Seraf's Blog

We are a week after the disaster, fortunately, we had only little rain, nothing that evaporation can't compensate. We had a  really bad weather all the week, it's always raining, the earth is mud, but... I need to finish this to avoid another flood during my holidays. So, I did

Oooops, I forgot something when I did my electricity ... I used the same power cable to power up everything. So, I did a paper schema of my plumbing + electricity and come to the conclusion, that it would be better to have a dedicated cable on each one, that would me

Nooooo please noOOOOO It happened, we had a storm, thunder, in less than 10 mins, the pond has been filled up, and worse, the ground around too... And what's around ? Earth. All the dirty water went into the pond ... Hopefuly, I have no fishes yet. So let's take some lessons

To add some plants in the pond, I went with a Laguna. Instead of using rich earth (what people are usually doing), I'm using Pouzzolane. It's also called lava stone. The great benefit of it, is that it's poor and can host a lot of bacterias. So I used some

It's all green. A frog decided to make my pond its home, that's really cool, I love having life in my garden. I went to a pond shop and discussed a bit with a guy that told me my filtration + UV power was not powerful enough for my pond. I

Water leaks everywhere. Do you remember the plumbing I did previously in the manhole ? Well, leaks leaks and leaks. I guess it's the mix between PVC and the brass ... I changed few things on it, and I'm finally happy, after a week of changes on every part, I finally succeeded

Now my dashboard is well integrated in my garage. It gets a 220V power on the 5V and 12V converter, and at the bottom, I put a pipeline for the RJ45. It all looks good !

It's hard to find some time to work on this project as it's dependent on the weather, but also free time ... Anyway, I managed to do the plumbing in the manhole. I didn't tested with water yet, as I have a water leak in my garage just after the master

I bought a manhole to put some plumbing and electro-valves here.. It will be the first manhole as the water is arriving from the blue pipeline. In the gray cable, I have RJ45 cable, that I will use to power the valves with 12V.

The weather is really bad. Sun, rain, sun, rain, hard to find a window to work in the garden with the right conditions. And worse, the ground is wet making things complicated, having a lot of mud. Anyway, I managed to prepare the filtration. The pump is sending the water

It's now taking shape ! After some physical work, I was (thanks to my wife who helped me) able to set up the tarpaulin (>70kg). There was a lot of sun, and as I was working, there was some dust on the photo sensor, that explains the poor quality.

The pond start to have a good shape. I will soon have to level it correctly. For this, as I will have to move the earth and the ground is above my terrace, I have to contains the earth. Here we go, I "recruited" my son to help me digging

To have some plants in the pond, I wanted to put some earth. But the problem is with the step, there are a lot of chance that it slips/fall down to the deep. So, the goal was to make a cuve. So I built a wall that will allow

We enter the 3rd day. Totally broken, exhausted, but show must go on. Today, I wanted to build the mini-wall but I had bad weather, so I digged instead. I received the tarpaulin 6x11m. I finished to dig the pond as I wanted, so I have all the steps needed,

Pfiouuuu... Starting to have backpain. After a lot of efforts, I managed to pass my phone cable (to pilot electrovalves) and all the stuff, around the pond. Things are progressing, slower than I planned, but still progressing. Tomorrow, I will receive the tarpaulin, 100kg, more backpain planned. I started to

Ready... go ! During the morning, I went to LeroyMerlin to buy some stuff for plumbering and some tools to dig (just broke my pickaxe). Thanks to my awesome dad (we have an awesome family always available to help), I finally have some water in the garden. I know that's not