There you go Rae, I have never laid sod. I do know the rolls are heavy and that you need to get it down pretty quickly once it is cut and delivered otherwise it begins to compost very fast. That generates a lot of heat and the grass kills itself. It will also dry out quite fast. I have only ever sewn lawns and that takes patience.
Before I finished yesterday I prepared another 16 by 16 foot area however we had heavy rain last night and much of today so most of the preparation was ruined when I got to it tonight. I did fill in the area by the back door an area of about 5 by four, it dips in between the corner of the kitchen and the stair well into the basement so keeping everything square is a little trying. also, with all the rain my visiting daughter Chrystal and my wife Janet didn't get any additional pavers cleaned up so I spent a lot of the evening washing and wiping them with the hose before moving and stacking for use. With all the rain too, this damn sand gets all over, sharp stuff that is really rude to the hands. Well it is off upstairs to the shower to wash the insect repellent off before bed ant another day at work. I figure I have another 166 more to work before I retire albeit on a diminished base pension. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Boyce To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:49 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Patio project progress report. Hi Dale If you keep doing this muscle building exercises you will finish up like Arnold. It's fun spending all that money doing jobs around the home, and when you start it seems to lead into others with more expensive projects. Keep us informed as you advance through this project and let us know if you come up with any new techniques that we perhaps can use if we tackle something like yours. We for example have just finished a large cement slab and now we find we have to buy turf after the bob Cat dug down the yard too far. So it is coming tomorrow and I have to carry it from the front to the back then roll it out. We are using Sir Walter Turf which is green all year and a vigorous growing turf. This should stop us carrying mud either up onto the slab or onto the paths. Then we have to start cementing in a rock wall at one of the garden ends but I have the rocks here so I have to buy bags of sand an cement so we can fix them in. This is what I mean about one thing leads into another. Regards Ray From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Monday, 27 July 2009 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Patio project progress report. Well I am about two thirds through the main part of replacing my lock stone patio. Since my daughter is up visiting I had her drive me down to Earlton, a little town just under two hours south of here where there is a family operated brick yard and ordered three thousand square feet of pavers for the double driveway, 30 curb stones which I am told weigh a hundred and ten pounds each to go along the one edge. I also ordered a couple of different sorts of retaining wall blocks, one sort to extend the wall I erected in 1993 to extend it and turn it to keep part of my neighbours yard from subsiding, the original owner had put up a wooden structure made of scraps as far as I can tell and it is subsiding so I'll tidy that up. I also ordered another sort to hold my front lawn up and out of the hedge. I presently have some land scape ties there but they are failing and I want a good secure and defined edge both to make tending the lawn easier and as a secure footing to stand on when trimming the hedge.I bought some for other edging too, altogether nearly $8,000 in masonry and masonry products. There is a new and much better product for bonding the pavers I didn't have available first time I put them down, they call it polymeric sand. It contains some sort of polymer chemistry which gets sticky when wet but remains somewhat elastic and is supposed to keep weeds and insects from penetrating. When I am ready for it, they tell me it will require about 900 bucks for the patio and the driveway. So far I have shifted and leveled about four yards of crusher reject and lifted and replaced about 400 square feet of pavers which is about 1600 bricks. well, not quite because Janet and Chrystal have picked up and cleaned quite a number of them. [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]
