whew. you are to be commended: I'd offer more but the weight of the commendation will have me growning with help as it is.
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Dale Leavens wrote: > The truck just left. The chap unloading was pretty darn good. He happily > dropped the loads exactly where I wanted them. He showed me the boom truck, > he has a long cable with a pendant control pad on the end of it from which he > operates the clam for lifting the pavers and then adds a fork to lift the > pallets for the retaining wall stones. First time I have actually got up > close and personal with such a truck. > > He was pretty interested in the work I have done and intends to come back for > pictures when I am done. I gather his boss uses them for sort of promotional > material. > > So far 16 bundles of pavers, four of Royal Gray retaining wall and another of > big buggers the name of which I just forget. The remaining 14 bundles of > pavers and 30 curbs come in a week or so. I doubt I will be ready for them by > then but they will be ready for me. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dale Leavens > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:30 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: Patio project update. > > > Hi Dan, > > You might like to investigate those retaining wall bricks. There are several > configurations, one bunch I am getting today have a textured face and a > flange hanging down at the rear. Each course sits about half an inch back of > the previous course, maybe a little less. You can stick them together with > construction adhesive and they even have cap stones for a top finish it you > prefer. Beats the heck out of mixing and buttering with mortar and all that > means. The dirt behind forces them forward keeping them in place. You can > even form steps by laying a row then a cap and another row behind that. You > should stick the steps as it might be possible to tip the cap stone if > standing on it's edge particularly if you hang it over a little for best > visual effect. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: Patio project update. > > Dale, > > I am tired just reading about your progress. Makes my basement door thing > seem pathetically small in comparison. > > I dug a hole in the bottom of the pit on Sunday. I sunk a large plastic > sump into the hole. I dumped a bunch of gravel at the bottom of this > secondary hole, punched a bunch of holes in the bottom of the plastic sump > and placed the sump into the hole and dumped a bit more gravel into the > sump to weight it down a bit and keep it from shifting too much. > > There is a lid on the sump and there will be a drain passing through the > cement slab and draining into the sump. > > There will also be some of that 4 inch perforated pipe running around the > outside of the pit and dumping into the sump. This will hopefully keep > the pit reasonably dry except in the case of continuous rain for several > days. > > Now I just have to haul all the cement up the stairs and I can pour the > slab. > > Then I'll just have to haul all the cement blocks up the stairs and build > the walls of the pit. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
