While weekend working isn’t customary, this is the second weekend where noteworthy progress was made – this time on the block paving, where the team had been busy with other work and were struggling to make time. While it was drizzling all morning – which would have been an issue for bedding paving blocks on sand – these permeable blocks get bedded on 6mm stone chips, which can still be levelled when they’re wet.
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.