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Posted 9 months ago #
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Any chance you could sort that out?
I could prescribe you some Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.
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Genuinely have tears if laughter here. Thank you kayak23
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Next stop, cleaning up and.....lawn.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Are you stuck the wrong side of the red and white tape for the night?
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Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?
Posted 9 months ago # -
Does Elton still live up the road?
Posted 9 months ago # -
-10 points , not one mug of tea in any of the photos .
Posted 9 months ago # -
Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!
Posted 9 months ago # -
Well spotted enfht . Are the pillars even level!?
The large dollop of mortar under the right hand slab is ruining it all for me.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Enfht and senior j - that pillar was there before bear started. It might belong to house in the right
Posted 9 months ago # -
this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??
Does it work, is it any good, or is it bollocks?
Posted 9 months ago # -
Looks good that.
Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!
Posted 9 months ago # -
Looks like a resin bonded finish. Pricey!
Posted 9 months ago # -
this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??
Yes you can get shade tolerant grass, but it sounds like you need to sort drain as well. The grass itself is fine, just not as fine as the village bowling green. We are trying to leave ours longer this year to see if it covers better.Posted 9 months ago # -
Needs a porch
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Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?
No. It's autumn red
.Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!
I may have messed up with the pier cap. I kinda like it at the same time though. I'll see.
Are the pillars even level!?
Matches the windows.
Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!
Porous resin bound. MOT Type 3, Open texture asphalt, tree jizz & gravel.
Pricey!
Well it wasn't cheap, but not outrageous. If anyone is in W.Yorks and interested, drop me a PM. I've dealt with a lot of tradesmen over the last 3 years of this place, and this was the most honest and diligent bunch I've met - from start to finish.
Cost me a fortune at the butty & chippy shop, mind you.
Just for my own back-patting ('cos you kind of need to look back when going through this, as many of you will know), and those that remember the original thread, this is the before and after over the last 3 years, nearly to the day.
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At last, I won't be ashamed to walk out of the front door. (Seriously, I was!)
Posted 9 months ago # -
That looks really good to be honest.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I think it needs a water feature.
Renton is right btw.Posted 9 months ago # -
Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?
Posted 9 months ago # -
Have you just produced the worlds first driveway only suitable for mobility scooters?
See? Nothing to worry about. *mops brow*
Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?
It's been lightly cleaned and repointed all round. However I'd like to think that the crippling amount of money spend on everything else helps lift the brickwork!
Posted 9 months ago # -
The brickle down theory?
Posted 9 months ago # -
Where is your red and white drive gate gone?
Posted 9 months ago # -
At least the car matches the windows.
Posted 9 months ago # -
WHERE'S THE LAWN??!!!
IT'S DONE!
To summarise, because Photobucket bastards.
Before:
Woke up this morning with an air of random determination to sort the lawn out. This is after 2 passes of the rotavator in late summer, but weeds had predictably made an appearance.
Picked out the weeds and started to level it all. Unbelievably this took 4 hours (something something follow camber/claggy soil etc).
Then with a final, neurotic pass of the rake, started to lay each piece of turf.
When it was all laid, I then levelled out all the 'aireated' soil (read: not-properly-compacted-because-I'd-rotavated-it-too-much)..
.and a lawn, at last!!
Posted 6 hours ago # -
Nice lawn. Shame about the gravel
Posted 5 hours ago # -
House just needs a lick of yellow paint now
Posted 4 hours ago # -
You laid a lawn in January?
I await 'what replacement turf' thread...And kayak23's post still makes me giggle.
Posted 4 hours ago # -
You laid a lawn in January?
Why not ?
I have done it before without issues.
Posted 3 hours ago # -
House just needs a lick of yellow paint now
Nah. Brown.
Posted 3 hours ago # -
No reason not to lay turf in January but I wouldn’t have been rollering it straight away personally.
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I'm further North, I'm not sure I would lay in January, but that's a reflection of climate more than anything...
Posted 3 hours ago # -
doffscap
I ache for the days I can fire up the mower and
mow until my heart's content.It's a long winter.
Posted 3 hours ago #
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