1. Starting to dig up the flowerbeds ready for...
2. a layer of plastic and then pouring a solid concrete foundation to support....
3. a double layer of bricks and then a horizontal row to finish it off.
4. It was my job to fill the new gardens with soil, and rearrange the plants.
Once the garden wall was finished, my neighbour from the new house next door wanted this ugly old tree stump disguised, so this time The Space Cadet used leftover textured bricks from when their house was built 4 years ago.
Marking it out.... getting the bricks laid out... then the same procedure, the concrete foundation, and a couple of layers of bricks, fill it with dirt and Voila! No more tree stump.
Pretty good for an amateur brickie. Apparently Sir Winston Churchill liked to lay bricks as a hobby so The Space Cadet is in good company.
That brickwork is really lovely and professional!
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL Brickwork! I think it is better that a lot of so called "professional" Bricklayers do...!
ReplyDeleteI love the way the bricks around the Tree Stump look....And the Red Bricks brighten up the whole yard!
WELL DONE, Oh Space Cadet!
Nice work indeed!
ReplyDeleteSo did Space Cadet, like Winston, also smoke a Romeo y Julieta during and after he had finished the job? ... I think that, at least after, he would have desserved it!
So how much does the space cadet charge an hour? Great recycling!
ReplyDeleteWow.. great jobs! Shammie, you will bring the Space Cadet when you come for coffee, right? ;)
ReplyDeleteHeck of a nice job. Makes my man hormones kick in and want to go out and build something right now.
ReplyDeleteThe Space Cadet did a lovely job both times. The disappearing tree stump was very impressive.
ReplyDeleteWow, I am really impressed. The bricks are perfect for that spot. How fortunate to get them for free too. Nice neighbor.
ReplyDeleteYour Space Cadet is a super hero in my eyes.
Wow! That looks great! Uhm. Can we rent the Space Cadet next spring - with you of course? ;)
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many honey-do lists this post is going to affect.
ReplyDeleteLet me say right now: No, I won't do it.
It sure is pretty, though. :-)
Great job!
ReplyDeleteReally nice work....and beautiful results. I'd keep the cadet.
ReplyDeleteWow! You guys are really food with the bricks. They definitely add a touch of class to the garden.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!!
It looks really good! I will do it also !!
ReplyDeleteI hope, you and Callum managed well during that weekend without Callum`s mom! I was with Melissa also one weekend, but her parents were together away for celebrating their anniversary. I did not sleep at all, but baby was sleeping all night long, hm - I was a little hushing her now and then :)
Have a happy weekend !
Some time back I had a pint in the ‘bricklayer’s arms pub’ [some where in the south of England]. It has a painting of Churchill over the front door.
ReplyDeleteNice trades man like job, especially the half circle thing.
Wow - terrific job! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThis looks great. It is giving me plenty of ideas! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful brickwork and gardens! Doing it yourself is so gratifying!
ReplyDeleteNICE! I would have never thought of such a smart way to hide a stump (and help it decay) I have a stump in the centre of my front garden--it is going to get this treatment next spring, Thank you for the idea---brilliant. I even have a massive number of old bricks!
ReplyDeletewow, very impressive
ReplyDeletei've always wanted to have a go at brick-laying
Very impressive! I bet it changed the whole look of your front yard. And your neighbor must be thrilled!
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