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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 1

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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 1

The usual build team were back on site today and they:

  • Fitted the vehicle-grade grid covers on the threshold drains for the Garages
  • Finished off the plasterboard on the wooden partition wall that separates the Plant Room from the Workshop; this now just needs a skim-coat of plaster on both sides
  • Fitted the three loft access hatches – which highlighted that there’s a bit of remedial plasterwork required around those
  • Investigated a soft spot on one of the stone pathways in the Courtyard, which turned out to be hiding a broken foul drainage pipe which must have been damaged when using the digger and dumper in the Courtyard to level the area and spread the stone to form the pathways
    • This raises the question of whether any more of that foul drainage pipe – or any of the stormwater drainage pipes – have been similarly damaged
  • Started work on fitting the threshold drains to the doors around the Courtyard, which are a different design from the ones for the Garages (they only need to handle pedestrian traffic) and a much slimmer section, using smaller-diameter pipe fittings – although these need to connect to the 100mm drain ‘stubs’ installed previously

Outbuildings: Week 34, Day 5

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Outbuildings: Week 34, Day 5

Close to zero progress on the Groundworks, after concluding the precast concrete headwall delivered yesterday – with a much larger pipe aperture and protective grating than specified – can’t be used, so needs to be replaced.

The team from Carbon Legacy were back on site to complete the installation of the Tesla PowerWall 3 system, which was finished by lunchtime. All of that seems to be working well – including the 90m Current Transformer clamp connection back to the House, to let the PowerWall monitor the generation from the existing AC-connected solar PV system – and the temporary hook-up of a wired network connection for the PowerWall (which happily connected at 1Gbit/s).

For now the PowerWall monitoring is purely a ‘real time’ display via the Tesla smartphone App; I need to investigate the options for API access and integration into Home Assistant.

The outdoor unit for the air-to-air heat pump was due to be delivered today, but that will now arrive tomorrow. The team from Chellaston Renewables dropped off the three indoor units which they had previously collected from the distributor, ready for installation to start over the weekend.