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We've begun the big patio/pizza oven project!

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  1. yooperdave

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    Sorry to hear the bad news about this.

    It'll get taken care of, just not as soon as you had planned.
     
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    Hang in there, it will come together in due time. :)
     
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    I don't know the details of what you are dealing with specifically Scotty Overkill ...but I wonder if there is a chance that it could be worked with as is? After seeing what some really creative people on HGTV do with what appears to be junk...makes me wonder if someone with that creative design eye couldn't tie the two colors together and make it all work somehow?
     
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    Or maybe match one of the colors with a stain on the other?
     
    Eric VW, Sep 3, 2017
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    Any updates here?
     
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    No. He still needs to dig for the footer and get it poured, but he couldn't do that until he gets rid of the big pile of rocks where the machine needs to be to dig. I think the pile is just about gone because he was lining a ditch with them that runs along the patio. The ditch looks awesome! Either it's in this thread or another that he has some pictures of it. I think I remember him saying that he doesn't want to build the oven until he sees if his patio is going to be corrected because he may be tearing it up due to it being a different color that the rest of the sidewalk. Sorry Scotty Overkill if I stepped on your toes in writing this post.:emb:
     
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    I find it hard to believe that the MAN Scotty Overkill would be upset with you blacksmith.
     
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    Well thanks but catch him when he's in a mood look out!:hair: No just kidding for the most part.:rofl: :lol: I know that this is his thread and his project and don't want to give any false info just going off of what he told me.
     
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    How could I ever be mad at blacksmith
    !?!? He's like a brother to me!

    Sorry I haven't updated, everyone.....I've been too busy. Work, trees, two kids in different sports, the ditch "saga"....

    It's coming along, and everything blacksmith said is pretty much accurate.

    I'm going to have to take the guy to court for his mess-up, but for now we will press forward. I'm going to dig and pour that footer for the fireplace/oven next week. I'm building the natural stone retaining walls this coming weekend. Here's a few pics of the current situation....after getting screwed all summer by the concrete contractor, I am just now getting the yard back to normal....


    One of the MANY loads of boulders hauled home....
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    That ditch was a major PAIN. Had to dig quite a bit out by hand....all the stone is from the mountain.
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    Hauled around 40 heaping wheelbarrow loads of soil from the pile back into this section and tilled it to grade by hand.....
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    Wow, how nice that looks!
     
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    Other than the patio being a different shade of red.......:picard:
     
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    I was talking about the ditch ;)
     
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    Well, here we go, another thread off in the ditch...;)
     
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    Scotty, I know your upset over the patio, but the ditch looks great! A lot of hard work there man!
     
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    Wife loves how the ditch is looking too. It's been an eyesore for many years. The drystack stone will give it a natural look, and by next summer it will look like it's been there for a 100 years.

    We're doing all the retaining walls around the patio in stone as well. I'll bed each layer with mortar to help keep them from rocking though.
     
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    Yeah, that stonework has me frazzled.....its,a ton of work!

    I'm grateful that good friends of ours have property on the side of the mountain here near our house, and several huge stoneslides on the steep section. I've hauled quite a few loads from there (blew a tire on my trailer coming down the steep jeep road with aroud 4 tons of boulders on it but that's another white-knuckle story), and was fortunate enough to do a dead ash tree for a guy here in town that had that same stone veneered on his house, he had removed it and gave me two heaping truckloads of it.....

    Anyway, some more pics.....

    Here's some of those stoneslides I'm picking from....
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    And here's the spectacular views of the valley below them......
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    And a pan of our backyard.....before I build the retaining walls. I'll also be stone veneering the back foundation in the spring....
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    That ditch is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. How likely that the stones will end up shifting and falling?
     
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    What. A. Lot. of Work!!! It looks great though. Only you would think to line a ditch with stone. In a few years with water running through it, it will look like a stream crossing the property.
     
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    Looking good!
     
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    Ditch looks great! As for the patio being off color, don't let contractor off the hook he should have liability insurance. In the mean time have you thought about doing a white wash to give it a nice aged patina?
     
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