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House underpinning-concrete pumping in to basement-crawl space conversions
Hi it’s your favorite person again writing you some sweet poetry :-). Scott has a question that I know you can answer and probably assist us with since you are the cement man, pool man, paver man, construction man and everything else!!!
Anyway, we are digging out the basement and are placing floor jacks for temporary support. We are going to do cinderblock walls 2 feet away from the existing foundation and will need footings, cement poured in the cinderblocks and a floor poured. Not too sure if the footings and the floor get done at one time and the cinderblock walls we do with bags after or it can be done all once. Anyhow, the size of the area is 12×24 and was curious to know if you could pump cement from Scotts driveway through our basement window to complete this? If so, got a rough estimate??
I made an appointment fro next Tuesday night to see you and Charlie but Scott really wants to be here for the driveway piece and basement piece and is only available on weekends so I am planning on calling Farah to see if you do estimates on weekends so we can discuss this also…. I love to keep you thinking 🙂
We were planning on waiting on this but as usual Scott forgot a minor detail which is that I don’t want cement truck on my new driveway once you do them!!!
Don’t worry after this years work we are thinking cabana in the backyard for the following you so you wont be rid of me for a while!!
Courtney
Hello Courtney,
The floor should be poured first and then where the walls will be built you should leave rebar’s sticking out of the floor, this way when the back walls are built the rebar’s will tie the walls to the floor once the back walls are filled with concrete.
Also how are you guys taking the dirt out? Because it could be cheaper bringing the cement in the same way, because to pump the concrete would be too expensive the pump alone would coast $1000 and you only need 3.5 yards of concrete and if you bring it in by buckets it would be about 180 buckets of cement.
One suggestion is you should install the block wall first and just put about 4 ” of concrete as a footing and bury half of the first block below the finished floor level this way you can just bring in some sand and some bags of cement and after you are done building the walls get a truck of concrete. Then when I come over I want to see if we can just create a shoot to pass the concrete trough the window by making the cement liquid. You do not need a pump but some extra help to do it and pour the floors and fill the walls at the same time.
Let me know how did I do?
You did great and we appreciate your help.. We are about 60% dug out and the dirt is coming out through a small basement window and also being walked up the basement stairs and out the door into dumpsters an old drywell cesspools… I think we are going to put this on hold for a little bit but still undecided as to what to do as their is so much going on in this house lately..
Request estimates for driveways-walkway-front stoop-fence-drywell-landscape.
Long island Bethpage. I am happy to report that with all this beautiful weather a lot of my snow has melted so I assume I can schedule and estimate with you. So their are several components to my estimates, construction, brickwork and landscaping needs so I am not sure whom to make the appointment with.
Option 1 Estimate Needed – Front Door Construction, Stoop, Handrails and Portico – with this option a half circle driveway for my side and Scotts driveway to be completed with a drywell. With this I would need my existing landscaping removed from the front yard and reconfigured in the front and the back by the pool area with all the plants I have as well as the lawn spraying done after in both the front and back yard and fence moved up to make my existing front door my side door… My favorite option just not sure if I can afford much more of you 🙂 With this one, can you separate the construction, pavers and landscaping numbers if possible…?
Option 2 Estimate Needed- Have driveways done as is just making a little wider on both and with Scotts having drywell put in as well. With Scotts and My driveway having inlays done so they can be sealed each year to prevent the oil and car gook from his side from ruining your beautiful work Also need lawn spraying done with this option.
With either of these options I will also have to change the water main from the street to the house so once you rip I may need a couple days to complete on my side of the house… Also I do know that the backyard needed additional dirt to evenly grade the property before the spraying and my crazy husband has decided to dig out the basement himself with some guys (yes he is absolutely nuts but we gain another 27x 17 room) so we have been placing the dirt in the backyard to hopefully use for grading front and back.. If this is not usable I will have it carted away before you begin.
Pools installation-questions–planning-concerns-decisions-shape-material
New swimming pool, masonry and landscaping designing and installation Brookhaven long island New York. Steve and I want to thank you for all your help today especially without an appointment. Since we just met today, I want to tell you about this project. I’m really excited to be working with Gappsi, putting in the pool with stone work is something I’ve waited for along time and I need it to be perfect in the end! Not too gaudy or over-whelming but with a personality. Steve is looking forward to this too but I love all the planning and stuff. The shape of our yard does not help us so I want to be aware of “over-doing” this. And to make one thing perfectly clear…I can’t make a quick decision, It’s impossible sometimes.. (Ask Kevin and Giuseppe…they’re tired of seeing me!) Kevin’s glad I’ve moved on to the patio! He’s working on the permit and variance which made me make some permanent decisions!
OK, after I left today, I had so many ideas going through my head, all good! We went home and started going over your thoughts, ideas, and budget. So, basically I’d like to tell you our thoughts before you do our file.
Yes, I think we should take away the fire pit, although I love how it looks.
Let’s put some space behind the diving board for Steve. I think you said there was 2′ already, therefore how about adding 1′?
Now, the patio area on the far side of the deep-end, could you add patio that would allow for the chairs to be there, but out of the way of the walkway?
Go with your idea about moving the lounge chairs back to the way you mentioned (over by the shallow end). How far did you say you would move them back? We forgot!
OK, now, let’s go to the area by the back door by the deep-end. I have to put the fence there because I have little dogs. I need to make sure they cannot get in the pool area when they are alone. I’m a maniac about this. Believe it or not, when I was young with our pool, we lost 2 dogs. I can’t say enough about this, so any idea you might have to secure that fence line or area, etc…please let me know. I think in the future when I can afford it (like next year, I would consider a stone wall so that they cannot get through or over it)……But anyway, I would like to make the patio area by the double door a little bit larger. I think if it was a little bit bigger it would give a nicer presence. Maybe 1′-2′ past the door on each side. Try to keep it symmetric…I do like the design of it. It matches with the pool. I want there to be enough room for a couple of people to be in that area comfortably on the patio…not squished or falling into the grass.
The only other concern is that I wanted to find out exactly how wide all of the walkways are measured out to be.
OH, OK, so we went through your website looking at the stone selections. Just a thought, what do you think about using the gray multi colored travertine and the Dove Gray Granite together? The grayish travertine that is covered with the snow on the far side of the fountain outside your office doors. Maybe putting the travertine around the pool with the boarder of dove granite? Then over by the living space…reverse it. I’m looking to you to come up with ideas of how to lay it out.
The last thing, I almost forgot, I don’t think we can go with the 2″ coping. I think I would rather put the extra cost into the patio. Therefore, using the same travertine might be something I’d like to consider. I’d also like to consider the granite as the coping, if possible and then use the travertine for the outside boarder or maybe the granite too! I don’t know…what do you think?
Sorry, I wanted to mention, what we can do in the area of the fire pit. I love the sitting wall! Can we make is larger? You have a large sitting wall on your website that I love. Because we are making the lounge chair area larger, what can we do, in a simple way, with the grass area? Can you use some of that space to extend the sitting wall, table area, and the round curve that is symmetrically positioned by the grass?
To be simple and less costly, you can keep some area of grass…whatever you have left after you make your changes. That would be fine, if you have any ideas we could do it next year.
One other thing, Giuseppe mentioned to me that you could put lights on the sitting wall? What do you think?
With all these changes, can you change our computer picture and send me a copy? Can you put the gray colored stone too? NO RUSH!
AND just a reminder…to help the cost and hopefully you; make the measurements of everything with the least of cuts. We hope that could help.
I’M DONE. THANK YOU FOR READING THIS LONG EMAIL. I DIDN’T INTEND ON RUNNING MY MOUTH! PLEASE, NO RUSH ON THIS.
Thanks again,
Karen Ziegler
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