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Sat, Jun 20, 2009

Retaining Wall

Posted at 8:21 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

Starting to track the latest phase of home improvement/repairs. I have hired New Creation Hardscapes to fix the stairwell to the basement door, where the dirt-slide happened last week.

Their bid was reasonable, and their design proposal showed that their rep had been listening to me. Unlike the other bid I got from a landscape architect who did not pay attention to the preferences I expressed during our conversation.

It remains to be seen how long this project will take to get started and to be finished, of course. I just faxed over a copy of the proposal with my signature Friday afternoon.

I don't know whether to hope they will be able to do the work immediately (which might suggest they are desperate for work) or that they are busy (which would probably be a good sign for the economy).

When they are finished, I should have usable steps down to the basement entrance and a paved walk from the front porch out to my driveway, which will be nice when the weather is wet and makes the clay in the soil all sticky.

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