French Drain Complete.

A few posts back, I wrote about how we dug trenches around the perimeter of the garage to put in a French drain. We purchased a yard of blue stones from a landscaping company in our area and we picked it up to save on the $50 delivery fee.  This pile is a yard of stones.  It only cost us $35 for the whole yard and will be enough to fill 3 sides of the garage.  Since the delivery was more expensive than the product, we figured we would put in the "labor" of picking up the stones and shoveling it out of the truck when we got it home.  It was a lot of heavy lifting, and my goodness my back was sore when we finished shoveling all the stones out of the truck.  The things I do to save $50!  Hahaha!  Sometimes I wish I was less cheap frugal, but then I start to think how I could spend $50 and I just suck it up and shovel the #$%@ rocks.

Inside the trench, we put down a layer of landscape fabric to prevent dirt and mud from coming up the stones.  We also put in landscape edging on the sides to keep the rocks in place.  Then we shoveled the stones into the trench.   I took this photo so you can see the landscape fabric in the back and the edging.  We are thrilled with the way it came out. It looks amazing. This entire garage renovation was so much work, back breaking labor!  However, we learned a lot and saved so much money because we did all the labor ourselves.  Maybe I can use those savings on a spa day.