Gardening / Landscaping

[Reaper]

I checked the price at our Bunnings today. Closer to $5/lm. As I have well over 40 sq m of decking, and a square metre is approximately 11 lineal metres, I don't think I'll be ripping it up too soon to replace with Ecodeck.

Don't be afraid of negotiating with the Bunnings trade deck fellas. They will just about eat their own young to get a sale at times. As for the ecodeck/modwood etc - great product and I'd happily have it in my house. Particularly in places as features whcih are hard to maintain into the future.

 

[Troy711]

Busy day today, we laid the sleepers on the retaining wall, spread out the dirt up the top, removed all the stones around the side of the house and started to level out the left hand side for the slab where the garden shed will eventually go. The original plan was to hire a dingo to do the ground work but the local Kennards had them all out so we got a mini bobcat for the same price. It was a blessing in disguise because it took much less time than it would have if we only had the dingo.

And around the side. It'll get concreted with a small garden shed so I can store all me work materials.

It's pretty hard to think that in less than 2 months the change that has taken place.

Tomorrows effort will include laying and spreading top soil, which is getting delivered in the morning and some more ground work before the bobcat goes back at lunch time.

 

[Immortality]

So this is my first attempt at any sort of building work ever. My brother assisted with boring and setting the piles in concrete, the rest is my handywork.

I'll be honest, the deck is my design but I did have some input from a draughtsmen (friend of my brothers) to make sure all the specs are up to building code.

It's ready to lay the decking. The only thing left to do is extend the outside tap to the front of the deck.

 

[Troy711]

New plans for my backyard, we're not going to seed it now, we'll be laying turf hopefully early next week. And instead of doing a 600mm high EkoDeck screen on top of the retaining wall it'll now be aluminium pool fencing. Hopefully that will get done be the end of next week along with painting of the brick wall in a charcoal grey colour. Then I'd say by the end of February we should get the garden shed moved and the shade sail up.

Today's effort, while it wouldn't look like much, involved spreading the top soil and a bit of a clean up. No pictures because compared to yesterday it doesn't look like much has changed.

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

you won't regret turfing instead of seeding! Looking good mate!

 

[Troy711]

Turf gets here tomorrow. We started getting the fence in today but the rain has put an end to that.

 

[Troy711]

Not much progress over the last few days due to the weather, but the fence is now up. Turf is booked for tomorrow (after being pushed back twice because of the rain). I've got the post shoes in for the privacy screen, should hopefully get the frame up for it tomorrow then all it needs is paint and to screw on the EkoDeck. That'll be pretty much it for a few weeks (aside from a clean up and painting the brick retaining wall) and then it'll be time to concrete some more and move the garden shed ready for the shade sail.

 

[Trayner]

Those signs are awesome, I want a set

 

[Troy711]

Those signs are awesome, I want a set

They don't work. People look at them and go "what's that for?".

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

That'd be the perfect pool spot!