{"id":1774,"date":"2018-09-11T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:37:37","slug":"sidewalk-and-bio-filtration-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/sidewalk-and-bio-filtration-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk and bio-filtration basin"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we just moved in, I’ve been delinquent in posting frequent updates to the progress.\u00a0 It’s been quite a few weeks of hard work.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, the poured a new section of sidewalk and the bio-filtration basin walls.<\/p>\n

Here they are in before being poured.<\/p>\n

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You can see the the bio-filtration basin walls are highly engineered, with lots of rebar, and quite thick.<\/p>\n

The sidewalk on the other hand, is just a 4″ thick slab of concrete.\u00a0 Here they are poured.<\/p>\n

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The sidewalk is plain, uncolored concrete, but we did apply acid wash to it, to give it a textured look like older concrete, so it doesn’t stand out.<\/p>\n

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The cover the concrete with the acid wash, let it stand overnite, and power wash it off.\u00a0 Here is the finished look.<\/p>\n

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And here is the finished beast of a bio-filtration basin.<\/p>\n

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After back-fill, you can see that once we plant on the inside of it, it won’t stand out too much, as it is at dirt level.<\/p>\n

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As we just moved in, I’ve been delinquent in posting frequent updates to the progress.\u00a0 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<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardscape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}