of course we all want to see the pics!! that way we can get great ideas on another project we can start and not finish. :hide:

Andy

 

Post away! I just won't let the warden see the photos (it gives her to many ideas........). :banghead3

 

Got to have pictures...other wise Sheriff Greg of the picture police will arrest you..I'd like to see what you have done, always good to get ideas.

 

11/27/05...Slow progress...didn't have quite enuff fill gravel-made another supply run.....hope to get it all leveled out b4 that 'white stuff ' starts falling.....

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Oops-sorry, picture was too large- here's another one...had to take a couple of breaks w/ my favorite four-legged 'helper'......... :fing20:

(He likes bottled liquids)..I'll keep playing w/ pic sizes....might have to take some more....Tkxs for any advice-I got USN ED's cheat sheet off, but the photo bucket thing takes a little getting used to....

 

I just upload them directly from "My Pictures" on your computer (or any other place you have them stored on your hard drive).

 

What pics?

Cheers

JDFANATIC
JD2210

 

Patio about done.....first pic--my "four-legged helper" :fing20:

 

2 nd--"roughing it in"-with two layers of crush/run down--raked out-leveled----then hit it with the plate compacter--then wet her down again--boy-when it's dry--this stuff soaks up some moisture...better to compact good now for the foundation, then bumps cracks later...Also laid down a layer of pellatized weed-killer B-4 the stone base... :bannana:

 

3 rdpic--a week later/ another layer of stone--about got the right height now......

 

18x24 looks a whole lot bigger in pictures mg: but it looks good. You have all that equip. or rent? Anyhow looks good.

 

Rich--as luck would have it--I have a friend that owns a tree svc/ landscape business.... and I help him sometimes w/ grading jobs on week-ends, or equipement repairs--and he lets me have access to equipement and a big shop......Sometimes we even get a little "foldin' $$" :fing32:

I used his smallest skid-steer, an ASV-30 w/ a wider bucker and his plate tamper,--his neatest trick is a one-ton Dodge Ram, w/ a dump bed-kit on it --that's how I hauled the stone and sand.....
The area is a hair-short of 18' wide as I backed it up to the origianl house foundation/slab---but I had to come out farther because of so many tree roots ( big maple not far away)---Just had to backfill a lot of material later on...
Oh--here's my "helper" again while I'm taking a much-deserved break---Dang, I'd like to hip him out to Texas to 'overseer" Wingnut's Pole Shed... :biglaugh:

 

Side View -about a month later--after the "mudhole" dried up..... :fing20:

 

This pic is a little differnt angle-about a week later-still sweeping the sand in the cracks and let her settle--does my sitting in the easy chair on the patio in the evening help it settle quicker?

The rain washes the sand down and helps "pack" it--after I laid it--I ran a plate compactor over it for an hour or so...just have to keep sweepin' every week or two... :fing32:

 

This was "THE DONE DEAL"--I just had to stand there a minute ( on the left)
and ponder---(***&%--she's trying to kill me)..
not really--just need to 'clean up around here' and a little raking/seeding--we'll be done!!


But-no--gotta get that new patio furniture on there right away.. :duh:

 

Where is the BBQ Pit???

Not coming over until it is done!!!! :trink40:

 

Last shot--from another side...
Stange thing here-look @ the pics--notice the "little white splotches" in the middle of a lot of the blocks (about 90%) of them...I think what happend when we bought them , they had set for a couple months during the winter, and water froze in between them on the pallets, which were wrapped w/ heat-shrink--and then froze....
They won't come out--it's etched in the blocks..

I think it's kinda different.... :bananapow

Thanks for spending Saturday evening with me--Popcorn's on DBernie!!

 

:congrats: That's a terrific way to add to living space cheeeeep. And I'll bet it's flat enough for the folks I hang out with to level a mower deck on.

 

This will be what she will want next year!! :fing20:

 

Last shot--from another side...
Stange thing here-look @ the pics--notice the "little white splotches" in the middle of a lot of the blocks (about 90%) of them...I think what happend when we bought them , they had set for a couple months during the winter, and water froze in between them on the pallets, which were wrapped w/ heat-shrink--and then froze....
They won't come out--it's etched in the blocks..

I think it's kinda different.... :bananapow

Thanks for spending Saturday evening with me--Popcorn's on DBernie!!

Glenn how about an acid wash on the blocks, maybe that would take the stains out. Muriatic acid might work.

Dan

 

:congrats: That's a terrific way to add to living space cheeeeep. And I'll bet it's flat enough for the folks I hang out with to level a mower deck on.

Got a 1-1/2" fall from away the house foundation--has a couple of 'sunken blocks", but I knew this--after this winter, it'll be settled as much as gonna do raying: --I'll just pick the low blocks out--straight up--pack a little sand under them and --good to go! Then I"ll do some grout in between 'em to seal it all up.....

And NO-Ken!!..It's already four ft. bigger than what I planned for, and more furniture, and a fire pit.....and..and....and this/that...

Thanks for hanging out in Virginney! :trink39:

 

And NO-Ken!!..It's already four ft. bigger than what I planned for, and more furniture, and a fire pit.....and..and....and this/that...

Thanks for hanging out in Virginney! :trink39:

Also, I think that she will need some shade over that patio!!! :banghead3

 

Cut back the big maple tree next to it( was over our power lines)
--and she's got two umbrella's! :biglaugh:
That's all, folks!

 

Cut back the big maple tree next to it( was over our power lines)
--and she's got two umbrella's! :biglaugh:
That's all, folks!

Yeah right!! Thats what I thought!!

First a cover, now she wants the entire area screened in!!! :Stop:

 

:ditto: I understand "that" language...
Yes-Dear/Of Course/ Sure thing.
...mumble-mumble..maybe a few four letter words here or there(@#$%^*&!)

and of couse I'm smilin'.. :biglaugh:
See you floks--gotta get back up to hospital..