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

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.

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

Outbuildings: Week 33, Day 1 by Marsh Flatts Farm Self Build Diary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.