Pavers
Got some time out from work because it was a nice day. I did a little clean up in the back yard and located where my drywell should go. In all I spent 3 1/2 hours outside.
I also carved out most of the area needed to restore the driveway pavers and put in a rough equivalent. Need to do the rest tomorrow but discovered I lost a few pavers during excavation. It would have been a miracle if I managed to save all of them. As it was I climbed the hill and went down into fill to retrieve errant pavers--the ones which just fell off into the excavation as it grew larger than expected.
Only now am I able to learn this, months after the excavation.
Lowes has something that might work, but to find both sizes need to go to:
Portland Rock and Landscape Supply
Opens at 7:30 a.m.
15180 SE 82nd Drive
Clackamas, OR 97015
Phone: (503) 656-7625
Email: info@portlandrock.net
I need 5 of each. 5x 1.12 + 5x 1.68 or around 5 + 10 = 15 dollars!
Vintage Stone Squares Sierra, Victorian, Walnut 6 x 6 4.2 400 7 2690 1.12$ 4.70$
Vintage Stone Lg Recs Sierra, Victorian, Walnut 6 x 9 2.8 250 10 2520 1.68$ 4.7
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Also today I pulled all the large lumber into the north piles, identified the location for the 8-12 foot deep drywell and accumlated and poured in at least two wheelbarrows of clay for the south inside corner.
I believe I have found the culprit in the storm water hole: the flashing of the addition roof! The hole it drilled in the last storm formed a rectangular shadow of the rectangular flashing. Now I have to see if Neil Kelly will fix it!
Tommorrow I will get the pavers and then fill the south inside corner and the south outside corner areas. I will concentrate on digging down where the dry well will go (might as well get started). Also I will pack up all the house wrap after sweeping it off...and getting the other wrap stowed under my evergreen tree. I will put siding and trim on the north piles and the south pile into the north piles. Finally I will drill the holes for the clamps on the well cover and install the well cover properly. More cardboard will be applied to protect weeds from growing and I will do what I can to create beds for my masonry for walking areas.
Saturday--If it is a decent day will continue on pathways and clean up. Otherwise put up all the solid insulation I can, then buy insulation to fill spots NK didn't finish.
Sunday-- rough cut baseboard.
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I did a little work today to get some tickets approved for the next release...basically half of the day was spent on that.
Tomorrow should have all day to work outside and get pavers. I hope the pavers trip goes smoothly because I want to spend most of my time doing work outside not driving around and buying stuff.
I also carved out most of the area needed to restore the driveway pavers and put in a rough equivalent. Need to do the rest tomorrow but discovered I lost a few pavers during excavation. It would have been a miracle if I managed to save all of them. As it was I climbed the hill and went down into fill to retrieve errant pavers--the ones which just fell off into the excavation as it grew larger than expected.
Only now am I able to learn this, months after the excavation.
Lowes has something that might work, but to find both sizes need to go to:
Portland Rock and Landscape Supply
Opens at 7:30 a.m.
15180 SE 82nd Drive
Clackamas, OR 97015
Phone: (503) 656-7625
Email: info@portlandrock.net
I need 5 of each. 5x 1.12 + 5x 1.68 or around 5 + 10 = 15 dollars!
Vintage Stone Squares Sierra, Victorian, Walnut 6 x 6 4.2 400 7 2690 1.12$ 4.70$
Vintage Stone Lg Recs Sierra, Victorian, Walnut 6 x 9 2.8 250 10 2520 1.68$ 4.7
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Also today I pulled all the large lumber into the north piles, identified the location for the 8-12 foot deep drywell and accumlated and poured in at least two wheelbarrows of clay for the south inside corner.
I believe I have found the culprit in the storm water hole: the flashing of the addition roof! The hole it drilled in the last storm formed a rectangular shadow of the rectangular flashing. Now I have to see if Neil Kelly will fix it!
Tommorrow I will get the pavers and then fill the south inside corner and the south outside corner areas. I will concentrate on digging down where the dry well will go (might as well get started). Also I will pack up all the house wrap after sweeping it off...and getting the other wrap stowed under my evergreen tree. I will put siding and trim on the north piles and the south pile into the north piles. Finally I will drill the holes for the clamps on the well cover and install the well cover properly. More cardboard will be applied to protect weeds from growing and I will do what I can to create beds for my masonry for walking areas.
Saturday--If it is a decent day will continue on pathways and clean up. Otherwise put up all the solid insulation I can, then buy insulation to fill spots NK didn't finish.
Sunday-- rough cut baseboard.
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I did a little work today to get some tickets approved for the next release...basically half of the day was spent on that.
Tomorrow should have all day to work outside and get pavers. I hope the pavers trip goes smoothly because I want to spend most of my time doing work outside not driving around and buying stuff.