The Quarky Engineer

Wall construction is also almost complete. All we need now are the cap blocks. 100 blocks in total, 400,000 lbs.

ATS Septic tank installation time. There are two tanks in an ATS system before the drain field.

I’ll be pulling wire this weekend, 9am-5pm Saturday and Sunday. If anyone wants to come by and check things out and lend a hand, drop me a msg and I’ll give ya directions! It looks to be a nice weekend here in Portland!

With the car week behind us, it is time to get back to the new house build. The excavator crew are back at work building the retaining wall that we need along one side of the house. The natural terrain falls off pretty fast there, so the geotech engineered a wall structure. It uses 80 of these 4000 lbs concrete ‘lego’ blocks that interlock, and each layer has this cool geogrid metal fabric that extends under the driveway to provide slip support. This brings us up to almost 2.4 million pounds of concrete total in construction so far.

We also have all 10 electrical panels installed with the large conductors mostly complete. Circuit termination can really get going now. I need to get working on the transfer switch configuration, and get the 16kw UPS on order.

Lots to do in the coming months… time to get cracking!

It would seem odd to really need a lambo as a camera car… but I suppose if you have one why not!