Container Home: Finishing Up the Earth Tube Cooling System - 25 October 2015

A lot was accomplished this last weekend. I finished connecting the culvert piping. I used cement for the large gaps and then covered that will aluminum tape. Finally, I cut small portions of the piping and put over the aluminum tape so that weight of the ground would be distributed...

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Container Home: Telephone Pole Installation - 18 October 2015

This weekend, we got the telephone pole installed. Since there will be no electric utility hookup, I had to install my own pole, or pay roughly $2,000 to have one installed. Luckily, my neighbor had a pole laying around and brought it down and gave it to me. He also helped...

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Container Home: Earth Tube Cooling Installation - 11 October 2015

This weekend, I started on the earth tube cooling system. I purchased 12 inch culverts. There is 85 feet for the air to travel through and cool down. We dug it 6 feet down.  Here is a pic of starting the dig. Here is after the first trench was dug and we initially...

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Container Home: Coal Tar Epoxy Application - 07 October 2015

I took the past two weekdays off of work to come over and work on applying the coal tar epoxy to the end of the container where the geothermal cooling pipes will be run out of. The wall had to first be completely free of all rust. I did this by using a wire brush on my angle grinder....

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Container Home: Installing First Window - 04 October 2015

This is the second weekend in a row in which it has rained, thereby leaving me unable to apply the coal tar epoxy to the exterior wall. In order to continue with the build, I decided to go ahead and install the first window. I took my time doing this because of several reasons....

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