Patio Progress #3

Oh yeaaahhhh!!!!!

Well, that says it all. The steps are in, the pavers are in, the gardens are in, the lawn is in… and it’s looking rather @*#$% awsome if you ask me! We did a lot of ground work for the patio base, so the 530 pavers went down with relative ease. The two-tier side garden below the lawn has been tidied with a small slate/concrete wall, and the grass in on the lawn is growing nicely. The next phase is to do the bottom steps, and the deck.

Overall

Posted in Our House at October 20th, 2010. No Comments. - 1,211 views

Patio Progress #1

I thought I would just add some information on our progress on the patio project. So far we have been digging, and digging, and digging… The skip we hired was picked up today which had about 3 cubic meters of concrete and clay! Luckily it didn’t put holes in our driveway hehe. To help explain how everything will be constructed, see the image below:

Patio Layout

This image was taken from Solidworks where I have built up a 3D model of the whole area, showing all the dimensions and how it will all be constructed. That way I can see how many posts I need for walls, the length everything and how it will fit together.

The original land surface was sloping from the front of the upper lawn down to the front of the patio and down through the deck. Therefore most of the patio needs to be dug out, as well as an area below the patio for the wall and part of the deck. To build the upper steps, the patio garden wall needs to go in, and to do that we at least need to put in the front corner post which is also one of the posts for the retaining wall below the patio. Therefore we have started with that.

As far as lighting goes, there will be spots in the patio garden wall, and upper garden wall, strip light along the front of each of the upper steps and maybe spots on the lower steps, and maybe a few spots in the patio-deck wall.

You can see the pictures of the construction of the patio here.

Posted in Our House at April 26th, 2010. No Comments. - 1,109 views

Garden Sleepers – Before/After

Now that my long awaited garden sleepers are all finished, I thought I would just show a side-by-side Before/After shot of the path and garden. Below are two images, where the top one is a photo from June 2009 shortly after we moved into the house. As you can see, the garden edge is low and falling over, allowing bark to fall out over the path. Also, on the right the lawn is very untidy. The bottom photo, was taken in February 2010 a few weeks after I finished the garden sleepers. Since the sleepers went in, not a single piece of bark has fallen out. Also, the path looks awesome at night, and the lawn is damn good!

Posted in Our House, Uncategorized at February 22nd, 2010. No Comments. - 1,149 views