Don't mention the wet stuff

The last fortnight has seen a noticeable decrease in the precipitation, which has allowed for a huge amount of waterproofing to happen, and the backfill on the backwall to go in. There's plastic sheeting up against the bitumen'ed block work, and then it's buried under gravel, with an ag-drain pipe at the bottom, and another one to go in near the top, before the final soil layer brings it back to natural ground level.



One of the outcomes of this is the scaffolding around the stairwell can finally be constructed, so that the stairwell windows (with well over 100kg of glass) can finally be installed, and the roof fitted across the top. You can now see the big feature window at the bottom, a smaller window at the top, the sliding door onto the deck, and the north-facing louvre windows, so that the whole tower also acts as a skylight and solar chimney. Now it just needs some walls...



From the loft side, looking onto where the deck will go



Speaking of the loft, it's still a very open-air structure. It will be totally clad in corrugated iron, with a narrow clear polycarbonate strip around the top to let the light in. It can't have windows in the normal sense, as it overlooks the neighbours too much (we're up high, and close to the boundary). It also won't get much insulation, since it is intended as a storage space. Still, a really nice space!


Inside, a lot of plumbing has gone in, with various colours of plastic piping, and some copper. The bathrooms, kitchen and laundry appear to have most of their requisite water inlets and outlets.



And our first cupboard doors have arrived! There's a bulkhead to go across the top, and some edge panelling to box it in cleanly.



Oh, and some handles would be nice too. They should be here soon.