Lots of activity at Charlbury Manor these last few days. Firstly, our landscaper Raymond brought the bob cat in and totally cleaned up our backyard, removing 3 truckloads of rubbishy weeds and bad soil in preparation for the landscaping work that he will begin soon. He also needed to dig out around 20cm of soil in our Alfresco area ready for the deck to be constructed, which we hope will also happen soon.
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| A blank canvas to work on |
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| Excavation under the alfresco |
The pressure was on because we got a call from our concreter to say that he was ready to start on Friday morning, and once the driveway is down we can't drive on it for around a week!
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| A spot to put the rubbish bins behind the garage door |
The boys started at our place at 6.30 am Friday morning and worked solidly preparing the formwork as the exposed aggregate cement was arriving around 11 the same morning. Luckily for them, I had baked muffins, as I was also up at 6.30 that same morning and were expecting visitors for morning tea and lunch as well, so baked in readiness for the visitors, so while they were waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the cement delivery they were chief tasters of the muffins and gave them the big thumbs up!!
They worked solidly all afternoon and Dean finally went home around 7.30pm that night after a massive day.
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| At long last no dirt under the clothes line! |
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| Our verandah before being pressure washed |
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| The path from the footpath |
He was back again today to do the saw cuts and seal our lovely new driveway and path. We are very pleased with the end result, and it provides a perfect frame-work for the front garden, of which I am still in design-mode for.
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| The finished result!! |
2 comments:
looks good Janine, going to pm you re costs.
An excellent canvas for your garden ideas and so nice to have a driveway....at this stage every development excites you eh!! Deck will be awesome.
Great spot for garbage bins - my pet hate when seen from street; just lazy!
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