Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 4

Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 4

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.

Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 2

Outbuildings: Week 30, Day 2

More progress on the land-drains in the Courtyard, with those on the South side now completed and those on the North side waiting for the hole to be dug for the rainwater harvesting tank. The land drains will pass on each side of the tank and will drain the pea-gravel bedding for the tank, preventing the water table from rising high enough to ‘float’ the tank out of the ground.

Also further progress on the masonry for the external staircase, making good use of the decent weather..