Still no money is forthcoming from the b[w]ankers, so things are progressing at a very slow pace indeed.
But we have managed to advance a couple of important tasks. First of
these is the garage door. The installers,
Doormatic, had it up in
less than 2 hours. It is a sectional door, with 5 horizontal
sections which are hinged to each other and slide up along a track.
We'll have it automated at a later date. The steel door comes
pre-finished in white over an alu-zinc coating for corrosion
resistance. The external appearance of the door, with horizontal
bandings, will match the appearance of the shiplapped siding to be
installed on parts of the house exterior.
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| Updated street view |
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| External view of garage door |
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| Garage door mechanism |
The other major item progressed is the
foul and soil water system. We dug the trenches for the underground
pipes and have laid the 110mm diameter PVC pipes. At the correct
places we have installed connectors for the sanitary fitting and
rodding eye junctions. The pipes are laid to fall to the municipal
sewer manhole at the roadside of the site. The municipal building
inspector signed off on the work yesterday, so we have cemented to joint
between the pipes and the manhole connection, and can now start
backfilling the trench, which is more than 1.6m deep in places.
Should be easier than it was to dig the trench!
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| The far end of the underground sewer pipes |
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| The connection to the manhole, with a rodding eye pipe projecting from the trench |
