Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 1

Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 1

More work on the rainwater drainage, picking up the previously-installed drainage pipework to the East and North of the buildings (which doesn’t drain to the rainwater tank) with new pipework from an inspection chamber near the house and through a further chamber, towards the location of the attenuation pond.

The Rainwater drainage has now been taken as far as the (temporary) vertical board, via the inspection chamber in the middle of the photo

Also some preparation for the plaster skim to be applied to the plasterboard ceiling (hopefully tomorrow) with the delivery of a few bags of skimming plaster and some scrim tape.

Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 1

Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 1

Installation of the Aco threshold drain channels at the four Garage Door openings, connecting to the underground pipework installed previously – together with some more preparation of the foundation for the block paving (including the delivery of a further lorry-load of stone).

Aco Threshold drain channels at each of the Garage Door openings

Note there’s a gap between the Aco channels and the concrete floor slab, where there was previously a row of blue engineering bricks – with large vertical holes – which acted as the ‘shuttering’ for the concrete floor slab. The roller shutter Garage Doors will sit behind the brickwork openings and it seems better to have more concrete in that gap, rather than some of the block paving.

There was also further work in the Courtyard, back-filling around the rainwater harvesting tank enabling the adjacent drains to be connected up and taken further to the West.

Rainwater harvesting tank now back-filled with pea shingle and connected to the incoming rainwater pipe (running diagonally) – with the pipe from the Courtyard’s doorway threshold drains visible on the right.

The first eight of the reconstituted stone steps for the external staircase were also delivered, ready for those to start being installed.

Following the delivery of a further 50m of 75mm-diameter ventilation ducting on Friday, the three ‘Extract’ vents were connected up to their above-ceiling plenum chamber, enabling the installation of the remainder of the loft insulation to proceed (once some further insulation is delivered).