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Finally - after 26 years! Happy dance!

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Basil

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We have always loved our humble little house on a couple of acres, that is situated on a small hill at the intersection of a paved county road and a dirt / gravel road (our street). However, one of the downsides of living here has always been the amount of dust that gets kicked up (and on everything, especially in the garage) by cars going up and down our dirt street.

Yesterday, we were heading to town and, as I pulled out of the drive, I saw a couple of surveyors taking measurements along our street. I pulled up alongside one of them and asked what they were doing. The guy said they were going to be paving our street! This is going to be wonderful! :arms::bananawave::driving::thankyousign::thirsty:

I just hope they put in speed humps!
 
WOOT WOOT - we had ours repaved this summer it is lovely now.

Word to the wise if you need to dispose of a body or two now is the time :devilgrin:
 
Moving into the 20th century. Nice! Next you'll get running water and that thing they call the World Wide Web.
 
Paved ours, now more traffic and a nighttime race track.
 
LarryK said:
Paved ours, now more traffic and a nighttime race track.
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I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but I don't anticipate it since our street isn't any sort of throughway - but just leads to a relatively sparkly populated subdivision. I'm hoping they will put in speed humps to keep the speed down.
 
Don't let make the bumps too high, you have a Jag. :lol2:
 
LarryK said:
Don't let make the bumps too high, you have a Jag. :lol2:
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I've got to drive over the ones here at an angle steep enough to put both wheels on one side at a time on the hump in all my LBC's, just to get over them without taking off an exhaust! :mad:
 
Well, I just talked to the Road Manager for our town and they are not planning to put in speed humps. That is disappointing.
 
You don't get these prices in the US
The road to my property
Fairly steep
Total length is about 300 feet with the top 200 being less steep
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And then the final 100 feet to my property
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Well my contractor informed me that a lot of work needed to be done to the drive so he could get his trucks up and down. The top 200 feet needed to be cut about 4" and add 6" of new rock and the final 100 feet to my property which we had planned to cut and less the steepness and add new concrete retaining wall on both sides now needed to be paved!!
The words my wife said were not very ladylike and we were expecting a very large unexpected bid to add to our house cost.
Wait for it All that and 5"s of concrete proposed out at $14,200.
Ha, not in the US That was a huge relief
 
Nice. I would say that is a great price. Our drive is right at 100 feet. All the homes on my street have gravel drives. The reason ours has concrete was that the father of the wife of the couple we bought from was a contractor and did it for them with no labor cost.
 
The new 4' wide walk that widens o 6' with 4' s steps up from Village sidewalk then steps up to porch, about 4' up and an 8X8 porch with aluminum handrails was $9000. Includes teardown and fill. Stopped leveling of dirt and painting of porch overhang, will do myself.
 
He made them 9" high and 16" step with about two foot rise with 12' walk widening from 4' to 6' with same 9" high 16" step 6' wide up about 4 1/2 feet to 8X8 porch. Better?
 
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