Tuesday 2 August 2011

20. Drainage

It's been a while since my last post so I thought I'd take a few minutes to bring things up to date...

A Saturday morning sees the brickies lay around 300 solid concrete blocks to bring us up to floor level on the garage. Those things weigh around 15kg each so I'm glad they brought their own labourer...

I get started on backfilling and digging out the old inspection chamber.

A new inspection chamber is installed to accept connections from the new ensuites and kitchen extension.

The new trench for the ensuite passes under the existing floors...

...as does the one to the new kitchen.

The new pipework is laid, completing the modifications to the foul drainage.

A new storm drain inspection chamber is installed to connect to the new and relocated downpipes.

More digging of trenches...

...and a further inspection chamber to accept surface water from the patio area and workshop roof.

More digging and pipe laying completes the modifications to the storm drains...

...and finally backfilling can commence.

It's been four weeks of hard digging but at least the weather has been fine for most of it. Now to fill it all back in...

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