Home Remodel: Phase 2

Once upon a time we moved into a townhouse. This is what the front “yard” was like when we moved in.

  

 So with the help of a sledge hammer and our neighbors crowbar, we decided to take out that slab.

Very quickly the rubble was piling up. So we enlisted some help to finish breaking it up and putting half the pile in a bagster.

 Coolest thing ever.


 They bring this truck with a crane that come out and the driver uses this remote control to move the crane and lift the bagster into the truck bed. There is a 3000 lb max limit allowed in the bag, we barely made it. The truck tried once and it wouldn’t go, so he had to move the truck closer and we got it in. Most nervewracking thing ever. But fun to watch and oh so relieving when it’s gone.

 Remember that was only half the pile. For the part of the rest I did some landscaping

 It rained and everyone got muddy.

 So we cleaned up in the sink.

 Then finally finished lining the front and back yard garden area’s with concrete.

 Next came multiple, multiple, multiple trips to the free mulch pile to get recycling bins full of free mulch to fill in the space. Top that with a few bags of topsoil, grass seed, and peat moss and you get…a front yard.

 Wait for several weeks and you see grass.

 And after a couple more weeks you know that you need to plant more seed…but that will have to wait until the spring.

 Back to the cement, after two trips to the dump (they only allow one freebie per year-thanks so much to our friends for using their identity for the 2^nd trip), our remaining pile of cement remains next to our door. We are slowing throwing it away a few pounds at a time. It will be here a while, so come and see it.