Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 4

Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 4

Installation of the shower drain which will be integrated into the wet-room floor covering.

Wet-room shower drain installed into the space left within the original concrete floor slab

Also good progress with the airtight tape around the perimeter of the plasterboard ceiling in the Workshop, helping to provide a long-lasting airtight seal preventing air leakage into the roof space. (The idea is to restrict the air movement to happen via the MVHR unit’s heat exchanger, avoiding uncontrolled leakage elsewhere within the building fabric.)

The rainwater harvesting tank was delivered mid-morning, enabling its dimensions to be checked and the hole for it (that had been started yesterday) to be completed. The hole is roughly 2.5m wide, 3m long and 1.75m deep.

Hole dug into hard clay in the Courtyard for the rainwater harvesting tank

The threshold drain channels for the Garage doors were also delivered, and some more of the spoil from the landscaping in the Courtyard was removed off-site.

The electrical team were also back on site for the first time in about 10 days, continuing their first-fix in the two-storey section at the West of the building.

Outbuildings: Week 27, Day 4

Outbuildings: Week 27, Day 4

The scaffolders returned this morning to remove the boards and poles dismantled by the builders yesterday, so now the inside of the Courtyard is free of scaffolding, ready for the installation of the windows and doors in the coming days. (The scaffolding is being retained around the ‘outside’ of the building, to preserve access to fit the ridge tiles – for which the dry-fix ridge tile retaining product choice was finally confirmed mid-afternoon).

More of the rainwater downpipes were installed – as well as the blue engineering bricks (below DPC) for the external staircase and buttresses.

The electrical installation team were also back on-site for the first time in a few days, to continue work in the Garages.