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Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 3

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Outbuildings: Week 38, Day 3

Another frosty night followed by a bright and sunny day, so still some frost visible on the Utility Room roof at noon (despite finding the loft insulation is mostly missing in there and needs to be topped-up).

Good progress on the rainwater attenuation pond:

  • Levelling out the bottom so that – if anything – water will pool at the outlet end, whereas it has been tending to pool at the inlet end
  • Installing the ‘swale inlet’ to calm the flow of water entering the pond, reducing the risk of erosion of the soil at the bottom of the pond in high-flow conditions
  • Installing the silt trap that will help prevent silt entering the pond – containing a ‘bucket’ that will need emptying periodically
  • Connecting to the upstream drainage pipework

The commissioning of the air-to-air heat pump is now mostly complete and all but one of the CCTV cameras are now operational. (The last camera will go up after the handrail for the external staircase gets installed, hopefully within the next week.)

Outbuildings: Week 37, Day 4

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Outbuildings: Week 37, Day 4

The floor covering team were back on-site, since they’re happy the self-levelling screed they laid on Monday has dried out enough for further work to proceed. They spent the day tidying up a few areas that weren’t as smooth as they’d like and fitted the ‘coved’ skirting and the capping strip that will cover the top of the vinyl. The weather has turned cold so it’s needing some heating in the Utility Room to make the flooring sheet pliable enough to lay and form up at the edges – ideally it wants to be 18C.

The plumber was back on site too, with the priority for them being the underground mains connections into the new building and removing some redundant underground pipe loops dating back to the House build. While those had been isolated via underground stop taps, it seemed unwise to trust those long-term, so the tee fittings were replaced with straight couplers. There’s just one more loop to remove tomorrow, once the hole dries out a bit more. Then two deep holes that have been open for a few weeks can be filled in.

There was also more progress on the GrassGuard perimeter to the block-paved parking area, which is starting to look much closer to being finished.

Ongoing progress on the Marshalls GrassGuard perimeter around the block-paved area

A larger digger and a dumper truck were also delivered in preparation for the arrival of the replacement concrete headwall, which is due tomorrow.