We have been hard at work preparing our home for construction. There have been many simple/easy jobs, like tearing out bushes and trees or relocating plants that we want to keep.
We had 3 pine trees around the house and garage (we are also tearing down the current garage to build Wes' "dream garage") that had to be cut down as well as a few bushes. We relocated several hostas, daylillies, irises, and ground cover to places we thought they would do well, with the hopes we can seperate the larger plants and reuse them in new landscaping. We have left a few plants where they are for now, but those will have to be moved before our porch can be extended.
Some of the plants were used to make the end of our driveway look a little nicer. How did we do?
The hiccup in our plans so far has been removing this concrete slab.
7 Hours, 4 men, 2 jackhammers and 1 concrete saw reduced it to this:
We severly underestimated the size of this mass of concrete. Our next plan of attack was to rent a bobcat with a hydraulic ram on it. My dad, Drew, & Olin donated their time on the 4th of July to finish this for us while we were on vacation. They made a much bigger dent in the concrete, but were still unsuccessful in completly removing it. We decided to call in the big guns, and had Coblentz Equipment out to finish the job. Their track hoe made short work of the remaining concrete (all while keeping our foundation relatively undamaged)! Check out the pics below!
It is such a relief to have that out. This weekends agenda: Garage demolition & digging footer for the addition! Construction officially begins Monday!
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