Stone work in Oakhurst-

This little project was a bit of a departure for me. I do a good bit of dry (no mortar) stone work..walkways, walls, patios, etc...but I generally refer or hire a mason for true masonry work. In this case it was a small walkway and I felt pretty comfortable taking it on. The stairs and the under-deck patio in the photos are part of a new addition to my client's house. The builder who worked on the addition poured the concrete base for the walkway along with the patio. I simply added the slate stones as a veneer. Two day project...first day is putting down a base layer of mortar then setting the stones..after 24 hours, more mortar is applied to grout the joints. After it cures for a few days a good wash with muriatic acid will clean it up nicely.

New Addition in Oakhurst

These folks have built a nice new addition onto the back of their Oakhurst home. New deck, screen porch and interior space turned out really well. (E mail me if you would like the name of the contractor) They are getting close to time for their final inspections and I was out today to do some hand grading and replant a couple of plants that were removed prior to construction.

Design Job in Peachtree Corners

The owners of this house want to reduce the turf area and add some plants. I delivered a sketch of my ideas to them on Saturday along with a proposal in case they want me to do some/all of the planting.

Quarterly Maintenance-Grayson, GA

This house in Grayson needs some work-they have gotten behind with the pruning and weeding mostly. We decided that, instead of a major cleanup, we would concentrate on specific areas of the house for the first 3 quarterly maintenance visits. I started with the front of the house and got everything pruned, some dead shrubs removed, and the weeds in the beds under control.and

Nursery Trip & Tree Installation

Fun day today-took care of some office work this morning, then headed for Buck Jones Nursery in Grayson, GA to pick up a Yoshino Cherry tree I had been waiting on. I try to hand pick the vast majority of plants I install-so trips to the nurseries are frequent. I also like to look around while there and see what is available and looking good-and get new ideas for design. Once the tree was picked and loaded I headed down to Briarcliff Woods to install the tree on a job that had been waiting on this final element.

Last Week in October-

The last week in October was a busy one. I didn't take the time out to post about each job last week so this posting will cover all 3. Started out the week back in Brookhaven Fields doing some drainage workk along the foundation-water had been getting into the basement. An old foundation drain was uncovered and inspected, and a new foundation drain was built under the deck. We had some good rain just after completion and my efforts seem to have paid off-no water problems. From there I went down to Little 5 Points to plant fall annuals in all the beds and the big urns in front of the house-also did quarterly maintenance on this house while I was there. I closed out the week with a fescue grassing/drainage job in the Oglethorpe/Brookhaven area. Very muddy Bobcat work and grading, moving a huge pile of chips from some recent tree work and some plant removal. Finished up the grassing on Friday in the rain-finished the job yesterday with some pressure cleaning of the muddy driveway and sidewalks. Ideally, this job would have been done with better weather and soil conditions...but it is getting late in the season for fescue seeding so the owner really wanted to get this accomplished. All in all, a productive week.