--- Our House Gallery: Driveway & Patio ---
This page contains pictures of the driveway and patio. The driveway is an imprinted concrete one, that looks much like cobblestones. It was poured and imprinted etc in August 1998. The patio is the same, and was done in September 1998. These pictures are included in chronological order. This and subsequent pages contains scanned photos, unlike the Construction galleries.
A truckload of scoria for the driveway:
The scoria spread out, and the kerb and pathway cut and removed:
The boxing in place, and some metal reinforcing mesh in place:
The concrete people at work. They spread some green colouring on the wet concrete, then later sprinkled charcoal releasing agent, and here are stamping the concrete with rubber templates to create the patterns:
Another angle; you can see the green colouring in the foreground, the charcoal in the middle, and the stamped area in the background:
The driveway mostly finished, but before the releasing agent powder is washed off:
Completely finished and usable:
The patio area, before the ground was built up:
And after it was built up (using a bobcat), with piles of scoria on it. It sat like this for a few weeks, waiting for the ground to dry out and settle:
It threatened rain when the patio was done, so it was covered in plastic to protect it:
The finished product:
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