Good morning all and good Saturday.
I'm planning on not spending the day locked in the bathroom today.
We're waiting for a delivery from Home Depot, 25 bags of mulch and 23 stepping stone.
I had some major masonry work done on the western side of our house this week. The previous owner had put some cement flashing over the brick, about 5 feet up from the ground level and all along the side of the house. The brick on that side of the house was crumbling and falling away. I found a really good masonry company on Angie's List and found out that the cement flashing was trapping the moisture coming out of the basement and not letting the brick breath, so it was mineralizing and crumbling. Also cement walkway between my house and western property line, was slanting towards the house and so, trapping moisture.
I had to wait 7 weeks for the masonry guy to fit us in, but the work happened this week.
They replaced the crumbling brick all along that side of the house. Also a couple of our glass block basement windows were cracked and some of the block broken nearly through to inside our living space.
I also had them tear up the cement walkway all long the side of the house, all the way back to the alley. No one uses that side of the house. I've long since put in locked gates across the back and the front, because we used to have people using it as a passageway to cut-through from the alley to the street, plus people using it for all sorts of questionable acts including using it as a toilet.
We only use it to walk out to the garage door on the side, and for large deliveries in through the back.
So, we bought 25 bags of mulch is being delivered and 25 stepping stones all of which are being delivered today.
We've got some side yard work to do.
Glad you had fun!
