Thanks to Dan and the crew at Centre State Drilling we have a 60Lpm bore! If you need a bore and you’re in Vic we reckon Dan is the man and we don’t recommend people lightly.
An eerie day at Langi Billin
This was what is was like the whole day today. 10 Km up the road it was brilliant sunshine!
So we have a 10,000L fire tank now next to the shed and we’ve begun lining out and insulating the kitchen side of the shed- with lots of help! The shed already has a composite EPS and foil insulation on the walls and roof that should provide about R1.2 on it’s own. However we are intending to be spending quite a bit of time in the commercial kitchen so we’ve added R2.5 Rockwool and lined the walls with Hardiboard which we will tile over.
Bushfires and water tanks
Obviously, planning for bushfire is the sensible thing to do. Our land was burnt out in the Black Saturday fires, and we’re very well aware of the risks of living in the bush. There are things you can do to mitigate that risk; some of those things are yours to do by choice, but others are now mandated, either by Council or by the Building Code of Australia. We’ll address some of those things in future posts, but today has been all about the water tanks. Continue reading “Bushfires and water tanks”