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Patio Project

We have been talking about renovating our backyard patio for years, and this year we finally pulled the trigger and bought the materials! We hired an excavation company to tear up the old concrete patio, level the land, and to level our newer rental and put in a sprinkler system.  It has almost been a month long project and it's still not completely finished.  The first day that the excavation company was here, they were moving some material and their skid steer fell through our old concrete patio! There was a sink hole (that we were not aware of) that was big enough to swallow their machinery. It was insane to walk out and see the machine in the ground.  They were able to get their machinery out and it only slowed things down by an hour.  They were able to get the land leveled out. We probably doubled the size of our patio. They put down a layer of gravel. We had the first load of pavers delivered pretty quickly. We st