Posts tagged "concrete"

Our New Driveway is Done!

The last big section of our new driveway was poured yesterday and one of the contractors came back this morning to cut the expansion joints.  Our new driveway is officially done!  Here are some “Before” and “After” pictures! Before: The old driveway was an uneven blend of concrete & blacktop by the garage with a…

“Slow and Steady” seems to be the name of the game for pouring the new circle driveway and parking pad in front of the garage.  Yesterday and today, the contractors finished pouring the basically straight portion of the new driveway that connects the circle part with the straight stretch out to the road.  Here’s a…

Driveway Update

I haven’t stayed on top of posting pictures of the progress on our entry way addition & new driveway over the last couple of weeks like I’d planned, but there has been a lot of progress made, so better late than never, right? Here are some pictures of the new driveway that’s going in in…

At the end of July, we decided it was time to act on some plans we’d had drawn up a few years ago for a small addition to solve several problems with the current configuration of our entry way.  We had two contractors come out to take a look at the drawings and give bids…

Since the first time we saw our house (a little over 3 years ago now!), there have been a few areas that haven’t been exactly what we hoped for … what else can you expect with a 95 year old house?  And even though the house was in really good condition when we moved in,…

Progress in the Backyard

In the last couple of months, we’ve made a lot of changes in our backyard.  Thought I’d post some pictures of the updates … Before: After: We started by installing a new block retaining wall out by the pool in place of the old railroad tie wall.  The new wall’s almost done … we just…

Backyard Updates

The retaining wall we started on a few weeks ago is now nearly done!  The blocks are pretty much in place; we just need to backfill with another few loads of gravel, finish gluing the capstones in place, and do some grading both in front of and behind the retaining wall.  Here’s a picture of…

As part of an effort to clean up and refresh the backyard this summer, we had a guy come out a couple of weeks ago to take a look at the patio out by the pool and give us an estimate for mudjacking it back to level.  Although it’s really not that big of a…