Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Concrete

These are the ‘before’ pictures of one of our major early projects: concrete removal.



This is the ‘before’ picture of the back yard. I took this standing on the steps that lead down from the porch into the back. I’ll keep taking pictures from this location to show the updates.





This is how the back yard looked when we bought the house. The fence separating our yard from Mrs. Reese’s (a fabulous retired lady who has lived here since 1948) yard was completely rotten. The side walk running along side that fence has contributed to the death of the maple in the picture, and something must be done about that horrible hot tube frame and deck!



This is the start of the project: remove the side walk on the right hand side of the yard, the fence, and turn this back yard back into something beautiful.


Along the Southeast side of the house, there is a small sidewalk whose width takes us right up to the property line. In the middle of that sidewalk, there is an disused entrance to our basement, which we are having walled up and back filled shortly. But, just to the south of that entrance, there is this ‘depression’ in the sidewalk, which is collecting water and causing some sagging in the structure of the house. In the middle bedroom on the second floor, the sag comes to about 1.25 inches. We need to create a new drainage channel to flush that water to the street. That’s where I come in. I need to remove this sidewalk so that when Mike (our contractor) walls up the old entrance and backfills it, we can lay the new drain. So, lots more concrete destruction to go!





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