The Project

Since you guys love pictures so well, I thought I would take you on a journey from the very start to the very end, perhaps you have an area that you are looking for ideas. This project will use the 35D excavator, 3320 and 2520 CUTS

I have an old banking friend that builds and sells home, ran into him a while back and in short, he has hired us to do the land/hard scape for all his new homes. Basically I meet with him and the new homeowners, I let them do the talking, ask a few questions, talk to the children, do they have pets, what do they like to do outside, is the wife a green thumb or likes low maintenance etc. so this is my design and I do it as we are talking, throqing out ideas.

So guys, here is the plan

I started with the four kids who are 7 to 12 I wanted to think of something quick I could do for them, I asked a couple of questions and had the plan in my head, said kids lets talk about your area first, they love their trampoline, said it was their favorite outdoor activity.


1) This is one side of the house, first thing to do is dig a trench so that I can run electrical to the back deck area, I am going to incorporate low voltage lighting on the sides of my steps

2)Electrical trench is dug and ready for cable, being done today

3) This is the back yard and berm, a berm is designed to intercept water from the hill, I will dig it deeper, install 4" sock wrapped drain tile, 1" clear stone and then colored river rock. I need to change it's direction so that it does not interfere with my play area

4) Plateau - I will dig a Plateau into this side hill large enough for four swings, use landscape steps lighted to get up to it, area will have pea gravel, the back hill will be double grind mulch, trees will be cleaned up and chipped, we will use the chips as mulch, there will be an arched bridge across the berm, lighted, that I will build out of a wood called Ipe.

5) Play area basically a 24 X 24 flat area for the trampoline, it will have colored pea gravel for their trampoline to sit on, four feed in width of pea gravel around the trampoline edged with RTF hydroseed

6) I started digging for the above in ground swimming pool as it needs to be installed before I finish the fence

7) This shows the fence area we are building, basically for their two dogs they will have a seperate fence in this area, also blocks off walkers by on the community path from seeing everything

8) Landscape step samples we have used on other sites

Stay tuned for progress pictures, I finished the play area yesterday and dug for the pool.