The front yard is now complete. The first picture i posted shows the purple recycled water irrigation tubing that is yet to be covered by mulch. All our plants will be fed recycled water via this irrigation system. We think its just lacking in plants but that is all we get from the developer's $2500 rebate. All in all we are pretty happy :)
This blog shall relive our 1st home buying / building experience :) Hope you all enjoy reading it and feel free to make comments.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Front yard in progress
The developer has started working on the front yard of our house :) Once this is done we will be back working on the rest of the back yard. I think we will very likely be putting in turf/lawn for the rest of the backyard due to budget (costing too much) and time (taking too long). We are quite over the whole muddy backyard thing so by going the "grass" option it seems like the quickest way to get neat, clean ground cover. However we wont be able to walk on it for at least 4 weeks so that the grass beds in. Other downside is that i will have to come up with a couple of hours every week for mowing and green disposal, plus the on going watering and fertilising costs of maintaining a nice lawn. Nice lawn provided Zella (our golden retriever pup) refrains from digging it!
Our original plan was to lay ground toppings like lilydale or sunset toppings, or pebbles and concrete pavers for a more solid flooring without concreting. But now it will seem like the labour cost might blow our budget since we cannot get any machinery (dingos) into our backyard to help with moving soil and toppings. It would have saved us a lot of manual labour costs associated with shovelling and wheelbarrowing, but really we have no other option.
Our original plan was to lay ground toppings like lilydale or sunset toppings, or pebbles and concrete pavers for a more solid flooring without concreting. But now it will seem like the labour cost might blow our budget since we cannot get any machinery (dingos) into our backyard to help with moving soil and toppings. It would have saved us a lot of manual labour costs associated with shovelling and wheelbarrowing, but really we have no other option.
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