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15 May ’16
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So, I am starting, and documenting, a long process of attempting to start a fully modernized homestead from scratch. Only the seeds and livestock will be imported to the land.
Well, I have come across an issue in my house planning and was hoping someone here could help me.
I need to develop piping for water lines and sewage for the house. If I had iron, or copper, or some other type of metal available to be mined, I would use that, but I do not. So, I am trying to decide what type of piping I should use.
The best type of piping I have come up with is clay pipes. Vitrified clay is very strong, but I have no easily accessible shale. I was thinking of kiln-firing clay mixed with a bit of wood ash and see how that turns out.
Does anyone here have a better idea? Thanks for any and all help.
15 Feb ’12
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Welcome @bootstrapper687 , sounds like a heck of a project! When you say everything from scratch do you mean heating, cooking, etc as well?
15 May ’16
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Indeed. In the case that I cannot find ANY metal on the property, I will get some from a scrapyard and melt it down for wiring.
15 May ’16
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Well, further research has yielded some fantastic results. Apparently, soil contains a not-insignificant amount of iron in it across most of the world. You can actually mix soil with charcoal in a blast furnace and get a bloom of pig iron to make iron piping. So, there it is, answered after just 6 more hours of research!
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