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Electrical Rough-In Wiring of Earthship Tire Walls
It has been a few days since we finished our rough-in wiring, but I thought I would post about it before I forget the details. As mentioned previously we spent some time after getting our electrical...
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DC Branch Circuit Notes for the Earthship
We have always planned to use DC LED lights and some DC appliances in the earthship. I have been scratching my head a lot trying to figure out wire sizes for these branch circuits. The lower voltage...
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Laying Out Grey Water Planters and Plumbing for the Earthship
This last week has been challenging; we have been laying out the grey water planters and the bathroom walls along the south face of the earthship. The challenge has been laying out the planters and...
View ArticleA Picture Video of Our Progress
Video of Construction Progress We put together a video of our building progress sometime last year for a sustainability conference that we attended. I came across it this evening while cleaning up our...
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Greywater, Plumbing and Helpful Resources
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...
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Solar Hot Water … Don’t Make a Bomb!
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!...
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Gathering momentum
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...
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Earthship Construction Update; plaster & plumbing
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...
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Building permit cleared!
Although we didn’t get much time to celebrate, Chris and I and the kids managed to complete outstanding permit jobs to close the permit about 10 days before our workshop started. As we were gathering...
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Geek alert: The nuts and bolts of monitoring power in the earthship
Some words of warning … This project post describes what I actually did to monitor household power. It is fairly technical and I am guessing it will only be of interest to you if you are contemplating...
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