I'm trying to get to things that I couldn't get to since my shoulder was too weak the past year. I figured it was a good way to start to strengthen my shoulder, and hopefully not ruin it.
First thing was I was tired of the rain running off the roof onto my head when I went to put the garbage out. We had a couple of monsoon dumpings the past few weeks, so I installed a gutter to keep the waterfall from pouring on me evrytime I opened the garage door.
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Problem 2 was the cement was slowly lifting on the sidewalk always making the water pour towards the house. Everyone had such a back log and charging a ridiculous amount of money, I decided to do it myself.
The raised cement would only allow my door to open up part way and it f@cked up the bottom from the scraping every time it was opened. I decided to buy a demolition hammer (really cheap on eBay) since it would cost me the same as a one day rental at a rental place.
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It did the trick, but I was trying to protect my shoulder as much as possible. The cement was thick, but at least there was no rebar in it. Friggand huge roots were the problem...
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Do I cut them out or just make a DG walkway on the side? I like the tree it's coming from, but I'm not an arborist and not sure how many roots you can cut before you damage the tree.
Anywho... It was a lot of work to get to this point, but I still had a new faucet to install, fix the water softener, weed whack, mow, weed, trim trees, and 4 other things I'm forgetting at the moment, so it was one busy ass weekend. Goal is to get it done now, so when the fall hits, it's time to fish!
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Well, I still have to install an attic ladder, clean up the attic, install an attic fan, re-insulate, set up electric in the attic and a few other things that I'll do when things cool off. Ugh... I need to go fishing....