Posted by Sandra in Community, Earthship on 25. Dec, 2012 | 8 Comments
We’ve just spent our first night as a family in the earthship a few nights ago. It has been a crazy, exhausting eight months as we made our final push to get moved in.
We are getting cozy.
We aren’t finished yet; far from it. But we have all the amenities to keep ourselves warm and … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Earthship, Plumbing on 14. Aug, 2012 | 1 Comment
You bet we are! We’ve made some fabulous progress on the earthship. If you have liked our FB page, The Darfield Earthship, you will have seen our latest pictures and updates. Base plaster coat is now on the tires and a five-day work party helped to accomplish this. We submitted and had our plumbing plan approved … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Earthship, Energy Solutions, Graywater, Plumbing, Wood gasification on 23. Jun, 2012 | 7 Comments
I’ve done a lot of reading lately as I layout the plumbing for our home.
The funniest statement I read became the title of this post … let’s try not to kill ourselves while building our dream home!
Before I dive into the solar heated water I want to back up a bit … what I have … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Earthship, Graywater, Plumbing on 16. Jun, 2012 | 0 Comments
I’ve been designing the plumbing and grey water for our earthship over the last week … so I have been doing a lot of reading.
A few things have caught my attention during this process.
First, more recently written books in this space (green building, grey water design) are much more detailed than a couple of years … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Community, Earthship on 04. May, 2012 | 0 Comments
We’ve both been ignoring the blog for a while. Every free moment for the last few weeks has been dedicated to wall packout. We are currently on the fourth of five rooms and hope to be done this layer in a few days (we are on our third layer of packout). We do have to complete a … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Plans, Plumbing, Tires on 24. Sep, 2012 | 3 Comments
This post is an attempt to catch up with the technical details of our earthship construction activities of this summer … so bear with me as I will be touching on a number of different areas …
I wrote this post about a month ago but just got around to adding pictures and drawings today … … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Earthship on 13. Apr, 2012 | 2 Comments
I’ve been questioning a lot of things about Facebook lately, but I’ll admit it’s responsible for me finding a wonderful little store on Main Street in Vancouver called The Soap Dispensary.
Jenny and Grant from The Clean Bin Project posted it on their Facebook page and from there I made my way all the way to … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Wood gasification, WVO vehicle on 10. Apr, 2012 | No Comments
On Thursday evening we finally got the van running again. We put the engine back in and carefully retraced the steps that we had religiously recorded while removing the engine. When we were ready to try and turn the engine over, I took one last look under the hood and saw an electrical connection that hadn’t been rejoined. … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Earthship on 31. Mar, 2012 | No Comments
If you’ve landed here recently without benefit of Facebook re-routing, you probably went “gack?” when you saw Chris post about taking the Delica apart to release the engine.
We (I) tend to post more to Facebook these days…life is busy and Facebook is usually the quickest way to get information out there.
A bit of background for … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 30. Mar, 2012 | No Comments
Actually started to dismantle the engine today.
I recorded all of these steps as I was doing the work … I want something that tells me where everything goes back.
Started by pulling following items out of the engine bay:
Battery,
intercooler with hoses and clamps,
air filter with hose and clamp,
Took following off of front of van:
bull board (3 … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Earthship, Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 30. Mar, 2012 | No Comments
Spent the day on wednesday trying to figure out how to pull the engine. This is pretty technical … I am recording it more so that I have a plan on how to proceed with pulling the engine out of the van than with the expectation that anybody will read this … unless you’ve seized … Read More →
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