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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 2

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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 2

Better weather than had been forecast – windy but dry – enabling all the threshold drains around the Courtyard to be installed. The Garage doors need to have level thresholds so it’s essential for those to have drains to prevent water seeping under the roller shutters, but around the Courtyard there will be a step up to all the doors, of two brick courses, so the drains aren’t strictly necessary – but they could be raised if any of the doors need level access in the future.

Threshold drain under one of the narrow pedestrian doors
Threshold drain under the wide ‘barn’ door

A few other odd-jobs:

  • Repairing the broken drain pipe discovered yesterday
  • Checking the heat pump outdoor unit that was delivered at 7pm yesterday
  • Reviewing the work required to connect the water mains – and concluding the still-open excavations need a bit more hand-digging before proceeding

Outbuildings: Week 32, Day 1

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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.