Destruction and redo!

[azar]

I did not think of pictures yesterday but here it goes Mack's paver patio project

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8731_zps96997f73.jpg
Stairs that will be removed today
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8730_zps5166e288.jpg
The summer time smoking deck in the right hand side you can see the tin roof that will cover it.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8729_zps0ede5f46.jpg
The toys used in project!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8728_zpsd809dd04.jpg
The walk ways leading to the house and garage! All in all there is 500 sq ft of patio to be laid. Pavers will be delivered this afternoon. It is funny the only help I have had offered is my 17yr old daughter everyone else sez I am an a$$ hole to work with!

[irratebass]

Looking good Mack, keep us updated.....i'll be on my deck tonight after work smoking and saying goodbye to winter

[Dude Here]

Looking good and good luck to ya'. We did a paver patio a few years ago at another house we lived in and, man, what a PITA that was!! From now on it's concrete or nothing for us.

[Ogre]

looks like a great start

[8zeros]

I'm always doing projects like this. Gotta keep busy, y'know.
What goes in place of the steps? Porch? Deck? Looks perfect for a small screen porch.

[azar]

I'm always doing projects like this. Gotta keep busy, y'know.
What goes in place of the steps? Porch? Deck? Looks perfect for a small screen porch.

There will be a porch then back in the back in the next couple of months a screen area.

I thought winter was over here but I am attending with frozen ground still. More pictures tomorrow. We got the old porch removed and dug down. Found out the previous owner used post create for the porch all of it was full of it not an ounce of dirt or sand under the cinder blocks! :gary when I seen that sludge hammer'd out chunks of it the skid steer I have could not lift it at all.
Hope upon hope Sunday evening will find me kicked back with a cold one and a stogie! On my new patio!:noon

[azar]

3 pallets of these showed up yesterday

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8736_zps9fccc0c1.jpg
Temporary steps in place.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8735_zps769ad17d.jpg
And lastly the wonerful white stuff we woke up to this morning D@MN YOU MOTHER NATURE!!!:r JK cause I know there could be much more!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8734_zps5a4e4d54.jpg
Note the white pipe in the picture I had protected all day yesterday (thinking it was power to the house) then I figured out the previous had a buzzer set up to the garage well it no longer exists!

[azar]

After all the gravel laid and leveled
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8752_zpsb13f6741.jpg

To just about 200 bricks laid! Some progress today even with snow!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8753_zpsed2dc635.jpg

[jhedrick83]

Looking good! Does the Lion cub in the second photo help out?;)

[gravel]

After all the gravel laid and leveled
I hope I got dinner and a movie...


(Good looking project!)

[azar]

I hope I got dinner and a movie...


(Good looking project!)
That's funny when I was typing it thought about the same thing hope you enjoyed:r:r

And for the little lion ya he helped make sure the sand was up to his standards by digging in it while I was on break! He found easy to dig in and soft to lay in !!!

[azar]

Well did not make my goal of Sunday night ran out of light no pictures tonight but will have it done Monday only 150 to go!
Mack

[jhedrick83]

Well did not make my goal of Sunday night ran out of light no pictures tonight but will have it done Monday only 150 to go!
Mack

Looking forward to seeing the final result!

[Fordman4ever]

Looking good. you want to come over to my place and help me with a project?

[azar]

Looking good. you want to come over to my place and help me with a project?

Um well maybe pending on smoke's and drink:r:r

[azar]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8758_zps17e2f822.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8757_zps1714fba7.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8756_zps79367d83.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8755_zps69ab57ac.jpg

Well all I lack is finishing up! I am sanding/sweeping then wash it down. Then next weekend I will get the tin roof put up but for now this is it. after this week I am one tired SOB! My children have picked more projects they want done in the next 24hrs! gawd I love them!
Mack

[Ogre]

looks great

[8zeros]

Lot of work done there.
Heck, I hate to pick on you but :D you could get a diamond blade for your saw and straighten up that one edge. You can just run a water hose in front of the saw as you cut. Take a little off the second to last course so you don't have to re-lay that whole side. I can just hear this old lady I work for saying for me to tear it all up and put it back down straight. Hindsight being what it is, you should have started from the corner of the house.

On second look, it's only three blocks that are short there. That's not that bad.

[azar]

Lot of work done there.
Heck, I hate to pick on you but :D you could get a diamond blade for your saw and straighten up that one edge. You can just run a water hose in front of the saw as you cut. Take a little off the second to last course so you don't have to re-lay that whole side. I can just hear this old lady I work for saying for me to tear it all up and put it back down straight. Hindsight being what it is, you should have started from the corner of the house.

On second look, it's only three blocks that are short there. That's not that bad.
Ah BITE me Roger!! JK I have looked at it a time or two. No the red brick is temporary for now till we get a little more $ then it will get stretched out I will cut then.

[azar]

Ok it's been a day or two but there has been progress and here it is.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8788_zps7c1f5136.jpg
New porch. garbage not normally there just lazy teenagers!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8791_zpse8e384a3.jpg
New flower garden
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8792_zps72a54ea3.jpg
The roof over the smoking and sunset viewing area!
All that is left to do is my lighting we have all the conduit ran and a load of gravel to push around. Should finish up in time for graduation of my oldest daughter.
Mack

[Dude Here]

That looks awesome! Nicely done Mack.

[irratebass]

I'm diggin' it :tu

[OLS]

Not sure of the solution, or if you care at all, but a tree hates it when you re-establish
ground level further up the trunk. VERY bad for the tree. Will rot the trunk in time.
Or so they say, anyway. Enjoy your projects. Looks good.

[azar]

Not sure of the solution, or if you care at all, but a tree hates it when you re-establish
ground level further up the trunk. VERY bad for the tree. Will rot the trunk in time.
Or so they say, anyway. Enjoy your projects. Looks good.

I did not know this. I am going to have to look in to this now?

[OLS]

Might just split a 5 gallon bucket that's had the bottom taken out and use half on either side and back fill?
There are solutions out there, I just know that arborists tell you to never mulch up a trunk, to use no mulch at
the trunk and a sloping pile outward, kind of like an ant lion pit. There is a solution somewhere in a pile
of junk, you just have to find it.

[8zeros]

This looks like the perfect BBQ/beer/cigar spot.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/mecleor/Paver%20patio%20buld/DSCF8792_zps72a54ea3.jpg

[WhiteMamba]

Looks great Mack. Looks ready for a herf!