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Outbuildings: Week 39, Day 5

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Outbuildings: Week 39, Day 5

Another day of no progress by the main contractor or their subcontractors but my alarm system installer was back for their final bit of set-up – connecting the new alarm system in the Outbuildings via a radio link to the DualCom monitoring board within the House alarm’s control panel, which is what talks to the remote monitoring centre, via both a mobile data connection and an Internet connection. This means that any alarm activation – either for Intruder or Fire – will now be forwarded to the monitoring centre, who will contact the key holders and alert the Fire Service or Police as appropriate.

There’s more activity planned for Monday, with the floor laying team back to finish the vinyl flooring. Building Control are also scheduled to visit on Monday.

The toilet, which was ordered 8 weeks ago, finally got delivered today too – ready to be installed as soon as the vinyl flooring is finished.

Outbuildings: Week 36, Day 5

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Outbuildings: Week 36, Day 5

Very wet and windy all day thanks to Storm Claudia. The block paving work planned to start today got rained off and will now start on Saturday. The 6mm stone required as underlay for the permeable paving was delivered – along with the Marshalls GrassGuard blocks (which had been expected a week ago) – so everything is now ready for the block paving to start in the morning, as long as the weather is sufficiently improved.

The garage door roller shutter that had been failing to respond was brought back to life with a full reset by the installers – though while it was stuck open it allowed a fair bit of rain into the garage (which tends to pool away from the doorway thanks to a slight slope in the floor slab). Some rain came under the other roller shutters too – I think some sort of retrofit threshold strip will be required to keep the water out, since the roller shutters already do a decent job of pressing down their rubber sealing edge.

Almost all of the alarm system set-up is now complete – apart from the commissioning of the radio link back to the house, which is waiting on some more components.