Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 4

Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 4

More progress on the groundworks, preparing for the attenuation pond which is located close to the Northern boundary of the site.

Also preparation for the internal joinery work which is planned to start tomorrow, with the delivery of some timber for the door frames and the wooden-and-plasterboard partition which separates the Plant Room from the Workshop. The internal doors (or rather the 8′ x 4′ solid-core fire door blanks which will be used to create the internal doors) have been on-site for a week or more already.

Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 3

Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 3

The Utility Room and Shower Room ceilings received their plaster skim-coat, which was completed more quickly than the Workshop yesterday, with it being only about 1/4 the area.

Completed plaster skim-coat in the Utility Room

Opening all the windows slightly helped to dry the plaster despite the cool temperature, high humidity and lack of wind outdoors.

Workshop ceiling plaster skim-coat drying nicely after 24 hours

A few more bits of underground drainage pipework outside then starting to clear the site of the rainwater attenuation pond and its outfall to the field drainage ditch. A couple more lorry-loads of muck-away, which cleared all the previously-excavated spoil. Digging out the pond will generate a bit more spoil, but the edges of the pond will need building up – and will need to be level.

The start of work on the rainwater attenuation pond, which will sit between the Willow tree and the hedge