Our front yard is now an actual front yard. The biggest elements that we completed were stepping stones flagstone seating area lawn parkway We always wanted a friendly, inviting front yard, hence the large porch and the lack of privacy hedges. We also added a little seating area at the edge of our yard soRead more about It’s a front yard, at last[…]
Two weeks ago the driveway mouth was poured, and what a difference. Here it is being formed … … and poured … … and here is the final product. We wanted to put our kids hand prints in it, but the inspector said no. However, he did say we could put a stamp of someRead more about Driveway done, at long last[…]
With a larger property, a front and a back porch, and several decks, we needed some hoses to wash things off. This became more necessary once we got a dog, as we have “wee-wee” pads on a bunch of porches for him to go to the bathroom on, since our yard is still pretty muddy. Read more about Hosed[…]
Our house has only one water heater for the entire place. It is a (pretty big) 75 gallon unit in the basement. To avoid wasting water by having to run the water to get it hot, we have two circulation loops in the house. Being very long loops, they take quite a while to circulateRead more about Re-circulation pump timer – old school vs new school[…]
The completion of our driveway, and one of the curbs we installed for that, created another puddle area, which became apparent over last weekends storm. In that particular area, we did put a french drain in all along that curb which drains into the permeable paver driveway on the other side of it. But theRead more about Every rain storm is an opportunity[…]
At long last, our driveway is complete and are able to park our cars in the garage. All that remains is the apron, sidewalk, and gutter at the mouth of our driveway, which all needs to be installed due to the fact that we turned a normal sidewalk into our new driveway, as it wasRead more about Driveway![…]
Almost two weeks ago we were at the point of having the first two layers of gravel down. The pea gravel was delivered and spread out, and the entire driveway vibro-plated to compact the last layer (and everything else a bit more) down. We lost three days last week due to a big storm, butRead more about Driveway progress[…]
A couple of weeks ago I reported the progress of the pool house deck, which is now complete. Looks great!
The three layers of gravel were finished on Tuesday; the driveway is ready for pavers. Here are some good shots of the three different types of rock / gravel we laid down. First, 8 inches of larger rock, from 1.5-3 inches. Then 4 inches of medium sized rock, 3/4″. Then 2 inches of small gravel,Read more about All dressed up and nowhere to go[…]
We planned on getting a dog, once our landscaping was done. When we started litter shopping last year, we assumed our landscaping would be done by January. Well, that didn’t happen, but the dog did. Little Cooper came home with us in early January, and is now 13 weeks old. Lucky for us, some neighborsRead more about Dog-gone it[…]