Reservoir Blog

 A good many large valves used to control the reservoir and they are collected together in a space below the entrance. A pressure wash revealed them beautifully  And how it was before the wash 

Lanecliffe Ltd of Melton Mowbray start their programme of work The garage taking shape - the first day's work And more shape - the second day's work Anyone working in front of this window may get distracted... Utility room outline   And partially clad (in the evening waiting for a delivery)

 Sleeper walls in place Walls either side of the stairs now in place

 Thank you Mossy, Mikey, Michelle and all at Compac Hire for moving mountains, well nearly one hundred lorries of muck and so much else. Concrete cutting - walls and roof - , gabion walls , drainage  ,  landscaping  , restoring the site and drive and paths   How a highly professional contractor leaves the site

 Driving in for the first time 

Waiting for the ball  The stand being put in place

 The first steel corner post thanks to Pacific Construction   And the big one From the inside 

 We are harvesting, with Harlequin tanks,  our rainwater to irrigate the garden And the patio ready for drainage The hole Into which the treatment plant goes Rather like this And the drainage field awaiting the herringbone of trenches filled with gravel for the perforated pipes Half way after a weekend of rain - draining well And with the herringbone pattern of pipes And the other half

Earth has been piled up where before there was a grassy bank. We will be re-sowing grass seed in the spring. As it was after grass cutting in July  And as it was last summer And now the other side with topsoil and the front now in full

The guest bedroom  The master bedroom

 The Leicester firm of Beautiful Basements have the job of waterproofing the structure from inside They first created a concrete sump where the old valves had been. This will house pumps in the unlikely event of water getting in  The old valves had to be dug out Before the structure could be lined