Well, it has been a long time coming, but, we finally started work on the path to the front door.
Over the last few weeks, both Tony and Adrian have been out there digging out the scoria we put down when we moved, and then the crappy soil with all its added extras from the build.....getting the levels right for the paths took awhile, as the weather seemed to know when we were out there trying to do something, as everytime we started, it would rain....
We ordered our 24 pavers that we needed for the border of the path, these took a week to be made, in the meantime we got some sand in for the base, we thought we would play it smart and only put the sand around the edges and compact it down, this idea was great for those pavers that were being laid long ways, the other pavers would have to wait for their extra sand until they were to be laid...clear as mud right?...it will make sense when you see the pics...again, it rained while we were trying to lay the pavers, so we called it a night and went back the next day to do some more....
While Tony was finishing off laying the pavers and trying to make sure that they were all level, I finished off getting rid of all the weeds in what will be the front lawn....it was then i noticed that we didn't have enough pavers to finish the job....some, cretin had stolen one!!! what in the hell do you want with one 300 x 600mm paver?....I hope they dropped it and broke their toe! We rang the paving place as we knew that 25 pavers had come in on the pellet, sure enough the lonely paver was still there, the guys there thought it was a great hoot that someone had stolen a single paver...grrr
Now that the pavers have been laid, we went to Thomastown to order the crushed brick for the insert and for the paths down the side and back of the house....OMG!! we needed 11.5 cubic meters $$$$, at the same time we ordered the terracotta chips for the front garden beds.
These arrived yesterday, so, naturally we had to play with the brick stuff in the path....at this stage it looks like a tennis court, hopefully after we wet it down all the dust will disappear and you will be able to see the bricks.....what we ordered was 7mm crushed bricks...the chips are actually similar in size to the exposed stones in the driveway but in a red colour, something to go with the house bricks and a contrast to the grey drive and pavers.
Once we get the paths all laid, we will get in a wacker to firm everything down, so until then the front path is not quite finished.
Since the paths are about to be laid down the side of the house, I thought i had better get a move on and do the plinth rails of the fence, so i don't get paint all over the paths when i spray the fences...so while i was at it i also did the posts, one day i just might get around to finishing off the palings...lol
the original front path
dug up and ready to go
Tony hard at work, wacking down the scoria
scoria base
our sand edging
Stoneage pavers...Limestone in Charcoal grey, 600 x 300 x 40 mm, the paver on the left is the correct way up,
the start of the key effect, you can see now why we had to wait to put the extra sand down
finished edging
terracotta chips in the garden bed
11.5 cubic meters of crushed brick
part one of the bricks in the path
the messy front yard
cleared
better view of the cleared yard
street view 16-2-11
the painted plinth and posts
