Further progress on the underground drainage in the Courtyard, this time with a focus on the ‘land drains’ which will address the tendency for the area to collect standing water (nicely evidenced in recent days).
These ‘land drains’ consist of a perforated pipe wrapped in landscape fabric (to prevent silt infiltration) installed in a trench filled with pea gravel.
Work on the masonry continued with some progress on the supporting brick- and block-work for the external staircase.
More progress on the drainage in the Courtyard, with a focus on the underground rainwater discharge pipework. The downpipes that will be used to feed the Rainwater Harvesting tank must connect directly to the underground pipes, without ‘gullies’ that would risk introducing ground-level contamination into the tank.
Installation of the ‘stable’ Door and Window, purchased from Monarch Equestrian, at the West end of the Garage block. While the room they serve will mostly be used for general storage, the earlier buildings used to have an actual horse stable at this location, with an old wooden stable door (for the horse that would have pulled a cart to deliver milk from the old dairy farm, maybe?).
More work on the ventilation system. More first-fix plumbing.