Maxwelton remodel - Week 5

Today was the "big pour" day. The concrete truck showed up at 7:30 this morning despite the Piedmont ordinance that prohibits work before 8 am.   A big concrete pour requires a lot of manpower to move, form and set concrete.  The Garden Lights crew was eleven strong... their largest crew to date.  One crew poured the lower patio and the walkway along the side of the house.  The second crew cut and laid new stone on the upper portion of the patio.

Here the crew is holding the hose for the concrete pour into the new retaining wall.  This wall holds up the new landscape area adjacent to the new patio.

Here's a good shot of the new retaining wall adjacent to the patio.  This is the same wall as the photo above taken from below.

Here the crew is pumping concrete onto the main patio.  In the right of the photo you can see the new stairs leading to the new upper patio.  Note the new rebar supporting the concrete. Our old patio didn't have supporting rebar in the concrete... a must for earthquake prone N. California.

Here's the new patio looking up towards the garage and upper patio section.  The crew begins laying stone on the lower patio later this week. The large white pipe sticking up to the left of the photo will be a drain for the gas fireplace.

New stone on the upper patio was laid today.  Nice to see the backyard finally taking shape!