Retaining walls - progress at last

Well, over the last week we have had some progress with the retaining walls.

Our landscaper has been here almost every day, digging the side footings by hand as he was unable to get his excavator down there.

It is starting to take shape now!

From back of house looking towards the front.

Drainage pits and connection for the agg pipe

Looking back from the front towards the back

Reo!

Yep, the footings are actually a path!

Digging the front footings

Basse course and return for the steps

More pipe. Another connection for agg pipe

Beer fridge project

Before we moved, we had a fully fledged beer fridge with 3 taps and the capacity to hold 5 kegs. It was an old fridge, so we decided to get rid of it(keeping the old parts), and when we move into the new place, use our existing 'house fridge' as the beer fridge. As it was newer it should be more economical. Then we would buy a new fridge for the new house.

So, as we have the new fridge, I began work on the old one, using the parts I kept.

Did not get a lot done today but it is a start! The taps are in! All that is really left, is to pipe the CO2 line through the side of the fridge and install the drip tray.

Here is the result of today's work.

Only 2 taps now, but the fridge will hold 3 kegs inside, so we have one 'cold spare'

Desperately awaiting a drip tray.

The internals.

So that is all for now. I don't actually have a half inch drill bit for the gas line grommet, so I will source one over the week and get the remaining bits for the drip tray. Hopefully this time next week it will be complete. The beer that is fermenting on the table will be about 2 weeks before it needs a keg and CO2, so I need to finish by then!

Engineering plans and first brew!

Finally, we have received the engineering plans for the retaining walls. I have contacted our landscaper who says he can start in approx a week and a half.

In the mean time we have had a lot of rain and it has been washing a lot of dirt on to the back path.

What is happening here, is when they installed the path, they simply threw the mud up on to the embankment. Now, when it rains, it washes it back down.

And then I cleaned...

Also putt he first brew on. Still have not finished building the fridge however. When we moved to our rental, I did away with the old beer fridge but kept all the pieces to convert our main fridge as we always planned on getting a new one for the house.

Double choc stout brewing, Kegs at the ready, taps and drip tray awaiting install! If Bunning's have a decent hole saw I might get on to that today