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Porch tear down part 2.

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Be careful when you open our front door.

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That first step is a killer.

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Tear down continues and as you can see, my husband is thrilled I’m photographing the process.

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There’s so much more rotted wood than he originally thought …

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Which means more work, not to mention money.

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Thankfully I’m the one who wanted to wait for the contractor to do this job, so he can’t blame me.

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Did I mention there were rocks?

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So many rocks underfoot, though I have no idea why. If it was to help with drainage they failed miserably as all the soil flows down from the lawn towards the house.

11 thoughts on “Porch tear down part 2.”

  1. Two solutions: raise the house, or lower the lawns — neither one good.
    We were very lucky. The front yard goes down toward the street — the back yard goes down towards where an underground stream cuts across the back of the yard. The houses on each siide are lower than us. The drainage is exquisite. Becsuse we bought the house in winter, the yard under 4′ of snow, we had no idea. Good things do happen, once in a while.
    The biggest problem — we are still in a drought. If it weren’t for the underground stream, the plants and trees would all be dead.

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      1. We have the clay too, i dug down through 3 feet of it and never found the bottom, but i guess that’s the reason for the backyard slope. It falls off about 5 feet.

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