Mrs Beaver say time to spruce up the back yard - A work in progress with PICS

Busy Beaver Lumber · July 07, 2014, 09:31:33 PM

Well we have been in the house for over 10 years, and the original house plans called for two seperate decks on the back of the house, one off the dining room and one off the three seasons room. For one reason or another, ( primarily my auto accident about 8 years ago) the decks never got built.

Lord know Mrs. Beaver has been patient, but I decided that this was the year i would tackle that project and even more. I have both deck built and decided to tie them together with a large paver block patio with free standing fireplace. Then to top things off, I decided to kick things up a notch and add a 12 foot in diameter screened gazebo, covered grill area, built in meat smoker and sink .

Did the digging for the patio this weekend and hurt places I did not know i could hurt. I think i hand dug enough dirt to fill a tandem dump truck. Had to hand did because cable, phone and internet wires ran through excavation site and depth was unknown as to how deep they were burried.

A few patio paver to lay, 2000 to be exact.

Peter Drouin · July 07, 2014, 10:08:31 PM

thecfarm · July 08, 2014, 06:12:00 AM

Boy.you go from a stand still to wide open!! Sounds like a project,but will be nice when it's all done.

clww · July 08, 2014, 04:52:29 PM

Sounds most impressive. 8)
This is a prime example why my wife is not a member on here. ;)

Busy Beaver Lumber · July 10, 2014, 05:23:07 PM

i really over did it. Got all that done in two weeks and bundled and wrapped nearly 2000 bundles of wood, but now can hardly grab a pen to write my name thanks to carpal tunnel flair up. But as they say in poker, I am pot committed at this point and need to keep going

justallan1 · August 25, 2014, 09:56:49 PM

Looks like quite a project, but it'll sure be nice when completed.

Allan

drobertson · August 26, 2014, 05:11:28 PM

I have to say really, 10 years is not that long of a wait for this! It just takes time to get all the logistics, and boy does that look nice! cant' wait to see the pavers down,

sawguy21 · August 26, 2014, 11:24:56 PM

That is looking very nice but the sight of those pavers makes my back hurt.

Busy Beaver Lumber · September 02, 2014, 04:30:10 PM

getting close to being done. Putting down the full pavers was easy. What took a lot of time was the 300+ cuts i had to make for the less than full pieces. Hope to be done this week and have completed pics to share. To be honest, it was more work than i anticipated and not sure I would ever do it again at my age and in my condition.