The driveway has been restored and strengthened, so hopefully it will not wash out again at the next flood.
These two culvert pipes will be finished with concrete, so the water should flow under the driveway instead of flushing it.
The driveway looks nice again.
It’s official; it’s a cover up. That is to say that the septic installation is covered up leaving just the power connection and 3 stages lids visible.
Not sure if the white thingy in the picture below is a spray head or an air outlet, but we will see.
The contractor informed me that it got inspected and approved also, so I should be good to go. Literally… 😉
See the little pinkish puck on the picture below? That’s one of the spray heads, that during the night, after purification, spray the excess water onto the land.
Please allow me to introduce myself; I’m septic not to be confused with sceptic,
although with the amount of time has made me a little sceptic.
Comal county clerks were giving me a hard time and demanded some changes to the original septic design.
But after many many many months, finally some construction action; today the septic tank is going in.
This water purification factory has three stages of filtering, from crap in to almost drinkable water out,
although I would not want to drink it myself 😉
Drought has been a big issue in Texas for many year. But not so much lately; since I purchased the lot there have been two once in a 100 years rains,
that had a devastating effect. The first one washed away hundreds of houses along the nearby river and even took 6 lives in Wimberley.
A few weeks ago, a second flash flood hit the area, and this one had less dramatic consequences, but very noticeable on my lot;
The above picture shows the driveway before the flood. Notice the two culvert pipes sticking out to the left of the car.
This is a picture taken yesterday. the base covering the culvert pipes has washed away completely, leaving the exposed pipes.
Luckily the Culvert pipe down at the roadside did do it’s work; there no base was lost.
Although it was planned and requested to have concrete on both sides of both culvert points, to guide the water into the pipes and protect the base,
this sadly never happened. I did ask. Many times even. But the guy doing the driveway has gone of the radar. possible because he noticed the rain had already washed away much base… It’s not easy managing things remotely.
Today I received a picture of the finished driveway; from now on It’s possible to drive a car up to nothing.
Well, actually you can see a few stakes indicating the corners of what will be the house
Today I received the planned septic layout plan, that will encompass three spray heads uphill.
The water supply is coming from the far left side of my lot (seen from Appaloosa drive)
as indicated with the blue line. The three magenta half circles are the outlets where the spray heads will
spray purified water from the septic tank indicated by the smaller white rectangle.
Yesterday the construction of the driveway started. Armed with a chainsaw and bobcat, Gene made the rough driveway ready for the culvert pipes and base on top.
Today I took my pano gadget and took this little panorama, with a 360 view from about the middle of the extension.
The actual view from the front of the lower and upper deck would be better, as that is raised 6 and 14 feet.
View the panorama
Today Paulette & Bob helped me to find a cool front door for the log home in Johnson City at “Pieces of the Past“.
Rather than buying a new door, I purchased a door made from salvaged wood, a nice solid door that should fit nicely in the log home.
So even though I have nothing there yet, at least I have a door to nowhere.
To make it more authentic, I also got a used handle and string hinges, as the door is very solid.
As a contrast I will add a high tech lock that will allow me to remotely set codes to open it.
Finally we saw some really cool stuff that would look great inside;
These saloon doors could be in front of the hallway leading to the bathroom and bedroom in the extension in the back.
In the open kitchen in the great room, this bar and stool might look really nice too.
Today I staked the building site; that means I put in stakes (sticks of wood) on the lot at the corners of all parts of the structure.
The front foremost four stakes will be the location of the deck (24′ x 10′ or 8 x 3 meters if you prefer metric).
Behind that is the main log structure that is shown on the first shots post, with a size of 24 x 20′ (8 by almost 7 meters)
Again behind that is the addition, adding 15′ to the Log structure built with timber frame instead of logs.
With a 200 ft measuring tape the corner point was measured from the lower left stake of the survey I had done earlier.
I also cleared most of the cedar bushes and smaller trees, so now you can get a good idea of the size of the structure.
Some stakes I could not drive into the ground further than a few inches before I hit solid rock.
The Log home will be getting shade on the south side from 2 live oak trees. These are already sizeable, but will grow fast once the cedar bushes around them are cleared; those cedar trees almost take as much water as the live oak, although the oak is three times taller.
From the lower deck, the view should be somewhat like this, but then about 40′ closer, so just overlooking the trees in the front;
From the upper deck, you will certainly look out over all trees and see the meadow and hills in the distance.