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Need ideas: Patio blocks/concrete paver pattern
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One neighbor has a pretty nice lawn. The other neighbor has some dirt spots
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ok. I am a member here, but not lately. these guys are the VU forum for your house . lots of good people there. though, some of them, they are "by the book" = costly. this place REALLY helped me out A LOT !
https://www.diychatroom.com/
ok, good. then there is hope for your lawn. but, lawns take years to make right. even when you do get grasss to grow, it will not look good for a few years. that is, unless you throw a bunch of money at it.
Looks good!My backyard lawn which is the worst because of too much shade and runoff tonight during the rain while BBQ'ing some Skirt Steaks this afternoon.
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Thatch it and seed with moss and the seed will grow in 2 weeks because it is early yet in the season. My front lawn looks like Citi Field and we are only in May. Lots of work but getting complimented by landscapers makes me feel like I actually accomplished what I set out to do.
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my back yard needs to be flattened out. it has low spots that collect water during heavy rains, then some of that finds it's way into my basement .
the fix would cost about $1000 and a lot of work. I don't see that happening.
I had a sinking spot in my front lawn from an Old Oak Tree we removed years ago. Had 2 yards of topsoil delivered and leveled the front right side with it. Took 2 years for the lawn to come back but now was well worth the work out. Although the topsoil brought crabgrass is why it took two fucking years~
Got em in
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Probably late on my end, I could see a Zen garden with pea stones, a few larger boulders/big river rocks, wooden rake easily. Might even do a small Koi ' glodfish pound with stream running through on one corner.
I need to take care of it for the winter. More Work? Fuck that~~!
*chuckles* Roger. I hear that.
I am over here getting antsy though. We're waiting to get into OURS and not some rental, or apartment as now. Besides some of us are nutty enough we like the working.
Dealing with people? Nope, not so much a choice we desire to take, let us go do.Apologies for all the revision, had a train of thought side railed and needed to get everything back to order. Sometimes we all think angrily. Nothing wrong being angry, not wrong to express it either. Wrong though to express it without tact. So I cleaned up the post, a lot.
That and it is better keeping cards to the vest a bit.
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Wow looks great! Your house, bricks, grass, everything! It's amazing. I think I'll keep my pics to myself now hahaIt's all you fault @Mykreign that I changed all the rectangular bricks to Scalloped~!
Aside from moving a ton of bricks with my vehicle I moved to the back patio to move them back around front~! Then yesterday piled up the leftovers so not in the way for the 4th of July BBQ.
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Thanks~! It is a lot of work though. I wound up finding these on Craigslist for FREE. So cost me the gas and time plus a bottle of Fantastic with bleach to clean them. I figure it was well worth it for about $400 dollars of these scalloped bricks. Trimming all the bushes and trees around the house is a back breaking job that has to be done in stages. No way for me to do them all in one day.
It's worth it though when you can sit back with a drink and vape and admire how good it looks.
I've been pretty happy with how my back yards looking. It was bare dirt when I bought this house last fall. It's coming in nicely with just a few bare spots that I'll have to seed again.
Also just had the main water line to my house replaced a few weeks ago. They tore up most of my front and side lawn. I now have grass that I planted coming up there as well.
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The grass I planted next to the scalloped bricks by the garage came up in less than a week~! Lots of rain and a couple of hot days is all you need.
Yup it's rained so much here. We've had more rain than sunshine. Setting records for rainfall and water levels of the great lakes.
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After busting my ass for the last two days cutting bushes in the back yard I was out there just sitting and drinking a nice icy water or a glass of wine~! Had coffee there this morning and actually going to eat dinner on the back patio. A nice salad with my fresh homegrown lettuce and a plate of pasta. Naturally don't forget the beverage~!
Very nice!After busting my ass for the last two days cutting bushing in the back yard I was out there just sitting and drinking a nice icy water or a glass of wine~! Had coffee there this morning and actually going to eat dinner on the back patio. A nice salad with my fresh homegrown lettuce and a plate of pasta. Naturally don't forget the beverage~!
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Yeah I have to agree 100% that there is no finer pleasure in life then being able to admire your hard work. Especially when you hear from someone else that it looks great. Like how nice your project turned out. That is why I decided to do what I did and still have more to do but it is only in the planning stage right now.
I need to scope out Craigslist more. I'd like to get some more patio furniture. 2 grand to fix the water is setting me back.
I've had a lot of compliments on the patio that I patched up but I think they're just being nice lol
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No, I think you need a great job without redoing the whole damn thing. I hate when I spend hours working on repairing something like that to not be satisfied and rip the whole fucking thing out and start over.
It's all you fault @Mykreign that I changed all the rectangular bricks to Scalloped~!
Aside from moving a ton of bricks with my vehicle I moved to the back patio to move them back around front~! Then yesterday piled up the leftovers so not in the way for the 4th of July BBQ.
hey man, that looks REALLY NICE. I really need to fix my front up, but I am so damned hooked on this forum I can't get up off my ass.
is that your dad ?
only 2 grand !?! round here that would be 5g.
lol, same here.
Yeah sitting under the Mock Sabret Umbrella I set up for him because he really should not be in the sun. At 91 years you can't tell them anything you know?
Hey you can't see where I had to cheat on the plume line because of the roots from the fig tree. Just have to know how to take pictures that hide the imperfections~~!
Back to back patio to finish my wine. Dinner was awesome. Wish it was my tomatoes but soon~!
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Heres some pictures from this spring.
This is what it looks like now. A few months later.
Still have a lot of work to do. All in due time. I'm not the richest of people lol
that's really looking better. don't get obsessed with it, grass can take some time, like years.
and if you have a water softener, DO NOT use this water for anything that grows. specially new grass.
You can get an established lawn in one season because I added two yards of dirt to the center of my lawn where we used to have an Giant Oak tree. After all these years even though they ground that stump deep and I took yards of wood chips out it was sinking. Used to go down into a gully to cut the lawn. Seeded and had it back in one season. Remember with new seed water twice a day. Very important.
true. it can take even less than that. i have an area that is growing well, 2 months maybe.
but what happens is some of the seed doesn't take for a season or two.
what it would take for him to do his whole yard = unreasonable. just throw down seed and rake it in, then wait.
