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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 1

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Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 1

The main build team were on site all day sorting out a few of the smaller groundworks tasks:

  • Finishing the installation of the last of the Marshalls GrassGuard blocks around the perimeter of the block-paved parking area
    • There’s around 2/3 of a pack left over but those will be saved for future use
  • Filling in the holes excavated to access the water mains and electrical ducts
  • Clearing a trench around the foul drainage pipe that runs under what-will-be the vehicle access to the parking area, so that can be encased in concrete to maintain its level even with traffic passing relatively closely over the top of it
Completed block-paved parking area with its GrassGuard block perimeter / buffer area which then transitions to topsoil that will grow grass

The right-sized replacement concrete headwall was allegedly due for delivery today but is now said to be coming tomorrow.