Progress on the Roof and Underground

The sun has shone, the site is drying out and terrific progress today.

Moving on from the extraordinarily lucky discovery of a sewer inspection cover at the first scoop of the digger bucket the sewer, water supply and electricity cable trench was quickly dug and populated with those services.   Water will be connected to the mains in the morning and the trench can then be back-filled.

One enormous pipe that we knew must exist somewhere down there was the tank's overflow pipe - probably of cast iron.  Well today it came to light:

That's it lying east-west at the top of the frame.   It was quite low down in today's trench and we have re-buried it decently below the new pipes and wires.

This is the view uphill towards where the dog-leg outside staircase will be

 and downhill to the newly exhumed sewer drain connection via a new, square, inspection chamber which will be in the entrance driveway:

Meanwhile, up on the roof, the plywood deck which will form the base for the roofing membranes was being installed on top of 150mm of insulation panels:

picture taken from the water tank shows the existing annex roof, temporarily storing Gordon the Gondola, wall exterior cladding panels and plywood awaiting laying.