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The All In Point

Every project has a point-of-no-return. The patio project is at
that point.

With the two retaining wall completed, the next phase is the pavers. Installing pavers, in theory, is pretty straight forward. Dig down, put a layer of gravel, followed by a layer of sand, followed by the pavers, followed by a final coating of sand to fill the joints.

The actual doing is a little more involved.

So that’s the result of the digging part. I had a guy who knows what he’s doing with a skidsteer do the digging under the deck. If I’d done it by hand, I’d still be digging into next year. He left it in piles and then left me the skidsteer to push the piles around for awhile. Since I had the machine, I also moved the remaining stone I had down under the deck. Saved me a lot of trip with the wheelbarrow. The result is the, uh, scene above.

There is no going back now.

3 replies on “The All In Point”

At least now, there is a much better perspective on the overall scope of this project. The photos from Phase I and II did not give me the overall perspective I needed to see what was actually going on. It’s going to be really neat when it’s all done !

ps …… too bad you have to return the Skidsteer ……….. 🙂

No- I want to get them done, as much as possible, before that. I intend to have them bring the pavers around to the back when the drop ship them. They’re big and having to walk back and forth to the driveway or even moving them around with the wheelbarrow is less than ideal.

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