March 2020: Messy outdoor issues

With a new house comes new problems. While Mike was checking each watering station around our house this spring, he discovered a bad leak on the west side of the sidewalk way under the ground. He had to do a lot of digging to find out where the leak was coming from (with my help). He replaced the PVC pipe and fixed the problem good as new.

This big root was wrapped around the broken water pipe

So glad that Mike has excellent plumbing skills!

Gravel being removed from our driveway to prepare
the ground for cement to be poured

We learned that the old retaining wall was missing footings, so we had to have it torn down and a new wall built to support the future concrete driveway. Money, money, money going, going, gone.

We also had our contractor build "entry walls" into the two driveway entrances that would be decorated in flagstone, like our corner neighbor's wall

After three leaks in our bedroom ceiling and another leak under our front porch, we hired another contractor to replace our red cement tiles with a new copper colored metal roof while we were waiting for our driveway to be finished. Here's the pretty new roof!