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Outbuildings: Week 33, Day 2

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Outbuildings: Week 33, Day 2

The busiest day on site for a while, with electricians, plumbers, joiners, ground-workers and bricklayers all in attendance for at least part of the day.

With more of the reconstituted steps now on-site, the external staircase progressed well. While the steps themselves are the most obvious element, quite a lot of the time needed to be spent on the brickwork. Two more steps and it will be ready for the ‘landing’ which is a larger flat area formed from several of the steps (without the radius on the long edge).

More of the reconstituted stone steps installed on the external staircase, having arrived on-site yesterday

The joiners completed their work on site, installing the remainder of the door furniture and the architraves. Looks like it needs one more sheet of plasterboard to complete the Workshop side of the cladding, before both sides get a skim-coat of plaster.

The Plant Room door is now complete – with its lock and architrave added since yesterday

A key bit of progress from the electricians was collecting and installing the 25mm2 SWA cable that will provide the incoming connection from the meter, which is located in the outdoor GRP cabinet (shared with the House). This needed to be installed before the solar power contractor installs the Tesla “Backup Gateway” in the GRP cabinet next week. The electricians also installed the outdoor power sockets, the two instantaneous water heaters (ready for plumbing in their water connections) and completed some more terminations in the main consumer unit.

The plumber connected up the outside taps via isolating valves and checked on what fittings will be required to re-work the underground mains pipework. The ground-workers undertook more clearing of the area to the North of the parking area by the Garages, which had been used as a temporary storage area for spare materials, managing to use up quite a bit of the soil excavated from the attenuation pond.

Outbuildings: Week 33, Day 1

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Outbuildings: Week 33, Day 1

A bit more rain overnight and also forecast for the rest of the week; especially Thursday. It’s surprising how quickly the soil turns into mud which sticks to boots and gets carried inside. While the plan is to leave the Courtyard un-paved until Spring – partially to let the ground ‘settle’ and partially to check how well the land-drainage is working – it’s going to want some temporary pathways creating with paving slabs (there are some left over from around the site cabins from when the House was built).

Good progress with the internal joinery:

  • All three internal doors are now cut down to size (they were purchased as 8′ x 4′ FD30 solid-core door blanks) and hung in their door frames, using 4 hinges
  • One of them has its handle installed, matching the handles in the House
  • The two doors installed in blockwork openings have their architraves added, with additional architrave ready to be added to the Plant Room door once the plasterboard has been installed and skimmed
  • Work has started installing plasterboard on the inside of the Plant Room
Progress on the partition wall for the Plant Room

Outside, there was more progress locating some redundant mains water pipework (previously feeding the static caravan and the site cabins) which needs to be removed) and re-routing one of the rainwater pipe runs, followed by some clearance and levelling of the North-East corner of the site, enabling the spoil excavated from the rainwater attenuation pond to be spread there.

Progress clearing and levelling the North-East corner of the site, which had been used to store some spare MDPE pipe

The remaining reconstituted cast stone steps were also collected from the manufacturers, ready for the external staircase to be completed.