I can also fill in the cuts with the flexible seam filler. Just hate cutting brand new concrete...
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Removed the front door and painted it over the weekend. Luckily had saved one of the doors of the old place so I used that fill the hole on the wall while the door was being painted LOL
Guys showed up to do the driveway today. This other current state.
Guys showed up to do the driveway today. This other current state.
The guy doing the driveway is an acquaintance/friend. Asked him if I could use the skid steer tonight while it was here & he said sure 😁 Spent the last two hours digging some rocks out of the lawn and hedge lines. Figured now was the time with power equipment. Hopefully they are where we want them LOL Three of them are strategically placed under the valley's of the roof where all the water comes off. So it hits the rocks and splatters instead of washing the dirt away down hill.
Just a dumb question, is that far enough away that it won't splatter all that water onto the concrete and make moisture issues on the basement wall inside?
What if the top of the rock was shifted/dug in to be angled to a 45* or so surface so the splatter showered aimed away from the house?
That's a valid question. I've thought about that but we haven't had rain. Like barely any at all in the last month.... Figured If they were at least in place, we could adjust the angle later if needed. I'm not worried about the basement wall though, those are styrofoam blocks filled with 8" of concrete. Then parged on the outaide
I forgot about the adult legos. In the couple decades since I moved down south I've gotten used to some ridiculously heavy rain so those sorts of things stick out to me. Kind of how my #1 concern on tires are rain ratings and swapping them out every 4 yrs due to high heat.
Another option would be hardscaping in the areas as drainage patterns emerge and almost making a french drain for that run off to pass through. Thats one thing I did here, used gravel instead of mulch (termites) but first dug trenches into the ground I put larger gravel in to channel runoff before putting the top layer down. That plus some strategic black plastic pipe in the ground really altered how runoff was distributed around the yard.
I think we will end up doing hardscape too. I want ease of maintenance and I kinda doubt rock will wear out and have to be redone every year. 🤣 But that will probably be a year or two before we recover from the build and can afford to do it. This will have to work in the meantime. The price was right too!
Driveway is finished! We moved the turnaround a little bit further down, closer to the garage. The idea is in a couple of years we're going to extend the driveway off the turn around and loop it back to the road. It will look like a lower case h then. So you can pull in and out without backing up, plus since we live just past the crest of small hill it will get us a bit further away when we are pulling out... Maybe in another 5 years we can do that and in ten get it paved.
Ain't been on for a while. Got some catching up to do. 
Spent two hours driving a tamper around the driveway. So much better.
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