More progress on the groundworks, preparing for the attenuation pond which is located close to the Northern boundary of the site.
General location of the attenuation pond; cat for scale 😉Eastern end of the attenuation pond being formed to the target depth
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.
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.
