Yesterday David got a call from one of the contractors working on one of his projects and the contractor said that he had a bunch of pavers that he had to get rid of asap and if we could haul them- we could have them.
Amazingly- we've been looking at pavers to add some walkways to the back yard-but they are pretty expensive so we had put that project on the back burner.
These were pavers that were used for only about 9 months as a temporary sidewalk and stairs. They are nice and smooth concrete on top and are a good color of gray. We had looked at the ones at home depot and brought one home and they looked bright white against our other slabs of concrete. The ones we got for free are great, and now David can have a new yard project that should keep him busy for another month or so.
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You're a good man, David. Don't hurt your back. :)
Thanks Nathan. We really lucked into those pavers. We laid out the bigger ones (24x24) last weekend; though not the final installation. We have just over 100 SF of 9x9 pavers that will replace the failing sidewalk to the front door. And the biggest part of the project involves demoing the old, monolithic concrete steps and replacing them with modular block steps. The existing steps are broken and uneven from settling over the years... pretty hazardous really. The modular block steps look a lot better than they sound, and the best part is I can do the labor myself... I really didn't want to build the formwork for a new cast-in-place stair, nor deal with buying, mixing, and pouring concrete. When the stairs are in, we'll do some planting in the adjacent flower beds and install some low-voltage path lighting. Yeah, I'm pretty excited :) We'll get started on the front in mid to late July.
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