For the last two weeks, Ed has spent his spare time laying bricks. Unfortunately, he hasn't had much spare time. The evenings that we have been home, he has rushed out to lay brick as soon as he arrived home from work, grabbing a bite to eat while the mortar dried. It always gets dark before he is ready. But slowly, the chimney is rising higher!
On Thursday, my brother's crew came to prepare for concrete. They laid out the forms for the sidewalk.
The soffet and rain gutters would put up.
The dry wall was started.
On Friday, Ed stayed home from work to help pour concrete.
We had a beautiful rain-free day, perfect for concrete work.
After pouring the concrete, they sprinkled a dye color over it and troweled the color into the top layer.
Then they sprinkled on a powder dye that was also a mold release.
The mold or skin was "stamped" into the concrete to form a random stone-like design.
My brothers have been doing this kind of concrete stamping for several years but I've never seen them in action. It was fun to actually observe how they do it.
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