The first thing that was repaired was the floors. This place has sweet red oak floors but they were a disaster when I got here:
Termites, and rotten wood damaged portions of the floor.
So I got Doug to come in and resurface the whole house. He and his crew did a great Job and the floors now look fantastic.
At the same time, I had the house treated for termites (so they wouldnt come back and eat the floors again). I have no pictures of this, basically the dude came over, drilled holes all around the house and injected termite juice in them.
The next huge undertaking is the yard. As you can see in previous posts, the yard was a mess and it needed major work.
The first thing I did was hire some guys to build me a concrete patio in the back. So I called up a friend (Jim Dobrinski) and we made a sketch of what we thought the patio should look like. Jim called up a guy that he had worked with before and he got started right away. I called Jim on a thursday and by the next monday, work had started and the patio was finished by the end of the week.
Gravel Delivery
The boys, gettin' jiggy with it...what?
So the patio was in but it looked kinda out of place because it was this brand new, huge concrete structure surrounded by a small Jungle. So some of my best friends organized a day where we all got together and did a major overhaul of my back yard. We had 11 people and we worked for about six hours straight and got an amazing amount of work done.
Kele and Justin Digging up some stubborn roots
Jim, wrestling with a tree.
Kristina and Cole making a dent in the 7 yard pile of dirt that was wheeled to the back yard.
The crew. Thanks guys.
In six hours we cleaned out the jungle, did some minor concrete work, took out a tree and 3 stumps, took out the old clothes line posts, created two immense piles of green waste and spread 7 yards of top soil.
This is a snapshot of what it looks like now. Looking out from the patio to the clean slate of a backyard. It feels like a completely different place now. I have been sitting on the patio a lot lately, drinking, eating, sitting...hell ya.
One last order of bujsiness. Uncle Steve requested a view of the surroundings so here is my street in the winter time:
