Renovations 2012 outside Conclusion status

This status update shows the progress after 12 weeks of outside work. during this time the basic design and floor layout for the inside work in the basement was also completed. This involved taking down some walls, starting to saw through the concrete floor for the new waste pipes required for the new basement bathroom, installing a new electric water heater and starting to understand? the antique wiring system in the old basement- more details will be shown in a blog next year at the start of the full time inside work.

Kitchen door looking towards upper deck, note concrete pad for deck steps and rose garden in foreground which will be moved down beside the lower deck in the Spring
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Kitchen door  looking towards new shed (where wading pool used to be) and where the new shade patio will be placed in the Spring. The shade patio will have flagstone with shrubs in gaps.

Mud room and basement doors open on to concrete slabs which change into a flagstone way to the lower deck.

Where the lower deck will be placed in the Spring with the rose garden in the sunny sheltered spot to the right

Front door from garage with new single level interlock laid and two new concrete pads one between the steps and garage and the other at the side of the frontdoor steps. These pads provide  a firm control for the interlock.

New interlock looking straight on to the side of the house. 

Interlock bricks on skids sorted to put in a path beside the garage in the Spring