Saturday, April 13, 2013

What A Great Way To Start The Year


Carpenters, Masons, Electricians, Plumbers & Landscapers Make It Happen

The first week of work for the season flew by with the days sunny and crisp, just enough cold wind to keep overalls on all day.  This week has been rainy and caused us to pull off new construction because it got greasy and we experienced a small landslide on the pond project after rain saturated the sandy soil.

Start of the Staircase and Pond Roughed In

Our transition with the new company is going well.  Eric G. has been indispensable excavating and offering good ideas on the pond project. The operations manager Dan G. has bid an irrigation job which we got and provided me with input on mulch bidding, stump removal and tree removal.  Wow we have it all now.

Cody Grubbing Out the Concrete

Roger and crew from Designing Innovations are blasting out the remodel on Lake Gage, what a difference adding all the new stone work has made.  I was a bit skeptical of mixing the original brick on the house with the stone but I am a believer now.  Mike Miller Stone are the masons while Roger and his men are laying travertine on the new deck and of course finishing all the woodworking.  All of it is beautiful.
Roger K, The Man Behind the Plan on Lake Gage

I might be prejudice but I think the pond and landscaping we are installing is gonna hit this project out of the park.  We installed sandstone super slabs obtained at Fort Wayne Rocks that mimic the design and color of the travertine , they are some of the most unusual super slabs I have ever seen.



The project we began last year on Lake James is one we are back on as well.  The house is now built and we are able to start where we left off last year.  It required a couple of trips to the drawing board before we got the look right and we changed directions a couple of times but now we are all confident about form, function and price.  Good deal.


 Natural Stone Steps onto Stone Pathway

Another Lawnscape employee Lee demonstrated his special powers to me on Wednesday when he "witched" a water line on Lake James.  This is a customer who we worked with last year and is having us back this spring for another project.  Witching is a time honored method of locating underground water whether it is free-flowing or in a pipe.  Holding two metal rods about 18" long with handles that you grip loosely in both hands, holding the rods parallel to the ground, you walk.  When you cross over water the rods cross.  Lee had lots of expensive back up equipment but the witching sticks worked perfect.
Witchy Lee Locates Water Line the Old Fashion Way