Midway through putting the scaffold up at the first house
We have started work on the first of our two houses. Work will start on the second house next week. Work completed during the first week included:
New hot water cylinder waiting to be installed
- Skip delivered
- Scaffold put up
- Outbuilding reconfiguration (ongoing)
- Drains and soil pipe moved (ongoing)
- Roof-line extended at gable (ongoing)
- Investigations into state of existing lintels above windows and doors (ongoing)
- Heating pipes rerouted in preparation for new systems (ongoing)
- Hot water cylinder installed
We had to move the soil pipe in order to make room for the external wall insulation. This proved most problematic and in the end new connections and a new manhole cover was required. Part of the problem was caused by other work taking place in the outbuilding. Here one of the doorways had to be removed and a new wall built in its place. Unfortunately the new wall happened to be directly over the connection point for the soil pipes. So it would have been much easier to move the soil pipe if we hadn’t already bricked up that doorway. At the second house we plan to move the soil pipe before the wall is built!
New connections for the soil pipes
We had to move all of the drains in order to accommodate the external wall cladding
