Well after about 35 buckets of dirt hauled by hand over the fence, through the neighbors back yard, and along the side of the our house we had just about enough dirt to level things out. I then had to fit 37 more tiles into the back of the van as we still needed more then the 62 we already had. The boys really did help me on this project. They carried the 30 small bricks.
Then over the next two weeks little by little the patio was built. I had to move 4 sprinkler heads which did slow the process quite a bit. I also found that getting sand out of the QC wash was much cheaper then buying sand at $4 a pop at home depot.
The kids seem to like it an awfully lot and so do I. The patio covers an area that was just dirt and really never saw the sun. Not even weeds grew in that area. It would just make dust and then mud when it rained.
Now once the grass recovers I think it will work out quite nice.
Chimmi sure seems a lot happier on the patio then the picture above.
Well after about 35 buckets of dirt hauled by hand over the fence, through the neighbors back yard, and along the side of the our house we had just about enough dirt to level things out. I then had to fit 37 more tiles into the back of the van as we still needed more then the 62 we already had. The boys really did help me on this project. They carried the 30 small bricks.
Then over the next two weeks little by little the patio was built. I had to move 4 sprinkler heads which did slow the process quite a bit. I also found that getting sand out of the QC wash was much cheaper then buying sand at $4 a pop at home depot.
The kids seem to like it an awfully lot and so do I. The patio covers an area that was just dirt and really never saw the sun. Not even weeds grew in that area. It would just make dust and then mud when it rained.
Now once the grass recovers I think it will work out quite nice.
Chimmi sure seems a lot happier on the patio then the picture above.
4 comments:
You did an awesome job! It looks great!
it looks great! now can you come and do ours?
Great job!
nice job! when's the party??
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