From the OPs,
Thanks so much to all for your so-nice comments. We've been here since Feb - and simply love TV (pinching ourselves daily, like so many here).
- We SO recommend Paradise Pavers. Can't provide higher referral to those in the market. Also, their pricing was extremely reasonable (actually much lower than we anticipated for the work, and lower than the other 2 ests we received). The work was completed 10 days ago, we just received the bill in the mail...and of course just paid. They are such a professional outfit. A true pleasure to deal with - the back of Neil's business card says
"The greatest compliment we could ever receive is your personal referral as our friends and customers". They certainly got ours.
- We wanted a unique look to our landscaping. So many folks around here did such a wonderful job with their homes, we simply could not wait to put our touches on ours. And very pleased how it all turned out.
- The waterfall structure. I built that myself to coincide the finish with the start of Paradise's work. It took me 5 weeks to complete. I was very wise to do all that work during the cooler time of the year here (sure...
). The job turned out to be a tough one as I so overbuilt the thing - cement blocks under, rebar, slate tiling for the waterfall, etc. I say if we ever have a tornado zip thru - the news folks would say -"all that's left is this guy's waterfall...".
It IS a nice feature but the evaporation from the hot sun does require a refill of water in the pool now and then. I have the pump on a timer inside the house so can turn it off/on at will.
again folks - thanks for all your kind words!
Dean, Phyllis and Chip