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Chris G:
... with the cooked materials, you're talking another $500 easy.

boykster:

--- Quote from: Chris G on May 22, 2007, 11:30:39 am ---... with the cooked materials, you're talking another $500 easy.

--- End quote ---

heck, imagine finding an oven large enough for a 50' wall  :dizzy:

Chris G:
We did ours a few bricks at a time on the BBQ.

Buddabing:
I've completed the next section of wall. I got the seal of approval from the nosy neighbor across the street so I must be doing something right.

I used 78 blocks at 2 bucks each, 7 bags of sand, and 2 bags of pea gravel.

For tools, the hand tamper was the costliest.

So the cost was approximately $250 for materials and maybe another $50 for tools. A landscaper would have charged a buttload of money for this job so I think I saved a bundle.



Buddabing:
Unfortunately the empress did not approve the project. The gaps between the blocks of the wall are too big and the blocks aren’t close enough together, she said. So this afternoon I had to shift about half the base course blocks to close the gaps between them. There ended up about 8” of empty space at the end of the wall. I could dig out just a couple more inches and get one more block in there.

As I was working, the wife came around the corner in her car, waved at me and said “You’re the greatest”. I just waved back, but I think that she owes me some “favors” if you know what I mean. Being a married man you have to seize every opportunity.

 Here’s a picture. The camera put the heart-shaped background around the picture and I don’t know how to remove it.



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