FrontGarden refurb.

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    Top cap is on the left fence, 8x2… top cap on front fence 9x2. New shirt fence built to the right of the gate and built the new gate too

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      Started to put the sleepers in place now….just a mock up of the space. Also learned by bringing in the space by just over 400mm gives me space now to create a parking space, for future EV maybe

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      Started to level everything and fit the sleepers

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        It's coming on now @Welshman . All the prep is hard work, but it pays off. :smile:
         
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        Just one update photo and its starting to look so different now

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          Very neat @Welshman - is that tamped down hoggin/gravel?
           
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          Its filled with hardcore upto grade, hand-tamped and then levelled off with stone dust and hand tamped again…..
           
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          Lookin' good....:smile:
          Does that surface wear well where you are @Welshman ? I've never tried it.
           
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          Its not the finished surface, next will be adding 900x600 slabs as stepping stones and then using 330x330 gravel grid filled with 10mm black stone……

          sort of like this

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          Aah- that explains it! I wondered how that surface would work.
           
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          What a transformation. It's good that you are keeping a record of the work you have put in and in time for planting.
           
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            I did something like that (but much less elegant!). As I was fairly short of funds I put the square slabs down the centre rotated 45 degrees, but with no gravel gap so I could run the barrow. It works very well even with cheap builders 10mm chippings.
             
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            I got a sample of black indian sandstone slabs coming tmrw..
             
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            Looking forward to seeing your final result @Welshman :smile:
             
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