After laying all the drainage pipes all over the yard, filling in the trenches, and roughly grading the property, the next step was to dig another set of yet shallower trenches for the irrigation piping. The irrigation starts where the water main hits the house. From there, the landscaping water goes through the backflow stack.Read more about Irrigation water![…]
A property like ours is required to collect any water runoff and put it through some earthen filtration before we can dump it out into the storm drain system. Over the last two weeks the landscapers have dug large trenches around the property for the drainage system. These are pretty massive 6 inch lines thatRead more about Drainage and grading[…]
There wasn’t much about our old house that was worth saving. We recycled a few light fixtures and saved some of the old windows as art but that’s about it. However, we did manage to pull out quite a bit of really nice old growth redwood. To day we had delivery of an outdoor diningRead more about Making old into new[…]
The rock wall is being repaired now. We have three main areas to fill in. The first is the old driveway mouth. They’ve made great progress. The new section vs the older sections of wall is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the new sections has a real foundation and has rebar going troughRead more about Rock wall repair[…]
The old driveway to the house was part of a double driveway with our neighbors To remove this, we had to move the curved and straight part of the curb over to the mouth of our neighbors driveway. These are made of sandstone and are massive, as they go an addition 12 or so inchesRead more about Curb and gutter[…]
The last of our property line fencing went in over the last month. We did the first stretch back in May. In late July, we tore out the jungle along our back property line, and then rushed to complete that section of fence before our neighbors had a wedding shower for one of their childrenRead more about The last of the property line fencing[…]
The tile guys have been working on the back porch stone for a few weeks now, interrupted by the fact that we fell short of one size of stone and had to order more. Here is the sub-slab. Partial progress. Today, they’ve finished the stone laying and are grinding the joints to make them even.Read more about Exterior stone[…]
As we just moved in, I’ve been delinquent in posting frequent updates to the progress. It’s been quite a few weeks of hard work. Two weeks ago, the poured a new section of sidewalk and the bio-filtration basin walls. Here they are in before being poured. You can see the the bio-filtration basin walls areRead more about Sidewalk and bio-filtration basin[…]
The landscaping is set to begin this week. They’ve started by clearing all the reaming trash and junk from the property. It is finally time to throw away a lot of the wood we kept around just in case we needed it. Now we have a blank canvas from which to implement a beautiful yard.Read more about Landscaping – a raw canvas[…]
We got Roman shades in many of the windows that required something for privacy. These ones we got are pretty unique. The first thing you notice is no strings. The shades are opened simply by lifting at the bottom. There is also no attachment at the bottom, just at the top. The second unique (andRead more about Shades[…]