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Major Debacle

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On Apr 15, 7:05 am, LouB wrote:
Major Debacle wrote:
I gotta redo a drive way strip that a redwood tree uplifted. It's one of
those old driveways where there are two strips of concrete about 30"
wide with dirt in the middle.
Some of the roots of the redwood tree are level with the top of where
the driveway strip should be so the lady wants to pour around the roots.
Makes sense to me.

That makes sense to you? The roots are flush with the top of where
the new pour is going and you think it's ok to just pour concrete
around them?

Actually, no. I was ambiguous in the description. By "pour around the
roots" I actually nmeant to covey that I would be pouring around the
roots, but not up to the roots, in much the same way boat goes around an
island or a plane goes around a mountain.

Anyway , the stuff I was looking for is decomposed granite with a
stabilizer mixed in.

Should look great. And regardless of how it looks,
it's going to fail. Even if the roots are just BELOW the concrete
they will eventually cause it to beak up.

She said she talked to someone and all she could come
up with was "hard dirt". Now that don't sound like anything I ever heard
of, but who knows?
I figure, form up around the roots, pour the conc and fill in with
whatever it is she is calling 'hard dirt' around the roots. I don't know
what the hell she might mean, but I guess there might be something out
there to fill the bill.
Anyone got any ideas?
Probably just clay.

A bane to many cause it is hard to get grass to grow in it.

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