©Cracked Concrete ~ Undine DeFilippo 2014
I have really enjoyed reading all your comments ! It has helped me make up my mind as to what to write about next. Your comments have encouraged me to share things of a positive nature. Anyhow, I'm grateful for your comments and hope you understand that NONE of your info is used or sold... You can always contact me via e-mail... just click on the link at the upper right corner. The winter of 2013/2014 was especially damaging in the Northeast USA. The severely cold temperatures caused heaving and consequent cracking of five inch thick aggregated concrete on my walkway and needed to be replaced ! SO ? WHAT's a WOMAN to do ? IF I CAN DO THIS, SO CAN YOU !!!  ©Underground Electric Line ~ Undine DeFilippo 2014 See that RED ARROW ? Well...that's pointing out a LIVE electric line running underground from the house to the garage. Hmmm... GET TO WORK !!! { here we go again ! } BUT DON'T GET ZAPPED OR WRECK ANYTHING HERE !!!  At first I was careful cracking and lifting out the concrete around the electric line... then I became impatient and used the large sledgehammer to make it break faster. GO AHEAD ! JUST GET ANGRY AND SLAM IT HARD !!! Concrete is HEAVIER than I imagined !  I dug out several buckets of dirt, embedded a few pavers vertically in cement to keep my project from shifting... poured in SEVEN FIFTY pound bags of gravel which is supposed to wisk moisture away and prevent winter's heave... Laid a double thickness of landscape fabric over the gravel... poured sand over that and started to lay pavers on a slant for rain water run off...  I used my handy dandy rotary cutter and custom cut pavers to fit odd spaces... trimmed the landscaping fabric... and filled in all the seams with more sand.  I know it's eclectic...
that some would say, "ya shoulda used GRAY colored pavers to match the remaining concrete" ... butt ... y'know what ? I'm HAPPY ! I did it MYSELF and it's works for me ! IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT so...GO AHEAD and tackle that project of yours and know YOU CAN DO IT !!!
5 Comments
Johnathan's Smirk
7/25/2014 12:25:26 am
AMAZING Deenie ! Is there anything you CAN'T do ? How many bags of sand did you need for this ? My guess is four.
KarlaQ
7/25/2014 02:28:28 am
Hi there. Ive got a similar problem at my place and have let it go for to long cause I just didn't know what to do with the one cracked area of concrete short of hiring someone for big bucks. you make this sound eassy but what stops me is I don't have a cutter tool. someone said I could cut the pavers using a hammer and chisel. I do have that. Got any advice on doing it that way?
Jay Blueway
7/25/2014 07:59:51 am
KarlaQ ya you can cut brick pavers with hammer and chisel. Look it up on youtube. score the brick along the cut line first maybe use an old small hand saw. set the brick on two others and hammer away at the line and it shoud crak along that line.
Jay Blueway
7/25/2014 08:02:56 am
Deenah, that looks darn good. couldntve done better myself. Love you girl. 12/8/2017 10:15:10 pm
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