" OK so there's a lot of landscaping work that we're doing to the house and part of it is what they call the hardscape right nick right nick Christy is here from Atlantic view in there installing. A new I guess you have to call under retainer wall."

" Sure or we call it in this in this case it's almost a glorified -- It yet to glorified curb cause it's granite tell me about the stone and where it comes from. This is antique granite that we got out of the salvaged. -- state hospital they had dismantled. Good portion of the hospital now they're building condos up there and when we showed up on the site there was a mountain of this antique granite. We purchased it and hauled it back to our yard in East Freetown. About forty trailer."

" Now what. What I love about it is the fact that it it's all been done by hand you can almost see the chisel marks and the split marks. From when they were working this material. A hundred years ago."

" Yes it's -- it's an old weathered granite. And it was probably. Part of the foundation at one time there was stairs. Windowsills. Window lintels we have all kinds of chiseled and faced pieces we have more rustic pieces like you see here."

" Now on the side of the house we used to have a concrete walk that was probably as old as the house and the tree roots had had broken it up and moved it all over the place. You've gotten rid of the -- with a plan is over there."

" We got rid of the walk and the stairs and we brought the granite in to create the stairs. And then we're gonna do is we're gonna put. Compacted stone dust. -- about a half inch of a small pebble either half inch aggregate or rice stone ordered by a steel legend. And it did little more relaxed walkway up to the back."

" But you also used other pieces of this granite back there haven't you we have we use it to terrace up the side of the house we're gonna have some storage bins. And mechanisms and flat spaces to work. Great that's going to be very nice because it's a rustic but it is not -- like a city. Treatment more of a country treats now over here I noticed that you've repositioned the stones. I mean is so simple it looks really beautiful. To create the two steps how you work this stuff I mean you have to have there's no cements that's been used right."

" Now we we dry set it we dug a trench and we put in about a foot to foot compacted aggregate. We set how deep did there are these stones set in my looking at the bottom of -- is there another half a foot and these go about another six to eight inches below grade to sort of help anchor on the were big pieces anyway and we didn't need that much rise here. So that's a good idea to bury some portion of it. We cut them with a diamond blade on a portable saw. Sometimes when you wolf when you cut you get a smooth clean cut we like to flame that with a torch and chisel the edges to make it look. Natural and antique again OK and you don't have to worry about the frost heaving these out of place. No they might lift a little but they'll settle back down and as you can see it's not it's not an absolute perfect situation they're sort of a little bit. Bumpy here and there and it's it's just the way that just like a city --"

" So we've got two steps up to what was just a lawn that sloped down to the sidewalk. Now we've created here is kind of a raised bed bordered by the old granite curb. And then we're gonna have a natural fieldstone pathway stepping through here to bring you around to the back so you'll really be walking through garden exactly let's look at what you've done in the back. Okay so in the backyard. We had an existing. Stone installation that the homeowners had put in which is very attractive the way it's weathered and what are you guys building. In addition to that."

" Trying to keep with the same relaxed feel as they started here and what we're doing is we're outlining this. French patio with some natural fieldstone homes. And consists of a compacted. Gravel base layered with some stone dust and then finally about a half inch of small. Aggregate or pebbles again like our walkway just embedded into that serve."

" That's all right so these big stones these these these nice flat stones are just laid loose. Yes you don't have to cement them they're going to be laid in stone dust dry truss I think and you don't have to worry about that gravel or pea stone flying all over the place."

" Now it's is that very thin layer and we were on the compact rover and we imbedded into the stone dust that's below. And it's just just at just the thin layers not a very thick clear of the."

" Sounds beautiful I mean and -- I know the look of European courtyards with the little gravel like that in France it's very pretty now what about flooding if -- where we're kind of like. The low man here we've got a hillside behind us and traditionally there's Rainwater that comes in this direction."

" And taken out of consideration in the flat site there's really nowhere for the water to pitch off and run without sloping the patio too much so. What we created and underneath here. Was a slopes sub grade and we put in a perforated pipe crushed stone wrapped that in filter fabric and that's below this center of this whole terrace here."

" So that. Technically should handle all the runoff from the hillside it's and take it way down through the towards the street this sort of city sewers."

" This is all courteous material and and that and Rainwater will all just perky and and it'll run out through so."

" I think it's a great design because it really. A nice alternative to the traditional American backyard it's going to be very very pretty when it's done thanks thank you right."