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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Sculpture and the Garden

Time to call the professionals for the concrete cutting.


The goal was to recycle all the concrete for other garden projects, 
for that I needed consistent sized blocks. 
 I told him "Think of the driveway as a quarry."


It was so nice to have someone else working, but it only took him 4 hours..
Soon it was back to me prying up the slabs and digging out gravel,


and re-installing the leaf block retaining wall.
You can see one reuse of the concrete in the photo below.

Because there's no fastener or connection between the decorative blocks, 
there is a backer block of concrete at each seam, set below grade up, snug against the paving. 
There's no way these blocks are moving easily.


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