Silverback
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Supposedly stone a concrete start next week. Gunite needs to cure for 5 days before they can do the quartz plaster. For those 5 days I need to "water" the gunite 2x a day.
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CowboyTaco
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Removed a section of driveway. Had to get fill dirt and install lights.
Tacoma doing work.
Took two trips and a cubic yard of soil each trip. The Dakar springs handled the weight really well. Still thinking I need to add the helper spring though.
Tacoma doing work.
Took two trips and a cubic yard of soil each trip. The Dakar springs handled the weight really well. Still thinking I need to add the helper spring though.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Garage is getting close to being clean! Close.
CowboyTaco
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Installed lights on the outside of the new garage.
LED with photosensor.
LED with photosensor.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Nice!!
Pics or I do not believe it. Better yet I will come down and verify for myself in 45 days. (When will the pool be ready?)
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Nice, really like the down directional of the lighting, what lights are those?
CowboyTaco
Well-Known Member
They are brighter then what I was expecting as well. I thought the color would be closer to the exterior lights that we just finished up on the front of the house.
But since it is a detached garage, I'm OK with the security of the brighter lights.
Oswego
n00b
I fought what I thought were tree rats getting into my attic through a degraded fascia board. Kids in my court said it was a raccoon - I thought no way - must just be a big silver squirrel. Well turns out the kids were right. It was a racoon. Judging from the size of the turds in my attic it's not a squirrel. Only idea as to how they got on my roof was through the trees so I cut every branch within "jumping" distance to my house before I closed up the fascia board. Now I pray I didn't trap it in there - so far so good. No pitter-patter of feet last night.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Oswego
n00b
As soon as I popped my head into the attic I could smell it and that's with a 3m respirator on. I cleaned every bit of poop I could find and it was only 2 huge turds.
Only fear now is I trapped it up there, but I did a pretty good search before I closed it back up. Fingers crossed it wasn't hiding real good on me. Still shaking my head as to how it was coming & going. I can assume how it got up on my roof through the trees that were close to jump down onto my roof, but not how it was getting down once it was on my roof.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
I can imagine you sticking your head up in the attic and this rabid creature attacks your face! LMAO!! 
Oswego
n00b
I can imagine you sticking your head up in the attic and this rabid creature attacks your face! LMAO!!
Oh you weren't the only one thinking that. I had on the following even though it was 90* in my attic:
3m respirator
Ski mask for my mouth & cheeks
Ski goggles
Ski gloves
thick insulated shirt
insulated ski pants
boots
even with all that crap on I carried up my winter snow shovel for my car because it's light and I can swing it fast. My biggest fear was running away from it and missing a joist to only have me and the rabid animal come crashing into my living room through my ceiling. I was sweating bullets.
Do yourself a favor and take thousands of pictures of everything around the pool. Also, make a drawing with underground pipe locations and where the pipes terminate or which way they run. If there is a coupler, 45°, 90° or 3-way tee in the pipes then take a measurement and document it. I'd use the house or something that is not going to change over the years as a point of reference (don't use fences, trees or something like that because that location can/will change over time).Supposedly stone a concrete start next week. Gunite needs to cure for 5 days before they can do the quartz plaster. For those 5 days I need to "water" the gunite 2x a day.
Does it sound a bit overkill to do all of that? Yes, but it will be a time saver in the future. Trust me.
I wish I had the foresight to do this when I had my mom's pool renovated. We ended up with a leak underneath the concrete and had to cut out a good sized concrete section to find it.
balakay
BabyMax
Funny you mention it coming through your ceiling. My sister and her boyfriend used to live in some ghetto apartments and they had a leak in their roof and it started to form a wet spot in the ceiling right above their bed. The worthless landlord was dragging their feet getting it repaired and getting another apartment ready for them to swap over to so in the meantime they moved their bed to the living room. My sister was taking a nap one day before she went I to work and heard a crash in the bedroom. Opened the bedroom door and a raccoon had fallen through where the ceiling had rotted from the water. She called animal control and they told her they couldn't be there until Monday unless it was an emergency. She said "yeah, there's a god damn raccoon in my fucking apartment!".
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Wrote a check for part of the pool construction today... pretty sure my checkbook can float now its that much lighter. LOL
Upside is that the stone masons are there and the designer sprayed out the outline for the concrete patio area/steps and firepit area. I also asked the head stone mason to do a sidejob for me. On the backside of the pool I want a landscaping bed outlined with stone so he is going to do that as side job.
Upside is that the stone masons are there and the designer sprayed out the outline for the concrete patio area/steps and firepit area. I also asked the head stone mason to do a sidejob for me. On the backside of the pool I want a landscaping bed outlined with stone so he is going to do that as side job.