Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 2

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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 2

Better weather than had been forecast – windy but dry – enabling all the threshold drains around the Courtyard to be installed. The Garage doors need to have level thresholds so it’s essential for those to have drains to prevent water seeping under the roller shutters, but around the Courtyard there will be a step up to all the doors, of two brick courses, so the drains aren’t strictly necessary – but they could be raised if any of the doors need level access in the future.

Threshold drain under one of the narrow pedestrian doors
Threshold drain under the wide ‘barn’ door

A few other odd-jobs:

  • Repairing the broken drain pipe discovered yesterday
  • Checking the heat pump outdoor unit that was delivered at 7pm yesterday
  • Reviewing the work required to connect the water mains – and concluding the still-open excavations need a bit more hand-digging before proceeding

Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 1

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Outbuildings: Week 35, Day 1

The usual build team were back on site today and they:

  • Fitted the vehicle-grade grid covers on the threshold drains for the Garages
  • Finished off the plasterboard on the wooden partition wall that separates the Plant Room from the Workshop; this now just needs a skim-coat of plaster on both sides
  • Fitted the three loft access hatches – which highlighted that there’s a bit of remedial plasterwork required around those
  • Investigated a soft spot on one of the stone pathways in the Courtyard, which turned out to be hiding a broken foul drainage pipe which must have been damaged when using the digger and dumper in the Courtyard to level the area and spread the stone to form the pathways
    • This raises the question of whether any more of that foul drainage pipe – or any of the stormwater drainage pipes – have been similarly damaged
  • Started work on fitting the threshold drains to the doors around the Courtyard, which are a different design from the ones for the Garages (they only need to handle pedestrian traffic) and a much slimmer section, using smaller-diameter pipe fittings – although these need to connect to the 100mm drain ‘stubs’ installed previously