I've been asking questions about specific stuff, figured I'd start a thread showing the whole process. We are a bit further along, so I'm going backwards in time a bit.
So we had a neat setup, that totally sucked. We had a huge screen enclosure, a paver deck with a sunken hot tob.... that didn't work. Bought the house as a foreclosure so the hot tub had no controller and other issues. 5 years, my wife never got in it....
In the Screen enclosure due to the extra shade made everything damp, and we had constant.... constant weeds in the deck. (I found out later why)
Next thing to do was tear it all out....
I took the screen enclosure down, and cut it up and recycled it.
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I started tearing everything else out by hand.... bad idea.
All the white cap pavers you see are sitting on top of reinforced concrete rebar. Not just the footers for the screen enclosure, even the fire pit was reinforced rebar....
Time to call in some backup. Rented a bob cat from Homedepot and really got to work.
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From there it was time to layout it out.
And call in the Big Guys. I'm in central florida so you can hit water planting seeds around here. We dug 13 ft looking for water, never found it. Phew. Pool is 6.5 or so, but wanted to go looking.
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You can sorta see from the pictures, there wasn't any crushed stone under the previous paver deck. It was layed right on the dirt, explains why we always had weed issues, it was the perfect way to grow weeds.
So we had a neat setup, that totally sucked. We had a huge screen enclosure, a paver deck with a sunken hot tob.... that didn't work. Bought the house as a foreclosure so the hot tub had no controller and other issues. 5 years, my wife never got in it....
In the Screen enclosure due to the extra shade made everything damp, and we had constant.... constant weeds in the deck. (I found out later why)
Next thing to do was tear it all out....
I took the screen enclosure down, and cut it up and recycled it.
- - - Updated - - -
I started tearing everything else out by hand.... bad idea.
All the white cap pavers you see are sitting on top of reinforced concrete rebar. Not just the footers for the screen enclosure, even the fire pit was reinforced rebar....
Time to call in some backup. Rented a bob cat from Homedepot and really got to work.
- - - Updated - - -
From there it was time to layout it out.
And call in the Big Guys. I'm in central florida so you can hit water planting seeds around here. We dug 13 ft looking for water, never found it. Phew. Pool is 6.5 or so, but wanted to go looking.
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You can sorta see from the pictures, there wasn't any crushed stone under the previous paver deck. It was layed right on the dirt, explains why we always had weed issues, it was the perfect way to grow weeds.
Thanks for sharing.
