Balsa day 6

Balsa ready for PE liner.

Trench for the 6cm tube to the pool and garden.

And, another tube broken.

*blub*

Quickly repaired.

But, the very last moment our Galasa drinking water conduit was pulled by the digger. And that is a drag, because that conduit is connected to a connector under our (new) terrace. The water tube was surrounded by another tube for extra protection. But, alas, that is not such a great idea. When such a conduit is dug up such a tube does not break,
but instead is torn from it's connector. If you put a single tube in the ground it simply breaks when dug up, and is easily repaired.

Here the tube was torn from it's connector, which is located 50 cm within the terrace border. A terrace that was finished today, and was pressure cleaned just a few hours ago, because it was finally finished.

So, just a few hours later a piece of concrete and two tiles were sawn out of the terrace to reconnect the tube to the connector. It was very very kind they did that on a late Friday evening, without complaining,
because we cannot be without water right now. We need to keep the pool wet, else the gresites fall off.

Balsa dag 4 of 5 // Balsa day 4 or 5

Balsa day 3

Capped pipe. With a block of concrete against the cap, should there be pressure on it for some reason..

Where that pipe leads to or from is unknown, but it is thought now that it is the pipe for bringing water to Vera. And that is no longer there, because the aqueduct collapsed a few years ago:

That aqueduct is the continuation of the water tunnel that supplied the mill under our house. That same tunnel continues to vera, where there was another mill, and fields to irrigate.

Bend in the tube to our balsa, with a block of concrete to keep it nicely in place.

Balsa 2

hmm.

Ik hoop dat de buren...

// Hopefully the neighbours won't mind.

Balsa

Today they start work on our "balsa", as they call a water reservoir for irrigation water, or "agua riega". We have rights for agua riega. That is necessary for the garden, but especially for the swimming pool. Drinking water is expensive here, and it is not allowed to fille a 61m ³ pool with drinking water. You may get a fine. Of 3000 €, they say. The balsa is urgent, because when the pool is ready and the gresites are stuck on, the pool must be filled within a day or two, otherwise the gresites will fall off, and everyone is very sad.

There is some discussion about the location of the agua riega conduits (big pipes of 30cm diameter), which have been built a long time ago. Today everyone has forgotten where they are, exactly. Gabriël, the local waterman says A, but the neighbor says B. Hopefully the tubes are not exactly in place of our balsa. If they are, it will be noticed, and the tube must be redirected, and it will be a little more expensive for us. (A few hundred euros.)

And we begin.

Nice.

Oops.

Hm.

The experts.