Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 4

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Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 4

The main build team are firmly in ‘finishing up’ mode, having completed the drainage works yesterday. The rainwater attenuation pond is now completed and the area to the East of that has been re-levelled and profiled into the GrassGuard blocks bounding the block-paved parking area.

Completed rainwater attenuation pond, looking East towards the inlet

Next up was starting the ramped driveway approach connecting the block-paved parking area to the driveway by the House, forming a foundation layer with relatively large-sized stones on top of a heavy landscape fabric, consolidated with a mechanical roller.

The air-to-air heat pump has now been fully commissioned and is working to heat the Workshop and Utility Room to a ‘background’ level of 18C. Some of the plumbing team were back on-site hooking up the connections to the Workshop sink and installing some of the pipe insulation.

Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 3

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Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 3

Another frosty night followed by a bright and sunny day, so still some frost visible on the Utility Room roof at noon (despite finding the loft insulation is mostly missing in there and needs to be topped-up).

Good progress on the rainwater attenuation pond:

  • Levelling out the bottom so that – if anything – water will pool at the outlet end, whereas it has been tending to pool at the inlet end
  • Installing the ‘swale inlet’ to calm the flow of water entering the pond, reducing the risk of erosion of the soil at the bottom of the pond in high-flow conditions
  • Installing the silt trap that will help prevent silt entering the pond – containing a ‘bucket’ that will need emptying periodically
  • Connecting to the upstream drainage pipework

The commissioning of the air-to-air heat pump is now mostly complete and all but one of the CCTV cameras are now operational. (The last camera will go up after the handrail for the external staircase gets installed, hopefully within the next week.)