So my father has proposed a fun Thanksgiving weekend activity for the family during their visit here… putting in a concrete floor for an addition to the house.
My dad, when I was a wee one and my mother was pregnant with my brother, built a house. He just found a book on how to build a house, and built one. It was an a-frame, and to his knowledge it still stands. He has a bit of credibilty, though I’ve never seen the house in question.
The idea of hauling in 10 tons of gravel and mixing up a slab’s worth of concrete doesn’t seem like a big deal to him. To me, it sounds like a recipe for trouble. But I’m going to put my trust in the man and do the legwork to make this thing happen. Worse case, I figure we waste a vacation and end up with a misshapen concrete blob behind the house.
To that end, does anyone know a good source for 10 tons of gravel?
Williams Brothers. The cement people, not the barbecue ones.
Excellent.
Have you tried their gravel? Is it tasty?
It’s all right in a milkshake, but not as tasty as the pea gravel you get at the Home Depot.
You said “pea!”
Yeth, Beavith, I did.
Atlanta Landscape Materials.
Charges something like $20/ton for 57 stone, plus delivery.
By the way, can your dad recommend someone to dig a hole in my backyard and line it with concrete? (Foundation for an expansion.)
Re: Atlanta Landscape Materials.
Thanks.
My dad would probably recommend me, knowing him.
He’s not local. And he hasn’t done anything like this in 30 years.
Re: Atlanta Landscape Materials.
I have a shovel. When can you start?
Where, and why, would you put an addition to your house? You already have 1000 square feet or so of undeveloped basement…
Stacey’s dad, the general contractor, has offered to come down with one of his guys and finish out the basement, and possibly add the aforementioned addition to the underside of our bonus room. The bonus room that sticks out into space off the main level.
My dad thought it would be helpful to Stacey’s dad to prepare the foundation for the extra room in advance of Richie coming down.
I hadn’t been planning on making any improvements to the house in the near term, but Stacey’s dad’s all excited about coming down and finishing the basement, and now my dad is all excited about hauling 10 tons of gravel, and well… I hate to spoil anyone’s excitement.
Darn.
My dad just gets excited about shooting chickens with lasers for the government.
Actually he doesn’t do that anymore. Now he does something classified having to do with immigration or customs or some such.
When daddy-types are offering to do such things, you’re supposed to smile and say, “Yes, thank you.”
Of course, if you don’t want all this concrete pouring going on at your house, I wouldn’t mind having a porch poured in front of mine.
Well, exactly.
If we have any ‘crete left over in the wheelbarrow, we’ll wheel that barrow over to your place and start a-pourin’.
Call before you come over. I’ll make some cookies or something.
with pea gravel!?!?! yum!
Yes! so much more aesthetically appealing than raisins, which look like goat pills.
Jeez – pouring gravel and concrete floors, finishing off the basement…
How many corpses are you guys trying to hide?
Well, there wasn’t room in the van to NYC.
So what do you want us to do? Make sausage?
With you, that will make 7.
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Those darn brits probably don’t even know what sort of flamethrower to use when pruning kudzu.
I just snorted milk out of my nose.
Then my work here is done.