Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 2

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Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 2

The first five of the reconstituted stone steps delivered yesterday have been installed. (A further three slabs were delivered but those are destined for the top landing and can’t be installed yet.) The stone looks a bit yellow (more so than the Bath stone sample provided) but it should tone down soon enough. For some reason the slabs had been made too long – perhaps with some assumption about them being built-in to the wall (rather than supported on an additional skin of blockwork) – so needed cutting down on-site.

The first five of the stone steps installed for the External Staircase

The stone foundation for the parking area by the Garages was levelled and compacted. It has a shallow fall to the North (the left of the photo) to help with water run-off into the grass – although it will use permeable block paving so most of the water will percolate through the paving and into the crushed stone base layer – then on into the ground beneath.

Crushed stone foundation for the block paved parking area North of the Garage Doors

Also some more progress in the Courtyard, bringing some of the land drains together into an inspection chamber and planning the route to the next inspection chamber, which needs to avoid a foul drainage pipe and the water mains.

A little more plumbing too, mounting the four outside taps.

Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 1

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Outbuildings: Week 31, Day 1

Installation of the Aco threshold drain channels at the four Garage Door openings, connecting to the underground pipework installed previously – together with some more preparation of the foundation for the block paving (including the delivery of a further lorry-load of stone).

Aco Threshold drain channels at each of the Garage Door openings

Note there’s a gap between the Aco channels and the concrete floor slab, where there was previously a row of blue engineering bricks – with large vertical holes – which acted as the ‘shuttering’ for the concrete floor slab. The roller shutter Garage Doors will sit behind the brickwork openings and it seems better to have more concrete in that gap, rather than some of the block paving.

There was also further work in the Courtyard, back-filling around the rainwater harvesting tank enabling the adjacent drains to be connected up and taken further to the West.

Rainwater harvesting tank now back-filled with pea shingle and connected to the incoming rainwater pipe (running diagonally) – with the pipe from the Courtyard’s doorway threshold drains visible on the right.

The first eight of the reconstituted stone steps for the external staircase were also delivered, ready for those to start being installed.

Following the delivery of a further 50m of 75mm-diameter ventilation ducting on Friday, the three ‘Extract’ vents were connected up to their above-ceiling plenum chamber, enabling the installation of the remainder of the loft insulation to proceed (once some further insulation is delivered).