hardly played any poker all summer but...
i managed to finish off almost all my backyard landscaping! the wife, my father, and i did it all ourselves - put in around 700 square feet of patio, re-bricked the basement walk-up, put up a shed, added a new gate, and put in a retaining wall. there's still a few things left to do (a little back filling, and still have to put a rail in for the walk-up), but pretty much all finished.
i did pay someone to break up the old patio as that would have been a huge job to do myself, but all in all i probably saved around $20 grand doing the work myself.
some before and after pics below. i'm so proud
i did pay someone to break up the old patio as that would have been a huge job to do myself, but all in all i probably saved around $20 grand doing the work myself.
some before and after pics below. i'm so proud
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my father is kind of a handyman of sorts. when he retired years ago he started doing random landscaping/construction/renovation jobs just for fun. as he always used to tell me, "whenever someone asks you if you know how to do a job, just say yes and look it up later"
so true comp. it feels great to do all this for my own place.
lol, i have been contemplating having a poker game at my place. i have plenty of room in the basement for one. i was also debating on having a big (well, for me) BAP at the end of the summer but just was too busy...
heh, well technically that's not true. i hired someone to break up and ship away the concrete patio and pathways that were originally there. they were pretty thick in parts and had a decent amount of re-bar in them. doing it myself with a jackhammer would have been a nightmare. they brought in their little truck thing with a huge jackhammer and smashed it all up. still took them 2 days doing it that way.
now once they removed the concrete, the wife and i did all the digging. mostly in 30+ degrees weather as well lol. it took a while, but i'd rather do the dirty work and save money on paying someone else to do it.