Hi Al, I have around 900 square feet of patio which needs to be lifted and re-laid after a bit of sand to level it. I put it down in 1992 but parts of it have settled. I didn't have a compactor then and I had raised the ground about 3 feet with fill. Near the house it was closer to 8 feet as I had excavated the footings and replaced the weeping bed, there is a bit more settling there and I want to get that slight slope back to away from the building.
I have some concrete block retaining walls to replace. The frost shifts stuff so much that unless you build foundation down below 4 feet it is about guaranteed to move. My mortar seems to be holding but the cement block is cracking and splitting. I will replace that with some sort of friction fit. There is a front step I haven't figured out how I will replace just yet. Then there is a double driveway I share with my neighbour. We think we will do it as a single application. I will prepare and lay the lock stone, he will pay for his half of the material. Well that is the plan at this point, I don't yet have a price for the material, he may change his mind. Altogether that will be around 3000 square feet, I'll measure that for sure probably tonight but it is about 100 feet long and about 30 feet wide maybe a little wider. With tax the compactor will cost about $3500 Canadian, that is the killer, the next thing to decide is if I should keep it for my next project and sell it then or just unload it when I am done this summer. For a working stiff without a truck and boom to drag a rental unit back and forth though I don't see a reasonable compromise except to spend even more hiring a crew. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan & Terrie Robbins To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:20 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. Dale That's a lot of stone. What size are the blocks and what in the world are you building? Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. Well, while on the subject I just ordered a Bomag walk-behind vibratory plate compactor with wheel kit and protective pad for patio stone. They are a lot more expensive here than I see them priced in the States. Hopefully I can sell it again when I am done with it. Now I have to arrange a ride to go buy a bunch of retaining wall blocks and about 3000 square feet of lock stone. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. may I suggest that if you are going to buy something do not stop now because of shipping as the prices will continue to climb. I do not see it in my lifetime of shipping charges coming down. we have a brother who is a long distance hauler and it costs plenty to run a big rig. also I note when I bought something from sears, like the replacement water filter. again the cost of shipping is wait out of line. so when in albany at sears we stop at their large appliance department. all hooks which shuld have those filters ae empty and we are told we wasted the gas. so buy now if you have the money as shipping costs, again will not reduce. Lee On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:51:32PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Speaking of new toys.... > > I recently bought the talking level and the tactile tape measure from Blindmicemart.com, and though I haven't had time to play with them yet, they look OK. I also bought the talking tire pressure gauge I mentioned, and that is really handy, since the pressure in my garden cart tires was way way lower than it should have been. I got the multimeter we talked about here as well, and after I scan the little bit of documentation there is, I'll doubtless have questions for the luminarians on this great List. > > I've been having trouble finding Schrader valves, though they do have them on Amazon.com if you're willing to pay four times the value of the valve for shipping. > I was told that the reason these are more scarce than in the past is that unless you have a license, you can't buy refrigerant any longer, and that was why say lumber yards used to have them but tend not to unless they trade with a lot of refrigeration contractors. > I have a friend at work who's a good guy and pretty handy and tomorrow at lunch we're going to go to an industrial hardware store on the north side of the Missouri River where I know I can get them. > Enjoy your sawdust Dan, it's always great to get new tools etc. > > > Bill Stephan > Kansas Citty MO > Email: [email protected] > Phone: (816)803-2469 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:12 pm > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. > > I just ordered one of those spiffy sounding Bosch Colt Palm > > routers, along > > with the edge guide and a set of seven templates. The router and > > edge > > guide were $109 bucks from amazon with free shipping. The > > templates and a > > round subbase for threaded template guides was another 40 bucks. > > Probably > > didn't need the rest, but threw it in there for the hell of it. > > > > The 109 bucks for the router and edge guide was the best I found > > other > > than a refurb unit on CPO Bosch. > > > > Can't wait to make some saw dust with it. > > > > -- > > Blue skies. > > Dan Rossi > > Carnegie Mellon University. > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > -- Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. -- Winston Churchill . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
