We never ended up hearing back from the landscapers. I know I was threatening that I was going to do the backyard myself but last night I worked out some measurements and some quantities so I could give it a go.
Today my wife ordered all the bits a pieces that I'll need to hopefully get it done. I figured that I'd need 140 pavers for the mow strip around the garden beds and about 12 bags of premix sand and cement to bed the pavers in. I'm also getting some mulch for the front garden beds. This is just to tidy them up as the mulch is pretty sparse in the front bed and I want to make sure I give the hedge I planted the best chance as surviving and thriving.
Delivery of all the landscaping supplies has been organised for Friday so I'll have Saturday morning before lunch with Dad and then Saturday afternoon as the kids swimming lessons are still on holidays. I should have all day Sunday and as Monday is a pupil free day at my kids school I've taken it off work to be at home.
Tomorrow is a public holiday for ANZAC day so I hope to make a start preparing the garden beds and laying out a design with the garden hose so my wife and I can both finalise the design. Once we've come up with something I'll mark it out with paint and get to work ripping up the lawn that we'll be replacing with garden beds.
I'm expecting it to be very hard work and to take a little longer than I am hoping for. Basically I have three and a half days to go from blank canvas to garden beds ready for planting.
Laying the irrigation for the garden beds will be easy as I'm just going to buy some dripper hose and run it around the bed before we mulch it. Doing the sprinklers for the lawn will not be as easy but I may be able to put them in when I do the garden beds or at the very least, run some tubing under the pavers in preparation.
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I could be a little sore come Tuesday
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