you are going to have all of this done before the first hard frost Dale? it was 42 degrees f. here this morning. Good luck on finishing up the way you want it. Lee
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:47:05AM -0400, Dale Leavens wrote: > I got the patio about finished yesterday. Still a few stones to cut and some > cement breeze blocks to cut out and replace but those will wait. I will also > have to do a final compacting over the top of the bricks once the polymerized > sand arrives and gets brushed in but I am waiting until the driveway is ready > for that before I begin. > > Last night I moved 8 of the curbs positioning them ready for digging in. I > had a small loader with blade here Friday and Saturday digging out rubbish > and applying more crusher reject. He also dug a two foot deep channel down > each side of the driveway installing weeping tile and crushed rock and > packing that down. I now have a quite flat well compacted 86 by 32 foot > platform to begin laying stone. I will first dig in curbs down part of my > side, the rest already has a retaining wall. I will then lay the field and > then finally dig in the curb all the length up the neighbours side and across > his half of the top. > > I have taken the week off of work, we will see how far I get by tomorrow, I > may need to ire some help to get it all done within the week. > > Maybe I will hit the basement now and form myself a big 8 foot square to help > or maybe I'll just sort of figuratively "eye-ball" it. > > I guess I will have to begin calling this the driveway project update. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Stamp out organized crime!! Abolish the IRS. .
