We made great progress this week:
1. Logan hauled several loads of crushed rock in, re-graded our driveway and spread the new rock to create a good bed.
2. The folks from Panther Paving finished shaping the rock & compacted it. They topped it with asphalt and made a good looking driveway. The city required a paved driveway to approve occupancy or we would have left it in crushed rock for a year or two and then done a nicer looking one in cement, but this is a good solution for much less money.
3. Jose and his crew finished the exterior paint scheme that Lynna put together and I like the end result. It looks good and should be cheery during our long, gloomy Winters.
4. Jorge and his brother had a problem with their texture machine but got it repaired and were able to come up with a light knockdown size that Lynna liked. They sprayed & troweled the whole house interior on Friday.
5. I worked on the rain drain system and have it almost done except Logan has to dig the trench to connect downhill to the catch basin in the NorthWest Corner of John's lot. From there, it will drain through John's system to the street below. We had hoped to capture most of the runoff from our roof by directing the water to a rain garden in the lowest part of our lot at the NorthEast corner but the county/city rules wouldn't allow it. Runoff from our roof has to be directed into a piped system that delivers it to the street. Seems to be a poor solution to me as it forces even small towns to have an elaborate & expensive stormwater drainage system.
6. Today the installers from Triple D construction came back and repaired the skylight. The tube had come apart where the solid tube connected to the flexible one. Seems fine now but time will tell.
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