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Discussing the Home's Landscaping and Hardscaping

Bob discusses the landscaping of a home with Kevin Kalman, general contractor of I'On, and Josh Garvin a Low Country landscape contractor.
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" Okay we've got a landscaping and hardscape is that college -- the Owens so that this area that you've squared out here is stone patio or is it concrete it's concrete it's going to be scored with a pattern and then stained. I was looking at a plan that called for an outdoor fireplace we are right we're gonna have a Martin outdoor fireplace stainless steel unit right here is gonna fit right there in the middle of that. That's an area -- things -- to think about something like that in this heat the true it is but I know that come January or February it gets pretty chilly in Charleston. Going to be just a great place to sit outside in the fall yeah all right so the orange paint is basically. Marking off the edges of the hardscape so that on the other side you'll have foundation plantings -- drugs -- foundation plantings we've got some. Hedges and and things going in a flower borders. All right then we'll pick up our driveway. Which we'll come across. About that point right that was going to run down delivered construction and and I was watching them this morning when they were raiding this now that bill that's been brought in here. Is it -- hardener."

" Clay type fill or what is it -- sandy fill it's a little darker in nature than we're used to from New England I was a little darker it's -- sandy fill and they'll compact it down. And then we'll do our aggregate concrete. Exposed aggregate driveway and because this is low country. We've got fill almost everywhere right you do get a lot of tell you need to bring stuff up so we can get the 2% drainage -- build -- us talk about the sprinklers."

" The rest of the inside corner area to do bind by hand. Josh how are -- thoughts -- this machine work well it house on a metal rotor inside here. Forestall decay vertically oriented long war blade just cuts into the ground the RT. Throw the dirt out and honest on the into the teeth right and the the shroud helps channel it over once on an -- nice little even. Pile and such a nice clean trench in there are. So Bob what are we doing here we just kind of have marked off the area of the hardscape of the patio and you're putting in sprinkler pipes this -- do it. Yes we're running the sprinkler pipes in right along the edge of the hardscape those were spray zone that will on irrigate the small turf panel. And though it starts up over here and comes on around this way. We've yet to trench this yeah what's the what's the about this is the control wealth of this. We connected man with a phone. A hot -- wire and a common -- low voltage low voltage -- point 4 are now how many zones -- and in this irrigation system we're going to have seven -- answers so it's. -- she couldn't do all the zones at once you never have enough water pressure with no reasonable right. Now it is it. Concern here conserving water when you got such high temperatures and -- an aberration rate right yes sir it certainly is not to mention the cost of the war along. We get around. Get around not buy -- home. But scheduling the own irrigation so that goes off early in the morning to take advantage of low wind conditions right and our last supper -- aspiration it and don't. We also carefully schedule. The irrigation time so that. Which Airgas proper no war what we use drip where we can hand. 1 thing when you install the valve you are. Want to make sure that we get the directional arrow pointing with the flow of the water. That -- everything works right."

" Florida yes yes the embarrassing otherwise and this is just a little plumbing story basically you're just putting PVC. Pipe together yes that's correct it's basically just the same -- you do want to house this -- regular PVC. I think what. These and that's what goes inside this black housing and the green cover that we all see in the gardens yes sir all right."

" We'll Josh we'll let you back to work now Kevin this is a bigger lot than the average i'on lot right almost double -- yeah. And so is there going to be a lot of line it does seem like a good idea at Avalon outline view of the weather. Has blocked the size is not Imus moment a lot of trees a grove of trees with an ego that's many behind yes sir. -- basically. All that white area in the middle of all the house and this is the front of the street so we're standing outside here you can put a whole grove of trees in there that's correct. -- interest twelve matching flowering trees and then more flowering trees along the front. A little terrace in the front there it's it's going to be very ambitious yet. Mostly shrubbery and trees right that's correct well should make for a very exciting landscape plan."

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