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ChadTower:

I don't mind this sort of work, myself, except for the major pain in the ass disposing of anything around here.  One of the reasons I started this project was because I had a couple yards of sand from where I tore up the driveway and put in grass.  Couldn't find any way to get rid of the sand without paying $100+.

danny_galaga:


hehe. my uncle and cousin in holland had a similar dillemma when they were excavating their own basement. fairly popular to do their but of course pretty illegal without proper planning. they were smuggling the dirt out 'great escape' style and putting a bucket or two of it in the garbage each week...

Glaine:
I'm 1/2 impressed with how you get things actually done around your place and 1/2 disgusted that I don't...

patrickl:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on June 10, 2007, 09:48:41 pm ---

hehe. my uncle and cousin in holland had a similar dillemma when they were excavating their own basement. fairly popular to do their but of course pretty illegal without proper planning. they were smuggling the dirt out 'great escape' style and putting a bucket or two of it in the garbage each week...

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Lol yeah, they always say the dutch are cheap ---daisies---.

When I moved in my previous house I came home one night and almost ran over a guy pushing a wheelbarrow across the road (in the middle of the night). Then I noticed there were two and they were my neighbours getting rid of the earth dumping it on a temporary municipal dump (it was there during the build of the neighbourhood). The dump was at least 500 meters away from their homes. They excavated 64 m3 (2260 cubic feet) of dirt that way. It took them weeks.

They did all this digging so they could put sand under their patio's. Which makes me wonder looking at the pictures. Chad, shouldn't you put some sand under it? The other path too looks like it's put on some stony foundation. Won't you get trouble with uneven floors and water standing on it?

ChadTower:

That surface is sand.  It's 4-5" deep and was the base under the asphalt that I tore up.  It does look a little dark in that pic because it was wet (misty day).

I tried to get rid of the asphalt the cheapass way... for months and months.  I was throwing out 10-15lb of it a week with our trash and for a while was even taking small loads out and ditching them in gas station trash barrels whenever I filled up.  I hadn't even scratched the pile after doing that for nearly a year so I finally rented a dump truck and took it to a recycling depot.  The annoying part was that the recycling depot is only a quarter mile away so I paid $150 to rent a truck to move the pile 2 minutes down the street.  When I got there the guy said I could dump it free since I was a neighbor, I thought that was really cool, until after the last load I asked him how much it would have been and he said $7.50.

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