Latest home improvement project

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jerrytsuseer2.1 K10 months agoPeakD3 min read

This was the state of the yard/driveway when I purchased the place in Dec 2020

I moved those cross ties over to where the black line is on the right

Then I had MANY tons of crush and run gravel hauled in and spread
Sadly, I don't have a good photo of that, but my idea was that there would be LESS grass to keep cut, and more driveway that that narrow band running up near the house.
That much was a success, but over near the moved cross ties the grass and weeds continued coming through.
SO....
I decided to create a parking pad next to the old garage building, only the small metal building was in that spot.
I got an estimate and engaged a concrete service, Merida Solutions Concrete LLC (they are from Guatemala)

After some communication issues, the work began yesterday, Jan 5, 2024 they started about 8 AM, the concrete to be delivered and poured at 11:30 AM

First the metal building was moved from ↑Here↑ to

That right hand corner of the drive, it had to be rotated 90°

Then the parking pad was poured.
I had also decided to remove (relocate if possible) the old pad outside my bedroom back door, enlarge that so that eventually have a porch covering built.
SO, it was moved from here

To make a good pad for the side entrance to the old garage

The the back porch form was construced and the pouring/finishing could begin

It was my idea, based on some previous finishing work where I was working (back when I could do those things) to throw down rock (I wanted much smaller pebbles, but that wasn't meant to be)

into the surface of the nearly cured concrete
The crew did not want to do this, but it was my project and I was paying the bill, so

↑THIS is how it looks this morning
The crew is coming back to remove the wooden forms.
After I saw that it was going to rain overnight, I worried about the runoff from the roof of the old garage on the not quite cured concrete; I SHOULD have gone out and put some plastic or something to catch that water falling, but I didn't, and it could have been worse