Seating Area Remodel....Part Two

Sunday 29th August 2021, we continued where we left off last weekend by breaking the rest of the path up.

We used a lot of the broken concrete to fill in the rest of the bench seat.

The rest plus the earth had to be barrowed down the side and into the trailer.

(we also plan to tidy up the side but that will have to wait for now!)

The mess was real!!🙈

We came across a 20 cent coin whilst digging, and after cleaning it up, it happened to be from 2008, the year we moved here!.

I think we will embed it into the render as a memento!

The base coating for the seat went on.

rendering the back.

And that is another weekend of work come to a close.

Thursday 2nd September, Scott came home with some acrylic render he wanted to try as it is harder wearing than concrete render, so he started rendering the bench.

Saturday 4th September we started digging out where the steps are going to go.

First steps going in.

Then they get filled with cement.

No wonder my floor is filthy when someone steps in wet cement! 🐾🐶

More render.

Smoothed off and left to dry.

Sunday 5th September more sand and blocks had to be carried up the side to the back from the front.

This will be a garden bed/planter at the end of the seating.

Another garden bed/plater at the other end.

Sunday 12th September, leveler was put on the seating area to save puddles or rain sitting on an uneven surface.

Once it was dry we painted it white, it will need a few coats.

29th September 2021, Scott laid the breeze blocks.

Scott managed to get eight of these gorgeous breeze blocks for free, a lady he was doing work for was throwing them out so he got to take them away, we thought we would use them as a feature on top of one corner of the bench.

We then coated them in primer before painting them white to match the bench.

We planted the cacti on 12th December 2021 and that is our remodelled seating area complete.

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