LAST PREPARATIONS ...

Soon we'll have around 20 people coming for the Permaculture design course and we still have some last preparations to be done...But so far it's all going well... we finally have hot water coming out of the solar water heater, but I'm still making sure every junction is well sealed ... here's the picture of the final look of the soalr heater, but you can see the last details ...





the box finally finished and the inlet and outlet pipes in place...

making the edges with lime for the glass to lay on...and putting a wooden structure all around every edge...

checking how the drum would fit inside and making a wooden structure for it...

And finally ... putting the insulation , fitting the drum, making the last pipe connections , and at last laying the glass on top, sealed with silicone... we just tried it out to check if there were any leaks inside before sealing...and for our amazement, the water does get pretty hot :-) Yiiipyyy...warm showers from now on... it was a lot of work and I could learn and experience working with different materials and tools...but it was fun and definitely rewarding !!!
Now I just need to plaster it well with lime... and I have to finish the last connections to the shower place ...

speaking about it, here it is... it has been a hard and creative work of joe who is visiting us from Germany...he's leaving today, and it was an angel coming on the right time... Thanks Joe!!!

here he is , around with the lime and sand :-)

digging, digging, digging... in order to bury the pipes from the solar heater and cold water drum into the shower and bath place...

Lyna is working on the creative details which make the place more pleasant...

all the walls from the bath and shower place are made with recycled pallets... which gives lots of room for creativity in order to make it look a bit nicer :-) ... it's becoming really beautiful and cute I have to say...

And that's all...we still have a long and hard working week ahead before the course as we need a big shelter for it... I got a 10x8 meters tarp, and that would make a pretty big shelter... so, we need to go cut some mimosa trees for the structure...
But I believe it will all be fine... can't wait for next week !!!

And here's Muxima enjoying her restful sunday morning... I couldn't help but take this picture :-)

Ok, now I go for a nice warm bath :-)