Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:28 pm
Hi all,
A few pictures of the pipework/filtration and stacking box temporary filter.
The 2" bottom drain pipework can be seen entering the Vortex on the right. The outlet is via the valve pointing downwards, this outlet was added lower down than the original outlet. There is now a slotted central outlet pipe in the Vortex which will have an static K1 chamber fitted over it. Previously the Aquamax 5500 sucked air as it drew down the level in the vortex. On the left is the waste valve.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3424.JPG[/img]
You can see here that the Vortex is mounted on a platform with the pump on the floor below. This pumps up through the 60,000 btu Heat Exchanger (HX) to the showers. Blue pipe is the auto top-up, installed directly in the pond is one of those small float valves. The two white pipes (one covered in insulation) are the boiler flow and returns to the HX. On the left under the Vortex can be seen the overflow, which is then connected to the waste pipe below the waste valve.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3425.JPG[/img]
Temporary stacking box shower filter, with temporary inlet pipework. Flow is greater than shown here, as I've enlarged the spray bar holes and added more of them.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3427.JPG[/img]
View from just outside the shed door. You can see I've added a poly carb front wall extension, to try and keep the Koi 'in' the pond.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3426.JPG[/img]
Perhaps you can see in the pictures that I have a complete Poly Carb roof on this part of the shed. This allows light and heat into the shed. The pond temperature just a few minutes ago was 24 degrees and I haven't turned the boiler on yet!!!!! Just shows that the insulation I added into the build and the natural heat from daylight, really hold the heat in - free heat.
A shower tray mould will be built this weekend and then I'll churn out a few shower trays. These will be stacked 3 high and be roughly 2 feet long. I will then be able to remove the stacking boxes and put the BHM into the trays.
A few pictures of the pipework/filtration and stacking box temporary filter.
The 2" bottom drain pipework can be seen entering the Vortex on the right. The outlet is via the valve pointing downwards, this outlet was added lower down than the original outlet. There is now a slotted central outlet pipe in the Vortex which will have an static K1 chamber fitted over it. Previously the Aquamax 5500 sucked air as it drew down the level in the vortex. On the left is the waste valve.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3424.JPG[/img]
You can see here that the Vortex is mounted on a platform with the pump on the floor below. This pumps up through the 60,000 btu Heat Exchanger (HX) to the showers. Blue pipe is the auto top-up, installed directly in the pond is one of those small float valves. The two white pipes (one covered in insulation) are the boiler flow and returns to the HX. On the left under the Vortex can be seen the overflow, which is then connected to the waste pipe below the waste valve.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3425.JPG[/img]
Temporary stacking box shower filter, with temporary inlet pipework. Flow is greater than shown here, as I've enlarged the spray bar holes and added more of them.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3427.JPG[/img]
View from just outside the shed door. You can see I've added a poly carb front wall extension, to try and keep the Koi 'in' the pond.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3426.JPG[/img]
Perhaps you can see in the pictures that I have a complete Poly Carb roof on this part of the shed. This allows light and heat into the shed. The pond temperature just a few minutes ago was 24 degrees and I haven't turned the boiler on yet!!!!! Just shows that the insulation I added into the build and the natural heat from daylight, really hold the heat in - free heat.
A shower tray mould will be built this weekend and then I'll churn out a few shower trays. These will be stacked 3 high and be roughly 2 feet long. I will then be able to remove the stacking boxes and put the BHM into the trays.