Final Phase of Basketball Court

Preparing to cut the cement pad.

$500 for someone else to come and cut it........

OR

Do-it-yourself: renting a cement cutter for 2 hours cost = $90.

Basketball Court Phase 2

Phase 2 was preparing for the cement. A lot of gravel, a lot of shoveling, a lot of smoothing out the gravel.........

Phase 3 was the actual pouring of the cement. Which I did not capture on film, but it was quite a day! The rain kept teasing us, but we persevered, and it was fine. We were a little worried at 10:00 that night, but all went well, and NO RAIN on our new cement pad.

Basketball Court Phase 1

Talk about a lot of work! We rented a sod cutter and tore up a nice section in our back yard for the court. The kids had fun (?) helping roll it up. We filled in some areas in our yard with some of the sod, and then took a bunch to my mom's.