Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Landscaping…Day 1

The JLM Landscape crew started on the landscaping at the “L” Shaped House this morning. In the first photos below Andy and his crew are installing the 4” PVC pipes that will drain the patio outside the basement walk-out door. We are going to have two 12” catch basins in the outer corners of the patio (each having its own PVC pipe) and a long section of drain tile in the hill to the left that will eventually connect to the vertical PVC pipe in the first photo. the second photo shows the far ends of the PVC pipes “looking out” the hill behind the house.

The video shows Andy filling the front end of the trench with the tracked skid steer. All the rain in October has left the soil completely saturated and makes the Cat 277B sound like it is working pretty hard.

The last photo shows Andy starting to work on the West side of the back yard. He plans to install the crushed limestone base by the walk-out door and “sculpt” the grades tonight making it possible for us to meet on the site tomorrow with Brett and finalize the overall landscape plan.

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