Oh the silly little ironies, right? Gnome just finished the plumbing…the sink, washing machine and the bathing area…and now what?? The pressure tank has stopped working. It is filling up but there is no pressure so it looks like there is probably a leak in the bladder. Here in Belize, I have not seen any pressure tank bladders for sale so it looks like a brand new tank has to be bought. The one that we have was not cheap and it is only about two years old.
Well, anyway, we’ve been working through our list of projects quite diligently and the new water tower was not scheduled until late next year. So Gnome said that the best thing to do was to turn this unfortunate incident into a fortunate opportunity to begin water tower construction early. He said that if Munchkin could whine sufficiently enough about hauling buckets of water into the house, he could probably get the water tower up in record time. And so begins the complaining and the whining…it’s for a worthy cause, right? 🙂
It is going to be a big project and no mean feat for a Gnome to accomplish. Water will still be collected in our tanks which are close to the ground…a solar pump would be used to pump water up to a single tank placed on a water tower. The water tower will have to be high enough (Gnome says about 30 feet (10 metres)) to give pressure to the water as it cycles back down into the plumbing system of the house. This new system is a step in our direction of independence as we will harness energy from sun and gravity rather than relying (and paying) for electricity. Okay, let’s see what happens…
We will try and turn this into something good…
