You already know how one can wait years for one thing, by no means see any progress in direction of it, after which when it lastly occurs, it looks like issues are transferring ahead at lightning pace? Yeah, that’s how issues have felt round right here these final couple of weeks.
First, after planning and dreaming a few workshop for years and years, the second lastly got here and it was inbuilt a day (for probably the most half). And now, we’ve determined to have our driveway poured after eleven years of not having one, and as soon as the ball began rolling, it appears to have gained pace in a short time.
The entire preliminary prep work is finished. That work consisted of eradicating a complete lot of junk timber that had grown up over the previous couple of years. (I do know calling hackberry timber “junk timber” could be a bit controversial for some folks, however most individuals round right here name them junk or trash timber. However even when these timber had been oak or pecan or one thing very nice, they nonetheless would have needed to be minimize down, sadly. So I’m glad they have been hackberry. I don’t really feel as responsible reducing these down.)
So right here’s what it regarded like earlier than they obtained right here yesterday morning (though the 11-foot chain hyperlink gate had already been eliminated)…
And right here’s what it appears like now after they minimize all the timber down yesterday, despatched them by means of the wooden chipper, after which got here again early this morning and floor all the stumps down.
I can’t imagine how a lot better that appears already! It’s going to look so good with a concrete driveway!
I additionally had them do some trimming on the pecan tree in entrance to take away all the low branches that have been scraping the highest of my van each time I’d pull to the again.
Then there have been these two actually massive piles of limbs from the emergency limb elimination that needed to occur the morning the blokes arrived to construct my workshop. The image is a bit deceiving. I don’t suppose it captures simply how massive these piles actually have been.
So all of that obtained picked up and despatched by means of the wooden chipper.
In addition they did fairly a little bit of trimming and clear up behind the workshop. There’s nonetheless a lot that must be finished, however proper now, the driveway is the main focus. I simply wanted the piles left behind from the workshop, and something that will probably be in the way in which of the driveway to be eliminated.
As a humorous sidenote, I’ve to giggle that each one that’s been to our property within the current days (concrete man, tree trimming guys, the blokes who got here out to take away the fence and gate) have all remarked about how we’ve got an empty lot behind us. 😀 They’re all the time so shocked to search out out that that’s a part of our lot. I’m telling you, it’s very uncommon to have such an enormous lot inside the town. That’s one of many fundamental causes I wished to purchase this home.
After which additionally they cleaned up all the massive piles of brush that I had piled up from the limbs I minimize down earlier than my workshop was constructed, they usually trimmed the timber again that have been hanging low over the place the driveway will lengthen behind my workshop.
And one remaining factor. They removed the junk tree that retains rising on this space in entrance of the breakfast room. They minimize it down, after which floor the stump. So now I must put one thing on it so that it’ll by no means come again. That factor grows like every week. Once I trimmed it to do {the electrical} shops on the facet of the studio, the factor had grown AGAIN to a minimum of 20 toes excessive, if not larger. My mother has one at her again fence that grows a few foot every week, if not sooner. It’s insane!
So the whole lot is now all prepped and able to go. Fence and gate eliminated. Bushes eliminated. Stumps floor down properly beneath floor degree.
So what was the value for that prep work? $3,600.00. That looks like a totally honest value to me as a result of all of that was some arduous labor, and it could have taken me a month of stable work to get all of it finished had I attempted to do it myself. This fashion, all of it obtained finished in two days, and now there’s no delay for the concrete man to begin his work.
Like I stated, this has been a means of sluggish, sluggish, sluggish, sluggish, sluggish…..FAST! Hopefully we’ll see some driveway varieties start constructed on Monday! And I’ll undoubtedly be asking him beforehand a few French drain the place the workshop ramp meets the carport, as a few of you prompt. I respect these suggestions, as I by no means would have considered that myself.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
