How do you deal with a muddy jobsite. I’ve been working on a deck for the past few days, and it’s been raining pretty good. On top of all the other rain we’ve had recently I’m wallowing in the mud.
I’ve been wearing the $15 rubber boots from Wal-Mart, and have a pair of Carhartt overall’s commited to the jobsite. It’s still miserable. Tomorrow I have to fill the tubes with concrete, and lots of other kneeling in the mud.
Any tricks. Today I was dragging around an empty garbage bag to kneel on, but it was puddling the rain.
Stacy’s mom has got it going on.
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I have used mortar and concrete bags laid on the ground, as soon as they get wet, they stick to the earth. Good walkway. You using bag mix?
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Unfortunately. Only 8 tubes to fill (10" round, 42" tall). I'll probably just mix it in the wheelbarrow
Stacy's mom has got it going on.
Well, there's a few empty bags till you get the straw.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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straw.
a bale cost just a coupla bucks ... for smaller projects ... one bale is good for the whole job. Just spread ... stick the unused bale in a garbage bag .... then spread out more as the old turns to dust.
works great ... pretty much no clean up when it's all said and done ... sometimes just some raking the loose stuff.
and as my buddy the owned horses learned me ...
don't ask for "hay" ... hay is food ... straw is bedding.
hay has sugar in it ... ie ... food ... and it breaks down in the rain.
straw is what ya need. U won't go back.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Any idea where I can buy some? I'm guessing Agway, or the like. I'm working in Upper Saint Clair. If I they had some at the Galleria, I'd be in business....
Stacy's mom has got it going on.
I'll check with DanteO ... the resident "south hill expert" ...
has to be a feed store somewhere down along rt19 ...
maybe even a big landscape supply?
I know of a place or two up in Wexford ... still finding my way thru the side roads of the south hills. I'm working down the street from Simmons Farm ... bet they have some up there ... I'll call and see if any's for sale.
will need some myself coming up shortly in Baldwin ... gotta find somewhere closer than Wexford and north.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Hummm - around here all the big box and landscaping places sell straw - wheat straw... It's right around $3.50 a bail. What do you all do with a newly finished graded and landscaped lot? Sod? We do some sod, but it's nearly expensive as hardwood floor!!! Straw is plentiful and grass seed isn't too much money either.
I leave it to the landscapers. I'd say it's 50/50 sod to seed. I'll look in the Depot tomorrow, but I don't remember seeing it there.
Stacy's mom has got it going on.
Call 'em up...
check out some lumber yards. Mine carries bales of it. Not a lot, granted, but they generally have it in stock.
the big thing around here, not residental but commerical work. cover the whole job site with limestone, all the acerages. then dig your footer through the limestone. after everything done. just put asphalt on top. we get about 39 inches of rain a year. limestone and sand.
What JeffBuck said.
Landscape fabric works really well. If you have an area that's going to get a lot of traffic it may be worth the bucks. You can hose it off when it gets muddy.
I wear knee pads a lot when it's wet. They need to have a waterproof exterior so the spooge doesn't soak through to yer duds. Plus they help those knees that are aching 'cos of the wet weather.
I like these ones from Tommyco, the first pair I had lasted great until some @#$%# stole my truck with them in it. Truck was found dumped a few days later none the worse for wear, but the bastards took me knee pads! Second pair are doing fine and I always lock the truck when it's in the driveway now.
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