biggerboat's building boondoggle blog
I started this in H&F but this seems a better place for it. These are my H&F posts. A bit long-winded but hopefully en
Don't overwork and hurt yourself. If the sifting and dirt move takes a while, it takes a while. Slow and steady.
On the easement thing. I wonder if you called a towing company and reported a "vehicle I don't own parked on my property," if they would cart it away.
"Gee, I don't know what happened to your backhoe."
if not an easement then they have to restore it back to they way they found it as well. sod back the grass, etc.
They do an OK job of putting it back together. The biggest problem is there have been at least 3, maybe 4 companies putting lines in and each one decides on a different spot to dig up so everyone's yards are a patchwork of sod pieces.
Dolly once sung a heartfelt tune about the value from coats of many colors
one approach could be to apply the same overall attitude toward your front yard horticultural experiment until some random strain of bermuda ultimately takes over
awesome stuff right there bb efforts looks more than worth your two days of expected afterpain
Looks great, but I think one is out of place. Not that one, but close.
Yeah, most inspectors want to see proper window flashing with the housewrap layered correctly (bottom, sides, then top) so water sheds properly. For the decking, the usual thing they check is the nail pattern and edge support, so following the typical spacing and adding H-clips if needed should keep them happy.
fill in that big muddy hole under your boat?
Bury it in an unused corner.
Dump it over in the lot across the street where they're tearing down that house. Nobody will ever notice.
never bury a body under a fresh pile of dirt
Yep, bring a rake and mix it around.
did you not just witness a deft landscape rock technique?
I literally laughed out loud with this one.
We have the voice of experience here.
The great suggestions keep piling in.
Yeah! What's wrong with these people?!



