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Stone Patio, Landscaping, and Outdoor Lighting

Bob meets with landscape designer Ruth Foster, about her plan for a stone patio, a hot tub, and outdoor lighting. Low voltage outdoor lighting is also being installed in-ground for unique effect.
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Stone Patio, Landscaping, and Outdoor Lighting

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" But he doing in the woods but you've got Jonathan -- our lighting consultant wiring the -- or. The -- beautiful light it. Jonathan I interrupt you truck -- kind of a fixture is this. This is a well it. Well we do we -- light source we put into the ground. Which -- like well violence under -- treaties. Which is different from putting the lights of one house. Haven't glared down here this. -- so you don't have to be blinded by the light as -- or as you're walking towards the house that's right as we approach that -- people who apply. The lights that Nina face had directed upward yes -- Story of the trees which is especially beautiful. In the spring comes out bug someone overly well I hear how many of these are you putting. -- to put about a half a dozen. -- when you can appease so softly illuminate some of the species they look like automobile headlights. -- they totally waterproof. They have -- can be immersed right in the water. It's a low voltage system some of the electricity can flow through without any danger room -- I'm sure you know and then have to be a concrete boxer in just be in the dirt like that if they can -- any -- a low voltage lighting. Being able to have an exposed like this and that every twelve -- Saif -- Expensive. Not really about their about the same price as the standard. High voltage picture speaks of the -- of putting them in wound -- with."

" Let's ask you the next question what do you intend to do. Close to the house where we have at the scarlet forest floor. To dig a foundation well. Well it's a problem we're going to try to bring in a little bit of compost and a little bit of soil nice rich compost. Yeah we're gonna do make up good looking stuff. And we're going to take some leans in some plague in some make car instant kind of spread it around so it looks like the rest of us. It'll fit right in with the -- it doesn't look as though we made such a mass. It's called slamming him as a lovely Mary -- at least. It is not my garden this morning actually grows wonderful -- this will spread as a ground will spread as a ground cover all along house okay."

" And then on the approach to the house -- we're getting a pretty civilized. Brick entranceway right let's take a look at your plant. There's the house. This is the spot where we're now we're standing."

" As the walked towards the car park area what are the planting material well -- we put some I've put in some wonderful thing called summer sweet the rose in the shade and it -- delicious scent in the summertime so when you walk out. This wafting fragrance will come and it also grows in an acid soil in the woods like that summer -- that's what you're -- around the back."

" Now why do we need a spot in the middle of the woods that here."

" Oh well Bob I wanted to showcase all the wonderful things that you can do when a cabin in the woods on the weekend look at the trees you can sit under -- look at it. It's a wonderful spot but us. Why I asked Marty Karen. The find this wonderful spot for us Marty why did you choose this one -- Bob with files totally."

" Insulated with high density cruiser -- Atlanta area economically in this climate year round you can still connect. And temperatures well below -- artists. Heated with a -- present absolutely all interlock absolutely is and it wildly expensive to operate now it's actually got the lowest operating -- than responding in the world. Runs about twenty dollars a month of using it every day and a 102 degrees that's using the cover up an hour every day. That's pretty impressive I don't say -- that just because of the installation the insulation list. Complex pump system in here that requires the jet pump to be on only when you're soaking in it."

" All right that this is a brick paved area set the captive on great one and we're gonna have a path to connected to the back door that you'll get your -- there won't ask you think it and look at that carry you cut and so all many trade. Thank you left this with all is unlikely. To cut down trees in order to dig a hole for a foundation is no way. You know there's -- way around -- but indeed have a lot of subtle have a lot of sunlight without an ice cutting garden that we're walking crew here there's going to be a beautiful big. Patio that's all -- in this lovely I don't love you are as it did great it's round and this is Randy Williams I -- I was out."

" Building that's lovely barbecue for -- and you're you're you've got all our local mason."

" Working on it Tommy sent him a kind of stone is this that we're using fifth fifth -- quick -- Bob it is that vengeance creek you have never seen its own. Package -- exactly that's the nice thing about the stove does come -- compact in consumer friendly packaging. As well as hundred square foot containers for the contractor. Out where it for a but I -- Murphy North Carolina. North Carolina it has a lot of quartz right it -- like rock if need and the nice thing about the stone is the uniform cut. We find that your larger square foot coverage for these stones versus those that are delivered out with -- expansion. Obviously -- fifty dollars per hundred square foot -- fifty square and it ought fitness -- was not that now. How are you installing it isn't just a regular masonry. Makes what he has -- good job is the quick quick commercial grade Mason's -- It'd pre wounded of the quick creek mortars would work but this particular job we wanted -- for the veneers that we're doing here. Yeah as it is after all stuck right onto the concrete block. Of the barbecue. And it looks like it is nice sticky stuff."

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