After a year of talking about it, we finally replaced the rock wall in front of the house, between the front door and the garage.
This is what it looked like before:
Terrible, huh? I never really liked it because I thought it was too low, and it looked really amateurish and not well done. Then Jordan started pulling some of the rocks off the top and it just went downhill from there.
Last night Steven knocked out the rest of the rocks and broke off the cement and Christie and Jordan hauled the rocks to the north side of the house where we will store them for awhile. We hope to do something with them.
After the rocks were all removed:
This morning the crew showed up and the first things they did were to remove the concrete that the old rock wall had been on top of and to dig the trenches. The first picture shows the pile of concrete that was dug out.
After the trenches were dug, they were filled with gravel.
The first few rows of stone.
A wet saw was used to cut the stones to make the corner.
Front view.
Side view showing the wall in relation to the house.
The dirt that was dug out to make the trenches filled the bed pretty well. We will probably add a few more inches of topsoil later. Now I need to research plants and make a plan for that flower bed. We probably will wait to plant til early fall so the summer heat doesn't kill the plants.
Next project is to replace the rocks on the other side of the front of the house with curbing. I hope to get that project done within the next week.
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