Work on drain system

To keep pests out of the BH, a drain system around the building is underway on Dec 28.

Walls are up

All walls are are being built up aroung the building. Roof is also starting to take form.

Gadgets hunted

Air Pump used in aquarium is hunted for my BH. Airline tubing and bubble air stones are also incorporated into it as parts and parcel. They are used in water tank inside the BH to increase water circulation and surface area for better gas exchange. If you've already bred fish in your water tank inside your BH, then your fish will definitely love you for that and I am sure my birds will like it as much as the fish in the tank!




My temperature and humidity data logger for BH has finally landed. Mind you this will be my first-ever using this precision instrument to check BH's temperature and humidity in greater detail. Hopefully, it will serve the same purpose in my yet-to-be completed standalone BH which I think it is very much needed to monitor continuously compared to the former. For standalone or inbetween BH alike, the temperature and humidity fluctuate in different variations and moderate fluctuation of it is favoured throughout the day and night. Because if temperature fluctuates too much, then birds find difficulty to hatch the eggs, and chicks are not regularly reproduce as wish. As a result, population growth of swiflets is to be affected in the long run.

Work on roof slab continued...

Reinforced concrete is unloaded on Dec 2. Prior to this, 3/4" high density EPS insulation sheets(Styrofoam) of size 4'x8' are laid flat on the roof slab after the foamwork of single brick is laid out around slab perimeters. Thereafter, 2" BRC mesh laid on top of all EPS sheets and secured before reinforced concrete is poured into it. To complete the process, drain holes around all perimeters or slab slope away from the building are ensured to avoid water captured and leaked through slab.