Ok, it's much much cleaner now, but it's still rather soulless.
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This past Fall, the place next door to us was being worked on by the city. This included replacing hundreds (if not a thousand) bricks on the breezeway wall facing our entrance. A much improved situation, I'll agree, but the scissor lift did a hell of a job on our concrete ... cracks are bigger... one slab seems to have dropped 1/2". Not good. I don't think they're coming back to fix it, as they promised, either.
So it's time to start thinking about either digging it all up and re-pouring, or resurfacing. No way in Hades am I pouring the same grey/green sidewalk-looking, parking lot eyesore slab.
No, I want stamped and dyed concrete. Patterned in brink.
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I want it, but not sure of the cost. I'm thinking... A LOT.
But first thing's first... we can't dig up and pour without setting in a new fence first, and our wrought iron fence has been locked up in the back yard for long enough. Time to start looking for the Sandstone base and a welder.
This is what I'm looking to base our plan on, although our fence is hairpin & loop (see pic below).
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Not exciting, but it was 100% free. :-)
Of course, we could dig up the front slab (it's going away forever, I want a small garden plot in the front) and we could find a brick walkway under all that concrete. Who knows. Demo is a very exciting time.
Now where are those jackhammers?
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