Hello, hivers and do-it-yourself people!
This is the third and final part of this series on building my greenhouse patio. In part 2, I had finished filling in the sump hole with gravel and preparing for more paver blocks. I had finished that part of the project at the beginning of September of last year, 2021. I didn't get any further on the project until October because of being busy with harvesting the garden.
This picture was taken at the beginning of September. It's just a different angle from the picture at the end of part 2 of this series. The multicoler gravel is aquarium gravel that I had no use for, so I used it under the pavers to help level them out.
I started working on the project again in October. The weather was rather nice, so I was able to get a lot done in the space of a couple of weeks of intermittent work. I kept adding more pavers to the gravel, sometimes just as temporary stepping stones.
I added a few pavers to the patio as I got them.
Whenever I bought more pavers, I hauled them from the alley to the greenhouse on my little railroad flatcar.
With that load of pavers, I finished the basic patio area.
Once all that was done, I was able to put my last track section back in place. That section overlaps the end of the patio at an angle, which is why I left a couple of pavers out. I didn't want the track sitting on top of the pavers.
I discovered that the track section was going to set higher than I wanted next to the patio, so I had to do some work on the rail bed to fix that problem. I had to do a bit of digging to lower the area a bit.
That gave the track section a better fit next to the patio.
The problem with this was that there was a hump in the track at the joint between the last track section and the one it connected to. That meant I had to pull the next section of track and scrape the dirt down under it to level it out.
Once that work was done, I tried the track sections again. After some adjustments, I was able to put the track back in place . This was at the end of October.
I continued the work in early November. I had to buy more gravel and pavers to finish the job, as well as a bag of food for the chickadees.
I hauled the gravel to the greenhouse in buckets, it's the easiest way.
After a few loads of gravel, I had the track filled in.
I added a few finishing touches with the small bricks along the edge of the patio.
I filled in the end of the track with more gravel to complete the project for the year, but I don't have a picture of that. Between the not so agreeable weather and the cold setting in, I guess I forgot to take any more pictures.
I could call the patio finished if I want to, but I have been thinking about making it wider toward the sidewalk by the house. I don't know if that will happen this coming summer, it depends somewhat on my level of ambition, and what other projects I come up with by then. It's quite functional as it is, so who knows...
That's all I have for this post, and this project. I hope you found it interesting!
