water heater is working too. It ran for almost three hours today and I put a thermometer in to see what the temperature was doing. 37\u00b0C the water reached in that time so not much danger of the sytem melting down, although if I make a sealed circuit with a smaller tank I shall either fit a thermal cut-out of have an expansion tank of some description. But it’s still impressive all the same.<\/p>\n

Ironically the water in the solar water heater reached a lovely 44\u00b0C this evening and so I had a nice steamy shower.<\/p>\n

What with one thing and another things are starting to get quite luxurious around here!<\/p>\n

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