Ok so the driveway
Here’s how we decide whether we’re going to do something ourselves or hire it out: will this project require procuring and/or moving more than 500lbs of material? I think we max out at 500lbs. Well, Beth maxes out at 500lbs (see the great mulch-haul). I crumble under far less. Cuz you know why? It’s heavy and it makes me mad to carry heavy things. There it is.
So we’ve been saving up to get the driveway repoured in lovely, spanking new concrete. Oh why bother? Because it used to look like this:
When the guys went to tear it out, in addition to finding that there was no rebar (not suprising in an old house) they also tore out several tree-trunk size roots including one that was easily 12 inches across and 7 feet long. (Sadly my camera picked that day to crap out for good so my photos of it turned out as a test-pattern of green pixels. Fie!) Demolition done, the guys doing the work laid down a lovely modern mesh of rebar and poured the crack free, un-paint-spilled-on, properly reinforced driveway. Now all the concrete on the front of our property is new and gorgeous.
As an added bonus, they poured a couple of piers in front of our retaining walls (again, old walls, no rebar, no modern drainage) for a little extra stability. When digging the holes, our foreman showed me the rebar he was going to use to support the piers: 4 inch rebar that was leftover from the new Bay Bridge! Yep, our house is reinforced with bridge materials. Rad. Of course I still need to paint.
casacaudill said,
November 6, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
Oh, it looks so great! Who did you use? Cuz I’ve got an ugly red cracking, peeling jumbled mess of a driveway I’d like to get rid of.
Amerloc said,
November 6, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
I can think of other uses for leftover rebar, given recent election results, but that driveway looks sweet as wildflower honey.
myrta said,
November 23, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
Girls the driveway looks fantastic!!!
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