CLtotheTL32

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Awww yeah

CCColtsicehockey

I love this update. The dogs will love it even more.

CCColtsicehockey

Just finished up the rest of the updates. Awesome progress. Can't wait to see more.

Stupid neighbor is stupid.

Rounder

looks awesome!

thoiboi

Such a sucker for progress threads.. Looking good Ack!

White cabinets :cough:


I'm curious as to what the building inspector said about the property line. Hopefully he/she shut up said stupid neighbor with the facts

rockstar143

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There has to be more to show...

Yumcha

97BlackAckCL

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Yeah, sorry. I got a ton of pics of the wall/yard progress. I've been busy prepping the walls, replacing outlets, light switches, and painting the inside of the house. I'll get some pics up in the next day or 2. Wall is about maybe 1/3 of the way complete, maybe a little less

Yumcha

That'd explain why you've been AWOL.

The hockey thread has become a cyber-room for BL and dom. It's turning too :ghey: in there with their lust for each other.

97BlackAckCL

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Yeah, I've noticed

97BlackAckCL

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Just finished working for the day, I'll upload some pics

97BlackAckCL

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Alright, so I've been way behind on pictures, so you're going to get almost a week of progress in time lapse. It's been quite an impressive process so far. The hardest most tedious part is laying the base and getting it all level. Especially with all the dips and hills in my yard. Once the limestone base layer is down, they laid down a dust layer to level the blocks into.
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Then you have to get each base block level, here goes the first stone!
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Then 1 at a time, you lay them and level each corner.
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This shit literally takes hours
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Versa Lok is very cool stone, it gaps over each other, locks together.
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While we were building the wall, we had some scrap wood and 4 x 6 ft long fence panels that needed disposed of, so... we used the bobcat to make a nice fire ring and went to town.
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On Wednesday, the semi truck showed up
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Dropped off 20 pallets in the middle of my street, 20 pallets, at 2000 lbs a piece, 24 blocks per pallet.
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The Versa Lok blocks are pinned together with these glass reinforced plastic pins.
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97BlackAckCL

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Once the stone was here, the guys got right to work slapping these 100 lb blocks down.
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Here is how the stones pin together, it's amazing that these plastic pins hold together all these stones.
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The wall really started coming together the first day we had the stones.
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The next important step is backfilling the dirt
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Before the sun went down, they pulled all the rest of the pallets out of the street and up into the yard by the wall.
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Due to township regulations, a good portion of the wall is going to have to be buried, so he graded up the yard. My yard also had very poor drainage, so he's installing 2 french drains into the retaining wall to help run the water away from my yard, he got the drain gravel and pipe all ready to go
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Look it's looking like a wall now. (that level is 6 ft long) and note, he's already buried 2 stones deep
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Anything over 4 ft requires a grid material, so on top of the drainage rock, he put the grid material down, and then packed more backfill dirt
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Here you can see the various layers
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Up Up and Away!
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They are working on cleaning up the yard and finishing the wall today. I will post more pics soon

Yumcha

Looking very nice.

Yumcha

Wow, doesn't look cheap though.

97BlackAckCL

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Thanks, it's not...

CCColtsicehockey

Wall looks awesome. Sucks that you have to grade so much of the wall away and can't have a fully flat yard instead.

97BlackAckCL

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Yes, it does suck, but he's going to grade the yard so that it's not that bad

Majofo

Those windows tho..

Majofo

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97BlackAckCL

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Don't you worry about that

97BlackAckCL

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Well, my contractor blew out the hydraulic pump on the brand new bobcat, so I'm not sure how much work is going to get done this week... But it's raining and a giant mud pit back there today anyway

maharajamd

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Horyshiet. That's a big project!

Majofo

Did he kill anyone.. sheesh. That's fucking scary.

97BlackAckCL

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Not quite...

Majofo

I'm sure the pump on the bob is miniscule
butt when I worked on the mountain, we had a lift pump fail. It almost took the head off one of the operators nearby. Scary shit considering how much pressure they're under.

Hopefully it's just a rebuild and it's up and bobbing again in no time.

CCColtsicehockey

Have him come back after inspection and flatten it.

97BlackAckCL

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chill_dog

Awesome progress! Wall looks great.

CLtotheTL32

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Damn, fantastic progress! You'll have so much room for activities!

rossv1

Jealous you got to use a Bobcat

thunder04

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The wall looks awesome!

rockstar143

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Damn, man...looking sweet as fk. That is A TON of work.
What's the update with the neighbor?!!?!? She under on of them layers of backfill yet?!

97BlackAckCL

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I've actually been saying this for weeks

97BlackAckCL

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Actually, she's calmed down a lot, my buddy who's working on the job talked to her son and showed him exactly what we're doing and they're fine. It was actually my other asshole neighbor down the street who was fucking with me

rockstar143

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Good.
I was disappoint that the job foreman (your dog) wasn't in any of the new pics.

97BlackAckCL

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You're right, he's been slacking on the job. The lady of the house had to take over supervisory responsibilities....

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97BlackAckCL

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She's also been overseeing the progress inside the house
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The back yard is a mud pit, so I just dumped 50 pics off my phone for my next update...

rockstar143

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I love her...looks like a little cow.

97BlackAckCL

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My buddy's wife calls her moo moo