Darkavich's Daily Ramblings Ramblings of a Mad Sys-Admin

November 20, 2006

am I going to hell?

Filed under: Items in the Pensieve — Darkavich @ 5:32 pm

So driving home today, I was wondering, is it a bad thing if I grin after a car has been tailgating you at 65-mph during rush hour suddenly decides they own the freeway, passes you at 90-mph cuts in front of you, swerving all over the road, flips over, bursts into flames and explodes?

well that’s what happened tonight up until the flips over stuff 😉 I was thinking…”I could care less if you exploded into flames tonight.”

November 15, 2006

It’s all coming together

Filed under: Projects — Darkavich @ 8:38 pm

The pavers are all done except for being sealed.

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November 13, 2006

A step up

Filed under: Projects — Darkavich @ 7:31 pm

We got tired of having to step down out of the back door, so we installed a step. It doesn’t look as good in the photo as it does in person.

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The pavers were cut around all the pipes for the BBQ. Once it is sanded, it will be solid fit. To be safe, I will still strap it to the inside of the BBQ.

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Here are some additional pictures of the work done so far.

poolwalk

walkway

The pavers arrived

Filed under: Projects — Darkavich @ 7:20 pm

The pavers arrived and they started unloading

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It’s amazing how big they look on pallets, you think they have way too many stones, but as they start laying them you realize they have enough.

A base is laid down that is made of crushed concrete. On top of that is laid sand. You can see how they level out the sand below:

sand

please take away all that water

Filed under: Projects — Darkavich @ 6:56 pm

With the new pavers being installed, we wanted to make sure that there was no water pools that would form, so we installed new drainage. This turned out to be a lot of trouble.

We wanted to put extra drainage near the bbq area, but when the trenches were dug, we had to move several pipes. In doing so, we nicked another pipe. This last one turned out to be the hardest one to repair. I ended up tearing up a six foot segment and redoing the entire pipe.

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Although this was a lot of trouble, this will really help keep the water from pooling up on the pavers and washing away the sand.

drainage

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